College of Engineering and Computing News
- December 5, 2023The National Security Administration redesignated George Mason University as a National Center of Academic Excellence, a distinction Mason has had since 1999.
- December 5, 2023Thirty students, from first-years to PhDs in a variety of majors, participated in the MIX's eight-week Unmanned Aerial Systems Prototyping course this fall.
- November 29, 2023The College of Engineering and Computing will soon offer a concentration in human-computer interaction, a growing field of study.
- November 27, 2023Missy Cummings holds faculty appointments in the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments in George Mason Univerity's College of Engineering and Computing. Her expertise is leveraged in this article published by multiple news outlets.
- November 27, 2023Emissions from coal-fired power plants, though steeply on the decline, are more than twice as likely to lead to mortality as other air pollutants.
- November 20, 2023Artificial intelligence systems only produce outcomes as good as the data sets they rely on. Unfortunately, these data sets are often not adequately representative.
- November 15, 2023Mason’s Institute of Digital Innovation (IDIA) recently welcomed the inaugural cohort of Public-Private Partnership (P3) Faculty Fellows. The Fellows Program aims to spark research collaborations between the university and industry partners on impactful societal problems and deliver state-of-the-art digital solutions to the local, regional, or national economy.
- November 10, 2023ECE assistant professor Maryam Parsa is one of the four principal investigators on a $2.4 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to create a 3D computer chip that functions like the hippocampus.
- November 8, 2023With support from Mason's Department of Statistics, two high school students conducted statistical research and wrote an op-ed on lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.
- November 6, 2023An event on Nov. 3 at the Mason Square campus celebrated the "topping out" of the Fuse building, meaning the structural frame of the building is complete.
- November 1, 2023Mason’s new Fuse at Mason Square destination in Arlington will reach a major milestone this month with the “topping out” of what will become a 345,000-square-foot collaborative and digital innovation space in the heart of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor.
- October 24, 2023Certain types of mushrooms—or fungi—may have a place in infrastructure, potentially saving costly repairs and time. Xijin “Emma” Zhang, assistant professor in civil engineering, is researching this relatively new area of engineering and other green technology solutions for common challenges.