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- Update on Initial Accreditation Visit of ABET team!
- Professor Elham Sahraei and Professor Damoon Soudbakhsh received a Grant of $930K from Office of Naval Research (ONR). This project will be in collaboration with Professor James Kirtley in MIT - period of performance 2017-2020.
- Professors Damoon Soudbakhsh (PI), and Elham Sahraei of MechE received seed funding from Provost Multidisciplinary Research Initiative Program. Period of Performance 2017-2018.
- Professor Robert Handler of MechE received seed funding from Provost Multidisciplinary Research Initiative Program. Period of Performance 2017-2018.
- Professors Pei Dong and Pilgyu Kang join Mechanical Engineering Department.
- Professor Elham Sahraei received a contract for $450K from the MIT Battery Consortium in September 2017, period of performance will be 2017-2019. This project is in collaboration with Professor Tomasz Wierzbicki in MIT.
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Mason-NOVA CC dual admissions program takes first step
Imagine you are a student at Northern Virginia Community College, but one with a valid George Mason University ID card, access to George Mason’s library and its facilities, the ability to join Mason student organizations and the chance to take one Mason course each school year.
If you are a mechanical engineering student in the Mason-NOVA Dual Admissions Compact, those are precisely the privileges available to you.
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Welcome to Real World Engineering
Distribution of positive ions (red = high, blue = low) surrounding a bacterium undergoing electroporation (electrically-induced pore formation), for four different background salt concentrations.
Mechanical Engineering
Our vision is to expand - through pedagogy, research, and service - the intellectual culture of GMU and VSE leading to distinct innovations, beneficial to humanity. |
Today, the role of the mechanical engineer is ever expanding in order to find innovative solutions for contemporary problems, and to address problems yet to be identified. To meet the growing demands of worldwide energy needs spurred by population growth and dwindling supplies of fossil fuels, for instance, mechanical engineers seek innovations in nuclear energy, biofuels, wind, and tidal energies to build an energy portfolio that exploits these seemingly limitless resources. From design to manufacturing, an awareness of stealth threats to product realization – due to an ever present cyber threat – is in the minds of mechanical engineers. Now more mechanical engineers oversee the operations and management of large systems along with the fiscal and human resources needed to run them.
James Michener once said, "Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them." Mechanical engineers use science to advance technologies and to develop products for the benefit of society, in a discipline which dates back to the earliest of times in civilization.
Read a letter from professor and department chair Dr. Oscar, Barton Jr., Ph.D., P.E.