Engineering and Computing Education Program News

Many observers will point to March 16, 2018, as the date that UMBC Athletics came of age. But there are numerous, more subtle signals that #RetrieverNation is maturing in intercollegiate...

Experiences with big companies leads Sankarshan Murthy, M.S. ’06, to become an entrepreneur of more livable spaces By Tom Kertscher After Sankarshan Murthy got his master’s in mechanical...

The first time Lafayette Gilchrist ’92 touched a piano was the summer before his first semester at UMBC. He was taking an English class in the Fine Arts Building and wandered into the recital...

This year’s Homecoming brought Retrievers of all ages back to their alma mater. In many ways, Homecoming represented the very best of what UMBC has to offer, from reunions with lifelong friends...

Dr. Erin Lavik with graduate student Nuzhat Maishah President Freeman Hrabowski welcomed the Hilltop Society—individuals and organizations that contributed $1,000 or more in the previous fiscal...

The artificial intelligence startup RedShred—cofounded by two UMBC alumni and housed in the bwtech@UMBC incubator—has received a rare Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Award from the...

Two Meyerhoff Scholars Program alumnae, Kavita Krishnaswamy, M13, ’07, mathematics, and Tabassum Majid, M18, M.A. ’18, aging studies, ’10, interdisciplinary studies, have been included in the...

For Annica Wayman M6, ’99, mechanical engineering, this fall marks a homecoming wrapped up in a new beginning. After eight years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),...

Neither Rick Wade ‘85, nor his daughter Meagan Wade ‘13, considered a career in teaching until they each found themselves in elementary school classrooms by happenstance. Rick had intended to...

Black and gold streamers are flying across campus and pathways are covered in paw prints. That can only mean one thing: Homecoming 2018 is here. Running October 4 through 14, Homecoming is a great...