SEOR Senior design teams won first prize awards at national competitions at UVA and USMA, April 2011 BS/SE Senior Colin Mullery wins INCOSE/JHU JPL 2011 Samuel Kossiakoff Systems Engineering Scholarship 3rd International Conference on Model-Based Systems Engineering at Mason, September 27-28. Interview with Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and OR proponent Systems Engineering seniors take top awards at national capstone competitions 2010. Systems Engineering rated as number 1 in Best Jobs in America in 2009 by Money and PayScale.com, the top among top 100 careers with great pay and superior growth prospects. SEOR ranked no. 31 by US News and World Report: Best Engineering Schools in Industrial & Manufacturing (2009). SEOR Professor Ganesan $3 million NSF grant featured in Mason Spirit. Link to excerpt here SEOR Senior Design teams win two of the five tracks in the 2009 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering and Design Symposium (24 April, 2009): New Ph.D. program in Systems Engineering and Operations Research begins Spring 2009. Paper by SEOR student Rommel Carvalho wins award at Fusion 2009 conference> Kathy Laskey and Andy Loerch lead 7 million dollar contract for research and development to counter IED's New Sensor Fusion Lab established in SEOR under Directorship. of KC Chang Karla Hoffman won the first Harvey Greenberg Service Award for contributions to the INFORMS Computing Society. Dr. Hoffman was presented with the award at the 2009 INFORMS Computing Society Conference, Charleston SC. Mason named No. 1 University to watch Attention entering MS students: SYST 500 waiver exam Attention nondegree students: transfer credit limits