This is the sixth article in a series highlighting some of the 124 faculty members who were hired during the 2011-2012 academic year

Shekhar Bhansali’s life has taken him around the world. From his native India to Australia to Japan and finally the United States. Never one to follow the crowd, Bhansali instead chose a path that would test his ingenuity, show him new ways of approaching problems, and teach him lessons about working with people.

“I’m a messed-up engineer,” says Bhansali, now the Alcatel-Lucent Professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at FIU. “My life is not something that’s been planned.”

Shekhar Bhansali

Today, Bhansali is known as a prolific researcher with 16 U.S. Patents to his credit. He’s published more than 75 published journal papers and 100 conference papers in addition to editing a book and five book chapters. He’s gotten to this point in his career following a path that has taken many turns. As a young man growing up in India, he saw only two possible careers for himself –doctor or engineer. He never liked biology, so he pursued his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Malaviya National Institute of technology in Jaipur before going to work for an aerospace company. There he got a reality check when he was asked to do a complete aircraft engine overhaul. “I was like, ‘Look, I didn’t train for this,’” Bhansali recalls. “And the simple answer I got was you’re either a good engineer or you’re not a good engineer. A good engineer can figure the way out. So it was baptism by fire. ”

After receiving a master’s degree in aircraft production engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhansali moved to Australia, where he found his calling. Picking up a copy of Scientific American magazine from a mentor’s desk, he saw a photo of a gear so tiny it could fit on the foot of an ant. He discovered a passion for nanostructures and microsystems and began pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Bhansali then went to work in Japan. “The whole world goes west, so I decided I’m going to go east,” he explains. It was the most wonderful two years of his life and a great learning experience, he says.

Bhansali came to FIU in 2011 after spending more than a decade at the University of South Florida, where he built a program that was among the top 10 Ph.D. producers for Hispanic Americans and African Americans. While at USF, Bhansali created several research and training programs to increase diversity, retention and graduation rates.

His work as a mentor has been recognized numerous times, including the 2009 and 2011 William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund and the 2009 Mentor of the Year Award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

“Taking an ‘average’ first-time-in-college student and helping them in a career that’s going to change their life…that’s priceless,” Bhansali says. “As they say in the ads, for everything else there is a credit card.”

When Bhansali came to FIU he was immediately impressed.

“FIU is an institution right now that is at the cusp of greatness,” he says. “I was blown away when I came here and saw what was going on in the department.”

The department faculty recently voted on comprehensive changes to admission and curriculum focused on giving all interested students the depth and breadth of education that industry demands by giving them the opportunity to take up to 20 courses as electives.

The department is also working to improve students’ communications skills and partnering with industry so students can work with mentors early on. Bhansali recently reached an agreement with Motorola, which is loaning equipment to the department and providing expertise to train students on state-of-the-art infrastructure.

“What that does is give students a quantum leap,” Bhansali says. “Embedding industrial perspectives and processes in their academic training, they will already know, at the point of graduation, what an employer might expect them to know two years into a job. They’re already closely working with people in industry who are telling them what they need to know today.”

For the seniors in FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, everything they’ve learned in four years culminates with a single project. Working together in teams, they take on projects that test their knowledge, ingenuity, patience and imagination.

Finally, on Senior Design Day, the students put on their best suits and showcase their projects to a host of industry advisers who pick their brains and give them feedback on their work.

And so it came to be that one day in late April, slowly finding its way around one corner on the third floor of the Engineering Center, was SEEYER, a “Seeing Eye Robot” developed by a five-member team of students that includes Jenny Avila.

“Our project is an autonomous robot that’s designed to assist the visually impaired in getting from point A to point B inside of a building,” explained Avila, who worked with teammates Dominic Tang-How, Ricardo Urena, Ningyuan Wang and Liyang Sun on the invention. “It should be able to direct them and take them there safely without running into anything or anyone, and then alert them once it’s arrived.”

Integrating existing components including Microsoft Kinect and a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Scanner, the team “wanted to do something that would help people and use engineering to improve people’s lives.”

The team spent six months on the project, which initially involved designing and building the hardware, followed by implementing the software, which, Avila said, was “a lot more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be.”

In talking about how much they learned throughout the process, Avila noted the relative ease with which they came up with ideas and the subsequent difficulties they faced in executing them.

“The other thing we learned was when you prototype, scale down,” she explained with a laugh. “That was a big, big problem for us.”

