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Moving on up, to Florida Tech to pursue my degree in mechanical engineering
by Alejandra Domiguez Hey Panthers! I’m Alejandra and I am going to be entering as a freshman pursing my degree in Mechanical Engineering in the fall. Here are a few fun facts about me so you can get...
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Everything changes… For the better!
Wow, what a crazy and exciting week this has been. I am incredibly proud to say that I am now typing this post in the lovely accommodations of my dorm room here at FIT. It’s crazy to see how my entire...
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Education At Its Finest, the mechanical engineering program.
So let’s talk about the real reason why everyone goes to college: classes. For freshmen, making that “high school to college style class” transition can seem like a pretty big deal, and that’s because...
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Campus Spotlight: The Black Katz Café
Hey panthers! So I am going to start a new section of my blog called “Campus Spotlights.” Basically what I will be doing every few weeks is writing about different places of the Florida Tech campus...
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A Mechanical Engineering major’s Paradise—The Machine Shop
Good day Panthers! I hope everything is going just as wonderful as it is for me here in my natural habitat, Florida Tech. As I move further into the school year, I have progressively become busier and...
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Zombie Apocalypse!
So the main thoughts of going to college involve having a lot of challenging classes, getting involved on campus with Greek life or clubs, and working part time or having an internship. Not once in my...
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Freshman Mechanical Engineering Design Project.
Hey panthers, sorry for the sudden disappearance on the blog, but things got pretty hectic towards the end of the semester. Taking eighteen credits, being in a musical, helping at church and still...
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Lights, Cameras, College Players!
I’m taking 18 credits this semester which are filled with projects, homework, and labs (oh my!) I needed a stress reliever. So, I decided to get involved with one of my ultimate passions: theater!...
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Geeky Gadgets: The Spy Net Vision Mission Watch
As a mechanical engineer (or one in the making), stereotypically one of my interests is technology. I love cool gadgets and toys that revolve around technology and science. Being a big geek myself, I...
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Art and Fashion at Florida Tech.
Living on a college campus, especially one as brilliant and diverse as Florida Tech, there are always many new and exciting events going on. The Florida Tech Humanities and Communications department is...
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An inside look at the College Players.
Another semester has quickly come and gone. Know what else has passed? A College Players production! For the last week of March and the first week of April, I was proud to have been a part of the...
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Geeky Gadgets: 3D modeling and printing.
For this month’s post, I’m going to tell you about what geeky gadget I have been obsessing over lately. Well, it’s not much of a gadget per se, but a website called Shapeways. I stumbled upon this...
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Curiosity Lands On Mars!
I hope all the prospective students are getting excited about joining the Florida Tech family! I’m sure our returning students are just as excited to be back and are ready to welcome all the new...
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Closets, Classes, College Players and Robots!
Summer is over and school is back in full swing, and so am I. I’ve moved to a new residence hall, taken on a new role in College Players, and got a job, all in a matter of weeks. One of my desks, my...
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A Mechanical Engineer at a Career Fair
One of the greatest things about Florida Tech has been all the opportunities that are within my reach as an undergraduate student. There are no restrictions on what you can strive to accomplish, and...
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Spotlight: Players in Harmony and Improv
As I’ve mentioned in some of my past posts, I’m more involved in the committees of Florida Tech’s College Players this year. And right now, I want to share my experience with Players in Harmony (PIH)...
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Spotlight: Robotics and Spatial Systems Lab: Sphere Walker
As mentioned in one of my past posts, this year I’m working for the Robotics and Spatial Systems Laboratory here at Florida Tech. Needless to say, I adore my job in every way. I pretty much choose...
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College Players presents: The Butler Did It…Singing!
As you know, the end of the semester is upon us, and with that, another fabulous production from our very own College Players. This year, I decided to take some time off from the whole acting spiel in...
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De-Stereotype at Florida Tech!
Recently I was making my way from my dorm room to the lab so I could get to work and I passed by the SUB and saw a large gathering of students crouched around white t-shirts. Intrigued and curious, I...
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Learning how to build robots at Florida Tech. Meet PantherBot
Learning how to build robots at Florida Tech is all part of a day’s work for a mechanical engineering major. Of the robots I get to work with in the Robotics and Spatial Systems Lab, my second favorite...
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Sink Your Teeth Into Our Latest Production: Dracula
Plastic fangs, a rainbow of costumes and seven hours spent in Gleason Performing Arts Center Monday through Friday can only mean one thing; the 2013 Spring production is here! For the past three...
