Vaughn Students and Faculty Attend 24th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions Conference 

The faculty members who attended included Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Paul LaVergne, Dr. Hossein Rahemi, engineering department chair, assistant professor Dr. Mohammed Benalla and associate professor Khalid Mouaouya. During the conference, they attended sessions on a variety of topics such as artificial intelligence (AI) and ABET accreditation. Three student papers were presented at LACCEI, and all three were selected as finalists in the student paper session. The third-place award in the competition went to Ryan Kurkela ’26, Zaheer Haniff ’26 and Ajward Wahid ’26 for their paper titled “The Design of an Autonomous VTOL Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Delivering Medical Supplies.” Junior Gonzalez ’26, Winaldo Walker ’26 and Cedric Green ’26 presented their work on “Fortifying IoT Ecosystems: A Hybrid Security Framework with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence,” and “Interactive War-tactics Based Web Game API Implementing AI Rules” was presented by Sammy El Rowmeim ’29 and Steven Ramirez Limon ’29.