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SYNERGY
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Fall 2014
SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING
& APPLIED SCIENCE
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Contents
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EDITOR
Joanne Welsh
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
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Tony Kim
Emma Thomson
COVER STORY:
Making History:
Be a Part of It
Choose your place in the SEAS transformation
DESIGN
Brian Cox – Brian Cox Design Service
PHOTOGRAPHY
Julie Woodford – Julie Ann Woodford Photography
SYNERGY IS PUBLISHED BY
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY’S
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE.
106 Tompkins Hall • 725 23rd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-6080 • www.seas.gwu.edu
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
Steven Knapp
DEAN
David S. Dolling
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Rumana Riffat
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH AND GRADUATE STUDIES
Can E. Korman
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS & PROGRAMS
Bhagirath Narahari
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SEAS DEPARTMENTS
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STUDENT PROFILE: Elizabeth Hubler
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ALUMNUS PROFILE: Asghar Mostafa
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NEWS
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FACULTY
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STUDENTS
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DONORS & VOLUNTEERS
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ALUMNI
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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CLASS NOTES
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Jason M. Zara, Interim Chair
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Majid T. Manzari, Chair
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Roger H. Lang, Interim Chair
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Suresh Subramaniam, Interim Chair
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
& SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Thomas A. Mazzuchi, Chair
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Michael W. Plesniak, Chair
SYNERGY
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
DEPARTMENTS
PROFILE
Chair: Majid T. Manzari
202-994-4901
www.cee.seas.gwu.edu
Full-time faculty: 12
Undergraduate students: 109
Graduate students: 53
Annual research expenditures: $2.7 million
FACULTY
Sameh S. Badie, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Kennerly H. Digges, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Azim Eskandarian, PROFESSOR
Leila Farhadi, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Samer Hamdar, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Muhammad I. Haque, PROFESSOR
Tianshu Li, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Majid T. Manzari, PROFESSOR
Rumana Riffat, PROFESSOR
Kim Roddis, PROFESSOR
Danmeng Shuai, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Pedro Silva, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
RESEARCH AREAS
ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
Farhadi, Riffat, Shuai
MATERIALS
Li, Manzari
STRUCTURAL/GEOTECHNICAL/EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
Badie, Manzari, Roddis, Silva
TRANSPORTATION SAFETY ENGINEERING
Digges, Eskandarian, Hamdar
Waste Not, Want Not
Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and that is as true in the field of wastewater
treatment as it is elsewhere.
As rising energy costs drive up the cost of wastewater treatment, treatment plants are
reaching out to researchers in the field to help find new ways to lower the energy use
associated with wastewater treatment, and to re-use the by-products of the treated water.
One of the people they are consulting is Professor Rumana Riffat of the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering.
“Thirty to 40 years ago, the emphasis was on cleaning up the wastewater to take everything
out of it and to discharge it into the river in a more or less pristine condition,” she explains.
“That is still the goal, but now we don’t want to throw out everything that we are taking out
of the water. We’re now trying to come up with beneficial re-use for products that we
previously categorized as waste.”
Biosolids, or treated sludge, form a large portion of the products that come out of treated
wastewater, and some of them can be re-used as fertilizers rather than discharged as waste.
Class A biosolids can be used more widely as fertilizers than Class B biosolids, but they are
more expensive to create.
Wastewater treatment plants create biosolids and natural gas through a fermentation process
called anaerobic digestion, which uses a high temperature and micro-organisms that mostly
already exist in the sludge. Because of the energy costs involved in treating the sludge at the
required temperature—55 degrees Celsius for Class A biosolids—many plants instead opt to
produce Class B biosolids, which can be manufactured at lower temperatures.
Millions of gallons of sludge are treated every day at wastewater treatment plants, so a
reduction in the temperature required to produce Class A biosolids—even a 10-degree
reduction, according to Professor Riffat—could lead to significant energy savings for
plants. To try to hasten the day when this is possible, she and her students are working
to determine whether a treatment at 45 degrees Celsius is sufficient to achieve the
pathogen destruction necessary to produce Class A biosolids.
Professor Riffat and her research team are conducting this research as part of a U.S. Department
of State-funded, collaborative research project with Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan. The
project aims to develop small-scale, sustainable wastewater treatment systems for the locality,
with the goal of re-using water and biosolids. She conducts additional research at the nearby
Blue Plains treatment facility, one of the largest such facilities in the world, and has a longstanding collaborative relationship with the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority.
Yet, Professor Riffat is not content with the gains that have been made recently across the
discipline. She aspires to more, saying, “Now we are taking a second look at digestion as a
process for producing energy instead of something that just eats up energy.”
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DEPARTMENTS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE
Chair: Roger H. Lang (Interim)
202-994-7181
www.cs.gwu.edu
FACULTY
Abdelghani Bellaachia, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Simon Berkovich, PROFESSOR
Xiuzhen “Susan” Cheng, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Hyeong-Ah Choi, PROFESSOR
Mona Diab, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Evan Drumwright, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
James K. Hahn, PROFESSOR
Rachelle S. Heller, PROFESSOR
Lance J. Hoffman, DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Computer Science
PROFILE
AND ACM FELLOW
The Art of Computing
Professor Tim Wood of the Department of Computer Science comes from a family of artists:
his relatives are painters, weavers, and potters. He’s not an artist himself, but he is very
creative, and he learned at an early age that computers were his “medium” of choice for
expressing his creativity. “Creating things inside a computer is in many ways similar to
creating a work of art,” he argues. “It requires a mix of creativity and problem solving.”
What he creates inside computers is the infrastructure necessary to help run the “big data,”
or data-intensive, operations that we all hear so much about these days. Big data operations
can include everything from companies collecting information on millions of customers and
their preferences, to scientists across the world compiling masses of climate data daily to aid
in weather predictions, to governments gathering health care information about us.
Claire Monteleoni, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Bhagirath Narahari, PROFESSOR
Gabriel A. Parmer, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Shmuel Rotenstreich, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Rahul Simha, PROFESSOR
Poorvi Vora, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Timothy Wood, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Abdou S. Youssef, PROFESSOR
Nan Zhang, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
RESEARCH AREAS
ALGORITHMS AND THEORY
Bellaachia, Berkovich, Cheng, Choi,
Youssef, Zhang
As these and other sorts of data-intensive operations multiply, the storage space to hold all
these data must grow along with them, as must the computation power necessary to analyze
the data and “answer the interesting questions,” as Professor Wood puts it. He is quick to say
that he’s actually agnostic about the questions; what interests him is finding ways to make
the infrastructure that supports big data more reliable, more efficient, and more secure.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS
“Because we have so much data to process, we really need to develop entirely new techniques,”
he explains. “This requires us to approach the problems in a different way.” His approach to
improving the infrastructure in cloud computing and big data systems is to focus on the virtualization layer, a piece of software that sits beneath the operating system and above the hardware.
COMPUTER SECURITY AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE
Professor Wood’s work on the virtualization layer allows him and his collaborators to develop
improved reliability or better security without having to change the operating systems or the
applications that people want to use. “That is our expertise. That gives us an edge,” he claims.
“By working at that layer, we’re able to provide support for many different types of applications,
because it’s not specific to any of those applications.”
Through his research to manage the performance of big data systems, Professor Wood has
developed new techniques to run big data applications using resources that otherwise would
have been left idle in a cloud computing platform. “We’re able to make these systems much
more energy efficient by making use of computers that otherwise wouldn’t have been fully
utilized, and we’re able to do this without hurting the performance of other applications
running on the system,” he states.
Cheng, Diab, Drumwright, Monteleoni, Zhang
BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL COMPUTING
Bellaachia, Berkovich, Cheng, Hahn,
Rotenstreich, Simha
Cheng, Choi, Hoffman, Narahari, Simha,
Vora, Zhang
DIGITAL MEDIA
Hahn, Heller, Vora, Youssef
NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING
Cheng, Choi, Narahari, Rotenstreich, Simha
PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Cheng, Narahari, Simha
SEARCH AND DATA MINING
Bellaachia, Berkovich, Youssef, Zhang
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS
Narahari, Parmer, Rotenstreich, Wood
Although still early in his career, Professor Wood already has had a great deal of success with
his research, winning two National Science Foundation grants—including the very prestigious
Career Award—and a Google research award. It seems he indeed has found the right outlet
for his creativity.
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
DEPARTMENTS
PROFILE
Chair: Suresh Subramaniam (Interim)
202-994-6083
www.ece.seas.gwu.edu
FACULTY
Shahrokh Ahmadi, TEACHING PROFESSOR
Lawrence Bennett, RESEARCH PROFESSOR AND APS FELLOW
Robert L. Carroll, PROFESSOR
Edward Della Torre, PROFESSOR, IEEE AND APS FELLOW
Milos Doroslovacki, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, PROFESSOR AND IEEE FELLOW
Kie-Bum Eom, PROFESSOR
Amir Etemadi, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Robert J. Harrington, PROFESSOR AND IEEE FELLOW
Hermann J. Helgert, PROFESSOR
Howie Huang, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Can E. Korman, PROFESSOR
Nicholas Kyriakopoulos, PROFESSOR
Tian Lan, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Roger H. Lang, PROFESSOR AND IEEE FELLOW
Thomas J. Manuccia, TEACHING PROFESSOR
Ergun Simsek, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Volker Sorger, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Suresh Subramaniam, PROFESSOR
Guru P. Venkataramani, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Branimir R. Vojcic, PROFESSOR
Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj, PROFESSOR AND IEEE FELLOW
Mona Zaghloul, PROFESSOR AND IEEE FELLOW
RESEARCH AREAS
COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
Doroslovacki, Helgert, Lan, Subramaniam, Vojcic
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
El-Ghazawi, Huang, Venkataramani
A Fresh Perspective
Optimization research normally aims to improve the performance of computing systems—for
example, making data transfer on a smart phone faster—but Professor Tian Lan of the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering is applying optimization techniques to cyber security
problems. And that, he says, is a new perspective.
Security is essential for all communications systems, thus the large number of people across
the globe who work to improve it. The most common approach is to concentrate on solving one
particular issue in the security system or to develop security solutions for only one component
of a particular system. But Professor Lan studies novel techniques that provide an autonomous
defense for the entire system by reorganizing and optimizing system resources in response to
physical or cyber attacks.
“We’re investigating a wide range of solutions for both the commercial and government sectors
to harden the security of these systems,” he states.
Working under a National Science Foundation grant and taking advantage of the strong community
of faculty working on computer security at SEAS and GW, Professor Lan has been collaborating
with his colleagues, Professors Suresh Subramaniam and Howie Huang, to develop algorithms
that bake security into existing cloud services through resource optimization and pricing.
ELECTRIC POWER AND ENERGY
Etemadi, Harrington
ELECTROMAGNETICS, RADIATION SYSTEMS, AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
Bennett, Della Torre, Lang, Simsek,
Sorger, Wasylkiwskyj
MEMS/NEMS, ELECTRONICS, AND PHOTONICS
Ahmadi, Korman, Li, Simsek, Sorger, Zaghloul
SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING, SYSTEMS, AND CONTROLS
Carroll, Doroslovacki, Eom, Harrington,
Kyriakopoulos, Wasylkiwskyj
Most providers offer cloud computing services on a “one-size-fits-all” model that provides the
same levels of availability and reliability—two major aspects of data security—to all customers.
But the current levels may be inadequate for some customers who need greater availability or
security and are willing to pay for it, or too expensive for customers who don’t need and don’t
want to pay for the standard level of reliability and availability.
By constructing security models and developing algorithms to optimize resource allocation
and pricing, Professor Lan and his colleagues expect to advance cloud computing security
and provide more choice for customers. Once the team publishes its results, providers such
as AT&T, Amazon, Google, and others would be free to use the algorithm in their data centers.
For cloud customers, purchasing higher reliability and availability for their cloud applications
would be only a checkbox away.
Under a separate grant with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Professor
Lan is working with Advanced Communications Science (the lead contractor on the project)
and colleagues at Princeton University on another computer security-related project, Missionoriented and Resilient Cloud. That project aims to help the U.S. military plan and execute
missions securely on the cloud. “I work on the algorithms that can help to translate mission
models to configure data, automate resource planning, and optimize both mission effectiveness
and security,” notes Professor Lan.
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DEPARTMENTS
Professor Ekundayo Shittu of the Department of Engineering Management and Systems
Engineering studies the economics of global climate change and how public policy should
be structured in response to global climate change concerns.
While he acknowledges that disagreements exist about the causes of climate change, he works
within the school of thought that human actions are largely responsible for climate change;
therefore, he tries through his research to discern the optimal policies that decision makers
can enact to encourage firms and individuals to adopt sustainable policies and practices.
Traditionally, efforts to study and optimize public policy decision making have been hived
off into separate disciplines: economists tend to focus on cost-benefit analyses, while public
health researchers look at the impact on public health, and engineers assess the adoption
of new technologies. However, Professor Shittu has another approach.
“I take a systems engineering approach,” he says. “I build on research tools from economics,
decision theory, statistics, optimization modeling, and environmental policy to achieve a more
robust solution, particularly in the face of multiple and sequential uncertainties.”
Because changing regulatory policies can create a great deal of uncertainty for firms trying to
plan for future operations and investments, the mix and appropriateness of policies can affect
how quickly firms adopt sustainability practices. Likewise, a number of factors affect how well
individuals exhibit behaviors that the policies may try to encourage, such as switching to
renewable resources or retrofitting conventional technologies in their homes. Even beyond
that, the policies also can have unanticipated consequences that impact other public policy
goals such as poverty alleviation.
“When you look at new technologies, such as solar panels, most people stop at asking
what’s the cost of installing the panels,” Professor Shittu explains. “I take it a step further
and ask what are the social welfare costs of the solution and whether a particular system
will accommodate those costs.”
Professor Shittu already is being recognized for his research. For example, he was invited
by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to participate in writing
Chapter Two of its Fifth Assessment Report, titled “Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment
of Climate Change Response Policies,” which was published last April.
Professor Shittu is thrilled that others see the value of his approach. “When you have a systems
engineer look at these problems, they understand the economics and the technology,” he states.
“It’s a classic case of having the right toolbox to address the problem in a holistic manner.”
PROFILE
Chair: Thomas A. Mazzuchi
202-994-9187
www.emse.seas.gwu.edu
Graduate students: 1,095
Annual research expenditures: $896,000
FACULTY
Hernan G. Abeledo, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Joseph A. Barbera, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
David Broniatowski, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Jonathan P. Deason, PROFESSOR
Michael R. Duffey, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Royce Francis, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Erica Gralla, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Thomas A. Mazzuchi, PROFESSOR
Julie J. C. H. Ryan, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Joost Reyes Santos, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Shahram Sarkani, PROFESSOR
Gregory L. Shaw, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ekundayo Shittu, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Zoe Szajnfarber, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
J. Rene van Dorp, PROFESSOR
RESEARCH AREAS
CRISIS, EMERGENCY, AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Barbera, Broniatowski, Gralla, Santos,
Shaw, van Dorp
ECONOMICS, FINANCE, AND COST ENGINEERING
Duffey, Santos, Shittu, van Dorp
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Deason, Duffey, Sarkani, Shaw,
Shittu, Szajnfarber
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Deason, Francis, Shittu
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
A Systems Approach
Broniatowski, Ryan
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Abeledo, Gralla, Mazzuchi, Sarkani,
Shittu, van Dorp
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Broniatowski, Duffey, Gralla, Mazzuchi, Ryan,
Santos, Sarkani, Shittu, Szajnfarber, van Dorp
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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
DEPARTMENTS
PROFILE
Chair: Michael W. Plesniak
202-994-9803
www.mae.seas.gwu.edu
FACULTY
Elias Balaras, PROFESSOR
Lorena A. Barba, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Philippe Bardet, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Kartik Bulusu, ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Ken P. Chong, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Andrew D. Cutler, PROFESSOR
David S. Dolling, PROFESSOR, AIAA AND ROYAL AERONAUTICAL
SOCIETY (UK) FELLOW
Morton H. Friedman, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Charles A. Garris, PROFESSOR AND ASME FELLOW
Stephen M. Hsu, PROFESSOR AND ASME FELLOW
Ashraf Imam, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Michael Keidar, PROFESSOR AND APS FELLOW
Saniya LeBlanc, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
James D. Lee, PROFESSOR AND ASME FELLOW
Taeyoung Lee, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Megan C. Leftwich, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Yongsheng Leng, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Chunlei Liang, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Michael W. Plesniak, PROFESSOR AND FELLOW OF ASME, AIAA,
AAAS, AIMBE AND APS
Kausik Sarkar, PROFESSOR AND ASA FELLOW
Yin-Lin Shen, PROFESSOR
Jonathan Silver, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Murray R. Snyder, PROFESSOR
Santiago Solares, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Adam M. Wickenheiser, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Lijie Grace Zhang, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
RESEARCH AREAS
Manifold Tasks
Professor Taeyoung Lee of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering takes
a unique approach to his research in dynamics and controls. “Engineers are used to thinking
of systems in Cartesian coordinates, but many interesting mechanical or aerospace systems
evolved on a curved space called a manifold,” he explains, noting that he opts to study
dynamics and controls on a manifold.
Taking the example of spacecraft to illustrate the importance of his approach, Professor
Lee explains that many people study spacecraft controls on a flat space to approximate
the nonlinear space of attitudes, referred to as the special orthogonal group. That approach
simplifies the problem but creates problems of its own. His approach, on the other hand,
uses a host of tools from differential geometry and applied mathematics to look at the
curved space as it is, without using any approximation.
One of his current research projects looks at transporting a payload by several unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). This has both military and commercial applications (think Amazon
drones), but the dynamic coupling between the UAV and the payload needs to be better
understood if the UAV is to transport a payload through complex trajectories. For military
operations, the UAV may need to fly low to the ground to avoid enemy detection, so it must
be able to navigate through dense vegetation. In commercial applications, it may need
to navigate urban environments and avoid crashing into buildings or pedestrians.
Most UAV-payload research ignores the dynamic coupling between the drone and the payload
in the configuration manifold, and, as a result, the drone is limited to following a straight trajectory
fairly slowly. However, Professor Lee says, “My research is to study nonlinear control for a
complete dynamic model of a payload and drone and the string connecting them such that
we can transport the payload aggressively and through complex trajectories.”
According to Professor Lee, research of this kind is done primarily in math departments,
and mathematicians generally “don’t have a strong interest in the spacecraft or aircraft or
a good sense of the dynamics,” he says. “It’s very hard to find someone in an engineering
department doing this.”
