College of Engineering and Computing News
- February 6, 2023Missy Cummings, a George Mason University mechanical engineering professor, calls herself a “tech futurist,” whose job is to “make tech work. It’s not to stop tech, it’s to help it get better.”
- February 3, 2023A former PhD engineering student turned his curiosity and creative research into a lightbulb idea. This led to the College of Engineering and Computing and the College of Public Health obtaining a nearly $1M grant from the U.S. Department of Justice for bruise analysis.
- January 27, 2023The College of Engineering and Computing is offering many new classes at Mason Square in Arlington this academic year, including multiple sections of core courses for the Graduate Certificate in Naval Ship Design. Former naval research program officer Peter Cho teaches the fourth course, Defense Industry Project Management. “Mason Square is the perfect place to focus,” he says.
- January 27, 2023The 2022 World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) and Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), housed in the Mason College of Engineering and Computing, drew hundreds of people to Cape Town for a major event late last year.
- January 27, 2023Mason faculty are part of a new project that aims to yield policy recommendations that limit the negative impact – namely in higher energy prices – on low socioeconomic communities.
- January 25, 2023Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.
- January 24, 2023George Mason University’s online degree offerings are some of the best in the nation, with five programs in education and engineering ranked in the top 20 among public universities, according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings released Jan. 24.
- January 18, 2023A team of six from George Mason earned an award for teamwork and collaboration at the 2022 Maritime RobotX competition in Australia after working with competitors from two other universities.
- January 18, 2023Mason's College of Engineering and Computing remembers the life and achievements of professor emeritus Harry Van Trees.
- January 17, 2023Mason will receive $1 million in federal funding to support the creation a first-of-its-kind Mason Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience, and nearly $1 million for the Saving Lives and Decreasing Health Disparities project
- January 12, 2023On Jan. 9, over 400 students from five counties and 22 high schools came together at Mason for CyberSlam 2023, to get hands-on learning about opportunities in cybersecurity. The huge gathering was deemed a state affair, as interest in CyberSlam increased significantly from last year.
- January 11, 2023The EfID-GMU team will travel to San Pablo de Amali in Ecuador this year, to work on restoring water accessibility for the community.