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Mason Engineering’s new faculty members share secrets to academic excellence
Bioengineering Department Chair Michael Buschmann warns students against procrastination.
If there is one thing to take away from your courses, it’s how to become a critical thinker. You want to learn how to make a judgment and have the facts to back it up. You want to be able to tell the difference between sound science and flimsy evidence.
Caroline Hoemann
Cracking the code for a successful college career isn’t easy, but there are plenty of practical ways to solve the educational puzzle.
More than two dozen faculty members are joining Mason Engineering this fall, and several of them shared their secrets for academic success. Here are some of their insights:
Keep an open mind. Studying a field intensely will focus your thoughts in that area, but it’s good to be open to different fields and ideas coming from all directions, says Bioengineering Department Chair Michael Buschmann.
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Engineering students step up to help others during coronavirus crisis
Statistics major Brody Receveur (right) and his parents invited computer science sophomore Nawaf Alshathri to live with them in Hampton, Virginia for the rest of the semester because Alshathri can't make it back to his home in Saudi Arabia.
Mason Engineering students are using their innovative skills to solve more than engineering problems.
They are coming up with creative ways to do random acts of kindness, both big and small, during the coronavirus outbreak.
For example, statistics major Brody Receveur and his family invited computer science sophomore Nawaf Alshathri to stay with them for the rest of the semester.
The students are friends who lived in the same residence hall at Mason. When classes became virtual after spring break, Receveur was at home with his parents in Hampton, Virginia, while Alshathri was on campus because he couldn’t get back to his home in Saudi Arabia.
Receveur asked his
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The University Graduate School Distinguished Master's Thesis Award
2022 Award Recipients
Sheetal Prasanna and Danielle Abel were recently recognized with the 2022 award for IU Indianapolis. Prasanna won in the mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering category (School of Engineering, electric and computer engineering) and Abel won in the Social Sciences category (School of Science, clinical psychology).
Prasanna’s thesis, “Sensor Fusion in Neural Networks for Object Detection,” focuses on machine learning for object detection using automotive images, radar and lidar data.
According to one of Prasanna’s reviewers, Maher Rizkalla, Ph.D., “Her contribution to novel approaches, leading to compensating for the lack of data from camera and radar fusion network is significant…Her presentation was among the best I have seen. Her contribution has been pending the publication in a high impact factor journal.”
Rizkalla also wrote, “[