Browse the 2017 Annual Report and learn why the future of engineering is here.

Professor Foteini Baldimtsi, an expert in data security, leads research on electronic cash and private authentication techniques.

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.

When one aspiring violinist with a physical challenge met the five student members of a Mason bioengineering design team, the result was beautiful music, thanks to a custom-designed prosthesis that's as agile as it is colorful.

With funding from NASA a Mason team is using machine learning algorithms to process massive amounts of flight data. Their goal: an automated technology with more "experience" than any one pilot, able to warn of rare accident conditions.

Last year Mason Engineering hired 34 new faculty members, hit a record high in sponsored research, and enrolled 40% more students than just four years ago. What's more, every trend points up.