Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

What to do when you achieve a dream job before 30? Brigitte Pribnow Moore ’05, theatre, says you should expand the scope and ambition of that dream. Moore is the executive director of the...

Thirty-eight weekends a year, John Klausmeier ’04, mechanical engineering, gets a trackside view to NASCAR’s fiercest races, carefully watching a high performance Chevrolet SS that he has tuned...

Kamili Jackson ’97, and M.S. ’99, mechanical engineering, has witnessed one NASA space launch in person during her nine years at the agency: the Hubble Servicing Mission 4 in 2009. Jackson was a...

UMBC is at the center of Maryland’s growing  efforts to harness the energy of the wind. By Joel N. Shurkin Illustrations by Joanna Barnum Ocean City is the Maryland destination most...

UMBC alumnus Ben Marcin ’80 traveled the world with his camera. But he has found acclaim investigating the often bitter poetry, beauty and truth in local landscapes. The photographs of Ben...

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q. UMBC is about to embark on a major renovation of the entrance to campus that will transform the way that alumni and visitors –...

A public research university such as UMBC has to be many things at once – and touch as many lives in a productive way as it can. At the center of its mission is teaching. New generations of...

A GRAND ENTRANCE The UMBC community – as well as visitors to campus – will have to pardon some dust and altered traffic patterns over the next two years. But it’s all for a good cause: a...

KEEP THE PERFECT BEAT With Steven McAlpine, assistant director of interdisciplinary studies and percussionist with Straight Up Tribal Back in 2008, Steven McAlpine decided that UMBC needed...

CALM IN A STORM It was the middle of the night in November 2013, just after Typhoon Haiyan struck, when Sako Narita ’04, interdisciplinary studies (international emergency health services),...