He notes that interdisciplinary research of this type can be fairly slow going, so the challenge
is to remain focused and consistent. From all appearances, however, his research isn’t
proceeding slowly at all. In fact, he’s been at SEAS just three years and already has received
three separate National Science Foundation grants and has been selected to work two
summers at the Air Force Research Lab. His monographs in geometric mechanics will
be published in the next year, as well.
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Cutler, Dolling, Garris, Keidar, T. Lee,
Plesniak, Wickenheiser
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Balaras, Ben-Tzvi, Bulusu, Friedman, Keidar, J. Lee,
Leftwich, Liang, Plesniak, Sarkar, Silver, Zhang
DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
Ben-Tzvi, Garris, Leng, Shen
FLUID MECHANICS, THERMAL SCIENCE, AND ENERGY
Balaras, Barba, Bardet, Bulusu, Cutler, Dolling,
Garris, Hsu, Keidar, LeBlanc, Leftwich, Liang,
Plesniak, Sarkar, Snyder, Wickenheiser
MECHATRONICS, ROBOTICS, AND CONTROLS
Ben-Tzvi, J. Lee, T. Lee, Wickenheiser
SOLID MECHANICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Chong, Hsu, Imam, LeBlanc, J. Lee, Leng, Silver,
Solares, Zhang
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FEATURE
BE A PART OF IT
Choose your place in the
SEAS transformation
he old SAT analogies:
they were removed from
the exam in 2005, but those
of you who graduated from
high school before then
probably remember them.
“Wet” is to “liquid” as
something is to something
else? Or “satiated” is to
“hunger” as something
is to something else?
With another audience, I might hesitate to
drudge up memories of the SAT, but you are
engineers and computer scientists, and those
of you who had to complete the analogies
section probably sailed through it.
The SAT analogies were designed to test
a person’s ability to see relationships
between words.
Oddly enough, what caused me to remember
them were two tag lines I recently saw—one
used by GW, and one used by us here at SEAS.
They were printed on two pieces of literature
that landed together on my desk, and as I glanced down, I immediately,
though very unintentionally, saw the relationship between them.
Analogies are about relationships, and most of what’s important in
life comes down to relationships—not between words, of course,
but between people. It was the idea of relationships that immediately
became apparent to me as I glanced at the two tag lines: “Making
History” and “Be a Part of It.”
“Be a Part of It” is the tag line we use at SEAS. It’s an open invitation
to all—our alumni, our students, our research and corporate partners,
our donors, and others—to be a part of the achievements and growth
happening here. This growth happens in our classrooms and labs, of
course, but it also happens when our students have opportunities
ELLIE KAUFMAN
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BY DEAN DAVID DOLLING
to learn through competitions, clubs, conferences, study abroad, entrepreneurship
challenges, and more. It happens when more
of our alumni reconnect to SEAS and enliven
the SEAS community with their interests and
talents. And it happens when others join with
us to develop new joint research projects.
“Making History” is the tag line for the
university’s capital campaign—the largest
capital campaign in the university’s 193-year
history—which was launched publicly this
past June. With a goal of raising $1 billion by
2018, the campaign aims to raise the funds
necessary to implement Vision 2021, the
strategic plan that provides a blueprint for
GW’s growth and was adopted last year by
the Board of Trustees.
The relationship I see between the two tag
lines is that the one enables the other. By
being a part of our growth here at SEAS,
you help make history here at GW. You help
enable the achievements and successes here;
you are part of the history we make.
Your contributions matter to the success of the school. Look at
where SEAS is right now and how far we’ve come in just five years,
and you’ll notice that those successes rest on relationships—the
relationships that alumni and donors form with students, and
students form with faculty, and faculty form with research partners,
and so on. These are the relationships that are created when we
join together for a common purpose.
The Making History campaign invites us to join together to bring
the university’s strategic plan to fruition through three broad goals:
enhancing academics, supporting students, and breaking new
ground. I invite you to see how SEAS fits into the campaign
priorities, how we’ve already built the foundation that makes
our aspirations achievable, and how you can “Be a Part of It.”
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FEATURE
ZAID HAMID
DONOR STORIES
ENHANCE
ACADEMICS
SEAS seeks your support through
the Making History capital campaign
to assist our efforts to provide talented
students and faculty with opportunities
that will help them grow as innovative
thinkers and leaders. Specifically,
SEAS aims to promote more
undergraduate research and hire
additional distinguished faculty.
Undergraduate research
opportunities can ignite a passion
that becomes a career. Or maybe these
research experiences simply teach
discipline and a new set of skills that
give one of our students the edge when
applying for a first job. As our admissions
selectivity continues to climb, the demand
from our students for these opportunities
will increase. Let’s give them these
experiences now, as undergraduates,
when they are ready and able to
benefit from them.
Distinguished faculty are key
to building a school’s reputation. The
promise of working under one of them
draws the top graduate students, while
the opportunity to learn in their classes
piques undergraduate interest. These
distinguished faculty members also
are a resource for their colleagues
and have the potential to build large
research programs that can boost
the school’s reputation nationally and
even internationally. The dividends
from hiring distinguished faculty
are large and widespread.
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Terry Collins
SEAS alumnus Terry Collins (D.Sc. ’76)
studied electrical engineering at SEAS and
subsequently built a very successful career
in communications and signal processing.
Despite the demands on his time, Terry
has maintained his connection to SEAS
and GW over the course of his career,
serving as a longtime member of the
school’s National Advisory Council and,
more recently, as a university trustee.
Earlier this year, Terry and his wife,
Alisann, made a gift to SEAS to endow
a professorship in biomedical engineering.
Their gift helped the school hire for a
critical position, the founding chair
of the new Department of Biomedical
Engineering. (See story on page 14.)
“Alisann and I were motivated to make
a gift to SEAS by the current momentum
in the school and the need for science
and engineering leadership in the
nation’s capital. Our George Washington
University has made substantial
investments in SEAS over the last
several years with new facilities, quality
faculty hires, and greater emphasis on
R&D. We all know that science and
engineering are critical to solving many
current and future problems and we
want our students to be able to lead
in solving these problems. Endowed
professorships accelerate the quality
of our faculty and research and
strengthen GW. We see this as a
start to greatness if our many alumni
recognize the need and continue
to support SEAS as we are doing.”
Hannah Stuart
SEAS alumna and donor Hannah Stuart
graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering. She
began her graduate studies in design and
robotics the next fall at Stanford University.
As an undergraduate, Hannah conducted
fuel cell research at Beijing Jiaotong
University through a 2010 National
Science Foundation International
Research Experience for Students,
and she later entered her research in the
SEAS Student Research and Development
Showcase, winning the Best Undergraduate
Poster prize that year. In 2011, she was
part of a team of SEAS undergraduates
that won one of the coveted spots in
NASA’s Microgravity University Program
and had the chance to conduct experiments
aboard the “Weightless Wonder,” NASA’s
reduced gravity aircraft.
“Research empowers curiosity; it teaches
students to seek out both exciting
problems and the technical tools
to solve them. The supportive
environment at SEAS fostered
my confidence and passion as an
engineer by allowing me to pursue
undergraduate research experiences.
These opportunities also provided
a strong foundation to continue
research at Stanford University,
where I completed my MSME in 2013,
and am now a Ph.D. candidate. The
inspiration and guidance I received
at GW started me on a path I never
imagined. Actively enabling more
undergraduates to have these research
experiences can make an indelible
impact on the future of both the
students and SEAS.”
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DONOR STORIES
SUPPORT
STUDENTS
Applications to SEAS have been growing
steadily over the last five years. And so has
enrollment. In fact, this fall we enrolled the
largest freshman class in the history of the
school. But to keep growing our enrollment,
we need to be able to provide more scholarships to students who have the talent and the
drive to master an engineering or computer
science education, but who don’t have the
means to afford a SEAS education.
SEAS seeks your support through the
Making History capital campaign to ensure
that we can make an engineering or computer
science education accessible to a greater
number of talented students. We also seek
to provide increased study abroad options
to our students to better prepare them for
careers in which engineering is practiced
in an increasingly global fashion.
Scholarships/Aid for top graduate stu-
dents are the deciding factor for many of the
brightest students in determining which college
they will attend. The top students often get
robust scholarship offers from several colleges,
and SEAS needs to be able to compete with
other schools to draw some of those students
here. We have the location and programs—
and now the facilities—to be competitive, but
the fact is that we need to be able to offer the
scholarships and fellowships that these
students can command. Everyone benefits
when we enroll more of the best students.
Study abroad is an experience that matures
students beyond almost any experience they
can get on campus. Ask a SEAS student about
her study abroad last semester to Korea,
or his study abroad last year to Turkey, and
you will see their faces light up and hear the
enthusiasm in their voices. If you ask them
what they learned, most of them in one way
or another will tell you that they became more
independent and learned to handle situations
they didn’t previously know they could. On top
of that, of course, they got a crash course in
working with engineering students from other
countries and cultures, and a foretaste of
working on projects with people from other
corners of the globe during their careers.
Simon Lee
Simon Lee (MS ’05) studied engineering
as an undergraduate at Korea University
and later immigrated to the U.S. as a young
professional engineer. Here in the Washington,
D.C. metropolitan area, Simon built STG,
Inc., which he still leads as its CEO and
chairman. He continued his engineering
studies at SEAS as a graduate student in
systems engineering and has remained
involved with SEAS as a member of the
school’s National Advisory Council.
In 2010, Simon endowed a student exchange
program between SEAS and Korea University.
The endowment provides assistance for our
students who wish to study abroad at Korea
University, giving them the opportunity to
learn firsthand about another culture while
studying and working with aspiring engineers
and computer scientists there.
“Today’s business world is all about
globalization. Students must embrace
the notion of globalized partnerships
and learn from other cultures in order
to grow into tomorrow’s world leaders.
Programs such as the U.S.–Korean
Student Exchange offer more than an
education—they prepare students to
excel in the modern business world.
Today’s leaders have a responsibility to
enable future leaders to learn from each
other. I encourage other SEAS alumni
to support the SEAS study abroad
programs. We can begin to lay the foundation for cross-cultural partnerships
that can flourish for generations and
strengthen over time, building bridges
that link educational institutions and
bring students from different countries
and cultures closer together.”
Matt Knouse
Matt Knouse graduated from SEAS with a
bachelor’s degree in computer science in
2009 and a master’s degree in engineering
management in 2011. Now an abuse
analyst for Google, Matt also serves on
the SEAS National Advisory Council and
is a SEAS donor. As a junior, Matt spent a
semester in France and considers it a key
part of his college education.
“Breaking down barriers is a part
of success. I give to SEAS because
the school broke down barriers that
previously prevented engineering
students from studying abroad.
By creating partnerships with
stellar schools, building programs
that accommodate the rigorous
academic requirements of engineering
students, and providing scholarships
for study abroad, SEAS has helped
students overcome the academic
and financial obstacles that often
keep our engineers from studying
abroad. Offering students the chance
to learn engineering through the lens
of another culture? That’s SEAS creating
opportunities for our students—and
that’s money smartly spent.”
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ELLIE KAUFMAN
DONOR STORIES
BREAK NEW
GROUND
Through the Making History campaign,
SEAS seeks your support to foster research
and innovation opportunities across the
school, as well as your support of our new
state-of-the-art facilities, which will become
available when the Science and Engineering
Hall opens in January 2015.
The Science and Engineering Hall
changes the game for SEAS. When this new
500,000-gross-square-feet, 14-story structure
opens, faculty and students will have
opportunities that until now they have only
dreamed of. New core facilities—such as a
vibration-free and particulate-free nanotechnology fabrication facility, a powerful imaging
facility, and a three-story high bay—will fulfill
possibilities for on-campus, state-of-the-art
research across many disciplines.
Research initiatives can take the
“raw material” of original ideas and brilliant
insights and move them along the path to
tangible and beneficial products, processes,
and services. Just as we invest in education
to tap the potential in our children, we need
to invest in good ideas to tap their potential.
Having a pool of funds that can be used
to provide quick start-up assistance that
bridges the gap from idea to research
project is a necessary and invaluable tool for
a dean. These funds help create the agility
the school needs to seize opportunities
when they arise, which is essential for
any school that aspires, as we do, to move
to the top ranks of research schools.
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Scott Amey
Scott Amey (MS ’75) completed his
master’s degree in computer science at
SEAS and pursued a career in information
technology and engineering services
contracting. Scott’s unflagging support of
SEAS over the years includes both service
and philanthropy. He established the
SEAS Career Services Office in 2004
and managed it as a volunteer for more
than two years, and he serves on both the
school’s National Advisory Council and
the university’s Board of Trustees.
Scott and his wife, Deborah, also have
been longtime, faithful donors to SEAS.
They have supported numerous initiatives
ranging from the Senior-Alumni BBQ to the
Science and Engineering Hall construction.
As part of their commitment to SEAS,
Scott and Deborah initiated the $1 million
Amey Challenge Match for the Science and
Engineering Hall in 2011. They successfully
completed the match in February 2013.
“I support the Science and Engineering
Hall (SEH) because I see this facility
as a major drawing card for both outstanding, research-focused professors
and bright, energetic undergraduate
and graduate science and engineering
students. Having been a computer
science major at SEAS, I want the SEH
to include a state-of-the-art software
engineering lab. I also donated to the
SEAS Career Services Office, because I
want to see every SEAS student obtain
a challenging job upon graduation.
Even with the great new SEH, I still
encourage all SEAS graduates to help
the campaign. There is great need for
scholarships and fellowships.”
Muriel Dumit
Muriel Dumit is a civil and sanitary engineer
at Greeley and Hansen, an environmental
engineering consulting firm. She received
her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
from SEAS in 2009 and her master’s
degree in environmental engineering in
2011. As a student at SEAS, Muriel had
an internship with the District of Columbia
Water and Sewer Authority that focused
on implementing novel wastewater
treatment processes, measuring
greenhouse gas emissions from
wastewater treatment processes, and
analyzing their effect on air quality and
climate change.
“I contribute to SEAS to support
the school in becoming a leading
institution in research and
engineering. The Science and
Engineering Hall will provide
students with world-class facilities
and resources that allow them to
partake in cutting-edge research
and development and have access
to the most innovative technologies.
Having the right tools and
environment will greatly enhance
their learning experience.”
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YOU
You are an alumnus or alumna of SEAS,
and no matter where you are in your career,
I hope that you have seen, or have begun
to see, the benefit of your engineering or
computer science degree. Perhaps something
within these pages has caught your attention,
piqued your interest, or simply reminded
you of the importance of a strong engineering or computer science education. If so,
I hope you can take a moment, like your
fellow alumni pictured on these pages,
and reflect on an initiative you’d like to help
support. (And feel free, also, to tell us your
reasons for choosing the initiatives that
you want to support. We’re interested in
knowing what’s important to you and why.)
The Making History campaign comes
at a good time for SEAS, because we’ve
already built a strong foundation that will
support the research, initiatives, and
programs we aim to develop over the
course of the campaign. In short, we’re
ready and well-positioned for growth.
Enrollment is up; faculty hires are up;
research expenditures are up. Guess
what other important factor is up in the
“SEAS equation”? The answer: alumni
and donor giving and participation.
In the past five years, alumni giving
has increased by a factor of four.
Help us make history right here at SEAS.
Be a part of it. Consider how far we’ve
come in five short years, and think about
where we’ll be in five more. Better yet,
imagine the even greater rate of growth
and change SEAS will undergo as more
and more of our alumni and friends
choose to join their classmates and
colleagues in supporting SEAS.
I’ll leave you with an analogy of your
own to complete: “SEAS” is to “me”
as __________ is to _________.
Feel free to fill it in and share your
version of it with me.
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PROFILES
Elizabeth Hubler
CHANGING HER PATH But Not Her Aspirations
J
ust a few blocks down 23rd
Street from Tompkins Hall
sits the Lincoln Memorial.
Hundreds of thousands of
tourists visit the memorial each
year, but only a small percentage of them
probably are aware that in addition to being
our nation’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln
was both an inventor and a lawyer.
Ahead of his presidency, Lincoln, who
embraced the patent system because it
“added the fuel of interest to the fire of
genius,” registered Patent No. 6469 for a
vessel to lift boats over shoals—the only patent
registered to a U.S. president to this day.
It’s fitting, then, that in the proximity to
his memorial, GW offers a program that
reflects his passion for innovation and law:
a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical
engineering with a concentration in patent
law. And it’s this very combination that
attracted the SEAS Dean’s Fellow, Elizabeth
Hubler, to SEAS.
Hailing from the Midwest, like Lincoln
himself, Elizabeth had sundry interests
growing up. She credits her older sister,
who was studying mechanical engineering
at Ohio State University at the time, with
encouraging her to explore engineering.
Following her advice, Elizabeth joined the
FIRST robotics team in high school and got
her first taste of engineering. As she started
looking into colleges, she discovered the field
of patent law and the SEAS program with the
patent law concentration.
“I liked the idea of being hands on, and
mechanical engineering provides that,”
Elizabeth recalls. “Once I found out about
the patent law track, that solidified what
I wanted to do.”
Elizabeth enrolled in the bachelor’s program
at SEAS in the fall of 2010, and never looked
back. Just as she did in high school, Elizabeth
has pursued a number of interests here at
SEAS and has been involved in a range of
activities and organizations. Primary among
them is the research she began under the
mentorship of her advisor, Professor Michael
Plesniak. Now a master’s candidate in me-
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chanical engineering, Elizabeth is continuing
her research with Professor Plesniak.
“I got lucky with the research that I decided
to do with Professor Plesniak,” she says.
“I thought I’d come for the patent law
concentration and go straight to law school.
I got involved in researching airflow through
human vocal cords and how it is affected
if you have a polyp or another vocal
disorder, and working with Professor
Plesniak changed my path. I decided
to stay for my masters to continue the
research before pursuing law school.”
Elizabeth’s research has been particularly
fruitful, earning her a number of honors,
beginning with the Undergraduate Prize in
the SEAS Student Research and Development
Showcase . . . which she won not once,
but twice. Following those wins, she received
the second place Undergraduate Award in
the biomedical engineering category at
GW’s 2014 Research Days, and earlier this
fall she won second place in the Best Poster
Presentation competition at the National
Science Foundation Workshop on the
Fluid Dynamics of Living Systems.
