SEAS Colonial Cable

Message from Dean David Dolling

SEAS will be hosting and participating in a couple of upcoming events that I’d like to mention, in hopes that some of you will be able to join us.

Late this month—on April 30th—SEAS will host our 3rd Annual Graduate Student Research and Development Showcase. The Showcase provides opportunities not only for our students but possibly for you, too. If you are interested in finding out more about potential avenues of collaboration or new research ideas, or you simply want to network, I encourage you to stop by the Showcase. It all happens at the Marvin Center’s Grand Ballroom, from 10:30 am – 1:30 pm.

For those of you on the West Coast, please consider attending one of the upcoming GW alumni events. I will be in Los Angeles on May 27th, and San Diego on May 28th to attend and participate in GW and SEAS alumni events, and I hope to meet many of you there. Details will be available soon, but in the meantime, please think about joining us.

Sincerely,
Signature David Dolling

David S. Dolling, Ph.D.
Dean

 

News & Events

 

A message from Development . . .


In the Colonial Cable, we often report on individual achievements of our faculty and students. These highlights are an important way to share with you some of the interesting work that is ongoing here at SEAS, but sometimes it’s also good to step back and take a look at what is happening in broader terms. That’s what I’d like to do here.

SEAS faculty have been engaged in a wide range of research with funding from a variety of sources. This year alone, the National Science Foundation has funded more than $2 million in projects directed by nine of our faculty in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Our faculty have also received new funding this year from private industry, government agencies, and a foreign government. Researchers in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have grants to investigate new technologies, commercialize a patented invention, and help set up a new national research center. Two of our faculty are helping to advise the Government of the Netherlands on its national flood exercise.

On top of this, our faculty are also winning quite of bit of GW-sponsored funding for their research, including have won four of the eleven awards recently provided by the University’s newly-created Institute for the Analysis of Solar Energy.

As my quick “tour” of SEAS research indicates, a lot is happening here in research. I invite you to call, e-mail, or come by any time to find out more.

Sincerely,
Jim Howard

Assistant Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
210 Tompkins Hall
jphoward@gwu.edu
Tel: 202-994-4121

SEAS 2009 - Celebrating 125 years of Engineering

 


 

Prof. Cutler and GW Win $1 Million Grant

Professor Andrew Cutler, of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recently learned that he was successful in winning the competition for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research/NASA National Hypersonics Research Center in Propulsion.

This center, to be called the Center for Hypersonic Combined Cycle Flow Physics, is led by the University of Virginia. University partners are GW, Pittsburgh, Stanford, North Carolina State, Cornell, Michigan State, and Buffalo; industry and government partners are Boeing, NIST, ATK GASL, and Los Alamos Labs. The GW subcontract is for $1.06 million over five years.

Competition for this center was intense with more than 30 white papers submitted in the initial competition. Professor Cutler’s research under this institute will be conducted in laboratories at NASA Langley Research Center and the University of Virginia.


 

Prof. Plesniak Receives AIAA Membership Invitation

Professor Michael Plesniak, chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been invited to become a member of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee (FDTC), effective May 1st. As a member, he will also serve on the FDTC's Experimental and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Subcommittee and on the 2009 Highlights article team. The article will highlight key accomplishments and identify bottlenecks for further progress in fluid dynamics research. It will later be published in the AIAA Aerospace America journal.

 


 

SEAS Faculty Win GW Research Funding

Two SEAS faculty have recently won research funding from the University. Professor Matthew Kay, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $14,072 Dilthey Award from GW for research on "Endocardial Sources of Ectopic Activity During Cardiac Ischemia and Low-Flow Reperfusion." Professor Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a $19,723 University Facilitating Fund Award for his research on "A Precise Piezeceramic Actuated Dispensing Array for Microdrops Generation and a Vision Based Testing Setup."

The University Facilitating Fund and Dilthey Fellowships are internal sources of research funding available to GW faculty on a competitive basis. Funds are primarily intended to support faculty scholarship for which outside funding is unavailable, or to provide seed money for faculty that will help attract external funding in the future. Dilthey Fellowships specifically support interdisciplinary work.

 


 

GWIBE Announces Winners of the Undergraduate Research Fellowships Competition

The GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering is pleased to announce the winners of the GWIBE Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2009. They are:

  • “Origin of Electrical Events During Acute Coronary Occlusion” Alta Berger (Junior, Biomedical Engineering), Mentor: Prof. Matthew Kay

  • “Ultrasound-Mediated Nail Drug Delivery System” Danielle Abadi (Junior, Biomedical Engineering), Mentor: Prof. Vesna Zderic

Alta and Danielle will each receive $5,000 to conduct research with their mentors through the summer, and they will present the results of their research at a GWIBE seminar in the Fall. Please see www.ibe.gwu.edu for details. Congratulations to Alta and Danielle!

 


 

Upcoming SEAS Events

SEAS/Society Of Women Engineers Alumni Happy Hour

Date:

 Thursday, April 2, 2009

Time:

 6:30 - 8:00 pm

Location:

 Tonic at Quigley's
2036 G Street NW
Washington, D.C.

Please join the GW Society of Women Engineers and your fellow SEAS alumni for a happy hour at Tonic. Enjoy reconnecting with friends and visiting with current members of SWE at GW. (Read more and register. . .)

 

Science Fair Awards Reception

Date:

 Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Time:

 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Location:

 Alumni House
1918 F Street NW
Washington, D.C.

In recognition of your participation in the 2009 D.C. Regional Science Fairs, please join David Dolling, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Engineer Alumni Association for a reception for science fair winners, their families and SEAS alumni judges. (Read more and register. . .)

 

3rd Annual Graduate Student Research and Development Showcase

Date:

 Thursday, April 30, 2009

Time:

 10:30 am -1:30 pm

Location:

 Marvin Center’s Grand Ballroom
800 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

This annual event highlights the research activities at the School of Engineering and Applied Science and will feature a research project poster contest. (Read more and register. . .)

 

Engineer Alumni Association, Call for Volunteers

Volunteer for our newly structured EAA. We are building new and dynamic alumni programming at SEAS, and we need alumni volunteers who can provide direction and feedback to the Office of Alumni Relations and SEAS to help build alumni engagement with a focus on Alumni Programs, Student/Alumni Programs, and Recruitment and Outreach.

We are asking volunteers to commit to a year of service, during which you will assist in planning SEAS alumni programs, attend three meetings per year, participate on at least on of the focus area committees, and attend at least two SEAS alumni events per year.

If you are interested in participating in this integral part of programming for SEAS alumni, please contact:
Erin Pitts
Associate Director, School Alumni Programs
Alumni House @ 1918 F Street NW
(202) 994-2355 phone
espitts@gwu.edu


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