Engineering and Computing Education Program News

UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by Megan Hanks Mastrola Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace…

Posted: July 11, 2022

Showing items tagged coeit. Show All

From UMBC News and Magazine

UMBC joins BRAIN Center to advance innovations in neurotechnologies

Ramana Vinjamuri, associate professor in computer science and electrical engineering, recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support UMBC’s participation in a...

Posted: April 9, 2024, 10:14 AM

6 Earth Day events that will ground you to our planet

While Earth Day may be a one-day affair, our everyday actions affect the Earth 365 days of the year. This April, UMBC is celebrating Earth Month, allowing the community to dedicate time to reflect...

Posted: April 5, 2024, 12:06 PM

What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure

Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC Volt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its...

Posted: April 1, 2024, 11:46 AM

Hundreds of East Coast chemical engineering students to gather at UMBC for regional conference

Over the weekend of April 6 – 7, the UMBC student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will host the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference on campus. The event will...

Posted: March 29, 2024, 12:13 PM

UMBC faculty share knowledge and passion during Diversity in Cybersecurity, Brunei event

Over two weeks at the end of January, six UMBC faculty woke up early to deliver lectures and lead workshops with students more than 9,000 miles away, in the small Asian nation of Brunei, located...

Posted: March 22, 2024, 4:12 PM

‘Your work is so important,’ White House environmental justice leader tells UMBC ICARE trainees

UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) program, a cohort-based master’s program focused on local environmental research, held its first annual ICARE...

Posted: March 14, 2024, 4:18 PM

UMBC fusion researchers get TV spotlight at world’s largest physics meeting

The American Physical Society, an influential professional society founded in 1899 to “advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics,” is highlighting the fusion research of UMBC’s Carlos...

Posted: March 4, 2024, 3:48 PM

Meet a Retriever—Nathan Wooddell ’23, graduate student specializing in Russian and cybersecurity

Meet Nathan Wooddell ’23, computer science. Nathan is a member of UMBC’s CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service cohort, and is getting his master’s in cybersecurity as a graduate researcher at the...

Posted: February 28, 2024, 1:31 PM

National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences highlight Professor Upal Ghosh’s work cleaning contaminated waterways

The positive environmental and health impacts of work led by Upal Ghosh, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, was recently highlighted by the National...

Posted: February 23, 2024, 3:53 PM

Professor Curtis Menyuk honored for pioneering work that helped transform global telecommunications

Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at UMBC, has won the 2024 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization. The award honors Menyuk’s pioneering work in the...

Posted: February 16, 2024, 3:14 PM

From UMBC News and Magazine

Subscribe to UMBC Weekly Top Stories

I am interested in: