Civil Engineering

  • January 22, 2024

    Mason engineering professor Kuo Tian is monitoring landfills to make sure our trash doesn't contaminate drinking water.

  • January 8, 2024

    Every year, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) allows its college chapters to participate in competitions that showcase the engineering knowledge and finesse of civil engineering students across the country. Two Mason ASCE teams—Team Surveying and Team Sustainable Solutions—participated and won in the annual competition.

  • October 23, 2023

    Americans generally assume tap water is safe to drink; but rising temperatures could prove them wrong. Kirin Emlet Furst received a grant to study how extreme heat is challenging the disinfection of water in underground distribution systems.

  • October 20, 2022

    Civil engineering student Amber Brown discusses her summer internship at the Federal Highway Administration.

  • September 26, 2022

    Civil engineering student China Brown overcame challenges to achieve her dream. She will join Shirley Construction as a full-time engineer after graduating this December.

  • March 23, 2022

    Two PhD students will compete in Mason's Three Minute Thesis finals.

  • December 6, 2021

    Kirin Furst believes a systems approach is the best way to solve the world’s safe water problems. Her research lab is primarily focused on removing organic contaminants in drinking water systems and potable reuse systems.

  • November 16, 2021

    Using virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), a team of researchers at George Mason University is taking a wrecking ball to barriers faced by neurodiverse individuals in construction.

  • Thu, 02/18/2021 - 15:03

    Civil engineering major Karla Pineda’s undergraduate career is about to end. Yet, as she prepares to embark on her accelerated master’s program, she reflects on what inspired her to study civil engineering.

  • Tue, 12/15/2020 - 11:21

    Mason Presidential Chief of Staff Ken Walsh's career is about building bridges. The story of the Brooklyn Bridge inspired him as a freshman engineering student, research on the soil near a bridge over the Salt River near Tempe, Arizona, kept him in graduate school, and his career in higher education has built bridges for students and communities around the world.