College of Engineering and Computing

This year, two professors will be recognized with Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence in Research.

With the opening of the Nanofabrication Facility on its Science and Technology Campus, Mason stands ready to conduct state-of-the-art research and to help train the next generation of innovators.

Research Interests: Nanoelectronics, Computing Hardware, Energy Harvesting and Storage, Biomedical Devices

Missy Cummings, a George Mason University mechanical engineering professor, calls herself a “tech futurist,” whose job is to “make tech work. It’s not to stop tech, it’s to help it get better.”

Mason's College of Engineering and Computing remembers the life and achievements of professor emeritus Harry Van Trees.

George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing faculty members are developing ways to hide text messages in plain sight, protecting from would-be hackers the sensitive messages of military personnel, law enforcement, and others.

As a sophomore, electrical engineering major Sai Srivatsav Gutala started a student club called the Inventors and Innovations Team (IIT) with one of his classmates, computer engineering major Nicholas Paschke.

In 2006, George Mason University alum Anousheh Ansari, BS Computer and Electrical Engineering ’88, traveled to the International Space Station for an 11-day expedition and the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, first Muslim woman in space, and fourth private explorer to visit space.

Missy Cummings is co-director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center

Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation