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Every year, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) allows its college chapters to participate in competitions that showcase the engineering knowledge and finesse of civil engineering students across the country. Two Mason ASCE teams—Team Surveying and Team Sustainable Solutions—participated and won in the annual competition.

Each episode of “The Mason Mechanical Engineer” podcast features an interview with a member of the Mason nation, including staff, faculty, students, alumni, and industry partners. Mechanical engineering chair and professor Leigh McCue co-hosts with Philip Wilkerson, an employer engagement consultant in University Career Services. 

A Mason civil engineering student has already landed a job upon graduation…and his first assignment will be Project Engineer for a major new building on the Fairfax campus.

Kafi Hassan, adjunct professor in the College of Engineering and Computing, recently won the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies Engineer of the Year Award. This award recognizes engineers that achieve successful accomplishments in advancing the technical and professional aims of engineering and architectural professions.

Missy Cummings says problems for Tesla won't end until it limits where the system is used and fixes its computer vision system to better detect obstacles.

Computer science major Shruti Sekar was this year's Winter Commencement student speaker. These are the remarks she gave at the ceremony.

Two College of Engineering and Computing faculty members, Kai Zeng and Vijay K. Shah, are part of a project awarded $1.7 million by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.

The electronic and computer engineering department gained a new associate professor in 2023, Ethan Ahn, who is leading the Mason Nanoelectronics Lab.

Dulcee Valenzuela, a December 2023 grad with a degree in bioengineering, said her cancer diagnosis as a teenager helped her find her life's purpose and a career path.

Mechanical engineering undergrad Kevin Kuck presented a paper at a major conference in Monterrey, Mexico.

The National Security Administration redesignated George Mason University as a National Center of Academic Excellence, a distinction Mason has had since 1999.

Thirty 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.