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ECE News

  • August 26, 2024
    Fourteen local high school students spent a week in August learning about renewable energy from electrical engineering professor Liling Huang and a host of local energy engineering professionals. At the end of the week, the students presented their work, a model town powered entirely by clean energy.  
  • July 2, 2024
    Peter Pachowicz is quoted in Popular Mechanics regarding his work with NASA's Landolt Mission.
  • June 10, 2024
    Recent graduate in electrical and computer engineering Upneet Singh is dedicated to bringing practical engineering experiences to students in elementary and high school. As a volunteer with VEX Robotics, Singh recently demonstrated research from George Mason’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department to students attending a statewide robotics competition. 
  • June 10, 2024
    Doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering Sreenitha Kasarapu presented “Leveraging Explainable AI for Designing Evolvable Malware” at the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative 2024 Symposium in April.  
  • May 24, 2024
    A team of electrical and computer engineering professors met weekly throughout the spring 2024 semester to discuss inclusive teaching strategies and applying them in two foundational courses. The team had won an Inclusive Excellence in Teaching Mini-Grant from George Mason University's Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning for their proposal, “Volts, Wires, and Waves: Charging Up, Building Connections, and Breaking Through.”
  • May 20, 2024
    George Mason's Smart Grid Lab, open one year, is a boon for teaching, learning, research, and outreach.
  • May 9, 2024
    A 2020 graduate of George Mason’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iranian-born Farnoud Farahmand works for tech giant Apple in Silicon Valley doing a job he hadn’t thought about as an undergrad or even a grad student.
  • May 1, 2024
    Long Jiao, who received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering in 2023, is finishing up his first year as a college professor. As a faculty member in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Jiao has continued his research while learning the ropes of curriculum design and student engagement.
  • April 16, 2024
    George Mason University officially opened its Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center, a collaborative space where students will perform research on a variety of emerging fields related to artificial intelligence and autonomous devices.
  • March 4, 2024
    Xuan Wang, an assistant professor in George Mason University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is trying to ensure safety in human-computer autonomous systems.
  • March 4, 2024
    The programs focus on embedded [computer] systems and will contribute to developing energy-efficient machine learning implementations, that are crucial for reducing the carbon footprint of digital technologies.
  • March 4, 2024
    Graduate certificate offers comprehensive training in smart grid technology, addressing critical societal and economic issues such as energy sustainability and grid resilience.