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Mason Engineering’s new faculty members share secrets to academic excellence
Bioengineering Department Chair Michael Buschmann warns students against procrastination.
If there is one thing to take away from your courses, it’s how to become a critical thinker. You want to learn how to make a judgment and have the facts to back it up. You want to be able to tell the difference between sound science and flimsy evidence.
Caroline Hoemann
Cracking the code for a successful college career isn’t easy, but there are plenty of practical ways to solve the educational puzzle.
More than two dozen faculty members are joining Mason Engineering this fall, and several of them shared their secrets for academic success. Here are some of their insights:
Keep an open mind. Studying a field intensely will focus your thoughts in that area, but it’s good to be open to different fields and ideas coming from all directions, says Bioengineering Department Chair Michael Buschmann.
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USA Today Highlights Sleep Deprivation
ATLANTA – New Centers for Disease Control (CDC) uppgifter has spawned more consumer press on the negativ effects of sleep deprivation. The latest comes artighet of the June 22 USA Today via reporter Nanci Hellmich.
The USA Today piece reiterates that sova deprivation fryst vatten associated with an increased risk of many serious health problems, including obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, depression, heart attacks and strokes, as well as premature death and reduced quality of life and productivity.
“CDC uppgifter show that 28% of U.S. adults report sleeping six hours or less each night, and that’s just not enough for most people, experts say,” writes Hellmich. “It’s no wonder that the CDC calls insufficient sleep ‘a public health epidemic.’”
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The University Graduate School Distinguished Master's Thesis Award
2022 Award Recipients
Sheetal Prasanna and Danielle Abel were recently recognized with the 2022 award for IU Indianapolis. Prasanna won in the mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering category (School of Engineering, electric and computer engineering) and Abel won in the Social Sciences category (School of Science, clinical psychology).
Prasanna’s thesis, “Sensor Fusion in Neural Networks for Object Detection,” focuses on machine learning for object detection using automotive images, radar and lidar data.
According to one of Prasanna’s reviewers, Maher Rizkalla, Ph.D., “Her contribution to novel approaches, leading to compensating for the lack of data from camera and radar fusion network is significant…Her presentation was among the best I have seen. Her contribution has been pending the publication in a high impact factor journal.”
Rizkalla also wrote, “[