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College of Engineering and Computer Science

State grant teams CECS with K-12 and community college partners to develop new career-focused curriculum

IMG-9137-FULL-Students-wSuits.jpgIn 2013, in order to provide California students with a better roadmap to lucrative, much-needed and industry-relevant careers, the state legislature created a $250 million competitive grant program called the California Career Pathways Trust in the 2013–14 budget. The aim was to establish sustained career pathway programs connecting businesses, K–12 and institutions of higher education. Out of 123 eligible applications submitted last spring, just 39 grants were awarded, and one of those went to a consortium that includes CSUN. The grant will significantly expand the college’s pipeline from the K–12 and community college sectors through clearly defined skill-based pathways.[Read more…]

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Digital Integrated Circiut Design Using Verilog and System Verilog

prof-Mehler%20Ronald07.jpgRonald Mehler’s book, Digital Integrated Circiut Design Using Verilog and SystemVerilog, was published by Newnes in September 2014. Mehler is a professor of electrical and computer engineering. For more information, see https://store.elsevi … p?isbn=9780124095298

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CSUN hosts regional competition for budding high school civil engineers

DSC0376.jpgThe 1960s pop duo Jan and Dean probably never envisioned anything like the ASCE’s Popsicle Stick bridge contest for high school students, but their iconic song conveyed a similar idea: building models of everyday structures using Popsicle sticks.[Read more…]

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IGV team excels for fourth year in a row

14998517471-1167bd626b-o.jpgCSUN extended its winning streak to four years straight in the 2014 international Intelligent Ground Vehicle (IGV) competition last June, when an interdisciplinary team made up of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer engineering students captured second place in the annual contest. The IGV competition challenges students to design and assemble a fully autonomous, unmanned ground vehicle that can navigate an obstacle course and perform assigned tasks. CSUN teams have taken part for nine years, and for the past four, their robots have placed either first or second in the overall Grand Awards.[Read more…]

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