engineering
Cardboard Hack-a-thon engages student creativity
|On Feb. 28, Mason’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship collaborated with AE Green from Auxiliary Enterprises to host a Cardboard Hack-a-thon in the Engineering building.
Part of a series of similar events titled Hack Mason, the hack-a-thon provided visitors a unique opportunity to create various inventions out of cardboard that was collected around campus, as shown in the video below.
Board of Visitors approves new degree programs
|In order to meet the demands of the job market, Mason has proposed four new academic programs. Starting fall 2014, Mason will provide a Bachelor of Science in cyber security engineering.
A Ph.D. in bioengineering and Masters of Science in data analytics will be available to graduate students.
The proposals for the new programs were approved by the Board of Visitors on Oct. 2. According to Provost Peter Stearns, the next step is approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, which may take time.
OPINION: The liberal arts hold significance not measurable by conventional statistical analysis
|Perhaps the most common and most bothersome question every student is asked, starting in the latter years of high school and ending—I hope—after college graduation, is in regard to one’s intended area of academic pursuit.
“ What is your major?”
“ What do you want to study?”
Dewberry donates $1 million to engineering school
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Lloyd Griffiths announced the gift March 9 at an engineering school event. (Jake McLernon)
The Dean of the Volgenau School of Engineering announced last week a $1 million gift for the university’s growing civil engineering department.