For three weeks, Dr. Qihou Zhou conducted a course titled "Undergraduate Hands-on Experience with Incoherent Scatter Radar" where students learned about the technical aspects of radar operation, characteristics of the different ionospheric regions, recognizing techniques and more.
Each year, the Presidents Distinguished Service Award (PDSA) is given to a select group of students. These students are recognized for their outstanding service contributions to Miami, demonstrating leadership at its highest quality. Among the 20 students chosen to receive this year's PDSA award is senior mechanical engineering major, Inés Muñoz de Cote.
When Dr. Jim Kiper steps down from his position as chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) this summer, a new professor, Dr. Eric Bachmann, has been chosen to fill the position.
Lexie Adams, junior chemical engineering major, is one of only 396 students across the nation to receive this years Goldwater Scholarship, regarded as the most prestigious awards that an undergraduate STEM major can earn.
Recently, his first paper of 2020, titled "Learning a Dynamic Map of Visual Appearance" was accepted to this year's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR). CVPR is one of the top and most well-known conferences in the computer science field.
Through RAPIDS, Miami's main campus and regional campuses received a total of over $300,000. The funds have been used to purchase robotics kits that are being used in classes like ECE471 (Robotics-Vision & Control).
The new module, "Under Pressure" explores "Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Design for Deep Sea Exploration." This involves structural engineering as well as understanding the complex, deep sea environment.