Just down the hallway from Avila and her teammates, Jhonathan Briceno and his team have designed and built a Brain Signal Detector and Emitter to control external devices. The device wraps around his head and uses a sensor to detect a signal from his brain.

When he bows his head, the brain signal detected begins to control the wheels on a toy car, moving them forward, backward, left and right. A remote-control arm the team designed allows the user to control the movement of a robot arm.

“We originally had an idea to create something with the brain signals, something like a robotic arm to help out people who have lost a limb,” explained Briceno, who was joined on the team by Zhe Geng, Yue Kun, Yizhou Liu and Carlos Andres Rodriguez. “The thing is for you to control different signals at the same time requires a lot of training, so for the demonstration we wanted to do something a little bit simpler.”

Similar events are held twice a year by each of the seven departments and schools in CEC to showcase students’ senior design projects. These Capstone Projects, said Herman Watson, undergraduate program director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, represent a culmination of all the courses and studies they’ve been exposed to during their time in the college. Students spend their last year taking two courses in which they develop these projects.

“I tell them that essentially they’re working on their job interview,” Watson said. “They may not have an internship, they may not have a co-op, but they have a Senior Design Project. So they put it together, they go through all the engineering practices like you’d have in industry, they pull it together and they struggle, of course, to get the thing to finally work to whatever degree they have it working, and then go through the presentation.”

From his perspective as an educator, Watson said, watching the students collaborate on the projects and go through the inevitable struggles and triumphs along the way is satisfying.

“I wish we were able to focus more on that,” said Watson, who is one of several faculty members who serve as mentors on the projects. “They probably grow and learn more by going through this process than they do anything else in their education. But then, they wouldn’t be able to do it if they didn’t have the background. So, once you look at it objectively, you begin to realize how short the four-year education really is. But I love it. I love the process. I love to see the
creativity.”

Research scientists, engineers, lawyers and authors were among those honored at the annual Top Scholars reception

FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg recognized more than two dozen distinguished members of the FIU academic community for their outstanding achievements in research and scholarship at the Top Scholars reception April 9.

“It is clear that you are reaching for the stars,” said Rosenberg at the annual event held at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential House. “You have set high goals and and you have met them. The provost and I want to challenge you to keep it up.”

Former Florida Judge and FIU Associate Professor of law Phyllis Kotey – who was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach constitutional law and criminal procedure at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana – said she was proud to be nominated with such world-class scholars. “I think of myself as a practitioner, never as a scholar. It’s wonderful to be welcomed by this prestigious group.”

Jose Almirall, the director of the International Forensic Research Institute and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said, “It’s great the university recognizes our achievement. This is an optimistic place.”

Almirall added he is most proud of his work with graduate students, specifically his Ph.D. student who defended his thesis this semester. The Top Scholar received the University Graduate School Provost Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Students last month.

As a tribute to their contribution to the university, FIU’s Top Scholars are asked to choose a book that has influenced their professional and/or personal life. The tomes will be purchased and donated to the library in their name.

Honorees are nominated by their respective deans through the Office of the Provost. The following faculty members were recognized this year.

Lynne Barrett, a professor of English, was honored at the Florida Heritage Month 2012 awards ceremony for Magpies, her latest collection of short stories.

David Rifkind, an assistant professor of architecture, received the Ackerman Prize – one of the most prestigious international awards for scholarly work in architectural history – and the 2011-2012 Best Scholarship of Design Article Award for his article “Misprision of Precedent: Design as Creative Misreading.”

Thomas Reio, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, was recognized by the Richard A. Swanson Research Paper-of-the-Year for Human Resource Development Quarterly for his paper, “Managing workplace incivility: The role of conflict management styles – antecedent or antidote?” He also received the Best Issue Award for co-editing the topical journal Advances in Developing Human Resources.

Phyllis Kotey, a clinical associate professor in the College of Law, received a Fulbright to teach constitutional law and criminal procedure at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.

David Cohen, a professor in the School of Social Work, was the recipient of the distinguished Tocqueville-Fulbright Chair Award. He will be a visiting professor at Université de Poitiers, France.

Gustavo Roig, a professor in the College of Engineering and Computing, received the Dr. Albert V. Baez Award, honoring engineers and scientists with outstanding technical achievements and service to humanity

Seza Gulec, a professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, established the Leon and Serena Simkins Center for Thryroid and Neuroendocrine Tumors.

Arindam Chowdhury, director of the Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research International Hurricane Research Center and assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Kinzy Jones, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, a 44-year-old Society with 4,000 members in the United States and 17 international chapters worldwide.

