Engineering takes on a whole new feel, as George Mason University gears up for Engineers Week February 22 – February 25. This year’s theme, Engineering Your Senses: How Engineering and Technology Relmagine Our Impact on the World, will take participants on a journey through the five senses—taste, smell, sound, touch, and sight.
Making ice cream with nitrogen, bottling custom made perfume, and exploring new technologies that support well being are just a few of the activities happening during Engineers Week. The College of Engineering and Computing hopes everyone will come to enjoy this exciting event, ask questions, and engage with the panelists, presenters, and each other to explore how engineering and technology transforms our lives.
Engineers Week is open to all and will take place in person. The full schedule of Engineers Week events is as follows:
TASTE
Tuesday, February 22
Noon to 3 p.m. Nguyen Engineering Building Atrium
Taste your way to the Nguyen Engineering Building and spend the day mixing, tasting, and making your own ice cream with liquid nitrogen. Learn about the advances in engineering and technology that make this reimagined treat possible. Whether you like vanilla, chocolate, or something in between, we’ve got something for you.
4 to 5:30 p.m. oSTEM Startup Meeting and Discussion ENGR 2901
Students and faculty interested in becoming members and advisors for the university’s soon to be established Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM) are invited to gather to brainstorm and discuss the mission, vision, and outcomes they want for the chapter.
TOUCH and SMELL
Wednesday, February 23
Noon to 3 p.m. Nguyen Engineering Building Atrium
Feel the effects and importance of mechanotherapy and immunotherapy to your wellbeing and that of others. While you are at it, take in the massages that will be offered for students and faculty utilizing massage equipment made through engineering advancements.
Noon to 3 p.m. Nguyen Engineering Building, Vangent Conference Room 2901 and 1602
Smell your way into an olfactory opportunity and join us to find out more about how scents are made. Join us and engage in your own perfume or cologne making. Create your scent, bottle it, and take it home.
SIGHT and SOUND
Thursday, February 24
4 to 6:00 p.m. Nguyen Engineering Building Atrium
Hear about the impact that engineering and technology has made on music, acoustics, symphonics, etc., and make your own beats and music. We will have DJ recording booths – where you’ll learn how sound engineers make music.
6 to 9:00 p.m. Jajodia Auditorium
Come out and see for yourself. Students, faculty, and staff can come and enjoy our AI/Technology themed film, “Free Guy.
SENSES SHOWCASE
Friday, February 25
Noon to 2:00 p.m. Nguyen Engineering Building Atrium
Come see, touch, taste, smell, and hear about the cool and interesting projects that our CEC students and faculty are working on. From creating life-saving technology in bioengineering, to protecting our national interests through cybersecurity, or making our infrastructure stronger and more accessible through civil engineering. Come and be awed by the reimagined possibilities of engineering and computing.