Why Florida Tech?

Why Florida Tech?

"I'll do some amazing research!"

Florida Tech engages in more than $20 million in research annually. Students can participate in research as early as thier freshman year. These are just a few areas you can explore.

  • Onsite courses at the Kennedy Space Center
  • Airport planning, design and development
  • Control of DNA replication and gene expression
  • Microgravity experiments aboard NASA's KC 135 and Space Shuttle
  • Artificial reef structures
  • Applications of communications and publication technology
  • Sensors for robot vision
  • Astronomy using the 36 inch SARA telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory
  • Environmental Economics
  • Cognitive behavior therapy
  • High energy particle physics
  • Bio-organic chemistry
  • Naval architecture, marine hydrodynamics, high-speed small craft design
  • Parallel computing, neural networks, and software engineering
  • Engine testing of alternative fuels
  • Renewable solar energy technologies
  • Autonomous underwater vehicles
  • Stellar evolution, space plasma dynamics, and the orgin of the universe
  • Hydrogen fuel cell research and design
  • Projects involving the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Aerospace structures and, materials, propulsion, and aerodynamics
  • Shark and sting ray research
  • Impacts of hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding and tidal surges
  • Changes of manatee distribution in the Indian River Lagoon
  • Molecular Biology of the bacterial cell cycle
  • Management of business technology
  • Human disease research
  • Cultural psychology
  • Feeding ecology of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin


For more information visit http://www.fit.edu/research/