New Faculty Member Joining CISCOR

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Dr. Taylor Higgins will be joining CISCOR in January 2023 and coming to campus to establish her research group in the fall. Originally from Simpsonville, SC, Dr. Higgins attended Clemson University for her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. In 2022, she graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering advised by Dr. Jim Schmiedeler and Dr. Pat Wensing. Dr. Higgins’ dissertation work specifically aimed to identify human gait speed intentions for lower-limb exoskeletons. After Notre Dame, she took a postdoc position at UT Austin with Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey working on optimal haptic guidance strategies for surgical robotics.  In 2023 Dr. Higgins will start as an assistant professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee where she will continue her work to increase the fluency of a broad spectrum of human/robot interactions.

ET-Quad Team Presents Robot at NASA Big Idea Forum in Pasadena

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Student researchers Derek Vasquez (PhD), David Jay (MS), and Michael Dina (BS) traveled with faculty advisors Jonathan Clark and Shayne McConomy to the NASA Big Idea Forum in Pasadena, CA in November 2022 to present the Extreme Terrain Quadruped (ET-Quad) robot. ET-Quad is the world’s first legged robot capable of running, climbing, and swimming, and was developed between March and November 2022 by a team of 24 CISCOR students.

Engineering Students Design Four-Legged Lunar Robot for NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge

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Engineering Students Design Four-Legged Lunar Robot for NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge

Ever watch a cockroach scurry about, with its flat armored body that slips in a crack and then flies through the air? Before you swat that pesky creature, you might want to think about the engineering feat that insect just accomplished. That’s what Jonathan Clark does; it’s kind of a thing for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering

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Mechatronic Art: Melding Engineering and Art in Perfect Balance

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Is it art or engineering? What about both?

That’s what students at Florida State University ask themselves each day in Mechatronic Art II. The course looks to combine the artsy with the ergonomic, the interesting with the innovative. It takes students from different disciplines and forces them to collaborate to craft new solutions. Read more

FAMU- FSU Engineering College: A National Leader in Robotics

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The Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering has the distinction of being one of the top robotics engineering schools in the country. It is quite an achievement for the Center for Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics, a graduate program center under the College of Engineering that is ranked 11th nationally.... Read more 

CISCOR Director Served As Mentor to FAMU Mechanical Engineering Student Receiving Two Degrees

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You don't have to look far to see where Desmond Pressey got his interest in science, engineering and math. His grandfather, Leroy Baker, of Tallahassee, is a retired instructor of electronic engineering technology at Florida A&M University. His uncle, John Baker, graduated from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His mother, Carol Pressey, earned a degree in mathematics at FAMU. His father, Roy Pressey, studied information technology and statistics at Baruch College in New York.... Read More

Graduate student Ryan Kopinsky makes the cover of Northwest Florida’s 850 Magazine

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If you’re a grad student, you’re probably of the opinion that it’s no easy feat-research papers, conferences, teaching-there’s a lot to the endeavor of pursuing a graduate degree. However, this hasn’t hindered PhD student Ryan Kopinsky from pursuing other goals. Ryan hopes to graduate in Spring 2017, but until then, he is not only juggling the many aspects of grad student life, but he’s already made marks in the tech world... Read more.