As you can see, we have a lot of activities planned. In order for them to be successful, we need your help! Each of these activities has a committee assisting in planning them. We would welcome your advice and suggestions for other programs that the EAA could sponsor that would be of interest to you. The EAA board meets every other month, with our next meeting on Tuesday, November 14. There are many opportunities for you to get involved, including sitting on our board of directors, or if you don't have that much time available, we always need help on our committees, planning programs, and judging science fairs. So please consider getting involved!
The EAA provides a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and classmates and to meet and network with new people. We strive to have events that are a mix of social and professional, as well as appealing to both recent alumni and those who graduated longer ago.
I'd welcome your advice as to how we can make the programs and activities of the EAA more beneficial to you. Please don't hesitate to e-mail me with your suggestions or questions about the EAA. We can have a successful year only if we're able to involve our alumni, so I welcome and look forward to your participation with the EAA!
J.P. Blackford
President, EAA
jpb@alumni.gwu.edu
SEAS Alumna Anousheh Ansari Speaks to Students from the International Space Station
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On Friday, September 22nd, SEAS had the opportunity to host a live communication between Ms. Anousheh Ansari (MS '92) and a small group of students from SEAS and other local schools. Ms. Ansari, a SEAS alumnus and only the fourth private explorer to visit space, was on an eight-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ARISS, (the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station team), an international organization that provides amateur radio communications from the International Space Station, coordinated contact with the ISS as it orbited the Earth. Using amateur radio, the group of volunteers made contact with the ISS and Ansari at approximately 12:50 pm.
In addition to SEAS students, students from Stevens Elementary School, Eastern Middle School, School Without Walls High School, and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology attended the event, and several of them were able to ask questions of Ansari. The questions ranged from, "Is it hard up there without gravity?" to "What really led you to turn this dream into reality?"
The day's events also included a presentation by Mr. Chris Faranetta, vice president of Space Adventures, the company that arranged with the Russian Space Agency for Ansari to be a participant on the ISS; a presentation by SEAS Dean Timothy Tong on SEAS engineering programs and the School's relationship with NASA; and several question and answer periods for students and members of the audience.
SEAS gratefully acknowledges the work of ARISS volunteers, who made the communication with Ansari and the ISS possible.
SEAS Hosts the CET2C Kick-off Event
Sixty-five local alumni, investors, and others turned out on September 7, 2006, for the GW Angels and CET2C workshop and reception, the kick-off event to mark the official announcement of CET2C, the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization.
SEAS established the Council to help foster the School's entrepreneurial environment and to build opportunities for our alumni to create and fund area start-ups based on SEAS and federal lab technologies. At the kick-off event, the School hosted a workshop on venture capital and angel investing, led by regional experts and members of CET2C, to teach alumni about the basics of angel investing and the important role that angel investors play in helping start-up companies succeed.
A number of local and regional investors and others were invited speakers at the workshop. "We are committed to the angel industry," said David S. Rose, chairman of New York Angels and a speaker at the event, "and the whole industry works better as more people enter it. I'm happy to see that GW is launching an angel group, and all of us really hope to see the group develop."
"We're very impressed with the efforts of SEAS to increase the flow of capital into the region," said Toby Moskovits, the managing director at Cammeby's Capital Group and a speaker at the workshop. "SEAS is positioning itself as a key player in this eco-system of entrepreneurship, angel investing, and commercialization in the Mid-Atlantic region, and we look forward to working with Dean Tong and Tony Stanco [the CET2C director] in these efforts."
Participants at the workshop included venture capitalists and angel investors, entrepreneurs and heads of start-up companies, and representatives from federal laboratories and economic growth agencies. Alumnus John O'Brien (MEA '78) said that he attended to gain a better understanding about the motives and objectives of angel investors. "The workshop had four different types of entrepreneurial participants: First Dollar Financiers, represented by governmental agencies who wish to stimulate business within state borders; angel investors; super angels investors; and venture capitalists. It was enlightening to see these panel members discuss how they approach financing startups," said O'Brien.
After receiving feed back on the reception, Dean Timothy Tong stated, "I'm very pleased with the success of our workshop and reception. We created CET2C both to build a SEAS-based entrepreneurial community that can generate start-ups, and to provide opportunities for alumni to engage as advisors, entrepreneurs, and investors in our efforts here at SEAS. I think this event helped put us on the path toward these goals."
View more pictures of the event in our Alumni Photo Gallery.
SEAS Alumni Asghar Mostafa and Mark Hughes Support Engineering Facility
Mark Hughes, B.A. '69, M.S.E. '77, and Asghar Mostafa, B.S. '81, M.S. '82, have much in common-both men attended GW, both met their wives at the University, and both are committed to using their talents to help GW advance as a leader in science and engineering. In addition to giving their time-Mostafa to the School of Engineering and Applied Science National Advisory Council and Hughes
as a University trustee-each has made a substantial contribution to the science and
engineering building initiative. Read the full story in ByGeorge!. . .
Call for Internships
During the past year, the SEAS Career Services Office helped SEAS undergraduates, graduates, and even a few alumni to find a wide spectrum of job opportunities. We identified 136 summer intern, 59 part-time, and 75 full-time opportunities and communicated them to the SEAS community via the SEAS Career Services "Jobs" website (http://seas.gwu.edu/jobs)). This year, our goal is to increase the number of opportunities by 50%, making SEAS one of the premier engineering and applied science schools in the country in terms of career advancement.
