College of Engineering and Computing News
- August 29, 2024Andre Marshall, Liza Wilson Durant, and student Dylan Knoff are quoted.
- August 28, 2024The Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP) has equipped students with the skills to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of election infrastructures. As an intern last summer, information technology major Duong Thuy Nguyen helped secure a rural county’s technology for the upcoming presidential election alongside two George Mason peers.
- August 26, 2024Finding accurate information about disability services presents a challenge in the face of misinformation. Through the Mapping Information Ecology project, Assistant Professor Myeong Lee worked with the Virginia Board of People with Disabilities (VPBD) to study the issue.
- August 26, 2024Fourteen local high school students spent a week in August learning about renewable energy from electrical engineering professor Liling Huang and a host of local energy engineering professionals. At the end of the week, the students presented their work, a model town powered entirely by clean energy.
- August 21, 2024A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study policy and scientific challenges in making bus fleets less dependent on fossil fuel will bring together experts from a variety of disciplines and three major universities. See what they hope to accomplish, and why.
- August 20, 2024Dmitry Oleynik began attending events hosted by George Mason University’s Early Identification Program as an eighth grader. The program, along with early support from his family, helped him develop an interest in engineering.
- August 12, 2024Incoming cybersecurity student looks to quickly acclimate to college life, given his familiarity with George Mason through the Early Identification Program and other activities.
- August 9, 2024The Department of Statistics, George Mason University, is sorry to report that Associate Professor Emeritus John Miller, 78, died unexpectedly on August 7, 2024.
- August 8, 2024Two Northern Virginia newspapers quote civil engineering assistant professor Kirin Emlet Furst about the effects of forever chemicals on the region's drinking water.
- August 8, 2024Civil engineering assistant professor Kirin Emlet Furst is quoted in Scientific American about the effect of extreme heat on infrastructure.
- August 6, 2024Local high school students explore maritime robotics at NSF-supported summer camp.
- August 5, 2024Mechanical engineer Jeffrey Moran, whose lab focuses on self-propelled micro- and nanoparticles, has loved outer space since childhood. Now, one of his experiments, exploring aerosol thermophoresis, will be carried out on the International Space Station.