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STAY 6 FEET APART. SIMULATED COUGH REVEALS THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
March 15, 2020
These days, even the sound of a cough – one of the most common symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – can cause panic and fear. People can get infected when a person coughs or sneezes as tiny droplets travel...
FAU re-tooled their facilities to leverage the opportunity to make face shields much faster than are currently being manufactured. They plan to share the blueprint for this personal protection equipment broadly with other academic institutions as well as industry. (Photo by Alex Dolce)
March 10, 2020
The FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science leveraged their facilities to produce a total of 16,000 disposable face shields, 8,000 for Baptist Health, South Florida and 8,000 for local medical practices.
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March 08, 2020
Researchers from I-SENSE/Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science look at how smart city technologies and fine-scale mobility data sets can help in the study of pandemic analytics.
RESEARCHERS TAKE BODY ARMOR TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH HIGH ENERGY FIBERS
November 28, 2019
It sounds like something out of the movie “Iron Man,” where the fictional American superhero builds an armored suit to fight terrorists and overturn his captors. For researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s College...
ADVANCED DNA SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY UNCOVERS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS
November 26, 2019
A professor from the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, received an NSF grant to study genome-level data.
USING DEEP LEARNING TO IMPROVE OUR RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
November 25, 2019
Together with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, researchers at the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $350,000 grant to apply a deep learning approach for predicting the Loop Current...
OWLS-IN-ACTION: ENGINEERING STUDENTS BUILD A BRIDGE IN AFRICA
November 24, 2019
A group of students from the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, traveled to Eswatini, South Africa to build a suspension foot bridge.
STUDENTS COMPETE IN HARDWARE HACKATHON
November 20, 2019
Undergraduate and graduate students were challenged to build smart devices to solve real-world problems during a 24-hour Hardware Hackathon
College of Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Receive Engineers’ Council National Award
November 18, 2019
Three faculty members from FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science received prestigious awards from the Engineers’ Council, a leading non-profit society that advances education in engineering and recognizes...
‘U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT’
November 10, 2019
More than one dozen Florida Atlantic University graduate programs are included in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Programs” for 2021. Each year, U.S. News ranks professional school programs in business,...