Systems Engineering and cyber security engineering represent Mason at Andrew Sage Competition

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Mason’s Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR) held its fourth annual Andrew P. Sage Memorial Capstone Design Competition on April 26.

This student-focused competition is an international assembly for the design of complex systems and a leading showcase for undergraduate design projects. These projects are from our capstone design courses or from baccalaureate, honors, or design-oriented graduate theses.

Our teams competed with groups from the United States Military Academy at West Point, University of Pennsylvania, James Madison University, Virginia Tech, and the College of Engineering and Computing's SEOR department. Categories included design, network security, healthcare, software security, decision support systems, device security, and transportation and logistics.

Teams from the Bachelor of Science in systems engineering and cyber security engineering represented Mason at the competition.

The event honors Andrew P. Sage, the founding dean of the Volgenau School, a pioneer and leader in systems engineering, a prolific author, and a dedicated educator.

Mason Winners

Track 1: Cybersecurity

Cyber Security Engineering

Michael Fialk, Yun Zhao, Chad Constantine, Harsh Cheema, Tiffany Huynh

Track #2: Network Security

Cyber Security Engineering

Using Elastic Cloud to Identify, Analyze, and Generate Alerts for Anomalous Network Traffic

Sanjeet Bagga, Wyatt Child, Cameron Lawrence, John Leach, Kevin Liu and Joseph Walter

 

 

Track 3: Software Security

Cyber Security Engineering

Purple Team Assessment of an Industrial Control System Secured by the Dragos Platform

Andrew Smith, Kyle Simmons, Marissa Costa, Natalie Sebastian, Santiago Taboada Patino, and Zaine Wilson

 

Track 7: Industry Applications

Systems Engineering and Operations Research

Design of a Vertiport Traffic Flow Management System

Furat Allawi, Parul Chhabra, Betelhem Kebede, and Toavina Ratolojanahary

 

Track 8: Social Engineering

Systems Engineering and Operations Research

Design of a Decision Support Tool for Developing EV Fleet Transition

Evan Anderson, Khiem Duong, Rebecca Quintero, and Hein Naing

 

Best MS Paper

Systems Engineering and Operations Research

Forecasting Models for Predicting Power Demand

Maura Kaminow, Ruggieri Guillaume, Mary Taylor, and David Todd

 

Honorable Mentions

Track 1: Cybersecurity

Cyber Security Engineering

Cyber Hygiene Scoring Model

David Nicholson, Attar Singh, Andres Ramos, Stephen Morrison, Sara Eldabaa, and Jason Corona

 

Track #2: Network Security

Cyber Security Engineering

Vibrational Comms Project (Weirding Module)

Darby Hopkins, Milcah Barretto, Matt Sipes and Stephen Underwood

Vibrational Comms Project (Weirding Module)

Track 3: Software Security

Cyber Security Engineering

Agile Video Integrity

Christian Tanous, Ethan Lannon, Saleh Alzahrani, Ali Latif, and Shiny Chekuri

 

Track 9: Systems & Platforms

Cyber Security Engineering

Server Creation for a Distributed Education Platform

Victor Corja, Shaikh Alsharqi, Diana Chong, Omar Rahim, and Mackenzie Tottle