Volgenau School of Engineering News
- March 1, 2023Carol McHugh, the academic program assistant for Mason’s Bioengineering Department, is March Employee of the Month.
- February 24, 2023Faculty and staff from the College of Engineering and Computing and the Mason Innovation Exchange (MIX) hosted a toy-building event for Innovation Week that promotes engineering activities for a good cause.
- February 24, 2023George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing researchers are using novel, real-time technology to keep essential, sensitive wireless communications from getting jammed.
- February 8, 2023George Mason University President Gregory Washington has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering, the highest engineering honor in the country, the academy announced Tuesday.
- 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 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 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.
- November 28, 2022A Mason PhD candidate’s cybersecurity business won $50,000 from Pharell Williams’ Black Ambition prize contest. The contest being hosted in her hometown “put the icing on the cake.”
- November 28, 2022Associate Professor Quentin Sanders’s team is using novel techniques for inventing and improving rehabilitative and assistive technologies.