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FAU Engineering in Top Three Fastest Improving Colleges in the U.S.
The College of Engineering and Computer Science is rapidly rising and is ranked by 'U.S. News & World Report' (2020 to 2022) as one of the top three fastest improving engineering colleges in the U.S.
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FAU Student Finalist in '2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition®'
The College of Engineering and Computer Science's Matthew Maggio is one of five national finalists of the "2021 Collegiate Inventors Competition®, for his novel invention to inspect wooden utility poles.
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FAU Receives NSF Grant to Explore Trait Evolution Across Species
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science will provide the framework to test evolutionary hypotheses using novel statistical and machine learning tools.
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Novel Assay Finds New Mechanism Underlying Red Blood Cell Aging
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science researchers in collaboration with MIT probed the mechanical performance of red blood cells to identify the role of hypoxia on aging via biomechanical pathways.
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'Whoop' - New Autonomous Method Precisely Detects Whale Vocalizations
FAU researchers have developed autonomous passive acoustic technology that offers significant advances on conventional methods used to monitor and protect endangered whales in the increasingly noisy ocean.
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Do Passengers Want Self-driving Cars to Behave More or Less Like Them?
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science explored trust and distrust of artificial intelligence, automated technologies and self-driving cars in a study involving 352 participants.
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Genomic Surveillance Crucial to Mitigate and Contain COVID-19
Researchers say that genomic surveillance to mitigate and contain COVID-19 is crucial to detect variants that are different well before they spread throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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Low-cost 3D Method Rapidly Measures Disease Impacts on Coral Reefs
An FAU Harbor Branch technique is helping to gain insight into the poorly understood stony coral tissue loss disease, responsible for widespread coral death throughout the Tropical Western Atlantic.
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Novel Model Predicts COVID-19 Outbreak Two Weeks Ahead of Time
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and collaborators have developed a new forecasting model that can predict spread risk of COVID nationwide at the county level.
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FAU Invention for Privacy of Sharing Files Online Gets U.S. Patent
A College of Engineering and Computer Science researcher's novel technology provides maximum privacy of sharing files online by controlling how and when documents are displayed and viewed.