Elizabeth gratefully acknowledges all those
at SEAS who have helped her, everyone from
the SEAS deans to her research professors
and other students. “I’m lucky, because
I have a whole spectrum of mentors, from
my peers all the way through administrators,”
she remarks. “It’s really cool that at a place
like SEAS, the administrators know what’s
going on with my research.”
As an undergraduate, Elizabeth also was
involved with the GW chapter of Engineers
Without Borders, which has an ongoing
project to help people in La Peña, El Salvador
improve water quality and sanitation in their
village. She took on a leadership role in the
chapter, organizing trips to La Peña and
participating in them during her sophomore,
junior, and senior years.
As she begins her master’s program,
Elizabeth is concentrating on her studies,
her research, and her new role as the
SEAS Dean’s Fellow. She still retains the
aspirations that brought her to SEAS as a
freshman—her desire to be an inventor and
a lawyer—but she doesn’t regret the other
interests she has pursued along the way.
“I don’t think I would change anything
that I’ve done over the past four years if
I were to do it over again,” muses Elizabeth.
“If anything, I’d wish for more time in the
day to do more.”
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PROFILES
Asghar Mostafa
Taking Risks and Reaping the Rewards
team of people. “You have to have a loyal
team that sticks with you. That’s the most
important thing,” he remarks. “If you don’t
have a good team, it doesn’t matter how
much money you have; the chance of
success is very small.”
Asghar speaks from his heart on this, noting that he has had a loyal group of 25-30
people who have worked for him in each of
his companies. He considers this his biggest
achievement, adding, “They give me the
encouragement to take risks, because I
know I have the right team.”
A
s a teenager growing up in
Iran, Asghar Mostafa (BS ’81,
MS ’82) was fascinated with
computers. He heard his
teachers talk about the computer’s potential to “revolutionize the world,”
and he knew he wanted to be involved in the
business side of developing this new technology. But while he knew what he wanted, he
didn’t know the best route to get there.
He credits Professor Emeritus Arnold Meltzer,
who was his SEAS undergraduate advisor, with
helping him find it. Asghar assumed that a job
at a large corporation would be the best way to
start his career, but Professor Meltzer had
another suggestion. He told Asghar that a startup company would be the best place for him to
learn quickly about both the business and science involved in developing a technology. “That
was the most important advice I got,” recalls
Asghar. “That really shaped my whole future.”
In retrospect, Professor Meltzer’s advice
seems to have been right on target: Asghar
has made a tremendously successful career
out of building technology companies.
After a brief stint working in other start-up
endeavors, he decided in 1982 to join ICOM,
a start-up company that focused on fixedwireless communications, where he served
as vice president of software development.
With that experience under his belt, Asghar
began his career as a serial entrepreneur.
In 1990, he launched his first company,
ISDN Systems Corporation (ISC), a provider
of integrated services digital network and
frame relay equipment.
After selling ISC in 1995 to U.S. Robotics,
Asghar joined U.S. Robotics/3Com for a time
as the vice president and general manager
of its broadband access division. In 1997,
he founded Advanced Switching Communications (ASC), which he took to initial
public offering in 2000, before founding
his third company, Vinci Systems, in 2003.
Tellabs bought Vinci Systems in 2005, and
Asghar transitioned there for a year as the
vice president of product development.
Since then, he has founded two more
companies, Entourage Systems, Inc., and
his current company, Rubriq. After nearly
30 years as a serial entrepreneur, Asghar has
learned valuable lessons about what it takes
to create a successful technology company,
and he’s happy to share his knowledge with
the next generation of entrepreneurs, as he
did during the SEAS Entrepreneurship
Seminar Series offered a few years back.
When asked about his experiences, he
speaks extensively about building the right
Knowing firsthand the risks involved in starting
a business, Asghar still recommends that
would-be entrepreneurs give their ideas a
shot. “If you find your passion is to start
your own company, go ahead and do it.
Take the risk,” he pleads. “Even if your first
company isn’t successful, you’ll learn so
much. No large company, no MBA program
will be able to give you that experience.”
Even with the obligations of his busy career,
Asghar has remained connected to SEAS
and GW. He is a longtime member of the
SEAS National Advisory Council and an
active promoter of entrepreneurship activities
and programs at GW. He also has been a
strong supporter of the new Science and
Engineering Hall and was an early donor
to it, pledging $1 million to help start the
fundraising for the building.
Asghar has been honored for his professional successes with the GW Distinguished
Entrepreneurial Achievement Award (2008)
and the GW Alumni Achievement Award
(2010). In 2011 he also was inducted
into the GW Engineering Hall of Fame.
Asked why he remains involved with and
donates to SEAS, Asghar replies, “There’s
tremendous satisfaction in that. There are
a lot of places in the world where your
contribution would have a minimal impact,
but SEAS can find the areas in which you
can have an impact based on your
background and experience. The first
step is to commit. We’ll open the door
for you to join the team.”
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
News
SEAS Forms a Department of
Biomedical Engineering
In an unmistakable sign of its growth,
SEAS formed a Department of Biomedical
Engineering this fall, adding a new doctoral
degree program and increasing the number
of SEAS academic departments to six.
The school’s biomedical engineering
faculty and degree programs previously
were part of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. However, with
enrollment and research in the biomedical
engineering programs multiplying, SEAS
and the GW administration made the
decision to create a new department
dedicated to biomedical engineering,
and to begin recruiting several new
distinguished faculty to it.
“Dr. Efimov is a very accomplished researcher
with a strong national and international
reputation and professional ties in many
countries,” Dean David Dolling said. “But
he’s more than a researcher. He’s also
entrepreneurial and innovative, and these
are important qualities that he will use
to help lead and grow our research and
academic programs.”
Other factors also will foster the growth
of the new department’s programs. One of
them is the new Science and Engineering
Hall, slated to open at the start of the spring
2015 semester. The state-of-the art imaging
facilities and clean room will create new
possibilities for research and learning,
and the building’s location across the street
from GW’s School of Medicine and Health
Sciences will facilitate collaboration with
the university’s medical faculty.
Another factor that bodes well for the
department’s growth is the university’s
close proximity to national agencies
that fund and partner with academia
in biomedical-related research fields,
such as the National Institutes of Health
and the Food and Drug Administration.
The new department currently is home
to five full-time faculty members and 17
secondary, affiliated, or adjunct faculty and
collaborating clinicians from a range of SEAS
and GW academic departments. The school
plans to double the number of full-time
biomedical engineering faculty within the
next five years.
Bigger and Better:
The R&D Showcase
Sometimes more really is better. Take the
2014 SEAS Student Research and Development Showcase, for example. More students
participated—so many, in fact, that the
Marvin Center’s Grand Ballroom was filled
to capacity—and more sponsors provided
more prize money for the winning research
than in previous years.
2014 marked the eighth year of the annual
showcase, which aims to show the innovative
research that SEAS graduate and undergraduate students are conducting with
SEAS faculty. Open to the broader research
community and the public, the showcase
also provides networking opportunities
for students, alumni, and investors.
The $5,000 first place prize was awarded
to Bhaven Mehta, a doctoral student in
the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE) who is advised by Professor
Mona Zaghloul. The aim of his project,
“Highly sensitive gas sensor using plasmonic
antennas,” is to “build a sensor that will be
able to detect a very small concentration
of gas molecules,” Bhaven reported.
“This can be used in air monitoring systems
used in different industries.”
Christopher Blower, advised by Professor
Adam Wickenheiser of the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(MAE), received the $4,000 second place
prize for his project, “A three-dimensional
iterative panel method and boundary layer
ELLIE KAUFMAN
NEWS
In November, Dr. Igor Efimov accepted
the school’s offer to become the founding
chair of the newly-established department,
effective January 1, 2015. He will hold the
Alisann and Terry Collins Professorship in
the department. Dr. Efimov will join SEAS
from Washington University in St. Louis,
where he currently is the Lucy and Stanley
Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and the director of the Cardiac
Imaging Laboratory, a National Institutes
of Health-funded cardiovascular research
and engineering laboratory.
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model for bioinspired multi-wings.”
Remarking on the showcase’s value,
Christopher mentioned, “I personally have
gained several beneficial industrial contacts
with whom I can discuss potential ideas and
employment, and create new alliances to
collaborate with for future projects.”
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Hasan Goktas of ECE received the $3,000
third place prize for “A novel resonator cell
for both a portable biosensor and high-quality
filter for cell phones,” while Benjamin
Holmes of MAE was awarded the $2,000
Entrepreneurship Prize for “Development
of biomimetic 3D printed scaffolds for osteochondral regeneration.” Hasan and Benjamin
are advised by Professors Mona Zaghloul and
Lijie Grace Zhang, respectively.
For the second year in a row, Elizabeth
Hubler, advised by Professor Michael
Plesniak of MAE, won the $2,000 Undergraduate Prize for her project, “Evaluation
of synthetic self-oscillating models of vocal
folds.” (Read more about Elizabeth on page
12.) She stated that future applications of
their work “could include inserting patientspecific vocal fold models and running
experiments to help doctors and voice
pathologists determine the best course of
treatment, because it’s much easier to poke,
probe, and shine lasers on an experimental
setup than on an actual human being.”
Runner-up prizes of $500 each were
awarded to Morteza Abkenar and Noah
Weichselbaum (Graduate Prize), Sarah
Pickus (Undergraduate Prize), and Nima
Mobadersany and Krishna Kumar
(Entrepreneurship Prize).
SEAS thanks its sponsors for generously
donating the prize money for the showcase:
RiVidium, LGS Innovations, the Bruce
J. Heim Foundation, Hegarty Research,
Siemens, Capital Construction Consultants,
ICES, Tektronix, and Dov (MS ’83) and
Elma Levy. SEAS also thanks the keynote
speaker for the event, SEAS alumnus
Kevin Kelly (MS ’97), who challenged
students during his talk to think about
defining and enabling innovation in
their careers.
Women Faculty and Students
Are Selecting SEAS
Visitors to engineering schools across the
U.S. may expect to see few women as they
walk through the halls of departments
traditionally populated by men. But, a walk
through GW’s engineering and computer science departments shows a different picture.
Over the past five years, SEAS has
increased dramatically the number of new
faculty it has hired, including the number
of female faculty members. By spring 2014,
women made up 22 percent of tenure track
faculty at SEAS, compared to a national
average of just 14 percent. “Our percentage
of women faculty is now 50 percent above
the national average, and we want to grow
this further,” said Dean David Dolling.
The school has made similarly impressive
gains among female students, who now
constitute approximately 38 percent of the
undergraduate student body. Enrollment
of female students at SEAS is twice the
national average of 18 percent, and its
graduation rates of female engineering
students put GW among the top 10 schools
nationally, according to the American
Society for Engineering Education.
SEAS also hosts active chapters of the
Society of Women Engineers and the
professional and social engineering sorority
Alpha Omega Epsilon, which offer students
mentoring, networking, and career and
leadership development opportunities.
Female students at SEAS increasingly are
taking leadership roles in extracurricular
activities, too, as they have done in the
Engineers Without Borders’ GW chapter
project in La Peña, El Salvador, the Team
Capitol DC’s Harvest Home entry in the
2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar
Decathlon, and in other projects.
With its continued emphasis on being
at the forefront of engineering schools in
recruiting and welcoming women, SEAS
also is developing a collaborative program
with Holton-Arms School, an all-girls school
in Washington, D.C. The program, which
officially began last summer, will provide
research experiences and engineering seminars for selected students to encourage the
girls to consider careers in engineering.
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Pedal Forward previously won the 2012
Clinton Global Initiative-University competition, hosted at GW. The team’s mission is
to create sustainable solutions to ill health
and poverty through the manufacture, sale,
and use of bamboo bicycles.
“The GW Business Plan Competition
was an incredible experience,” recalled
Matthew. “It forced us to not only think
deeper into the problem we are trying to
solve, but also made us put all of our ideas
down on paper. We’re excited to use our
prize money to purchase initial inventory
and begin taking pre-orders on our bicycles.”
The Pelton Award:
A SEAS Tradition
Just days before commencement—with
classmates, professors, parents, and alumni
looking on—eight graduating SEAS students
representing five engineering disciplines
presented their research at the annual
Pelton Award for Outstanding Senior Project.
A Good Showing
Entrepreneurship seems to come naturally
to some people, and if the 2014 GW
Business Plan Competition is any indication,
that certainly seems to be the case with
a number of SEAS faculty and students.
When the finalists were named for the
competition last April, six of the 10 selected
teams included SEAS faculty and students.
Half of the SEAS teams took home prizes.
One was Bitgrid—a team led by Professor
Volker Sorger of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering—which took the
second place prize of $15,000, the Blank
Rome Best Undergraduate Prize of $10,000,
and a six-month membership in a start-up
incubator from WeWork.
BitGrid—whose team members include
SEAS senior Charles Taylor, Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences student Justin
Hyde, and team mentor Wendolyn Holland—
creates software solutions for distributed
generation management to build a smarter
and more efficient electric grid for the U.S.
“The competition is a great accelerator;
it fuses students and faculty together
in a unique and cross disciplinary way,”
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said Professor Sorger. “As for BitGrid, it
helped us re-evaluate our value proposition
and build our team. The cash prizes and
WeWork office space will be instrumental
at this stage in allowing us to develop the
product and build a customer base.”
Professor Michael Keidar of the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
and his team, Small Spacecraft
Micropropulsion, won the fourth place
prize of $5,000. Small Spacecraft
Propulsion provides low power and
low mass electric propulsion solutions
for small satellites, and its members
include: Samudra Haque (SEAS Ph.D. ’14),
George Teel (SEAS MS ’14), Cameron
Parvini (SEAS BS ’14), and team mentor
Randy Graves (SEAS D.Sc. ’78).
The Pedal Forward team, led by Matthew
Wilkins (SEAS MS ’14) and GW School
of Business graduate Chris Deschenes
(BBA ’12), received GWupstart’s Best
For-Profit Social Venture Prize of $7,500
and Capital One Bank’s Best Sustainable
Technology Prize of $5,000. The team also
includes Jeffrey Birenbaum (SEAS BS ’14),
Elizabeth Hubler (SEAS BS ’14), and team
mentor Kerri Murphy.
“The Pelton Award is a school-wide competition
that features some of the most innovative
projects from the graduating class,” explained
Bhagirath Narahari, associate dean of undergraduate affairs and programs. “It represents
the culmination of the students’ work on
their senior projects.”
The students are judged on the engineering
conception of their project, the quality of
the engineering calculation and design,
the feasibility of the project’s implementation, and the effectiveness of their formal
oral presentation. They are given bonus
points if their project is deemed patentable
or sustainable.
Based on these criteria, the panel of alumni
and faculty judges awarded the first place
prize to Geneva Goldwood and Jonathan
Johnson of the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering for their project,
“A tissue-engineered scaffold and phototherapy
for nerve tissue regeneration.” Geneva and
Jonathan created an implantable device
to increase nerve regeneration. The device
consists of a tissue-engineered scaffold with
an embedded optical fiber that stimulates
nerve cell growth.
Brandon Bernier and Srinivas Tapa of the
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering received the second place prize
for their project, “Collision avoidance system
for the visually impaired.” They developed a
device to help the visually impaired protect
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competition was held in Green River, Utah,
with 22 teams from across the country
vying for an award in its basic category,
which required sending a 10-pound
payload to 10,000 feet above ground
level using a student-designed and-built
experimental sounding rocket.
Students were evaluated on the design of
their rocket, readiness for launch, ability
to recover the rocket, and peak altitude
obtained. The SEAS team successfully
launched its rocket, named Fat George,
on the first day of the competition and
subsequently recovered it.
2014 Pelton Award winners with Dr. Joe Pelton (center) and Dean David Dolling (right)
Daniel Gil and Ben Nakamura, representing
the biomedical engineering discipline,
took the third place prize for their project,
“Energy-efficient electric wheelchair,”
which is a smart wheelchair operated by
a voice recognition system augmented by
a proximity collision avoidance system.
Last summer the SEAS Rocket Team
participated for the first time in the
Experimental Sounding Rocket Association’s
annual intercollegiate competition, and
placed third in the basic category. The
DUSTIN KOEHLER, LITTLE BLUE PRODUCTIONS
themselves from objects in front of them,
both those at waist level or above that a cane
would not detect—such as a low-hanging
branch—as well as objects at ground level.
They accomplished this by creating an
integrated system of a headset, cane
attachment, and Android phone application.
Kiren Caldwell, who had just finished his
undergraduate studies at SEAS, led the
team in the June competition. Now a
first-year master’s student in the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Kiren recalls that he found the competition
very beneficial. “It was really great going
to the competition and being able to learn
from the judges, who have years of rocketry
experience and from the other teams
competing. We definitely got a lot out of
the competition and are looking forward to
performing even better this year,” he said.
In the 2015 competition, the SEAS
Rocket Team will compete in both the
basic (10,000 feet) and advanced
(25,000 feet) categories.
SEAS Rocket Team
Following the competition, guests gathered
on the Marvin Center Terrace for the SEAS
Senior-Alumni BBQ, which has become
part of the tradition of the event. The BBQ
is generously sponsored by SEAS alumni
Scott Amey (MS ’75), Ashok Jha (MS ’92),
and Howard Tischler (MS ’80). The Pelton
Award was established in 2009 by former
SEAS faculty member Dr. Joseph Pelton.
Fat George Takes Third Place
Some may call it beginner’s luck, but
Professor Murray Snyder, faculty advisor
to the SEAS Rocket Team, calls it strong
teamwork and good engineering.
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New Faculty
Dr. Saniya LeBlanc
Saniya LeBlanc joined SEAS in January 2014
as an assistant professor in the Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
She received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical
engineering with a minor in materials
science from Stanford University in 2012.
Her research goals are to develop energy
conversion technologies using advanced
materials and scalable manufacturing techniques. Before joining GW, Professor LeBlanc
was a research scientist at the start-up
company Alphabet Energy, where she created
research, development, and manufacturing
characterization solutions for thermoelectric
technologies and evaluated the potential of
new power generation materials.
Professor Zhang Receives
Prestigious NIH Award
Medical researchers are steps closer to
creating human organs using 3D printers,
but they have significant barriers to cross
before science fiction becomes a reality.
Professor Lijie Grace Zhang of the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering is addressing those obstacles
with a project that could pave the way for
complex tissue regeneration.
