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At the Volgenau School of Engineering, the world is your laboratory, with studies in the classroom and in the field. Because Civil Engineering students study geological formations to learn how to build sustainable bridges, roads, and tunnels, professor Burak Tanyu’s geotechnical engineering class toured the 1,500-acre Cedar Mountain Quarry in the Shenandoah foothills.

The Department of Defense’s Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight tasked the students to design an unmanned system capable of maneuvering into hard-to-reach spaces comparable to those found on ships and aircraft, such as under antennas on ships, behind pipes, and inside fuel tanks and aircraft fuselage.

The Smithsonian National Zoo called on students from the Volgenau School of Engineering to design new objects to enrich the lives of Asian elephants in their care. The Smithsonian's recently introduced LEED certified facility already includes a play sand pit, wading pool, and a shower the elephants can operate themselves. These features, along with newer ones designed by Mason students, will serve the health of the herd, and give zoo biologists better insights toward preserving this threatened species.

It will be a busy three minutes during the eclipse on August 21. At that time scientists at Mason will scramble to gather as much information as possible about a layer of the Earth's upper atmosphere called the ionosphere.

Bioengineering senior design team collaborated with the Department of Music to design and build a 3-D-printed prosthetic arm for a local elementary school student.