Researchers from FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine describe a revolutionary technique they have developed that can deliver and fully release the anti-HIV drug AZTTP into the brain.

We are educating entrepreneurs, sustaining research and, developing products that can be commercialized. We are training the next generation of students with the 21st Century skills they need to succeed.

FIU professor Sakhrat Khizroev, a world-renowned inventor in the area of nanotechnology, is one of 98 innovators recently named a Charter Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Ranu Jung, professor and chair of FIU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

Professor Osama Mohammed, from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, received a $430,750.00 software grant from Operation Technology, Inc. for the ETAP power systems analysis software.

Today, engineering is rightfully seen as the backbone of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship —and tied directly to the nation’s economic well-being and security.

Worlds Ahead means going beyond what is expected. Taking the opportunity you are given and doing something great with it. The words are as much a part of what you are today as what you aspire to be tomorrow. It is an attitude, one that commands us to think differently, exceed expectations and create new possibilities.

“Receiving the fellowship has encouraged me to see that other people recognize that my research is relevant and it has definitely made me more confident,” Consuegra says.

FIU and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority partnership has given students the opportunity to put what they’re learning in the classroom to real use.

The faculty of FIU’s College of Engineering & Computing is among the most productive in the country, according to the newly published 2011 edition of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Profiles of Engineering & Engineering Technology Colleges, which collects data from more than 350 engineering schools.