Volgenau School of Engineering

While useful technology, drones can pose a serious security risk. Systems engineering and operations research undergraduates Dyar Aziz and Markus Garretson are working to develop a methodology for inferring drone intent based on sensor data. 

Research Interests: Cost Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, Requirements Engineering, Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling

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

Research interests: Machine learning and statistical modeling, explainable AI, model fairness and robustness, data exploration, and active learning.

College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Professor Janis Terpenny has joined the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) where she will serve in the expert role and lead in the creation of CMMI’s Manufacturing System Integration program.

Research Interests: Smart integrated systems and processes for design, manufacturing, and design education.

Most people with access to a 3D printer find themselves creating small objects or gadgets. But one student group working at the MIX at George Mason University each Friday is driven by a different dream.

“We build, design, test and plan to compete in solar-powered car competitions,” said Michael Riggi, president of Mason’s solar car team, HyperNova Solar. “[We believe] our car, when complete, will be the world’s first and only 3D-printed solar car.”

Amissah's research broadly entails an application of concepts and tools from the fields of Modeling & Simulation and Systems Science.

George Mason University’s first satellite "ASTERIA," part of Mason Engineering’s ThinSat program, successfully passed environmental testing at the Northrop Grumman facility on Wallops Island and was integrated into a deployer. ASTERIA is now ready for launch.