Professor Zhang recently received a prestigious
2014 Director’s New Innovator Award from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for
her project, “A Novel 3D Bioprinted Smart
Vascularized Nano Tissue,” which aims
to find a solution for treating large
tissue defects in patients. The five-year
award totals more than $2.2 million. “With
this award, I want to create a product that
is really useful for human health,” she said.
Dr. Santiago Solares
Santiago Solares is an associate professor in
the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering. He previously served as assistant
and associate professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of
Maryland, College Park, and prior to that he
held technical and management positions with
both Mars Incorporated (in North America)
and Pepsi-Cola International (in Latin America).
Professor Solares received a Ph.D. degree
from the California Institute of Technology in
2006. His research areas at SEAS include the
development of multifrequency atomic force
microscopy methods and their application to
characterize the nanomechanical properties
of energy relevant and biological materials.
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The New Innovator Award is designed “to
support unusually creative new investigators
with highly innovative research ideas at an
early stage of their career,” according to the NIH.
“Professor Zhang’s research has the potential
to impact not only clinical bone treatment
and tissue and organ regeneration, but also
basic physical and life science research,”
said Dean David Dolling. “Researchers who
are able to develop the sorts of insights that
spawn truly pioneering investigations like
Professor Zhang’s are rare, and the NIH New
Innovator awards are rightly reserved for them.”
With the 3D bioprinting technique, scientists
build tissue and organs layer by layer using a
printer. The process enables them to create
custom-designed tissue organ substitutes.
While this technology has gained momentum
in recent years, researchers still are struggling
to regenerate complex tissues, such as
vascularized bone, cartilage, and muscle.
Critical-sized bone defects that are caused
by traumatic injury or diseases such as
cancer are notoriously difficult to regenerate.
Large and complex portions of the tissue
need to have an adequate vascular network to
survive and thrive post-defect. These vascular
networks mimic the body’s circulatory system,
and bioprinting them is the key to 3D printed
organs, according to Professor Zhang.
This project will combine her experience in
nanobiomaterials, tissue engineering, and
drug delivery with advanced 3D bioprinting
techniques to develop a vascularized bone
tissue construct using “smart” materials.
Professor Zhang’s bioprinting system will have
two features distinct from those of other labs.
She and her research team will use a class
of highly innovative nanomaterials, and they
will create the microvascular network using
“smart” materials, a special type of shape
memory material that can change over time.
“Since human tissue in its basic form
is full of nanoscale features, these
nanomaterials will play a key role in
modulating the repair and regeneration
of tissues,” said Professor Zhang.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is
excerpted from the GW Today article
“GW Researcher Receives $2 million
NIH New Innovator Award.”
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When asked to nominate faculty members
for the 2014 SEAS Faculty Research and
Teaching Awards, students, faculty peers,
and alumni alike offered a multitude of positive
stories. “He enjoys learning as much as he
does teaching,” wrote one student in his nomination of Professor Tim Wood for the Outstanding Young Teacher Award. Another nominator
mentioned using her notes from Professor
Sameh Badie’s classes—even now, almost 10
years after graduating—to verify a formula or to
help decipher a code requirement in her job.
On the research side, the words of praise
were equally strong, with a peer-nominator
for Professor Michael Keidar referring to him
as “the most talented researcher” he had
worked with in 16 years.
At the awards presentation, Dean David
Dolling shared comments like these from
grateful nominators as he honored five faculty
members who have achieved extraordinary
research and teaching success.
Professor Michael Keidar (Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) was
honored with the 2014 SEAS Distinguished
Researcher Award for his contributions to
the fields of spacecraft propulsion, plasma
medicine, and nanotechnology. He has
achieved international recognition as a prolific
and versatile researcher who has had a great
deal of success on many fronts: in research
discoveries and patents, in funding, in
publications, and in recognition within his
research community.
Professor Howie Huang (Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
received the 2014 Outstanding Young
Researcher Award for his work to develop
the next generation of high-performance
computing technology. In a short period
of time, he already has made significant
contributions in the area of flash-based
storage devices and data-intensive
applications, and he has emerged as
a leader in his field.
Professor Sameh Badie (Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering),
who has dedicated himself to serving his
students and preparing them for careers in
structural and civil engineering, was named
the 2014 SEAS Distinguished Teacher.
Among other accomplishments, he has
made key contributions to enhancing the
department’s capstone design course and
to preparing students to complete it.
Professor Plesniak Named
Executive Director of
Research Development
Professor Michael Plesniak, the chairman
of the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, has taken on
additional responsibilities at SEAS as the
school’s executive director of research
development. The position was created
this fiscal year to help SEAS respond to
new research opportunities that the
school’s growth is generating.
The 2014 SEAS Outstanding Young Teacher
Award was presented to two faculty members,
Professors Zoe Szajnfarber and Tim Wood.
Professor Szajnfarber (Department of
Engineering Management and Systems
Engineering) received the award, in part,
for her success in redeveloping significant
portions of the department’s curricula at the
bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels,
and for designing and creating new courses.
Professor Wood (Department of Computer
Science) received the award for his
innovative approaches to learning, his
highly effective and engaging teaching
style, and his spirit of collegiality.
Left to right: Professors Sameh Badie and Michael Keidar, Dean David Dolling, and
Professors Howie Huang and Tim Wood
“As a result of our recent growth in faculty
and research programs, SEAS is now better
positioned to collaborate on a much broader
range of projects and studies,” explained
Dean David Dolling, “and Professor Plesniak
is helping SEAS take advantage of them.”
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Since joining SEAS in 2008, Professor
Plesniak has built a dynamic department
with a number of very productive research
programs, including one of the country’s
leading fluid dynamics programs. Noting
Professor Plesniak’s record of accomplishment, Dean Dolling selected him to develop
interdepartmental teams of SEAS researchers who will be able to collaborate and
compete for the larger research grants for
which individuals alone cannot compete.
Professor Plesniak said he is “eager to
identify new opportunities for SEAS to build
research relationships and partnerships
with corporations, government laboratories,
and research centers and institutes in
other universities.”
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STUDENTS
Achievement
At GW, Brenna has excelled not only in the
classroom and on the mats, but also within
the SEAS community. Despite the grueling
schedule of an engineer-athlete, she’s managed to make time to be an academic mentor
to some of her teammates, work in the SEAS
Undergraduate Advising office, and join
the GW chapter of the Society of Women
Engineers (SWE).
Through her involvement with SWE, Brenna
had the opportunity last year to attend the
annual SWE conference, where she got a
glimpse of work-life balance for women
engineers. “It was really cool listening to
very successful women engineers talk about
their experiences and how they’ve integrated
their home and private life with continuing to
be a professional engineer,” Brenna recalls.
Brenna Marcoux
I-Beams and Balance Beams
What comes to mind when you hear
“civil engineering”? What do you think of?
Construction hats? Surveying equipment?
Bridges? What about “gymnastics”? Do you
think of balance beams? Tumbling mats?
Brenna Marcoux, a senior studying civil engineering and a gymnast, has had the chance
to explore both at GW, and she has found
some surprising connections between them.
In the classroom, Brenna has explored the
strength of truss and beam bridges, the
flexibility of the wires in power line systems,
and the importance of balance when
using surveying equipment. At gymnastics
competitions, she has had to apply strength
and flexibility to her floor routine and near
perfect balance on the beams.
In fact, the chance both to study civil
engineering and to compete in college-level
gymnastics is exactly why Brenna decided to
attend GW—it is one of the few schools that
she considered that offered both a strong
engineering program and a competitive gymnastics program. Giving up one or the other
was a sacrifice she didn’t want to make.
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Brenna already has developed many of the
skills that will allow her to balance both roles.
And she recognizes that her experiences as
an athlete and an engineer have reinforced
each other. Diligence, time management,
and a good attitude are all qualities that a
student and an athlete need, but they are
especially important to Brenna, who is both.
“I hold myself to the highest standard because
I wouldn’t have it any other way,” she states.
“I don’t want to have regrets. I don’t want to
fall short of what I know I can do.”
Dual Interests, Dual Degrees
Dor Hirsh Bar Gai grew up in Israel surrounded
by family and friends who, like him, shared
interests in philosophy and math. He learned
to see philosophy and math (and later, engineering) as the building blocks of the world.
Now a junior working toward a dual degree
in systems engineering and philosophy,
Dor has not abandoned either in favor of
the other. “I see them as two sides of the
same coin,” he remarks.
produce to a local kitchen that serves meals
to the homeless.
Dor also uses his spring breaks as opportunities to serve. Last year, he joined GW’s
Alternative Spring Break program on a
trip to Joplin, Missouri, to help continue
the rebuilding process for the community
that was struck by a catastrophic tornado
in 2011. Now, he plans to continue
participating in the program.
“I’m doing everything I can to be a better
person,” he says. “I’m always looking for
the social implications of what we study.
[I know to] put society’s well-being in
front of my own.”
In addition to learning through his extracurricular activities, Dor also takes
advantage of the opportunities that are
open to him as a Clark Engineering Scholar.
Referring to both the engineering leaders
he has met through the program and the
other scholars, Dor speaks of the program
as a “hub for ideas and creativity” and an
“amazing opportunity.”
As he looks ahead, Dor sees himself
being an educator and working in local
government. He’s particularly interested
in city planning issues and hopes to use
his understanding of philosophy to guide
his work as an engineer and city planner.
He also might consider working in the
federal government someday, but
regardless of his path, he takes with
him the sure belief that “everything
is interconnected.”
Dor Hirsh Bar Gai
His own philosophy emphasizes social
responsibility, and here at GW, Dor has
been involved in a number of extracurricular
activities, all of which align with his desire
to help others. Last year, he served as a
resident assistant in West Hall and is
working again this year to mentor and to
act as a resource to many of the on-campus
residents. He has been a tutor for students
from School Without Walls, a high school
adjacent to GW’s campus, and he volunteers
at GW’s GrowGarden, which donates its
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STUDENTS
While undergraduate research opportunities might be hard to come by in larger
engineering schools than SEAS, Lucas has
been able to pursue his interest in virtualization through two research projects with
computer science professor Timothy Wood.
“I had Dr. Wood for a class and worked
as a server administrator for him,” Lucas
recounts. “That led to a summer opportunity
to research with him. I’ve learned more
in research than in any class. It’s a lot of
self-learning because you have to try a lot
of different things.”
Lucas also works in the SEAS Computing
Facility in information security. “I’m responsible for identifying and responding to
security threats, and if there’s a compromise, trying to figure out what went wrong,”
he explains.
Lucas Chaufournier
Born Buff and Blue
Before Lucas Chaufournier could talk,
he “knew” the words to the GW fight song.
Before he could read, he could point out
the location of the Foggy Bottom Metro
stop on a map. Lucas, whose parents both
attended GW, was born at the intersection
of 23rd and I Streets, the GW Hospital.
His parents met at GW, and his father
eventually went on to become an
administrator here. For Lucas, GW is
a family affair.
When it came time to apply to college,
Lucas selected a number of schools across
the country that had computer science or
computer engineering programs, but after
coming to campus during GW’s April Visit
Days, he cancelled all of his future trips
with other schools—he had found
his home.
Over the course of his undergraduate
studies, Lucas also has found his passion.
Although he initially was interested in
studying computer security, he soon
discovered an interest in operating
systems and cloud computing. They
have been the focus not only of his
classwork, but also of his research
projects and extracurricular activities.
And since studies, research, and work
do not satiate Lucas’ computer-related
interests, he also serves as president of
the GW chapter of ACM (the professional
association for computer scientists),
and he has been active in the school’s
programming team, the GW Tech
Collective, and in Buff and Blue Hat,
a new student organization that focuses
on applied security by setting up a
hacking lab so students can practice
how to defend against hacking attacks.
Lucas’ passion for computers couldn’t
be any clearer, but his thirst for an
education extends beyond computers.
Now in his final year of undergraduate
studies, he has no plans to leave academia
behind when he graduates; in fact, he
hopes eventually to complete a doctoral
degree and become a professor.
An Amazing Internship
During her freshman year, Adedayo
Jobi-Odeneye was asked to think about
her dream job. She knew that such a
job—if it existed—would combine her
engineering background with both
medicine and global health efforts.
As it turns out, she didn’t even have
to wait for graduation to get the chance
to work in a position that combined
her interests.
Adedayo Jobi-Odeneye
Engineering World Health Summer
Institute. She worked in local hospitals
repairing non-functioning medical equipment, applying the fundamental skills she
has learned in SEAS classrooms.
“The most valuable skill I learned
was troubleshooting,” recalls Adedayo.
“I learned that the first part of finding
a solution, whether in locating the
problem or successfully repairing the
equipment, is troubleshooting.”
Reflecting on her experience, Adedayo
says that she is amazed by all she learned
and accomplished through the program.
“It could be challenging at times,” she
recalled, “but I always remembered what
my professor once said, ‘Reach for the
low hanging fruit.’ If I couldn’t fix a
machine myself, at least I could troubleshoot and diagnose the problem, help
technicians with English, and lend a
hand to those who could fix it.”
Adedayo is grateful for the experience
and excited about the new opportunities
she anticipates it will open up for her,
and she is even more certain that she
wants to continue working in global
health—where she believes more dream
jobs exist for her.
Last summer, Adedayo—then a rising
senior studying biomedical engineering—
Brenna Marcoux
traveled to Nicaragua as part of the
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DONORS
Honor Roll of SEAS Donors
Thank You
Support from you—our alumni, parents, corporate partners,
foundations, students, faculty, staff, friends, and others—is vitally
important to the SEAS transformation. The support that you provide
to the school helps make a difference in how far and how fast that
transformation advances. It can help us enhance scholarships and
fellowships for students, sustain important faculty research, and
build new learning initiatives. In short, your generosity strengthens the
building blocks of the SEAS transformation: our students and faculty.
Sincerely,
David S. Dolling
Dean
Myrtle C. Bell*
Gail E. Boggs*
Emilio A. Fernandez, Jr. and
Ofelia Fernandez
Julius Fleischman*
Joseph O. Harrison*
Norris C. Hekimian* and Joan E. Hekimian
Vincent N. Hobday*
Douglas L. Jones and Mary O’Brien Jones
Donald S. King*
Frederick H. Kohloss, Esq. and
Margaret Kohloss*
Peter B. Kovler+
Robert G. Layton
Pauline W. Machen*
Betty Mae March*
Frank H. Marks*
Patrick J. Martin
Daniel A. McBride* and Julia A. McBride
Ralph Ochsman* and Rece Ochsman*
John E. Parsons*
John T. Sapienza Sr., Esq.+
Reza Sarafzadeh and Shore Sarafzadeh
The Honorable Clifford B. Stearns and
Ms. Joan Stearns
Stephen J. Trachtenberg and
Francine Z. Trachtenberg +
Robert W. Truland
David I. Wang and Cecile Wang
Phillip R. Wheeler* and Minh Wheeler
William G. White* and Christine White
David H. Wilson
Peter Zane and Ellen M. Zane +
Tempietto Circle of
the Heritage Society
L’Enfant Society
The L’Enfant Society is named for the
architect of the city of Washington,
Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, whose vision guided
its growth. The most prestigious of GW’s gift
societies, the L’Enfant Society recognizes
donors whose generosity and foresight have
a transformational and enduring impact on
GW. Membership is extended to individuals,
corporations, and foundations whose annual
or cumulative giving totals are $5 million or
more. L’Enfant Society members who have
made contributions to the School
of Engineering and Applied Science:
A. James Clark and Alice Clark
Lloyd H. Elliott* and Evelyn E. Elliott*+
Ford Motor Company
Science Applications International
Corporation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation +
1821 Benefactors
Established in 2004, this esteemed
Society was named in honor of the year the
University was founded, and embodies both
the spirit of GW and the spirit of private
philanthropy. Membership is extended to
individuals, corporations, and foundations
whose annual or cumulative giving totals
are $1,000,000 to $4,999,999. 1821
Benefactors who have made contributions
to the School of Engineering and
Applied Science:
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
American Heart Association +
W. Scott Amey and Deborah Amey+
ARCS Foundation, Inc.
AT&T Foundation +
Emanuel A. Beck*
Dirk S. Brady* and Judith W. Brady
Nelson A. Carbonell, Jr. and
Michele Carbonell +
Nelson & Michele Carbonell
Family Foundation +
Carnegie Corporation of New York+
Terry L. Collins and Alisann Collins +
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SYNERGY
Consolidated Rail Corporation
Cysive, Inc.
Amitai Etzioni and Patricia D. Kellogg +
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Ernest H. Forman and
Mary Ann Selly Forman
Morton I. Funger and Norma Lee Funger+
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation
Mark V. Hughes, III and Susan D. Hughes +
Hyundai Motor Company &
Kia Motors Corporation
IBM Corporation
Joong-Keun Lee
Simon S. Lee and Anna H. Lee
Thaddeus A. Lindner and Mary J. Lindner+
Lockheed Martin Corporation +
Merck Partnership for Giving
Asghar D. Mostafa and Holly S. Mostafa +
Nicholas G. Paleologos and
Suellen Paleologos +
Rolls-Royce North America, Inc.
The Communitarian Network
The Community Foundation for the National
Capital Region +
The Honorable Mark Warner and
Ms. Lisa Collis
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program +
Verizon Communications
W.M. Keck Foundation
George Washington Society
Established in 1990, the George
Washington Society was named to honor the
forward-thinking spirit of the University’s
namesake, whose vision has guided
GW’s growth. Membership in the George
Washington Society is extended to alumni
and friends whose annual or cumulative
giving totals are $500,000 to $999,999.
The requirement for membership was
changed for the first time in 2007. Donors
who have given a total of $100,000 to
$499,999 prior to September 1, 2007 have
been granted membership in this Society.
George Washington Society members who
have made contributions to the School of
Engineering and Applied Science:
Gurminder S. Bedi and Tricia Bedi
The Tempietto Circle is named for the
campus landmark that so thoroughly
symbolizes GW, its history and traditions.
The Tempietto Circle recognizes
individuals whose commitment to the
University today will have a transforming
impact tomorrow. Membership is extended
to those individuals who make documented,
planned gifts of $500,000 or more.