Mark Weiss, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences, was named the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Educator.

Thomas Baker, a professor in the College of Law, was made Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.

Ediberto Roman, a professor in the College of Law, was made Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.

Mary Jo Trepka, an associate professor in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, was the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Alexis McKenney, an associate professor in the Department of Leadership and Professional Studies in the College of Education, received the Excellence in Education Award and the Presidential Citation Award.

Meredith Newman, chair of the Department of Public Administration, received the Lifetime Achievement in Public Human Resources Scholarship Award from the American Society for Public Administration.

Weirui Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, was one of only four communication professionals to be honored with the Emerging Scholars Award by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Jose Almirall, director of FIU’s International Forensics Research Institute, was honored for his research in forensic analytical chemistry. Almirall also received the University Graduate School Provost Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Students.

William Pelham, director of FIU’s Center for Children and Families, was honored for his research in child behavior disorders.

Fernando Noriega, an associate professor in biological sciences, received additional funding from the National Institutes of Health for his work, which combines physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genomics and proteomics to study a mosquito’s physiological processes such as digestion, activity of the endocrine system and hormonal and nutritional regulation of gene expression.

Naphtali Rishe, director of FIU’s High Performance Database Research Center, was honored for his research in database management and high performance computing.

Albert Gan, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recognized for his research in highway safety, traffic simulation, ITS, GIS, transit planning and demand modeling.

Shu-Ching Chen, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences, was honored for his research in content-based image/video retrieval, distributed multimedia database management systems, multimedia data mining, multimedia systems, and Disaster Information Management.

Ranu Jung, the Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars Chair of FIU’s biomedical engineering program, leads the largest and most active biomedical engineering program in Florida. Her research aims to restore touch to arm and hand prostheses.

Atorod Azizinamini, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is known worldwide as a leading visionary bridge engineer. He has received a number of awards, including the Civil Engineering Research Foundation Charles Pankow Award for his innovative bridge system, the American Institute of Steel Construction Special Achievement Award for his significant contributions to steel bridge engineering and its impact on the steel industry.

JoAnne Youngblut, a professor of nursing, was recognized for her research on families with critically ill children, both during and after the illness. She received a National Institutes of Health grant to study children’s responses to a sibling’s death.

Monica Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Decision Sciences and Information Systems Department in the College of Business Administration, was honored for her research on data analytics and business intelligence; data and text mining; data quality; data warehousing; decision support systems; and knowledge management, particularly in the context of health care.

Jaroslava Miksovska, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was honored for her research on the application of photoacoustic calorimetry and photothermal beam deflection to investigate variety of chemical and biochemical processes.

Nazife Ganapati, an assistant professor in Public Administration, was honored for her research in disaster recovery, vulnerability and resilience. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, 1996 Southern Plains Draught, and the 1993 Midwest Floods.

Leonard Scinto, an assistant professor in the Department Earth and Environment, was recognized for his work in the biogeochemistry of freshwater wetlands, especially the cycling and impacts of anthropogenic nutrients.

Nicole Ruggiano, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, was recognized for her research on the decision making of older adults in consumer-directed, long-term care.

James Waxmonsky is an investigator in FIU’s Center for Children and Families. He focuses on the pharmacological treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder  in adults.

Maria Elena Villar, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, was recognized for her research project, “FACES Social Networking.” Villar lead the social marketing team for Miami’s FACES (Families and Communities Empowered for Success). The goal of the project is to transform the way mental health and substance abuse services are delivered to youth in Miami-Dade County.

Dean Mirmiran (second from left) participated in the dialogue session.

In her opening remarks Wilson highlighted FIU’s success in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) arena, particularly in engineering. FIU is currently one of the top producers of minority STEM degrees and graduates the most number of Hispanics with engineering degrees in the continental United States. Notably, when national trends are showing a decline in African Americans earning engineering degrees, FIU has increased these degrees by more than 65 percent in the last decade.

Mirmiran spoke about the college’s successful strategies at maintaining access, motivating youth through K-12 pathways programs, and broadening university-wide efforts at effecting STEM education rates in South Florida. These efforts incorporate successful reforms in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education. Other examples include modeling instruction, peer-led learning and hands-on engagement with research such as the Department of Energy Fellows program.

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, College of Engineering and Computing Dean Amir Mirmiran

Dean Mirmiran (second from left) participated in the dialogue session.

