CEC Global Engagement

Researchers at George Mason University will collaborate on an NSF planning grant to develop resilience solutions and technologies. They will work with Indigenous communities, industry partners, government agencies, and six academic institutions.

Students and faculty represented George Mason at the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education, and Technology in Mexico City in July.

George Mason University’s civil engineers are assessing the climate change challenges facing some of the world’s highest mountain ranges, creating better ways to measure the melting ice in high elevations where temperatures are rising faster than average and putting pressure on the livelihoods of fragile cultures and ecologies.

Sixteen students from George Mason’s College of Engineering and Computing took an early summer ROMP in Quito.

Two College of Engineering and Computing faculty members moderated sessions at the World Engineering Education Forum in Sydney.

George Mason faculty members recently presented new work on aiding first responders with AI at a major international conference.

George Mason University Engineers for International Development (EfID) improves water access in underserved communities abroad. Advised by Adjunct Professor Matthew Doyle, EfID students manage their own projects, secure funding through competitions, and build connections with industry professionals to make a meaningful impact worldwide. 

George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) plans to collaborate with the Indian Institute of Technology–Ropar (IIT–Ropar) as one of three Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in AI. This collaboration results from a call for proposals last winter from the Ministry of Education of India which seeks to improve the nation’s AI ecosystem through cooperation with partners worldwide. 

Ken Ball and Ariela Sofer were elected to the executive committees of the Global Engineering Deans Council and International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, respectively.

The Carter School and College of Engineering and Computing are teaming up on a peace engineering minor.