Tempietto Circle members who have made
contributions to the School of Engineering
and Applied Science:
Stanley M. Baer*
Alfred J. Ferrari and Evelyn K. Ferrari +
Leatrice J. Harpster*
David C. Karlgaard and Marilyn Karlgaard +
William B. Oakley+
Spencer S. Prentiss*
Richard J. Salerno and Paula Salerno +
Heritage Society
The Heritage Society honors alumni, friends,
faculty, and staff who have chosen to support
the University through planned gifts. GW
recognizes the significant role that these
donors play in ensuring the University’s
future, and acknowledges their philanthropic
leadership and vision. Membership in the
Heritage Society is granted to individuals
who make documented, planned gifts to the
University in any amount. Heritage Society
members who have made contributions
to the School of Engineering and Applied
Science:
Ivan B. Alexander
William H. Alkire and Alice Alkire +
Philip E. Battey
Myrtle C. Bell*
Murray Berdick*
Gail E. Boggs*
Dirk S. Brady* and Judith W. Brady
Thomas F. Brown*
Stephen A. Cannistra* and Clara L. Cannistra
Alessandro Chierici and Rose-Marie Chierici
Philip Wah Chin*
Richard G. Daniels* and Cynthia P. Daniels*
Alfred G. Ennis *
Allan B. Ensign*
William E. Freeborne and Norma Freeborne +
Mary A. Freudenthal*
Morton I. Funger and Norma Lee Funger+
James H. Gnam*
Joseph O. Harrison*
Henry W. Herzog*
Vincent N. Hobday*
Charles O. Holliday, Jr. and Ann B. Holliday
Gladys Bell Hornbrook*
Frank A. Howard*
Adolph C. Hugin *
Clair V. Johnson*
Isabelle L. Kaye
James A. Kelley* and Irma Kelley
Donald S. King*
Margaret Kohloss*
Thaddeus A. Lindner and Mary J. Lindner+
Raymond M. Lynch*
Frank H. Marks*
Robert C. Minor and Carole Minor
Reginald S. Mitchell
Byron Butler Mizell*
Beverly Mohl +
Robert L Morris* and Jacqueline Morris
Michael J. Morsberger and
Marybeth Morsberger+
Frank Moy and Marcia Mau +
Edward R. Murray, Jr.+
Marion E. Myers*
Elisabeth W. Newcombe*
Glen Nielsen*
William B. Oakley+
Ralph Ochsman* and Rece Ochsman*
Tamara L. O’Neil +
Donald W. Parker*
John E. Parsons*
Charles E. Polinger+
Spencer S. Prentiss*
Richard M. Reich and Carolyn Reich +
John T. Sapienza, Sr. Esq.
Edgar O. Seaquist*
Sam Shiozawa*
Anna Sprawcew*
Frank A. Spurr*
Vernita Stickler*
Charles A. Stille*+
Anna K. Szwec*
Stephen J. Trachtenberg and
Francine Z. Trachtenberg +
L. William Varner, III and Linda Varner+
George R. Washington*
Phillip R. Wheeler* and Minh Wheeler
Milton D. Willford
Richard P. Yeatman*
Luther Rice Society
The Luther Rice Society is named for
the founder of Columbian College, now
The George Washington University. In 1821,
driven by President George Washington’s
vision, Luther Rice lobbied President James
Monroe and Congress to officially charter
the institution and raised the $6,000
needed to purchase land for the Columbian
College. Members of the Luther Rice Society
carry on the tradition laid forth by George
Washington and Luther Rice by helping GW
raise its status as a world-class institution.
Membership is extended to alumni and
friends who make gifts of $1,000 or more
between July 1 and June 30 of each fiscal
year, and to recent graduates ($250 or
more for alumni within 5 years of
graduation; $500 or more for alumni
6-9 years after graduation).
Nasser S. Al-Fraih
Sana F. Al-Hajj
Michele Alperin and Steven Sheriff+
Ibrahim A. Ashie and Audrey Hughes +
Robert A. Auchter
I. Gary Bard and Judy Bard +
C. Edwin Becraft+
David W. Berg and Diane Berg +
FALL 2014
11/21/14 4:38 PM
DONORS
Brandon T. Bernier
William B. Buchanan and Ellen Buchanan +
Jorge J. Calvo and Patricia B. Calvo +
Joseph Camarda and Marcia M. Camarda +
Michele Carbonell +
Francis M. Cevasco, Jr. and Linda Cevasco +
A. James Clark and Alice Clark+
Antonia Coclin and Dean J. Coclin +
Edwin H. Copenhaver, III
Montie R. Craddock
Mark W. Cutlip and Cristina Cutlip +
Kevin B. Deasy and Charleen Deasy+
Sidney O. Dewberry and Reva Dewberry
Ali R. Dilmaghani
Thomas J. Doherty and Courtney McGuinn +
David S. Dolling +
Betty G. Edelson
John Edelson
Howard Eisner+
Amr A. ElSawy and Claudia ElSawy
Marilyn Ezzy and Howard W. Ashcraft
Zafar B. Farooqi and Zia Farooqi
Siyuan Feng+
Ofelia Fernandez
Lauren N. Fiori
John A. Fitch, III +
Melinda M. Flaherty
Michael R. Gaiman +
Edward H. Ghafari and Cynthia Ghafari
Rachel L. Gomez
Gyanchander R. Gongireddy and
Nivedita Gongireddy
Randolph A. Graves, Jr. and Stevii Graves
Karl R. Gumtow and Vicki Gumtow
Naveen K. Gupta
Sean M. Hadley
William R. Hahn and Trudi Hahn +
Jon B. Halpern and Robyn R. Halpern
Krista N. Harbold
Aran Hegarty and Fritz Partlow +
Neil Helm and Fonya L. Helm +
Craig Helmstetter
Virginia A. Hodges +
Shiguang Feng and Xiaobo Huo +
Ashok K. Jha and Padmja Jha +
Cheryl S. Jobe +
Pradman P. Kaul and Sunita Kaul
Isabelle L. Kaye
Orron E. Kee and Judith Kee
Kevin L. Kelly and Monica Kelly
Charles A. Kengla +
Sassan Kimiavi and
Gazelle Hashemian Kimiavi
Issa Khozeimeh and Nahid Khozeimeh
Matthew F. Koff and Sasha R. Pailet Koff+
Margaret Kohloss*
Robert Kramer+
Arthur Lee
William S. Lee +
David Lepe +
Dov J. Levy and Elma Levy
Linda P. Li
Matthew Lindsay and Jamie L. Lindsay
Shoa-Kai Liu and Li Qing Liu
Michael D. Livingston
Larry Lu
John F. Luman, III and Rebecca Luman
Maira A. Malik
Patrick J. Marolda and Valerie Marolda
Carol D. Martin
Neil F. Martin
Henry C. Mayo +
Susan T. McHale
Gerald R. McNichols and Paula McNichols +
Eric S. Mendelsohn and
Frances Mendelsohn +
Kimberly N. Miller (Southerland)
Michael J. Miller
Edward F. Mitchell, Jr.+
Robert L. Mitchell
Beverly Mohl +
Marybeth Morsberger+
Sourabh Mundhada
Alok C. Nigam and Akanksha Nigam
Richard D. Norman and Moira Dougherty
William B. Oakley+
Hae Chan Park
Ricardo Parra and Jane A. Parra +
Ketan T. Patel
Robert W. Peiffer and Dorottya E. Peiffer
Joseph N. Pelton and Eloise Pelton
Michael W. Plesniak
Yogesh Rajashekharaiah +
Manny Rivera and Xiomara Smith +
Andre R. Rogers and Tarita C. Ford-Rogers
Thomas D. Rutherfoord and
Jean H. Rutherfoord
Ronald J. Sasiela
Nicole M. Simila
Gilmore T. Spivey and Shelba Spivey+
Orville Standifer, Jr.
The Honorable Clifford B. Stearns and Ms.
Joan Stearns
Lendell E. Steele and Rowena Steele
Morgan E. Sutton
Kuanysh Taishibekov
Robert S. Tamaru +
Howard L. Tischler and Lorraine Tischler+
Jennifer A. Titche
Paul D. Travesky and Marie Travesky
Timothy E. Udicious and Debra Udicious +
Narayan Venugopal
Louis P. Wagman and Naomi J. Pliskow
Sean P. Walsh, USN +
Charles K. Watt and Linda Watt+
Tyler F. Wean and Kristi Z. Wean
Lin Weng
Carl E. Wick+
Christopher J. Wiernicki and Joan Wiernicki
David H. Wilson
Thomas G. Woolston and H. Tina Woolston
Yue Zhao
Zhonghua Zhao and Rong Zhou
2013-2014 SEAS Benefactors
The School of Engineering and Applied
Science is happy to acknowledge and thank
alumni, parents, friends, faculty, students,
staff, businesses, and foundations who
made a gift to the school as well as all SEAS
alumni who made a gift to the university
between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.
$1,000,000 +
Michele Carbonell +
Children’s Research Institute
A. James Clark and Alice Clark
$100,000-999,999
Alessandro Chierici and Rose-Marie Chierici
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Clair V. Johnson*
Karlgaard Family Foundation +
Shoa-Kai Liu and Li Qing Liu
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program +
$10,000-99,999
American Bureau of Shipping
American Chemical Society
ARCS Foundation, Inc.
Ibrahim A. Ashie and Audrey Hughes +
Ashland Inc.
Robert A. Auchter
The Bedi Family Foundation
California Institute of Technology
Alisann and Terry Collins Foundation
Sidney O. Dewberry and Reva Dewberry
Thomas J. Doherty and Courtney McGuinn +
Amr A. ElSawy and Claudia ElSawy
El Sawy Family Foundation
ENFOCEL
William E. Freeborne and Norma Freeborne +
Jon B. Halpern and Robyn R. Halpern
Ashok K. Jha and Padmja Jha +
Isabelle L. Kaye
Sassan Kimiavi and
Issa Khozeimeh and Nahid Khozeimeh
Patrick J. Marolda and Valerie Marolda
Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments
Michael J. Miller
Marybeth Morsberger
William B. Oakley+
Hae Chan Park
Ketan T. Patel
Joseph N. Pelton and Eloise Pelton
Thomas D. Rutherfoord and
Jean H. Rutherfoord
Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation
Orville Standifer, Jr.
Charles A. Stille*+
The AYCO Charitable Foundation +
The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Family
Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Howard L. Tischler and Lorraine Tischler+
Washington Society of Engineers
Charles K. Watt and Linda Watt+
Tyler F. Wean and Kristi Z. Wean
The Double Eagle Foundation
Christopher J. Wiernicki and Joan Wiernicki
David H. Wilson
Yue Zhao
Zhonghua Zhao and Rong Zhou
$2,500-9,999
C. Edwin Becraft+
Bruce J. Heim Foundation
Jorge J. Calvo and Patricia B. Calvo +
Montie R. Craddock
Ali R. Dilmaghani
Dilmaghani Dream Foundation
Betty G. Edelson
John Edelson
Howard Eisner+
Zafar B. Farooqi and Zia Farooqi
Ofelia Fernandez
Edward H. Ghafari
Virginia A. Hodges +
ICES Corporation
Orron E. Kee and Judith Kee +
Kevin L. Kelly and Monica Kelly
LGS Innovations
William S. Lee +
Michael D. Livingston
Carol D. Martin
Henry C. Mayo +
Beverly Mohl +
Manny Rivera and Xiomara Smith +
Rividium Inc.+
Andre R. Rogers and Tarita C. Ford-Rogers
Schneider Electric
Society of Satellite Professionals Intl.
The Honorable Clifford B. Stearns and
Ms. Joan Stearns
Kuanysh Taishibekov
Robert S. Tamaru +
Sean P. Walsh, USN +
Thomas G. Woolston and H. Tina Woolston
$1,000 - 2,499
Sana F. Al-Hajj
Michele Alperin and Steven Sheriff+
I. Gary Bard and Judy Bard +
David W. Berg and Diane Berg +
William B. Buchanan +
Joseph Camarda and Marcia M. Camarda +
Capital Construction Consultants Inc.
Francis M. Cevasco, Jr. and Linda Cevasco +
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Antonia Coclin and Dean J. Coclin +
Edwin H. Copenhaver, III
Mark W. Cutlip and Cristina Cutlip +
Kevin B. Deasy and Charleen Deasy+
David S. Dolling +
Marilyn Ezzy and Howard W. Ashcraft
John A. Fitch, III +
Gyanchander R. Gongireddy and
Nivedita Gongireddy
Randolph A. Graves, Jr. and Stevii Graves
Karl R. Gumtow and Vicki Gumtow
William R. Hahn and Trudi Hahn +
Aran Hegarty and Fritz Partlow +
Hegarty Research LLC
Fonya Helm +
Xiaobo Huo +
Cheryl S. Jobe +
Pradman P. Kaul and Sunita Kaul
The Kaul Family Foundation
Charles A. Kengla +
Matthew F. Koff and Sasha R. Pailet Koff+
Margaret Kohloss*
Robert Kramer+
STG Inc.
David Lepe +
Dov J. Levy and Elma Levy
Larry Lu
John F. Luman, III and Rebecca Luman
Neil F. Martin
Gerald R. McNichols and Paula McNichols +
Eric S. Mendelsohn and
Frances Mendelsohn +
Edward F. Mitchell, Jr.+
Robert L. Mitchell
Alok C. Nigam and Akanksha Nigam
Richard D. Norman and Moira Dougherty
Ricardo Parra and Jane A. Parra +
Robert W. Peiffer and Dorottya E. Peiffer
Michael W. Plesniak
Ronald J. Sasiela
Gilmore T. Spivey and Shelba Spivey+
Lendell E. Steele and Rowena Steele
Tektronix Inc.
Paul D. Travesky and Marie Travesky
Timothy E. Udicious and Debra Udicious +
Narayan Venugopal
Louis P. Wagman and Naomi J. Pliskow
Lin Weng
Carl E. Wick+
$500-999
Garrett V. Adie
Nasser S. Al-Fraih
Frank F. Atwood +
Manjit S. Bakshi
Kenneth D. Barker+
Ruth M. Bennett
Christopher O. Berry
Francesco A. Calabrese +
Sean P. Coakley
Gregory S. Colevas
William R. Darrow +
Eugene B. Dec+
James M. Diehl
Donald B. Dinger
Ann Monroe Dinger
Paul S. Douthit
Cesar E. Edery
Christian M. Fernholz
John M. Ferriter
Morton H. Friedman
Michael R. Gaiman +
Brendt T. Garlick
Federico Grau
Dwight F. Hastings*+
John R. Huennekens +
Maxim D. Jovanovich
Chris C. Kadue
Warren E. Keene +
Roger G. Klungle
Gregory J. Kolcum
Andrew R. Lacher
Lai-Fong Leung
Jamie L. Lindsay
Mohd Redza B. Mahmood
David V. Mastran
Arnold C. Meltzer
Charles R. Merritt+
John J. Mikk
Joseph R. Miletta +
Susan P. Moore
Anna N. Noteboom +
James R. Owens
Charles E. Polinger+
SYNERGY
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DONORS
Paul E. Schmid +
Simpson Strong-Tie
Javid M. Sonde
Paul J. Tobin
Tropic Construction Corporation
Bill C. Westenhofer
Richard D. Yentis
$100 - 499
Ronald C. Aasen +
Jack W. Abbott
Nana A. Ackah
Charles N. Adkins
Ahmad A. Al Aseeri
Louai A. Alassar
Jenan M. Al-Atrash
Hashmat Ali
William H. Alkire +
Kenya O. Allmond
Alison S. Alvarez
Reyad I. Al-Yagout
Christopher Amherst
Karim Amrane
Ahuruezenma Anyatonwu
Louis F. Aprigliano
Daniel J. Archer
Robert L. Armacost
Gilbert D. Armour+
David R. Armstrong
Daniel F. Arnaud +
Cindy F. Arnold
Eugene L. Aronne +
George T. Aschenbrenner, III +
Mitra Asgharikamrani
Roland D. August+
Marshall J. Azrael +
Rodney Baccaray+
Zahir A. Baig
Frederick D. Bailey+
Bernard R. Baker
Charles A. Baker
Samir M. Bannout+
Tatiana R. Baquero
Lulu Z. Barfoot
Denny M. Barrantes
Wylie W. Barrow
Robert C. Basinger, Jr.+
Victor S. Basumallick
John D. Bauersfeld +
John B. Beach +
Andre P. Beary
Gilbert D. Beauperthuy
Robert M. Beavers, Jr.
John S. Beers
Wade D. Belcher+
Stephen H. Bennett+
Dominique P. Benz
Brandon T. Bernier
John H. Bickford, P.E.
Elizabeth Y. Birdsall
Gabriel E. Birhiray
Richard C. Bishop
William C. Bishop +
Eileen A. Bjorkman
Joyce A. Black
H. R. Blacksten +
Michael L. Blumenthal +
Lori S. Bocklund
Reginald M. Bonhomme
Robert C. Borer
Amy M. Bossong
James R. Bounds +
David M. Bovet+
Thomas C. Bowen
Ross T. Bown
J. M. Brame +
Jonathan S. Bransky+
George E. Breen +
William F. Brittle, Jr.+
Jennifer N. Broome +
Robert W. Brown
William D. Bryant
Thomas M. Buchanan
John F. Buescher+
Richard W. Burns +
John R. Butler
Laura J. Byrd
Fred Byus
Richard S. Campbell +
Francois Cantonnet
Michelle P. Caputy
Arlen B. Caraang
Robert R. Caron +
William E. Caves +
Lauren L. Cephas
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SYNERGY
Pomsit Chakkaphak+
Joe E. Chambliss +
Budhachart Chandrangsu
Kent W. Chang
Mohamed Charioui
Jawahar L. Chaudhary
Olga G. Chen +
Michelle D. Chesson
Deepak D. Chheda
Kuo T. Chiang
Pi-Shing Chiang
Norman W. Chlosta +
Yogesh Chobe
Vijay K. Chopra
Evan Y. Chu +
Duke C. Chung +
David W. Clark+
Stephen L. Clarke
Mark B. Cohen
Nancy L. Cohen
Robert S. Cohen
William H. Colden +
Blythe M. Compton +
Robert H. Compton +
Edward A. Connell, III
Ellis J. Cooper
Shatique S. Cooper
James L. Corder+
Tommy G. Corley
M. J. Costello +
Leonard W. Cotten +
Sheila C. Coughlin
Barrett R. Crane
Andrew B. Curtiss
John D. Cuthbertson +
Norman Czajkowski +
Nolan K. Danchik+
Charles O. Dankwah +
Christine M. Darden +
Gideon C. Davis +
Kimberly L. Davis
Marco F. de Vito
Molly K. Delaney
Alfred S. Deluca, Jr.
Niraj H. Desai
Suhas Deshpande
John L. Dettbarn, Jr.
