Empower Innovation, Shape the Future, and Engage with the Next Generation of Tech Leaders at the Senior Design Showcase. Sponsorship Opportunities
Spring 2025 Senior Design Showcase
Photos: Flickr, Album 1, Album 2
Date: Friday, April 18th, 2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m
Location: Ocean Bank Convocation Center, Florida International University.
1180 SW 113 Avenue, Miami, FL.
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Event Program
Registration/RSVP: https://go.fiu.edu/RSVPshowcase*
*Note: Capstone Students who are presenting at the Showcase do not need to register for the event.
Sponsors
CEC Senior Design Showcase
Employers agree: graduates with multi-disciplinary, project-based learning experiences in college are better-prepared for today’s dynamic workforce. We invite our industry partners, alumni, friends and family to join us as our engineering and computing students present their projects in eight different industry-centric pavilions. Nearly 450 seniors present their team-based projects that focus on their knowledge in several engineering and computing disciplines such as Mechanical, Computer and Electrical, Biomedical, Civil and Environmental, Interdisciplinary engineering as well as Internet of Things (IoT), Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Construction Management.
Our undergraduate students spend their last year in college cultivating original ideas, advanced designs, and innovative solutions to create practical solutions for industry problems through the course called “Senior Design Capstone”. The capstone is a culmination of all the courses the students are exposed to throughout their studies. The showcase provides a platform where the capstone projects are demonstrated to the public.
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
Melissa Jones
Senior Director of Program Delivery,
Break Through Tech at Cornell Tech
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.
Melissa Jones is a results-driven leader with 20+ years of experience in leveraging technology to enhance learning and access to tech careers. She has held leadership roles at organizations like Adobe, Code.org, General Assembly and Shopify. She currently oversees the delivery of Break Through Tech’s work-based learning programs in computing and AI.