August 19, 2025From data centers to the National Geographic Museum, civil engineering student Esmeralda Martinez is building her future one project at a time. Through hands-on internships with HITT Contracting and lessons from George Mason classrooms, she’s shaping a career that blends technical skills, leadership, and a passion for construction.
July 30, 2025George 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.
April 3, 2025With state-of-the-art teaching labs and fabrication facilities, the Life Sciences Engineering Building (LSEB) lets students and faculty get their hands dirty in this brand-new multiuse active learning space. The ribbon cutting didn’t officially happen until March 27, but LSEB already experienced a housewarming.
October 1, 2024New CEC professor Catalina Gonzalez-Duenas studies how communities are impacted by large-scale disasters.
August 8, 2024Two Northern Virginia newspapers quote civil engineering assistant professor Kirin Emlet Furst about the effects of forever chemicals on the region's drinking water.
July 23, 2024The Carter School and College of Engineering and Computing are teaming up on a peace engineering minor.
January 22, 2024Mason engineering professor Kuo Tian is monitoring landfills to make sure our trash doesn't contaminate drinking water.
January 8, 2024Every 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.
January 2, 2024A 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.
October 23, 2023Americans generally assume tap water is safe to drink; but rising temperatures could prove them wrong. Kirin Emlet Furst received a grant to study how extreme heat is challenging the disinfection of water in underground distribution systems.