Hector L. Diaz
Alex A. Dietrich-Greene
Michael E. DiFrancisco
James F. Diggs, Sr.+
Han T. Dinh
Alexander E. Dippold
Thomas R. Dobyns +
John E. Dodge +
Samuel M. Dollyhigh
John M. Dombrowski
John R. Donahue
Eben O. Donkor
William W. Dorsey
Ryan J. Douglass
William Douglas
Paula M. Dow
Barry W. Driggs
James L. Duda
Carroll G. Dudley+
Annette S. Duffy+
Carine Dumit
Pascale Dumit
Kenneth J. Dunn, USA Ret.
Michael C. Dunn
William J. Edison +
Guy H. Edwards +
Timothy J. Ehrsam
Samuel Einfrank+
Robert A. Elliott+
Nina L. Ellis +
Sharon M. Embrey
Joseph O. Erb
Kathryn M. Erklauer
Eugene E. Estinto
Daniel A. Evbota
Guido D. Eyzaguirre
Pastor Farinas
Patricia A. Farley
Carl B. Fausey+
Jerome P. Feldman +
Siyuan Feng+
Charles W. Field, Jr.
Lauren N. Fiori
Russell C. Fisher, Jr.+
Melinda M. Flaherty
Michael R. Fleming
Judith A. Flynn +
Kenneth P. Foley+
Larry E. Forbes +
David W. Ford
Charles A. Fowler, III +
Calvin C. Frantz
Kara M. Frech +
Dan J. Friel +
Ayayidjin R. Gabiam
Theophilus A. Gansallo
Benjamin C. Garner
Frederick J. Gauvreau +
William V. Gaymon +
Ellen M. Gertsen +
George A. Gibson
Thomas J. Golab
Rachel L. Gomez
Ernesto A. Gonzaga
Kristen L. Gooch
James M. Goodrich
Alexander R. Gordon
John M. Goto +
Brandon P. Gotwalt
Vernon Grapes +
Rebecca D. Grasser+
Bradford E. Green +
Dorothy A. Green +
Jonathan S. Greene
Steven K. Griffith
Thomas T. Griffith, VI
Frederick J. Grozinger
Naveen K. Gupta
Sushant Gupta
Ajay V. Gupte
David B. Gurevich
Sean M. Hadley
James F. Hahn, Jr.+
Paul M. Haldeman, Jr.+
James T. Ham, Jr.
Larry N. Hambrick
John B. Handy+
Krista N. Harbold
Travis E. Hardy
Terrina C. Harford
Elizabeth M. Harlan
Craig C. Harner
Ann E. Harrison +
William M. Hawes +
Rowland S. Hawkins
John H. Heidema +
Steven C. Heifner
R. K. Heist+
Craig Helmstetter
Steven J. Hendrickson
Sean P. Henry
Breanna I. Herbers
Reginald B. Herndon
Eric A. Herrera
Stephen A. Herrlein
Herbert G. Herrmann, III +
Allen P. Herskowitz
I. Jerry Hlass +
Peter Hoch
Anna M. Hogan
Richard H. Hollingsworth
Julia F. Holloway
John B. Holmblad
Dan Holtshouse
Roxana Homayoun
Arthur L. Howard +
Richard C. Hu +
Nina S. Hufford
Francis J. Hughes
Paul K. Hughes, II +
Peter S. Hui +
Swaroop Humchadakatte Krishnamurt
Paul R. Hunter+
John H. Hurd, Jr.+
Jerean C. Hutchinson
Victor J. Ibarra
Eve T. Ignatius
Jamehl E. Ihejeto
Andrew T. Iodice
Neal H. Ishman
Vernard E. Jackson
Sumita Jain
Andrejs Jaunrubenis
Teresa L. Jenkins +
James E. Jennings
Xiaolong Jiang
Anngienetta R. Johnson
Chanavia J. Johnson
James W. Johnson, Jr.
Michael P. Johnson
Wesley M. Johnson
Bernard V. Joiner
Henry Jorisch
Stephen J. Joyce
Maris Juberts +
Eduardo A. Kamenetzky+
Samer G. Kanaan
Seth J. Katz
Mitchell E. Kawasaki
Robert J. Keltie +
Wendell L. Keyes
Iftikharuddin Khan
John J. Kinloch +
George E. Kinnear, II USN Ret.
James C. Kirk
James J. Kisenwether+
John A. Klayman
William R. Klocko +
James J. Knitis
Philip C. Koenig
Yannis D. Konstantopoulos
Daniel M. Korn +
George B. Korte, Jr.
Melvin Kosanchick
Patricia O. Kost
William E. Kotwas +
Katherine M. Kraenzle +
Marilyn R. Krahe
Ronald J. Kransdorf
Richard A. Krasney+
Gad Krosner+
Karl H. Krueger+
Raymond V. Ksiazek
Madhusudhan N. Kundrapu
Samuel J. Kursh
George J. Kyparisis +
Jian Y. Lan
Tiffani R. Langdon +
Clinton H. Langley
Lawrence E. Laubscher, Sr.
Adina M. Lav
George R. Lawrence
Hainhan T. Le
Peter Le
Susan R. Ledgerwood
Arthur Lee
David Lee +
Michael Lee
Wendy M. Lee
Edward G. Lewis
Renee Lewis
Huiling Li
Linda P. Li
Jianhong Liang
Robert H. Lightsey+
David H. Lincoln
Chi H. Liou +
Benjamin Lisowski +
Xinyu Liu
Hunter J. Loftin
William C. Lohnes +
Donald C. Lokerson
Gwendolyn H. Long +
John M. Lord, PE
John W. Lorentz+
Mitchell D. Louie +
Grady A. Lovett
Peter P. Lozis, III
Andrew Lue +
Elizabeth M. Lynch
Douglas E. MacDonald
William F. Mack
Winston W. Mah +
Maira A. Malik
Lyle O. Malotky+
Joan T. Mancuso
Peter J. Manning +
Richard T. Marcovecchio
Michael P. Marsili +
Thomas G. Martin +
Joseph R. Martini +
Joseph R. Masciarelli +
George Masiuk+
Fredrick Matos
Matthew J. Matteson +
John P. Mazz+
Omar Mazzoni
James F. McArthur
Teale C. McCleaf
Edwin P. McDermott
James R. McDonnell
Collin A. McFarlane
Eugenia G. McGovern
William F. McGovern +
Susan T. McHale
Mark H. McInnes
Deanah McLeod
Barton W. McPheeters
FALL 2014
11/21/14 4:38 PM
William R. McWhirter, Jr.
Xu Mei
Susan D. Melchione
Richard F. Messalle +
John E. Miesner
Eric D. Miller
Richard C. Millar
Kimberly N. Miller (southerland)
Carl R. Mockler, USCG Ret.+
Donna R. Mones
Thomas W. Montemarano +
Charles T. Montgomery
Howard G. Moody
Cindy E. Moran +
Alexander C. Morse
James N. Moss +
Cristina M. Mossi
Paul Marie Moubarak
Melissa R. Mullen
Sourabh Mundhada
Edward R. Murray, Jr.+
Michael W. Mydlow
David D. Myre
Thomas E. Nadolny+
Joseph C. Naftel +
Sunder Nagarajan
Alan S. Nakashima
Christian W. Nasner
Michael C. Natrella
Jaime G. Nelson
Mark A. Nelson
Jane D. Newell +
Anh H. Nguyen-Kim
Edward N. Nguyen +
Loan H. Nguyen
Hua Ni +
Dorothy L. Nichols +
Beth P. Nikolayevsky
Jerry J. Novick
Remy A. Ntshaykolo
Pamela R. Nugent
Ephraim O. Nwabuokei
Henrietta Nwokike
John H. O’Donnell, Jr.
Temitope O. Ogunfiditimi
Dai H. Oh
Eugene D. O’Neal, III
Tamara L. O’Neil +
John J. Onufrak
Chudi I. Onyilimba
Richard P. Opem
John N. Otto
Daniel A. Owens
David K. Owens
Owners Helper Inc.
Thomas J. Padgett
Anthony P. Pare
Richard E. Park+
Young H. Park
John W. Parker
Leo D. Parsons
Margaret D. Pasquerella
Giovanna S. Patterson
Michael T. Payne
Robert S. Pearman +
Christopher R. Pearson
Ammon W. Peffley, III
Robert L. Pegan
Kathryn E. Perugini
Gregg E. Petersen +
Nitin M. Phadnis
George P. Pham
Richard L. Phelps +
Jeffrey S. Pierce +
Barry G. Pifer
Isabel M. Pinson
Michael G. Polak
Artie L. Polk
John D. Pope +
Christopher J. Popma
Patricia A. Poulson
Vaibhav J. Pradhan
Christine M. Predaina
Lawrence R. Pryluck
Robert E. Pulfrey, Jr.
Herbert B. Quinn, Jr.+
Remedios A. Quiroz
Yogesh Rajashekharaiah +
Rex H. Rambo
William D. Randolph +
Harold K. Rappoport+
Tassos D. Recachinas
M. C. Reilly+
Arlene V. Reynolds +
Mohamed L. Rezgui
Habibollah Riazi +
Matthew J. Ricciardi
Robert T. Richardson +
Alan J. Rider
Vincent W. Rider+
Thad B. Ring
Jorge P. Rios
Frederick M. Ritchie +
Fred Roberts, Jr.+
Lincoln E. Roberts +
David V. Rogers
Jelena Roljevic
Joshua M. Rooks
Stephen B. Rose
Mark A. Rothenberg, AIA
Mone D. Rowan-Ardura
Franklin D. Rowland, Jr. USA +
James A. Royston +
Issa Salama
Richard J. Salerno +
Edrees Saljuki
Phillips T. Salman
Ravindiran Sampath
Helene G. Sandford
Joshua E. Santosa
Frank A. Sarro +
Rizwan A. Sattar
Mary V. Schmanske
Jason J. Schneider
Bernard S. Schuchner+
Ross N. Schwalm
Sethu Sekhar+
Thomas H. Seymour+
Jiral U. Shah
Nimish C. Shah +
Mary S. Shapiro
Abhijeet N. Shejwal
Charles M. Shepard
Estate of A. Sherby
Buthaina Shukri
William M. Shvodian
Thamnu Sihsobhon +
Esther Silverman +
Nicole M. Simila
Charles R. Simon
Sidna L. Simpkins
Mario T. Simpson
Rosa A. Singletary
Vishak Sivadas
Taylor W. Skardon
Bassel Sleiman-Haidar
Alois A. Slepicka +
Irving Smith
Rosanne C. Smith
Sandra Smith +
Shane R. Smith
Arthur L. Smookler+
Thomas J. Smyth
Lala F. Snead +
Todd W. Snouffer
Min Song
Arthur Southerland, Jr.
John B. Sowell +
Douglas B. Spengel
Robert J. Sperberg +
Dharapuram N. Srinath
Roel E. Sta Maria
Raymond J. Stanekenas +
Lena C. Steele +
R. L. Steinhoff
Mitchell J. Stevens +
Wolmar J. Stoffel
Susanne L. Strege
Hannah S. Stuart
Michael N. Suder
Morgan E. Sutton
Cynthia R. Swim +
Peter Sypher+
Nagris Tajudin
Robert J. Tallent+
Ayham Tannous
Robert J. Tarcza +
William A. Tate +
James S. Taylor+
Richard E. Tennent, Jr.
James L. Thomas
Lynn W. Thompson
Shravalya S. Tirumala
Srinivas S. Tirumala
Jennifer A. Titche
Kwok F. Tom
Bailey W. Tong
William V. Tong
Cary N. Toor
Dzung Q. Tran
Huan H. Tran +
Athanassios N. Triantafyllou
Scott M. Trocchia
Charles R. Trude
Tsung-Hyh Tsai +
Richard W. Tucker+
Charles F. Turner+
Steven G. Turner
William E. Turrentine
David T. Tzou
Jason C. Valetutto
James K. Van Buren +
Robert H. Van Sickler
Johnson Varkey
Rayann Vasko
Pedro M. Vasquez-Urbano
Lauren C. Vaughan
Patrick O. Victorio
Charles J. Vincent
Jan Visintainer+
Bertram M. Vogel, P.E.
Rudolph H. Volin +
Peter W. Volkmar
Huy D. Vu
Melvin T. Wahlberg +
Ronald G. Wallace
Marguerite M. Walter
Jiayi Wang
Kuo-Ping Wang
Jack R. Warner
Elizabeth J. Warnick
Ann M. Watkins
Ronnie D. Wax
Donald B. Weaver
Claude M. Weil +
Jean Weintraub
Mike B. Weltz
Raymond D. Whipple +
Dean S. White
John V. White +
Nadine M. White
Alan R. Whitehouse
Charles L. Whitham
Horace A. Whitworth +
Steven M. Wichtendahl
Ammyanna M. Williams
Christopher K. Williams
Harvey L. Williams, Jr.
John H. Williams
Christopher J. Willy+
Frank G. Wilson +
Jeffrey P. Winbourne +
Mark Wingate
Mark S. Winkler
James B. Withers, Jr.+
Scott D. Wofsy+
Adam I. Wolf+
Heidi M. Wood
Ruby Wyly+
Jixiang Xiang +
Yi Yang
Jingmu Yang
Benjamin B. Yarmis
Derwha Yeh
Hsun-Tse Yin
Ivar B. Ylvisaker+
Jason D. Young
Clifford M. Young
Kenneth O. Young+
Abonge V. Yufanyi
Larry M. Zdanis
Amir Zeb
Robert M. Zeskind
Stephen Zilliacus +
Up to $100
Yusef H. Abd-Elaal
Abiodun A. Adekola
Seyyed A. Aghvami
Jay P. Agrawal
Amzaray M. Ahmed
Sunny E. Ahuwanya
Yawo M. Akrodou
Amal K. Al Katrib
Samuel L. Alberstadt
Rolph Albert
Javier Aldrete
Princess S. Allen
Alonzo A. Alvarez Meola
Miguel A. Alvarez
Joseph R. Amsden
Allan H. Anderson
Gail S. Anderson
Marvin R. Andrews
Sadiq A. Ansari
DONORS
James Anthony
Stephen P. Anthony
Catherine Arena
Aimee D. Arnold
Adelaja A. Arojuraye
Pritam l. Arora
Collins Arsem +
Rhayne G. Ashley
Karl B. Avellar+
Nazanin Azizian
Edward Bacanskas
Shahin D. Bahrami
Ritu Bajpai
Ahmed S. Bajwa
Kevin M. Baker
Harry D. Baker, Jr.
Sushil K. Baluja
Vytautas B. Bandjunis +
Melaku Banteamlak
Mohamed I. Barakat
Richard D. Barrows +
Nicholas L. Bartick
James V. Bartlett
George M. Bartman
Robert S. Behny
Christopher J. Bell
Jeffrey P. Benson
Barton J. Bernales
Michael Beron +
Alan S. Berson
Rudolph F. Besier+
Rahul Betal
Avinash K. BharathSingh
Ashish Bhargava
Lawrence A. Bickford
Ronald H. Blizzard
Alan S. Block
Peter F. Bonaccorsi +
Domenic J. Bonanni
Kenneth S. Bonwit
Marc E. Bookbinder+
Michael H. Bordell
Salman A. Bou-Ayash
D. B. Boyce
Bruce A. Boyer+
Berk Bozoklar
Harry J. Bracken, Jr.+
Bennett M. Brady+
Alejandro J. Bravo
Matthew S. Brazier
Robert A. Brehm
Brian J. Brenton
Kevin R. Brickey
Frederick C. Briggs, Jr.+
William K. Broman
Marilyn D. Brower
Craig B. Brown
Joan J. Brown
Lamont A. Brown
Rick-Jay M. Brown
Takesha D. Brown
William L. Bryan +
Erick P. Bryant
Crystal R. Bullock
Rudolf W. Burgi
Francis J. Burkitt
Joseph R. Burmeister
Jessica Burr
Deborah M. Butterfly
James J. Byrnes
Daphne B. Byron
Keith A. Byron
Antonio M. Caballero
Antonio A. Calderon
Cristy L. Caldwell
Lamar N. Campbell
Wenjing Cao
Ronald L. Carlberg, USAF Ret.+
Thurston P. Carleton +
Peter K. Carlston
Shawn D. Carrick
Robert M. Cartledge
Sara N. Casay
Mark S. Castellani +
Dudley M. Cate +
Michael J. Cavalea
Elizabeth D. Caveney
John V. Chamberlin
Kien C. Chang
Theodore P. Chaojareon
Douglas M. Chapin
Harvey R. Chaplin, Jr.
Michael A. Chapman
Robert M. Chapman +
Deane R. Charlson
SYNERGY
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DONORS
Michael J. Cheamitru +
Runzhong Chen
Aaron C. Cheng
Man-Ming Cheng
Xi Cheng
Robert A. Chernak+
Edward B. Chesnut, Jr.
Yung-Pei Chi
Bharath Chikkamaranahalli Bhaskar
Corinne A. Chinkidjakarn
Nathan B. Chong
William G. Choporis
Larry K. Christensen
Dhiraj Chugh
Arthur B. Clark+
Emily J. Cleary
Justin M. Cline
Lori A. Clow
Justin S. Cohen
Lewis C. Cohen +
Stephen C. Collins
Pauline F. Cook
Duane A. Coordes
Manuel R. Cortines Alducin
Brian D. Costlow
Andrew G. Cotterman +
Stephen R. Cowne
Bruce Cranford, Jr.+
Joseph Crilley
Milton O. Critchfield
Daniel F. Crowley
Yuling Cui +
Kevin J. Cummings +
Robert A. Curtis
Said F. Dahdah
Michael B. Danko +
Dara Dastyar
Rene C. Datcher
Rex R. David
William M. Davidge, IV
Allen R. Davidson, Jr.
John C. Davies, III +
John M. Davies
Randall C. Davis
Russell J. Davis
Stephen M. Davis
Gordon E. Davison +
Frederic A. de Sibert
Anne M. Dean
Jonathan P. Deason
Ion V. Deaton +
Hillary B. Debenport
Rudolph M. Decatur, Jr.+
Lauren E. DeCorte
Todd D. DeLoach
Rouben Derminassian
Shailesh T. Desai
Arpit H. Desai
Lalith DeSilva
Susan L. d’Hemecourt
Mariano M. Diaz*
Romano D. Dickerson
Matthew S. Dickson
Arthur S. Distler
Walter L. Dixon
Huong T. Do
William A. Dodd, USAF
Sonali Dohale
Kenneth L. Donnelly+
Alan S. Dorenfeld +
Trudy C. Doss +
Josefina Doumbia
Robert J. Doyle +
Roger W. Doyon +
Howard G. Draisen
Earle C. Drake
Steven N. Drake
Nicholas B. Ducey
Patrick J. Dunbar
Richard P. Dunbar+
Anthony F. Durham +
Willie E. Durham
Kenneth M. Dymond
Gary T. Edem
Warren G. Eder
Dennis L. Egan +
Richard L. Eilbert, Sr.+
Mark H. Eisenberg
Efremfon F. Ekpo
Lloyd J. Eley, Jr.
