Academics & Research

As fish populations continue to decline thanks to over-fishing, many governments have responded by establishing marine protected areas. Due to the lack of knowledge about the benefits of marine protected areas, they often face opposition from communities that rely fishing as their main source of income. This is an especially contentious issues for island nations like the Philippines where biomedical…

A Florida Tech-led team confirmed that sixgill sharks in the Atlantic are a different species than sixgills in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

The Indian River Lagoon (IRL) has been suffering from high nutrient inflows that include stormwater run-off, fertilizer and lawn clippings. These nutrients degrade the lagoon’s water quality which leads to the build-up of muck, algal blooms and consequently major fish die-offs. To combat these issues, the sustainability minor research project of ocean engineering student, Andrew Shillingsford, developed new measurement tools…

Civil engineering and construction management majors were challenged to create a fictional design firm and create a structure that would benefit the local community. During the 2018 Northrop Grumman Engineering and Science Student Design Showcase, the teams designed everything from a marine aquarium attraction to a surf park. Affordable Apartment Housing With Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) “Quench Construction,” a design team…

Twenty-one Florida Tech students are days away from revealing two mini rovers they’ve spent hundreds of hours creating at the 2018 Northrop Grumman Student Design Showcase. The students are part of this year’s NASA JPL Senior Design team working on mini rovers for the Mars 2020 mission. JPL stands for “Jet Propulsion Laboratory” — NASA’s leading center for robotic exploration…

Cerberus, designed and built by eight Florida Tech seniors, is more than a reference to the monstrous multi-headed dog of Greek mythology. It’s a laboratory prototype of a satellite capable of tracking and capturing space debris. In other words, it’s designed to assist in the removal of defunct, artificially created objects in space that can easily damage satellites or spacecrafts.…

Featuring engineering and science projects that creatively demonstrate Florida Tech’s renowned hands-on approach to education, the annual event at Clemente Center is free and open to the public.

Austin Taft, a junior studying aerospace engineering at Florida Tech, lights up when he talks about Formula SAE—a team of students who design, manufacture, test and race a formula style car in The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)’s collegiate series. These Formula SAE competitions are held in various locations around the world, but Florida Tech’s team competes in Michigan each…

Florida Tech alumni and graduate students team up to launch their experiment onboard a suborbital rocket at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. They’ve spent over a year designing and building their playload which will launch on March 22, 2018. “Our payload will be loaded into a sounding rocket, which is a suborbital rocket,” said Logan Giacco, the team’s project manager. Basically,…

Turner, professor emeritus of biological sciences, is the fourth Florida Tech faculty member to receive one of Florida’s highest academic honors since the program began in 1963.