Empower Innovation, Shape the Future, and Engage with the Next Generation of Tech Leaders at the Senior Design Showcase. Sponsorship Opportunities
Fall 2025 Senior Design Showcase
Photos: Spring 2024 & Spring 2025
Date: Friday, December 5th, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m
Morning Session (10:00 a.m. – Noon) featuring projects from Biomedical Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Moss School of Construction
Afternoon Session (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.) featuring projects from Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Closing Ceremony & Project Awards (4:15 – 5:00 p.m) featuring leadership remarks
Location: FIU Innovation 1, Florida International University
800 SW 107th Avenue, Miami, FL.
Registration: go.fiu.edu/F25-Capstone-Registration
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CEC Senior Design Showcase
Employers agree: graduates with multidisciplinary, project-based learning are better prepared for today’s dynamic workforce. We invite industry partners, alumni, friends, and family to join us as engineering and computing students showcase their work across eight industry-focused pavilions. Nearly 500 seniors will present team-based projects spanning Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Biomedical, Civil and Environmental, Interdisciplinary Engineering, IoT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, and Construction Management.
Through the Senior Design Capstone course, students spend their final year developing original ideas and innovative solutions to real-world industry challenges. This showcase highlights these capstone projects- the culmination of their academic journey – offering the public a firsthand look at their creativity and expertise.
Judging Opportunity: Project judges will have a unique opportunity to network with students and assess their problem-solving skills to the situations they may encounter in their careers. Our students will benefit from presenting their work to both technical and non-technical industry experts. If you are interested in participating as an official judge, please indicate your interest in your registration or email cecshowcase@fiu.edu.
Ceremony Speakers
Inés Triay, Ph.D.
Interim Dean, College of Engineering & Computing and the Executive Director, Applied Research Center
Elizabeth Béjar, Ph.D.,
Provost, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Florida International University
Dr. Inés Triay is the Interim Dean of the College of Engineering of Computing and the Executive Director for the Applied Research Center. Dr. Triay has been at FIU for 12 years as ARC’s Director, and most recently served as our college’s Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Technology where she has worked closely with the Knight Foundation to maximize the impact of resources on the growth of computing and information science at FIU. She is a foremost expert on environmental management and has worked tirelessly in this area as a researcher, a visionary leader and a manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy, and FIU. At the U.S. Department of Energy, she managed the largest, most complex nuclear environmental cleanup program in the world as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, a Presidential appointment, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a budget of $6 billion per annum, and a workforce of 34,000 at 114 sites across the U.S. She has been widely recognized for her many accomplishments in science and engineering including the Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award, Presidential Rank Award, the DOE Secretary Exceptional Service Award, the National Award for Nuclear Science, and the Dixie Lee Ray Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Elizabeth Béjar, Ph.D., serves as provost, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Florida International University providing oversight and strategic direction for the university’s 56,000 students, 2000 faculty, and 11 colleges and 30 institutes.
As the university’s chief academic officer, Dr. Béjar leads a team of academic deans and provost senior staff toward the implementation of FIU’s ambitious strategic plan and bold vision to become a top 30 public university in research excellence and student success. As CAO and chief operating officer, Dr. Béjar oversees an annual budget of $1.45 billion.
She has served as principal investigator for several grants, including a funded grant studying minority-serving institutions’ models of success and a $2 million Department of Labor grant focused on the future of the cybersecurity workforce. Under her leadership, FIU received a $975,000 Department of Education grant to build on the success of completion grants and financial wellness programming to re-enroll students who stopped out during the pandemic or are at risk of stopping out.
Recent strategic initiatives include mobilizing and working with teams of education professionals to research, pilot, develop and implement 21st-century student success initiatives.
The first Hispanic and first alumna to serve as provost, she joined FIU in 2003 and has held several key leadership positions: as vice provost for Academic Planning and Accountability (2009-2014), vice president of Academic Affairs(2014-2018), senior vice president for Academic and Student Affairs (2018-2022), and interim provost (2022-2023). She was appointed provost in February 2023. Dr. Béjar received her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Boston College, an MS in International and Intercultural Development Education from FIU and a BA in Psychology and Elementary Education from the University of Miami.
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