SEOR Students Win Awards at
West
Point: The
System Engineering Senior Design students competed in the
General Donald R.
Keith Memorial Capstone Conference, at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point,
NY.
Photo
of the Week
Talha
Agcayazi, a senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
demonstrates his
research about the augmentation of search and rescue with UAV.Photo by Evan Cantwell,
Creative Services,
George Mason University.
AFCEA
and
GMU are jointly sponsoring a conference with the goal of bringing
academia,
industry and government together to consider current critical
issues in C4I
technology and systems R&D. We believe this is in the US
national interest
and that of our international coalition partners. The conference
will focus on
a selected set of hot topics. Our agenda this year will be made up
of invited
speakers, so no call for papers will be issued. Our advisory
committee has been
chosen based on their involvement at the cutting edge and they
promise to bring
in an exciting group of speakers.
[This
event
is open to all GMU faculty, staff and students at no cost.To register as GMU contact
Deb Schenaker, [log in to unmask].
]
Federal Cybersecurity Research
& Development Strategic Plan:Seeking Input
In
response
to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1353),
federal agencies are
developing a Federal cybersecurity research and development
strategic plan. The
strategic plan will be used to guide and coordinate
federally-funded
cybersecurity research. On behalf of the agencies, the Cyber
Security and
Information Assurance Research and Development Senior Steering
Group seeks
public input on research objectives for the strategic plan.
Funding Opportunity:Trust in Autonomy for Human
Machine Teaming
(Air Force)
The
Air
Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) … has a need to understand the
human-machine
trust process within pilots, Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance
(ISR) operators and analysts, maintenance domains, and advanced
human-robot
teaming concepts.The Air
Force has
proposed human-machine teaming as a primary research thrust, yet
to achieve
this ambitious vision we need research on how to harness the
socio-emotional
elements of interpersonal team/trust dynamics and inject them into
human-robot teams.These
human-machine teaming dynamics can
involve research studying the interplay of individual differences,
machine characteristics,
robot design, robot interaction patterns, human-machine
interaction, and
contextual facets of human-machine teaming.…
Tools for a Sustainable Transit
Agency (Transportation Research Board)
The
Transportation
Research Board's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has
issued a request for proposals (RFP) to develop tools to address
how
environmental, economic, and social sustainability objectives can
be
established and implemented by transit agencies. The tools should
help transit
agencies formulate, plan, finance, and integrate agency-specific
sustainability
strategies that improve transit performance and the livability and
vitality of their
communities.
Research Interests of the AFOSR
(Air Force) The Air
Force Office of Scientific Research plans, coordinates, and
executes the Air
Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) basic research program in
response to
technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force.
Additionally,
the office fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air
Force,
university, and industry laboratories; and ensures transition of
research
results to support U.S. Air Force needs. The focus of AFOSR is on
research
areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our
national warfighting
and peacekeeping capabilities. These areas are organized and
managed in two
scientific Departments: Engineering and Information Science (RTA)
and Physical
and Biological Sciences (RTB).
Jessica Lin Receives Funding from
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Jessica
Lin
of the Computer Science Department received $240K from
Semiconductor
Research Corporation for her project, “Scalable Multivariate
Temporal Pattern
Discovery.”
Jonathan Gifford and Shanjiang
Zhu Receive Funding from Booz Allen Hamilton and US Dept. of
Transportation
Jonathan
Gifford
of the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs and
Shanjiang Zhu of theSid
and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil,
Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $8K from
Booz Allen
Hamilton and US Dept. of Transportation for their project,
“Development of
Framework and Educational Tool to Assess the Benefits and Costs of
Highway
Public-Private Partnerships (P3).”
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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Phone: (703) 993-1505
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