The proposed bill calls for the National Science Foundation to invest in grants to institutions with successful strategies to increase minority students and faculty leading to greater diversity in STEM careers. These grants, for faculty, would support more opportunities for professional development, institutional assessments, elimination of subtle biases in search and hire as well as trainings for search committees and administrators. For students, this bill highlights the need for graduate and undergraduate financial support, innovation participation methods and a focus on student retention in STEM programs.

For more information contact the Office of Governmental Relations at federal@fiu.edu or 202-600-4562. Follow FIU’s efforts in Washington, D.C., on Facebook and Twitter.

Source: http://news.fiu.edu/2012/04/fiu-is-there-as-legislation-introduced-to-diversify-stem-education/39235

From left to right, CFO of Arellano Construction Agustin Arellano Jr., Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño, FIU Senior Vice President for Advancement and CEO of the FIU Foundation Howard Lipman, OHL School of Construction Director Irtishad Ahmad, FIU Board of Trustees Chair Albert Maury, OHL Vice President Francisco Marin, FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg, President of Arellano Construction and member of the FIU Foundation Board of Directors Agustin R. Arellano, President and Chairman of the OHL Board of Directors Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, Vice President of Construction for Arellano Construction Frank Vilar, FIU Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Amir Mirmiran, President of OHL-USA Lauro Bravar, FIU Board of Trustees Vice Chair Michael M. Adler.

Global construction multinational Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL)  has partnered with the Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing to create the OHL School of Construction, the first named school in the history of the college.

The OHL School of Construction’s dedication ceremony took place on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at the Engineering Center. The ceremony was followed by a lecture by President and Chairman of the OHL Board of Directors Juan-Miguel Villar Mir titled “OHL Group – A Case Study in Entrepreneurial Success.”

“FIU’s program will move forward at a faster pace with OHL’s investment in and commitment to mutual values of excellence, sustainability, diversity, progress, economic development, and quality of life,” said Villar Mir, who acquired Obrascon when the company was on the verge of disappearing in 1987 and, through a series of mergers, restructured the activities of the company and created the OHL Group which is now a multinational traded on the Bolsa de Madrid with sales in the order of $ 6.3bn. “We look for the OHL School of Construction to become one of the top programs of its kind in the U.S. and abroad.”

Since its establishment in Spain in 1911, OHL has evolved into one of the world’s largest construction corporations, leading major projects in more than 50 countries. In alignment with the expansion priorities of OHL, the partnership with FIU will address the demand for diverse construction industry professionals in Latin America and the Caribbean.

President and Chairman of the OHL Board of Directors Juan-Miguel Villar Mir

Previously known as the OHL School of Construction, the OHL School of Construction’s faculty is involved in funded research projects and boasts the largest construction management graduate program in Florida.

“With a global presence in the Dominican Republic and Panama, and strong executive and online offerings, our construction program is already Worlds Ahead,” said Amir Mirmiran, Dean of the FIU College of Engineering and Computing. “This generous gift will place the OHL School of Construction in an elite group of national and international peers.”

Established in 1973, the construction management program at FIU has educated more than 1,500 professionals. Graduates are employed by all major construction companies in the region.

“The OHL School of Construction will be known as a global center for excellence in construction education. The school will prepare future generations of construction management professionals to build our future, transforming South Florida and beyond,” said Irtishad Ahmad, Director of the OHL School of Construction.

FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg noted that the new school’s mission is perfectly aligned with the university’s community engagement mission.

“At FIU we view ourselves as problem solvers for the community – in South Florida and around the world,” said Rosenberg. “As the economy improves, OHL’s support will ensure that our school is poised to provide the kind of education that will allow our graduates to not only take good jobs, but to create good jobs.”

The OHL School of Construction offers undergraduate and graduate programs including a fully Online MS in Construction Management program and a recently launched Professional MS in Construction Management.

About OHL:

OHL is one of world’s leading construction and concessions groups proudly offering 100 years of experience. Over the recent years, OHL has been growing in a dynamic manner, with its international activities resulting in the multinational group that it is today with a remarkable presence in fifty countries across five continents. 

Currently ranked 21st among the largest international contractors by ENR, OHL is a global leader in building hospitals and railways. OHL is also ranked the world´s eighth largest transport infrastructure concessionaire (PWF) because the company operates a toll road network stretching more than 3,000 miles in more than 20 PPP projects around the globe.