Hoda M. El-Sayed
Raymond Eng+
Mark E. Engel
Mark E. Englund
Donald G. Evans +
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Bruce B. Fakhari +
Imtiaz Fakhruddin
John S. Fang
Gregory E. Federline
Michael G. Fekete, Jr.+
Bela Feketekuty+
Rafael A. Fermin
Melissa Fernandez
Rajiv M. Fernandez
Lowell E. Finch
Solomon S. Fineblum
Seth P. Fink
Stephen F. Fiore
Steven A. Fischer, USAF+
Bruce D. Fisher
Robert W. Fisher
John R. Flanagan +
Fred S. Flatow
Harvey J. Flatt
Kenneth B. Fletcher
Terry J. Fletcher+
Timothy S. Flucker
Tara A. Fogarty
Renee M. Forney
Adele M. Forquer
Van Patten T. Foster+
Nadia M. Francis
Henry J. Franks, Jr.+
Mark C. Frassinelli
J. Luis Frenk+
Inger P. Friedman
Henri D. Fuhrmann
John J. Gabriel +
Dennis G. Gallino
John R. Gallo, USA Ret.
Albert M. Gallo, Jr.
Charles A. Garris, III
Norma J. Geiger+
Kenneth E. Geisinger
Mark B. Geisler
Shelby H. Geller
Kenneth F. Gerard, Jr.
Sanjar Ghaem
Roy H. Ghantous
Reza Ghias
Dennis M. Giblin
Patricia P. Gluss +
Kenneth E. Godfrey
Donald Y. Goldschen
Mohannad H. Gomaa
Victor A. Gonzalez
Alexis S. Gorin
Alpana K. Gowdar
Sudha Goyal
Christopher R. Graham
Natalie F. Grandison
Dustin Graves
James R. Greco
Daniel P. Greenbaum
Skyler M. Gregory
Brian S. Gross
Robert B. Grupp +
Xabier J. Guerricagoitia
William Y. Guey-Lee
Kenneth W. Guthrie
Todd J. Gwaltney
Sepideh Habibi
Edward P. Hagarty+
Julie M. Hagerman Melear
John W. Hale +
DeAnna M. Hall
Renee S. Hall
Axel A. Hallo de Wolf
Faisal Hameed
Nathan A. Hanfman
Harriet W. Hanlon +
Robert F. Hanlon +
Harvey R. Harrison
Rashida L. Hart
Adeel M. Hasan
Zahin Hasan
Reginald Y. Haseltine +
Zain Hassan
Deborah S. Hasty
Scott D. Haugan
Robert E. Hayes +
Irv Hecker
James D. Henderson +
Scott P. Henderson
Deborah T. Henry+
William B. Henry
Dale W. Herdegen
Lee P. Herndon
Richard A. Herrmann
David G. Hesprich
Norman J. Hess
George E. Hicho
William J. Hill
Lawrence M. Hilliard
Nona S. Hillsberg
Robert L. Hinebaugh
Oscar T. Hines, Jr.
Richard C. Hinman, Jr.
Joyce A. Hires +
Ronald D. Hitt
Thomas K. Hizel
Alexandra A. Hizel
Phat L. Hoang
David L. Hobson +
Henry J. Holcombe
John E. Holt+
William H. Holt
Morgan C. Hooker
Charles R. Hoover+
Ira M. Horowitz
Allen G. Hovest+
Hongwu Huai
Dean T. Huang +
Elizabeth P. Hubler
Joseph G. Hugo +
Amy E. Hummel Corbin
Matthew J. Hunn
Kenneth A. Hurt
George W. Hwangbo
Jennifer M. Hydrusko
Mukhtar K. Ibrahim
Mauricio O. Imana
John C. Inglis
Fidrik Iskandar
Mohammed N. Jaber
Sanket A. Jadhav
Dharam V. Jain +
Yash V. Jain
Douglas A. Jamieson
Sherry Janssen
Duane J. Jarc+
James A. Jatau
Nelson A. Jennings
Henry E. Jewell
Li Jiang
Robert M. Jimeson
Clayton J. Johanson, USAF Ret.+
Dean A. Johnson
Eileen R. Johnson Forester
Michael E. Johnson
Richard R. Johnston
Horace T. Jones, Jr.
Anthony F. Joyce
David H. Judson
Jahangir Kabir
Rajiv S. Kadayam
Henry D. Kahn
Karunesh R. Kaimal
Ramsey A. Kamel
Jerry Kaminetzky+
Bryan S. Kane
Benjamin L. Kaplan
Pryalal Karmakar
Lawrence J. Kastner, Jr.+
Heaton D. Kath
Howard E. Kea
Saleh F. Kekhia
Harry W. Ketchum
Simon H. Kfoury+
Fathollah Khaledi
Alireza Khalilzadeh +
Jiman Khosravan
Suzanne E. Kimball
Paul D. King
John H. Klote
Edward Kmosena
Matthew R. Knouse
Hasan T. Kocahan
Beth S. Koch
Hari P. Kodali
Bryan W. Koon
Jeryn L. Koritzinsky
Satish W. Korpe
Peter D. Koutsandreas
Ashley A. Kowalski
William E. Kozak+
Clif Kranish +
Trina N. Krichmar+
Michael V. Kuberski
Howard L. Kucera
Ajay Kumar+
Sharon S. LaFleur
Nicholas T. Lagen
Leonel Laguarda
Timothy E. Landucci
Richard E. Lang
Christine D. Lange
Robert H. Laning +
Arminda W. Lathrop
Thomas A. LaVigna
Michael J. Lavis
Ronald W. Leaver
Saniya LeBlanc
Albert K. Lee
Charles K. Lee
Daehyun Lee
Eddie Lee
Rebecca E. Lee
Thomas F. Leedy
Stephen J. Leete
Michael N. Leggiero
Howard L. Leikin +
George P. Lemeshewsky, Jr.
Thomas W. Lesniakowski +
Zachary I. Levine +
John A. Lewis
Constance Y. Li
Wei-Tung Liao
Stephen M. Liebold
Tian S. Lim +
James G. Lin
Samantha L. Lincoln
William A. Lintner+
Raymond F. Lippitt+
Jingchi Liu
Xinxin Liu
Michele S. Lockhart
Donald J. Lofland
Arthur P. Lohrmann
Thomas Lombardo
Anna M. Long +
Brian P. Lounsberry+
Henry E. Lubean +
Thomas W. MacDonald
Peter H. MacGahan
Jason G. Mader+
Beverly A. Magda
Kalisankar Mallik+
Donald L. Margolies +
Victor D. Marone +
Lataunja S. Martin
Ronald K. Massaro
John C. Matheson, Jr.
Arlon S. Matsunaga
Elias T. Mattson
Joseph Maybank, V
Donald W. McChesney+
Robert C. McClenon
Donald L. McClure
Adam R. McCormack
Edwin P. McDermott
John E. McKeever
Carol E. McKenzie
David Medeiros +
Asif Mehmood
Elizabeth R. Mellen
Azanaw K. Mengistu
Andrew J. Meranda +
Philip E. Merritt
Herbert Meyerson +
Yogesh S. Mhatre
Theomar A. Milford
Chester E. Miller
Wendy E. Miller
Sandra F. Million
Shana L. Mills
Serge Mintya Mi Di
Greg Miranda
Akshay O. Modi
Toebagoes A. Moetawakkil
Richard G. Moldt+
Primo J. Mondin
Donald H. Moore +
Kalvin D. Moore
Ralph C. Morehead +
Chase D. Morgan
David J. Morgenstern
Kenneth L. Morton
John R. Mowe
Sameh H. Muhtadi
Daniel Mulville +
Patrick C. Murphy
Harold B. Nacion
Lawrence S. Nagielski
Sami P. Najjar
Daniel S. Nanor
Kathleen Natale-Thompson
Michelle S. Neff+
Vikki J. Nelson
James A. Nemes
FALL 2014
11/21/14 4:38 PM
William D. Newhouse +
Van H. Ngo
John J. Nilles
Enowmpang Nkwanyuo
Wilson W. Noel
Suellen M. Oberthaler+
Roy L. O’Bryan
Mortimer F. O’Connor+
Thomas J. O’Connor
Tokuo Oishi
Manuel A. Ojeda
Oluwole A. Okunseinde
Andrew E. Orebaugh +
Abiodun A. Osho
Pedro N. Ospina
Rachel B. O’Sullivan
Jacalyn L. Ouellette
Oludare A. Owolabi
Morgan A. Oxenrider
Joseph N. Paleologos
Kristen L. Palumbo
Nune Pambukhchyan +
Joseph Paolicelli
Mark S. Pape
Yong C. Park
Eric R. Parker
Cameron R. Parvini
Amitava C. Paul
Michel S. Pawlowski
Hatef Pazhand
James C. Peele
Gregg R. Pelowski
Harry J. Pelto, Jr.
Lois S. Pena
Ronald E. Perison +
Todd E. Peterman
Joan Peterson
Victor P. Petrolati
Jennifer M. Pettiford
Robin M. Phillips
Rachel Piciucco
Sarah K. Pickus
David J. Pine
Robert C. Piwko +
Abhinav Pobbati
Todd G. Pobiak
Robert S. Polster
Michael K. Ponton +
Beatrice E. Poolt
Jacob M. Portnoy
Amol A. Potdar
John C. Poulos +
James J. Powell
Sheila S. Prather
William S. Prusch
Andre A. Pugin
Shardul D. Pujari
Jingzheng Qin
H. K. Quarles
Mel Francis P. Quintos, III
Matthew R. Rabe
Wade L. Racine
Martin Rais
Ivatury Raju +
Anne H. Ramsey+
Rohit Ranjan
Michael L. Raudabaugh
Jeffrey S. Ray+
John D. Reagoso
Divya V. Reddy
William L. Reed, Jr.
Walter N. Reuben, Jr.
Robert W. Rhodes +
Karen L. Rice +
Mariel L. Rico
Kelly Riker
Jennifer A. Riordan +
Michael Robbins
John W. Roberts, Jr.+
Jerome B. Rockwood
Lonnie J. Rogers
William Rossi, Jr.
Sarah M. Rovito
Ruby Roy
Joshua I. Rudawitz
Jerry A. Rudd
Joseph E. Russ
William R. Russin
Christopher M. Russo
Kenneth W. Rutland
William R. Ryerson
Morgan A. Sadler
Elham Sahraei Esfahani
Amit D. Saini
Sangeetha Sambath
Ruben A. Sanchez
Joseph C. Santo
Jogeswari P. Sarkar
Louis A. Schlager
Martin S. Schletter
Jack H. Schofield
Belden E. Schroeder
Kenneth R. Schroeder
Thomas A. Schubert
Laura B. Schuler
Michael H. Schwartz+
Ronald A. Schwarz
James E. Sclater
Alfred L. Seivold
Pat P. Senyo
Ganesh V. Seshadriswaran
Scott A. Shafer
Gregory D. Shapiro
Adlai S. Shawareb
Dorothy Shea +
Paul V. Shebalin
Aditi Shenoy
Shruthi Sheshagiri
Lior J. Shimonovich
Ahmad A. Shinwari
Shahram R. Shiri
Ekundayo Shittu
Margaret E. Shoults
Linda J. Sibert
Kamal M. Siblini
Amanda M. Siegel
Arun J. Singh
G. W. Singley
Andrew R. Skrainka
Anthony D. Skufca
Carleton L. Smith +
Laurie A. Smith
Luther B. Smith, IV
Christina Smyre
Arnold L. Snyder, Jr.+
Walter W. Soden, III
Jed M. Solomon
Ornulv Sonsteby+
Leroy M. Sparr
Ned A. Spencer
Ronald Spitalney+
Scott A. Stafford
George M. Starken
Jeffrey L. Stein
Michael R. Steward
Matthew L. Strain
Lauren E. Straker
Frank W. Strasburger
Susan M. Stricker
Aubrey J. Stringer+
Alfred Stroh, Jr.+
T. Richard Stroupe, Jr.
Ivan M. Suarez Castellanos
Rajakumari Sudeswaran +
Ralph M. Sullivan +
Janusz B. Suszkiw
Richard C. Szymanski +
Shaq Taha
Eric Talley
Martin E. Tanenhaus
Eugene G. Taormina
Gabriel A. Taraday
Morse N. Taxon
Harry W. Taylor
Stephen D. Taylor
John G. Taylor
Valerie Taylor-Meredith
Lambert O. Tchaptchet-Ngamga
Roy L. Terwilliger
Terry V. Thai
Lawrence A. Thomas +
Ronald J. Thomson +
Kimberly W. Todd +
Tysha C. Tolbert
Mark H. Torrence
Charles F. Touchton
Joseph W. Toussaint
Toan Q. Tran +
Elizabeth H. Trively+
Carlos I. Troncoso
Roger S. Trouesdale +
Patrick F. Truitt
Steven Tsakos
Vassilios Tsiglifis
Cameron K. Tucker
Joan H. Tufts
Rachel M. Usdan
Brian L. Usilaner
Rosario B. Uy
William L. Van Besien
Justine E. Van Wie +
Vijay K. Vanguri
Gregory Vekshteyn
Shankar T. Venkateswaran
Philip R. Viars +
Nicolas Vicchio
Susan L. Virkus
Nicolas A. Vivaldi
William F. Vogelzang
Oscar von Bredow
Sakellarios G. Vouvalis
Elizabeth M. Wailes
Gregory T. Walklet
Daniel E. Wall
Nicole J. Wall
Kevin P. Walls
Hsing-Yu Wang
Jack H. Wang
Zibing Wang
Sharon R. Watkins
Lee J. Waxman
Daria D. Webb
Gary S. Webb
Frederick N. Webber
Deanne L. Weinberg
Jocelyn L. Weinberg +
Clarence H. Weissenstein +
Ulysses Weldon +
Robert P. Wenzel
Victoria P. Whang
Thomas B. White, III
Dwight E. Whitney
Richard J. Wiegand
Timothy M. Wierbinski
Quentin W. Wiest
Julia C. Wilhelm
Bernadette M. Williams
Bridget L. Williams
Gregory Williams
Roger M. Williams*+
Alonzo D. Wilson
Glenn Wilson
Jane C. Wise
Patricia Witham +
Robert C. Witham
Peter W. Witherell +
Beakal T. Woldemariam
Martin Wolk
Josef A. Wonsever+
Barry E. Wood
Willie L. Wright, Jr.
N. Davis Wrinkle +
Yue Wu
Sheila S. Xu
Ali Yazdi
Samuel E. Yecutieli
Satoru Yokota
Namho Yoo
Ivan Young
Felipe D. Zambrano
George R. Zieglgansberger
Glenn T. Zora +
Key
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SEAS VOLUNTEERS
SEAS thanks our alumni who donated
their time for GW during fiscal year 2014.
The following alumni volunteered on
campus or throughout the country or world:
Erkinay Abliz
Sana Al-Hajj
William Alexander
Gregory Allen
Miguel Alvarez
Rodolfo Alvarez
William Amey
Ibrahim Ashie
Vishal Aswani
Ahmad Atayee
Vinod Bagal
Caroline Battey
Samah Beg
Deborah Butterfly
Iris Castro
Lauren Cephas
Edward Chesnut
Henry Choi
Dean Coclin
Gennaro Colabatistto
DONORS
Gregory Colevas
Terry Collins
Alex Dietrich-Greene
Donald Dinger
Minha Do
Thomas Doherty
Josefina Doumbia
Carine Dumit
Muriel Dumit
Pascale Dumit
Roy Fazio
Robert Finkelstein
Solome Girma
Jamila Gittens
Alpana Gowdar
Randolph Graves
Vicki and Karl Gumtow
Jon Halpern
Erik Harnisch
Zahin Hasan
Aran Hegarty
John Holmblad
Mark Hughes
Naeem Hussain
Douglas Jamieson
Ashok Jha
Amit Kapoor
Anil Katarki
Kevin Kelly
Sassan Kimiavi
Matthew Knouse
Vikas Kumar
Andrew Lacher
Rory Lamond
Dov Levy
Renee Lewis
Huiling Li
Patrick Marolda
Sonya Mazumdar
Michael McLay
Abdullah Meajil
Erin Mignano
Gary Mishkin
Toebagoes Moetawakkil
Samara Moore
Asghar Mostafa
Matthew Mostafaei
Get Moy
Kristy Ortiz
Kristin Pallister
Mary Pastel
Hetal Patel
Ketan Patel
Giovanna Patterson
Tejbir Phool
Erin Plieskatt
Jacob Portnoy
Robert Proie
Maryline Rassi
Richard Reich
Robert Richardson
Manny Rivera
Sarah Robinson
Andre Rogers
Gayle Rubin
Joseph Rubin
Julie Ryan
Chuan Shen
Uzair Siddiqui
Mitchell Stevens
Lolita Street
T. Richard Stroupe
Michael Suder
Pattrawoot Suesatayasilp
Natalie Sutherland
Kuanysh Taishibekov
Robert Tamaru
Jing Tao
Howard Tischler
Tysha Tolbert
Cynthia Tonnesen
Rachel Usdan
L. Varner
Indrajeet Viswanathan
Louis Wagman
Sean Walsh
Tyler Wean
Alex Weller
Matthew Wilkins
Benjamin B. Williams
William Wright
Tiffany Yim
Elvin Yüzügüllü
Felipe Zambrano
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News
ELLIE KAUFMAN
Supporting the
SEAS Transformation
SEAS thanks our alumni and friends whose
generous gifts during the 2013-2014 fiscal
year (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014)
supported new funds or programs that are
helping to further the SEAS transformation:
Alessandro Chierici (BS ’65, MS ’67)
and his wife, Rose-Marie (CCAS, BS ’65),
made a planned gift to establish the Chierici
Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Jon Halpern (BS ’79) and his wife, Robyn,
made a pledge to create the Jon and Robyn
Halpern Scholarship Fund, which will
provide financial support for SEAS students
studying electrical engineering.