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NASA’s Fourth Annual Lunabotics Competition
What’s up, Panthers? I hope everyone is enjoying their summer whether you’re relaxing as much as possible or working hard at your summer classes. So far, my summer has been the craziest, most...
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Atlantis: The Legend is Home
Since the space shuttle program was decommissioned in July 2011, the three remaining orbiters, Atlantis, Endeavour and Discovery, have been relocated to their now permanent homes. Endeavour went to the...
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Mechatronics: the Excitement, the Frustration and the Accomplishment
With the school year already in full swing, there is one class which has drawn my time and attention 120%: mechatronics. This semester I had a few gaps to fill credit-wise since I’m ahead of the...
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Downtown Melbourne: Music, Food and Fun!
So, after a really intense week of classes, tests and homework assignments, it’s nice to be able to unwind and do something fun. One of my favorite things to do is visit historic downtown Melbourne and...
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Robotics and Spatial Systems Lab: Motoman, the Real 3D Printing
Since my job last year at the robotics and spatial systems laboratory was so awesome, I decided to continue working there this school year. Apart from helping and creating different workshops and tools...
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FIT Rocks Out at the Homecoming Fest!
Apart from October is filled with a ton of Halloween festivities and events, and a much-needed change of Floridian weather from suffocate-in-humidity to decently-breezy-and-not-scathing-hot. At the end...
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Panther Prowl: FIRST Robotics at Florida Tech
I don’t know about you, but my passion for robotics has always been with me ever since I was little when I would help my dad fix electronics around the house. However, I didn’t really get the chance to...
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We All Have Problems: Mental Health of an Engineering Student
Any regular college student will tell you the same phrase: “I’m stressed.” Walk into any common study area such as the library or a study lounge, and you can see it on everyone’s face. The mental...
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Five Ways Dyeing My Hair Pink Influenced My College Experience
Coming back to school from winter break is a whole different ball game than when one comes back from summer vacation. You have the residual exhaustion from the semester before and your stress and...
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Florida Tech Celebrates Holi
Recently, I participated in something I had never done before (and really hope to do again in the future). Florida Tech’s Student Government Association held a festive Holi celebration in Southgate...
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An Engineer’s Best & Worst Nightmare: Senior Design
What happens when you give a group of last-year engineering students a minimal budget, nine months and an innovative, brand new engineering concept to be executed? Senior design, that’s what. If you...
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Florida Tech Mars Rover: Team Olympus
This is the very first year that Florida Tech is taking part in Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge. This competition started in 2007 and has occurred annually ever since. The competition allows...
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Let’s Dig! Florida Tech NASAbotics
For the past three years, Florida Tech has been a part of NASA’s annual NASAbotics competition, formerly known as NASA’s Lunabotics competition. Florida Tech has been progressively improving in this...
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Florida Tech’s Formula SAE Team
For the past few years, Florida Tech has invested a very large part of the motorsports budget and dedication into one of the largest collegiate design and race competitions held in various locations...
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Google Glass: High Tech with a Florida Tech Touch
Apart from cars and robots, Florida Tech’s senior design also dives into new and developing technologies in order to further develop and contribute to a possible growing market. In previous years,...
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Engineering Meets Panther Football: Senior Design Football Sled
Florida Tech administration and students were really excited to establish our very first panther football team back in my freshman year. With the advancements the football team has made, and this being...
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Florida Tech Motorsports: SAE Mini Baha
If you are one of those types of people who doesn’t mind getting down in the mud and enjoys driving over anything other than asphalt, then the SAE Mini Baha senior design project is just for you. The...
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Milestone Update: Florida Tech Mars Rover
After a long and relaxing winter break, I jumped right back into my very last semester of my undergraduate career ready to keep working furiously on my senior design project. Before winter break, my...
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Not Mel-boring: To Write Love On Her Arms Red Carpet Premiere!
Although many students at first aren’t too crazy about the area the school is in, Melbourne has a lot to offer in terms of entertainment and culture. So even though many students call the town...
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Senior Design: The Importance of Manufacturing Intent
When it comes to senior design, there are many tasks one has to constantly be aware of and be able to overcome. Deadlines, design reports, sponsorship packets, executive summaries and advisement...
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Mechanical Engineering Major Takes on Monsters and Singing Lessons
With senior design projects, and the final core classes needed to graduate (WHOOHOOO!!!) it’s very simple to get caught up in the same rut of only thinking how we’ve been taught to do for the past four...
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FCRAR: Florida Conference in Recent Advancements in Robotics
For the past three years, I have been working as an undergraduate research assistant for Professor Pierre Larochelle in the Robotics and Spatial Systems Laboratory at FIT. Not only is this a fantastic...
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