OHL is present in the United States from 2006 with the acquisitions of Community Asphalt and The Tower Group in Miami. Nowadays, the holding company OHL USA includes also Arellano Construction, Stride and BCA in Florida, and Judlau Contracting in New York. Together, the OHL firms are prepared to handle virtually any construction project in the United States, by the standards of quality and innovation that always have characterized the OHL Group. For more information, please visit www.ohl.es

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12 Fan Wall of Wind

Arindam Chowdhury, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering and Computing and director of the Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research at the International Hurricane Research Center has been awarded a CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation to fund research on the effect of hurricanes winds on buildings and structures.

Using wind tunnels, Chowdhury creates indoor hurricanes to improve the design of buildings in their paths. According to the award abstract, one objective of the award will be to “ascertain the effects of roof shapes and coverings on uplift pressures and the dynamic response of flexible roofing systems subjected to hurricane winds.” Chowdhury will be using full-scale testing in the 12-fan Wall of Wind (WoW) simulation laboratory at the College of Engineering and Computing.

The WoW is a one-of-a-kind full-scale testing facility generating sustained wind speeds up to 157 mph. The highest classification in the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, category five, is reserved for storms with winds exceeding 155 mph.

This research is particularly relevant in South Florida where the previous recommendations based on WoW research by Chowdhury have influenced the Florida Building Code (FBC). The code modifications, reflected in FBC 2010, will influence wind loading on roof top equipment not only for Dade and Broward counties in Florida’s high risk hurricane zone, but also for the entire State of Florida.

Additional goals of the award include increasing the number of undergraduate students in hurricane engineering academic programs.

Plenary Speaker Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory addresses participants

Government, industry and university collaboration, and increasing retention were among the themes discussed by top engineering education and industry leaders gathered for the College of Engineering and Computing workshop entitled “Building Partnerships and Pathways to Address the Foundational Grand Challenge for Engineering Education.”

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, some 50 stakeholders at the decision making level from the engineering schools, community colleges, school districts, industry and government attended the 3 day workshop, exploring ways to help increase the stagnant supply of the next generation of engineering workforce in the U.S. The workshop presented participants the opportunity to engage in discussions and share ideas in four sessions taking place March 7-9 in Miami.  Attending schools included Minority Serving Institutions (MSI’s), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI’s) with urban mission with several national research university partners.

FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg welcomed participants as well as keynote speaker Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who addressed participants at the opening reception.

The workshop’s four (4) sessions focused on the following topics:

Keynote Speaker Wayne Clough, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution opens workshop with talk titled, "The Engineers of Tomorrow: How Do We Attract, Retain, Educate and Inspire Them?"

1) SESSION 1 – Developing a Systems Integration Approach For The Underserved K-20 STEM Eco-System;

2) SESSION 2 – Increasing Retention in Engineering Through Active Engagement of Students and Faculty;

3) SESSION 3 – HSI/HBCU/MSI National Research University Partnerships For Innovation; and,

4) SESSION 4 – Industry –University Partnerships For Engineering Workforce and Innovation Eco-System.

Each session introduced the topic with a plenary speaker, followed by a panel of subject matter experts, and completed with break-out groups using a set of pre-defined reflection questions for group development of a summary plan and recommended actions.  The results from each of these “table-top” discussions were presented to entire body of participants.

These results will be circulated widely to raise awareness of the fundamental contributions that a diversified engineering workforce must make to address the Grand Challenges for Engineering as well as the kinds of active partnerships that can realistically address the foundational grand challenge for engineering education. The proposed road map will help guide the stakeholders in engineering education, including the funding agencies, to align their resources and increase the stagnant supply of the next generation of engineering workforce, particularly within underrepresented minorities in urban settings. Such activities will also help increase the number of faculty from HIS/HBCU/MSI’s including severely underrepresented and minority faculty with unique experiences and novel approaches to increase the engineering talent pool, who will serve as role models for the next generation of engineering students in the U.S.

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Division of External Programs

“With connections to the local and international construction industry, the FIU College of Engineering and Computing together with the OHL School of Construction is in a unique position to support the development of construction industry leaders and, in turn, the economic growth of the region,” said Amir Mirmiran, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. “The Professional MS in Construction Management program is part of our continuing commitment to collaborative engagement with our local and global communities.”

The program—taught by the same distinguished faculty who teach in the traditional MS in Construction Management program—consists of five ten-week terms, with two courses per term taught over 12 months. The program is delivered at the University’s Broward Pines Center in Pembroke Pines.

The first cohort in the Professional MS in Construction Management program begins August 4. For more information, visit http://mscm.fiu.edu, or contact the College’s Division of External Programs at mscm@fiu.edu or 305-284-3701.