Fall 2013
Conferences: Assistive technology goes international…again
It’s been 28 years since the first International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (or CSUN Conference, as it is informally known). ...Students: Smart parking means parking smart
It’s a pervasive dilemma of modern urban society: how to determine the number of empty spaces available in parking lots for popular ...Students: Refurbished machine shop gives students hands-on skills
George Youssef, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was walking past the college’s aging machine shop last year, when an idea he’d ...Students: CECS students mentor, inspire middle school students through robotics
There were robots upon robots at CSUN last summer, when students from three Valley middle schools met up with members of the ...Students: Young Engineers Day opens doors and minds
More than 100 middle and high school students converged on CSUN last spring to spend a day exploring different facets of engineering. ...Student Competitions: AeroDef – Manufacturing Challenge
In the 26-year history of the AeroDef Manufacturing Challenge (formerly WestTech), it had never been done: a clean sweep of the competition’s ...Student Competitions: Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition
CSUN continued to excel at the Intelligent Ground Vehicle competition, sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the ...Student Competitions: SS12 Code for a Cause
What started as a project for a student competition has ended up as an Android mobile app available through the Google Play ...Student Competitions: Steel Bridge
CSUN’s Steel Bridge team upheld a long, proud campus tradition by qualifying for the national competition for the 11th time in 15 ...Student Competitions: Cybersecurity competitions
They call themselves Layer 8—a club that strives to go beyond the existing seven layers of cybersecurity by learning different defensive and ...