- October 8, 2025
Diana Veronez brought her research in flood hazards and water resources from Brazil to work on her PhD in George Mason's renowned Flood Hazards Research Lab.
Research Interests: Water treatment processes, Water quality; Global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), Willingness to pay for public service and environmental improvements, Utility consolidation, Hazardous waste site engineering and remediation
- August 19, 2025
From data centers to the National Geographic Museum, civil engineering student Esmeralda Martinez is building her future one project at a time. Through hands-on internships with HITT Contracting and lessons from George Mason classrooms, she’s shaping a career that blends technical skills, leadership, and a passion for construction.
- May 21, 2025
A partnership between the Brazilian Air Force and the College of Engineering and Computing is yielding explosive results in blast research, in what one faculty members describes as a win-win collaboration.
- October 1, 2024
New CEC professor Catalina Gonzalez-Duenas studies how communities are impacted by large-scale disasters.
- March 5, 2024
Associate Dean Deborah Goodings will use her expertise and experience to serve on a task force of the White House National Infrastructure Advisory Council
- May 30, 2023
Celso Ferreira in George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Research Interests: Strong, durable, and sustainable structures, with a special focus on bio-based self-healing concrete, biomolecules modified anticorrosive steel structures, fungal skin for intelligent sensing, and bio-inspired damage self-reporting structures.
Research Interests: Risk and resilience assessment of infrastructure systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for civil infrastructure, Cascading effects in complex systems under extreme events, Performance-based assessment of built-natural systems under multi-hazard conditions, Risk communication and decision support
Research Interests: Lean construction, construction process improvement, residential construction, design-construction interface for geotechnical infrastructure