Many of these opportunities last year came as a result of leads provided by SEAS alumni. We are asking for your help once again. Would you please provide the name and contact information of the person at your workplace who handles these types of opportunities to Scott Amey, director of the SEAS Career Services Office? His email address is amey@gwu.edu. This service is free for both students and employers, but we rely on contact information from our alumni to keep building this wonderful service.
We are also asking for help in two additional areas. First, in January we are scheduling an evening event where students and alumni can get professional help with their resumes. If you are an HR manager, a recruiter, or a hiring manager who would like to share your expertise with the SEAS community, please let us know.
Second, we are planning an evening event where federal government representatives will inform SEAS students and alumni about what work is like at their respective agencies. If you are interested in presenting at this event on behalf of your agency, please let us know.
Thank you for helping to broaden and strengthen the experiences that we offer our engineering and computer science students.
Sincerely,
Timothy W. Tong, Ph.D.
Dean
SEAS is proud to announce the GW Engineering group on LinkedIn, an independent, commercial, online networking tool.
SEAS has partnered with LinkedIn to provide this service for SEAS alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and we invite you to join the GW Engineering group. We hope that you will find it a useful tool for business networking, job searches, or simply for locating other members of the SEAS community.
To join the GW Engineering group, just click here and complete a LinkedIn member profile. Access to the group is free, completely optional, and is available only to members of the SEAS community.
About online business networking: You can use LinkedIn to expand and track your network in an organized and systematic way. The GW Engineering group on LinkedIn provides an ideal starting point, and it also provides a point of contact for people outside the SEAS community who are connected to your fellow GW Engineering group members.
About privacy: Please read the LinkedIn privacy policy to answer any concerns about privacy.
Upcoming SEAS Events
THE FRANK HOWARD DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Sponsored by
GW School of Engineering and Applied Science
GW Engineer Alumni Association
GW Alumni Association
ROBOTIC EXPLORATION OF THE MOON: PREPARING THE WAY FOR HUMAN RETURN
Dr. Paul D. Spudis
Applied Physics Laboratory
The new vision for space exploration calls for humans to return to the Moon sometime in the next decade. Visiting the Moon extends human reach beyond low Earth orbit and offers new material and energy resources for creating new space faring capabilities. In several future missions, robots will collect knowledge and create infrastructure on and around the Moon. The robots will orbit and land on the Moon and focus on its poles, which contain volatile substances of great value and an energy-rich, benevolent environment in near-permanent sunlight. Robotic missions to the Moon are crucial to gathering information about how people and machines can be utilized to explore and utilize planetary surfaces.
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Media and Public Affairs Building, Jack Morton Auditorium
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6:00 pm: Reception on the 2nd floor
7:00 pm: Lecture in the Jack Morton Auditorium |
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Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 4, 2006, to SEASALUM@gwu.edu (please indicate Frank Howard Lecture in the subject line and include the names and number of people in your party), or by phone to the SEAS Advancement and Alumni Programs Office at 202-994-8474.
For more information on the Frank Howard Distinguished Lecture Series, please click here.
Dinner to Honor Professor Raymond Pickholtz
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Friday, October 20, 2006 |
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6:00 p.m. - Cocktails
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The George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW
City View Room & Terrace, 7th Floor
Washington, DC, 20052 |
Dean Timothy W. Tong and Dr. Can Korman Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department cordially invite you and your guest to an evening to honor Dr. Raymond L. Pickholtz, Professor Emeritus, Engineering and Applied Science and present the first recipient of the Raymond L. Pickholtz Graduate Scholarship.
Save the Date! - GW High Performance Computing and Applications Symposium
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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Marvin Center Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor
800 21st Street, NW
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This event will provide a forum to showcase the advanced computing work at GWU and to learn about the direction and key programs of the federal government in this area. This event is the first of an annual series of conferences that are designed to stimulate a continuous intellectual dialogue among our faculty, federal labs/agencies, and industry to explore common grounds for jointly working to advance multidisciplinary computational science and engineering research frontiers. The symposium is open to all faculty, graduate students, alumni, local industry, federal labs and federal agency personnel. Professors Tarek El-Ghazawi, Rajat Mittal and Steve Kan are chairing this year's event, which will feature more than 15 lectures by faculty from SEAS and CCAS, as well as keynote addresses by prominent leaders from NSF, DARPA, DOT, and NRL.
To RSVP for this event, please contact Ms. Sandra Little at seasrsvp@gwu.edu. Please include your affiliation and contact information. The RSVP deadline is October 11th.
Dean's Reception during Colonials Weekend
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Dean Timothy Tong will host breakfast for all SEAS alumni, parents, friends, and current students during Colonials Weekend 2006. This is a great opportunity for alumni and parents to meet Dean Tong and faculty members and for our reunion classes to reconnect with former classmates. You can also use this opportunity to tour our facilities in Tompkins Hall and see what our faculty and students are doing.
More information on Colonials Weekend, including the Class Reunions for 1956, 1976,
1981, 1996, 2001 can be found at http://www.gwu.edu/~alumni/cw/index.html.
Please RSVP your attendance to the Dean's Reception at seasalum@gwu.edu.
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