Mark V. Hughes III (BA ’69, MS ’77) and
his wife, Susan, made a gift in support of
the Dean’s Excellence Fund, which provides
annual unrestricted funds to meet the
school’s most critical unbudgeted needs.
Terry and Alisann Collins
Establish Endowed
Scholarship Program and
Professorship at SEAS
SEAS alumnus Terry Collins (D.Sc. ’76)
and his wife, Alisann, have donated $2.5
million to the school to establish the Alisann
and Terry Collins Endowed Scholarship
and to create an endowed professorship
in biomedical engineering.
Dean David Dolling responded to the
announcement of the Collins’ gift,
saying, “We’re extremely grateful to Terry
and Alisann Collins for their generosity.
They’ve watched the transformation happening at SEAS, and they understand the
real difference that a gift of this magnitude
can make to the school and to the lives of
students. They know that talented faculty
and students reinforce each other’s thinking
and innovation, so by designating their
gift to support both scholarships and a
professorship, Terry and Alisann are
creating a multiplier effect for learning
and research here at SEAS.”
Dr. Collins, a GW trustee and member of the
SEAS National Advisory Council, recently
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explained the couple’s decision to donate
to SEAS, saying that they were motivated
to do so by their desire to give promising
students a chance to go to college, and
by the current momentum in SEAS, along
with the need for science and engineering
leadership in the nation’s capital.
“Helping promising students afford a
college education is particularly important
to Alisann and me,” Dr. Collins stated.
“I was the first person in my family to go
to college and I received a scholarship
to attend college. I know from firsthand
experience how the chance to go to
college opens doors and changes futures.
I know my life would have been much
different without that scholarship.”
Regarding the professorship, Dr. Collins
referred to the “substantial investments
in SEAS” that GW has made over the last
several years, saying, “Alisann and I wanted
to contribute to this momentum by creating
an endowed professorship.” The professorship coincides with the formation of the new
Department of Biomedical Engineering this
fall. (See article on page 14.)
Ashok Jha (BS ’86, MS ’92) made a pledge
to create the Jha Annual Scholarship Fund,
which will provide annual scholarships to
SEAS undergraduate students. Ashok is
also an annual sponsor of the Pelton Senior
Design Competition’s Senior-Alumni BBQ.
Shoa-Kai Liu (MS ’86) and his wife,
Li Qing Liu, made a pledge to create
the Innovation Investment Management
Company LLC International Graduate
Student Fellowship, which will provide
fellowships to graduate students from
China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
Frank Moy (BS ’65) and his wife,
Marcia Mau, made additional funds available
for the Frank Moy and Marcia Mau Annual
Scholarship, which provides financial
support for SEAS students studying
mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr. and his
wife, Jean, made a gift through the
Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation to
the Science and Engineering Hall.
Tyler Wean (BS ’01, MS ’03) and his wife,
Kristi (GWSB, MBA ’07), made a named
gift through the Double Eagle Foundation
to the Science and Engineering Hall.
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Alfred and Evelyn Ferrari
Provide a Bequest to SEAS
Alfred Ferrari (MS ’67, D.Sc. ’72) took his
first job out of college at NASA, during the
exciting times of the space race between
the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.
At NASA, he worked as a specialist in
the calculation of gravity. Over the course
of his career, he had numerous opportunities
to work in other challenging positions
in research, technology development,
and management.
“The education I received from SEAS
played a key role during my entire
working career,” Dr. Ferrari said.
Now retired, he wants to help the next
generation of aspiring engineers receive
the sort of education that will prepare
them for equally meaningful careers.
Dr. Ferrari and his wife, Evelyn, have
chosen to accomplish this by establishing
the Alfred and Evelyn Ferrari Scholarship
Fund, which is endowed permanently
through a $1 million bequest, and by
funding a $50,000 annual use scholarship
to help support students today.
“My wife and I wanted to provide GW/SEAS
students needing financial support with
the opportunity to get a high quality
education, thereby preparing them for
successful careers in their chosen fields
of endeavor,” he explained.
Although Dr. and Mrs. Ferrari live in
California, they have remained connected
to SEAS and have followed the school’s
transformation. In fact, Dr. Ferrari noted,
“We regret we don’t live closer to GW/SEAS
during these very exciting times.”
David and Cecile Wang
Gift Supports Biomedical
Engineering
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have more impact if it was spent over a
shorter number of years, rather than being
invested over a longer term. So, they added
$400,000 this year to their earlier gift, giving
SEAS a total of more than $600,000 to
use toward activities that will promote the
school’s biomedical engineering programs.
“We’re very grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Wang,”
Dean David Dolling said. “Their gift is especially helpful as we launch our new biomedical
engineering department, and it will help
accelerate the department’s development.”
The Wangs’ gift will support key goals of the
department and a variety of activities across
it. Most notably, it will provide graduate
student fellowships for up to 10 students,
support a biomedical innovation center, and
produce seed funding for interdisciplinary
research collaborations with national laboratories and leading medical researchers.
A generous gift from SEAS alumnus
David Wang (BS ’51) and his wife,
Cecile, is helping SEAS create even
more opportunities for students and faculty
in its newly established Department of
Biomedical Engineering.
In addition, their gift will sponsor a
distinguished speaker series for the
department and an annual biomedical
engineering day to promote the work of
its faculty and students.
Mr. and Mrs. Wang previously created an
endowment for SEAS with an initial gift
several years ago. However, as time passed
they came to believe that their gift would
Mr. Wang, now retired, was formerly the
executive vice president of International
Paper and is an emeritus member of the
SEAS National Advisory Council.
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ABBY GREENAWALT
Left to right: Dean David Dolling, Pradman Kaul,
Jennifer Byrne, Nayereh Rassoulpour, and Laird Moffett
Left to right: Dean David Dolling, Gregory Colevas,
Courtney Clark Pastrick, and Larry Nussdorf
SEAS Inducts Six Alumni
into Hall of Fame
With the space shuttle Discovery serving as
his backdrop, Dean David Dolling inducted
six members into the GW Engineering Hall
of Fame, held this year at the National Air
and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
Nayereh S. Rassoulpour (MS ’90) is
president and chief executive officer of NSR
Solutions, Inc., a small business that provides
a wide array of information technology and
professional services for the federal and
state governments and the private sector.
Ms. Rassoulpour started her business in
1990 with one employee, and today the
company has grown to more than 300.
Jennifer P. Byrne (Ph.D. ’12) is vice president
of Engineering and Technology, Aeronautics
for Lockheed Martin Corporation and is
responsible for leading the design, development, operation, and sustainment of the
F-35, F-22, F-16, and many other aircraft.
She joined Lockheed Martin in 1993, and has
led several critical initiatives for the corporation.
Ian A. Waitz (MS ’88) is dean of the School
of Engineering and the Jerome C. Hunsaker
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he has been on the faculty since 1991.
He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Pradman P. Kaul (BS ’67) is president
and chief executive officer of Hughes
Communications, Inc., the world’s leading
supplier of broadband satellite services and
network solutions using interactive VSAT
products. He has been recognized for his
professional achievements many times over
the course of his career, most notably in
2004, when he was inducted into the
National Academy of Engineering.
Ya-Qin Zhang (D.Sc. ’90) is the president
of Baidu Corporation, a leading Internet
company based in Beijing, China, with
more than 40,000 employees. He joined
Baidu from Microsoft, where he most
recently served as corporate vice president
and chairman of its Asia R&D Group, leading
Microsoft’s overall research and development
efforts in Asia-Pacific. In 1997, at age 31,
he became the youngest ever Fellow of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE).
Laird H. Moffett (D.Sc. ’76) is chief
scientist at Envisioneering, a small business
that provides mission support and technology
development for U.S. national security. He
provides management consulting and technical expertise to the Electronic Warfare Branch
and the Directed Energy Warfare Office at the
U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center.
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transformation. Dean Dolling thanked Clark
Construction Group for its commitment to
engineering education at SEAS, mentioning
some of it’s various initiatives such as the
Clark Engineering Scholars program and
the professorship in civil and environmental
engineering endowed by Mr. A. James Clark
in 1986.
Will Alexander Receives
GWAA Service Award
Will Alexander (SEAS BS ’04, GWSB
MBA ’06) was one of seven GW alumni
honored with the Alumni Outstanding
Service Award last April by the university
and the GW Alumni Association. The annual
award recognizes alumni who generously
volunteer their time and talent to GW
and their communities.
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The 2014 Hall of Fame ceremony also
included a new award, the Distinguished
Industry Partner Award, which Dean Dolling
presented to Clark Construction Group, LLC.
SEAS initiated the award this year to recognize a company that is playing an important
role in supporting the school’s growth and
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Since leaving campus in 2006, Mr. Alexander
has prioritized service to GW. He is an
active member of the SEAS National
Advisory Council and of the Engineer Alumni
Association (EAA). He previously served for
two years as the EAA chairman. In addition,
he has advised students through a variety
of roles he has taken, including as a mentor
for the Clark Engineering Scholars Program.
As a student, Mr. Alexander was recruited
for a job by a GW alumnus, and now he
strives to pay that kindness forward to
current SEAS students by assisting them
in finding industry jobs and by promoting
the “HireGW” initiative.
He volunteers his time to several other
communities across the university, too,
including the Black Student Union, Alpha
Psi Alpha fraternity, National Society for
Black Engineers, and the Spirit Program,
a co-ed cheer program.
“I didn’t do what I’ve done alone. I had help.
I had life-changing, trajectory-altering help,”
he said, “Although I’ve given many, many
thanks over the years I resolved some years
ago to committing myself in whatever ways
great or small that I could possibly manage
to do the same.”
ZAID HAMID
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chairman, and the gavel was passed to
me. As the current chairman, I have the
pleasure of welcoming three new members
to the council:
Upcoming
Alumni Events
Gene Colabatistto is group president for
military simulation products, training, and
services for Canadian Aviation Electronics,
Inc. He is a 1996 SEAS graduate with a
master’s degree in electrical engineering
and has more than 25 years experience
in the global defense industry.
Stay connected with SEAS alumni,
faculty, and current students by attending
our SEAS alumni events listed below.
Events are updated and added often,
so be sure to visit the online alumni events
calendar at www.alumni.gwu.edu/calendar
for more detailed information.
S. Gulu Gambhir is chief technology
officer and a senior vice president of Leidos.
He also serves as a professorial lecturer
at SEAS, having done so since 1998.
Gulu holds a master’s degree in operations
research and a doctoral degree in systems
engineering, which he recieved from
GW in 1992 and 1998, respectively.
Engineer Alumni Association
Holiday Gathering
December 18, 2014
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Alumni House
1918 F Street, NW
Naeem Hussain is the co-founder and
managing partner of AgileTrailblazers and
has more than 15 years of IT experience
in the healthcare, banking, telecommunications, and education industries. He received
his master’s degree in telecommunications
and computers from GW in 1999.
The double alumnus attributes his success
to the help of others. He first attended SEAS
as a Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Scholarship
recipient, and then pursued his master’s
degree in the GW School of Business as
a Presidential Administrative Fellow.
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Gene, Gulu, and Naeem join the NAC
as it focuses on three key issues that our
members recently identified as areas in
which we can best provide advice and
assistance to Dean Dolling and the SEAS
faculty: promoting entrepreneurship and
innovation, facilitating industry and
government partnerships, and developing
and attracting leaders in engineering.
NAC members participated in three task
forces aligned with those areas during
the 2013-2014 academic year, and
we will continue to work on all three
throughout the coming year.
Spring Meeting
January 29, 2015
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Science and Engineering Hall
800 22nd Street, NW
SEAS Student Research and
Development Showcase
Wednesday and Thursday,
February 18 and 19, 2015
Science and Engineering Hall
800 22nd Street, NW
Pelton Senior Design Competition
and Senior-Alumni BBQ
May 13, 2015
5:00 – 9:00 pm
Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom
800 21st Street, NW
Dinner Meeting
June 2, 2015
6:30 – 8:30 pm
City View Room
1957 E Street, NW
National Advisory Council
Update from Mark Hughes
At the spring 2014 SEAS National Advisory
Council (NAC) meeting, Randy Graves
(D.Sc. ’78) concluded his term as NAC
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CLASS NOTES
Happenings
Norvic Chicchon-Ugarte, MS ’06
(engineering management), lives in Lima,
Peru and is a professor of power generation
at Peru’s UTEC.
Jill Hottel, MS ’14 (engineering management), works for a non-profit that recently
took five wounded warriors to Grand Cayman
to go diving.
Abdullah Alabbas, D.Sc. ’92 (electrical
engineering), has joined University of Hail,
Saudi Arabia as a professor of electrical
engineering.
Paige Atkins, MS ’89 (engineering
administration), accepted a new position as
deputy associate administrator for spectrum
planning and policy within the Office of Spectrum Management at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
William Austen, MS ’84 (engineering
administration), was elected president and
CEO of Bemis Company Inc. in Neenah, WI
in August 2014.
David Austin, BS ’08, MS ’09 (civil
engineering), recently passed his PE exam
and registered as a professional engineer
in the state of Nebraska.
Troy Caver, D.Sc. ’91 (engineering
management), served as professor of engineering management at Defense Systems
Management College (government), and
formed and ran a company teaching and
consulting to government and aerospace
on systems engineering and program
management for 20 years. He also authored
20 articles published in nationally distributed
professional magazines. Troy is now retired
and lives in Woodbridge, VA.
Bruce Cazenave, MS ’79 (engineering
management), is the CEO of Nautilus, Inc.,
based in Vancouver, WA.
Moinak Chakravorty, MS ’11 (computer
science), will marry his fiancée, Anuja Sarkar,
on January 29, 2015.
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Damon Coppola, BS ’95 (CCAS), MS ’03
(engineering management), has three books
coming out in the new year. The first of the
three, Introduction to International Disaster
Management, 3rd Edition (Butterworth
Heinemann Press), is due to be released
in the spring.
Freddie de Sibert, BA ’08 (computer
science), is a vice president in the Investment
Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Based
out of New York and occasionally in places as
far apart as Seattle, London, and Hong Kong,
Freddie is always looking for new team
members and to talk tech, ideas, and life.
William Hunley, BS ’55 (mechanical
engineering), retired as the chief naval
architect and technical director for ship
design at the Naval Sea Systems Command,
and now lives at Trouble Enough Indeed,
the log house that he built in odd hours
while designing ships for the Navy.
Elliott Kugel, MS ’83 (computer science),
was named in the February 24, 2014, issue
of Barron’s magazine as one of the “Top
1200 Advisors in America” and also was
ranked #19 in the state of New Jersey. This
is his 5th year in a row being recognized on
the Barron’s list. He also was recognized by
the Financial Times in its FT 400 ranking for
2014 as one of the top 400 advisers in the
U.S. Kugel is a managing director of investments at Merrill Lynch in Bridgewater, NJ,
and resides in Skillman, NJ.
Kristin Deason, Ph.D. ’09 (systems
engineering), is an associate with Booz Allen
Hamilton, where she works in implementing
large-scale renewable energy projects for
the U.S. government. She also recently
gained her certification from the Arlington
Energy Masters program, a volunteer
program in which she was trained to make
energy efficiency and water improvements
in low income housing.
Dr. Chung-Shing Lee, D.Sc. ’97 (engineering
management), was promoted to associate
dean of the School of Business at Pacific
Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) on
June 1, 2014.
Reggie Haseltine, MS ’09 (computer
science), retired last June after 42-plus
years in IT. He now is teaching as an adjunct
professor, mostly online.
Greg May, BA ’03 (computer science),
and three other GW alumni—Keith Bishop,
Phillip Hughes, and Jeff Cassin—started
Manhattan’s only board game cafe,
The Uncommons, and recently celebrated
a year in business and some coverage in
the New York Times.
Henry Herz, MS ’09 (operations research),
has edited a fantasy anthology, Beyond the
Pale, which features 11 short stories and
was published in August 2014 by Birch
Tree Publishing.
Renee Lewis, MS. ’90, was honored with
the 2014 Woman of Distinction Award by
the National Association of Women
Business Owners, Greater DC.
Mitch Narins, MS ’89 (engineering
management), was named a Fellow of the
Royal Institute of Navigation last June.
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Omar A. Omar, BS ’09 (mechanical
engineering), works for StrataGen as a
hydraulic fracturing consultant engineer
out of San Antonio, TX.
Norman O’Meara, D.Sc. ’88 (operations
research), is a senior fellow at LMI and
currently serves on a National Academy of
Sciences committee on the study of FAA
air traffic controller staffing.
Ron Sasiela, MS ’00 (engineering
management), acted recently as the viceprincipal of a California high school in the
yet-released film Gratuitous Violence, which
portrays the escalation of tragic shootings
seen over the last two decades. Ron also
won the bronze prize last summer in the
“Best Dill Pickle in Beverly Hills” contest.
Finally, his younger daughter, Christy Sasiela,
was married on May 31, 2014, in Santa
Barbara, CA.
Brian Preston Smith, MS ’05 (engineering
management), founded a business in 2008
called Geavista group, which helped its utility
and corporate clients achieve energy efficiency
and sustainability goals. They successfully
grew the business, which was acquired by
Clearesult about two years ago.
CLASS NOTES
Rachel Bevill, ’15 (expected); Alex Palson,
’13; Felipe Zambrano, ’13; Andy Colburn,
’11; Michael Livingston, ’92; Joey Burns,
’14. (Photo courtesy of Sean Walsh)
Sean Walsh, BS ’76 (mechanical
engineering), has a new position as the
technical director for NAVSEA programs
for TASC’s Defense Sector at their Washington
Navy Yard office. Sean also is active in alumni
and professional societies, serving as the
alumni advisor for Theta Tau Professional
Engineering Fraternity Gamma Beta Chapter
at SEAS and as the chair of the Lisnyk Ship
Design Competition sponsored by the Society
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
(SNAME) and the American Society of
Naval Engineers (ASNE).
E. A. (Bud) Wareham 3rd, BS ’53 (electrical
engineering), is still providing consulting
engineering services to his old clients in Florida
with help from his stepson, Chris Corcoran.
Charisma Williams, MS ’14 (engineering
management), has published her fifth
article in Emergency Management Magazine,
“There Are No Victims Here: Creating an
Empowered Survivor Culture.”
David Rosenberg, BS ’09 (mechanical
engineering), was married to Jessica Young,
on May 18, 2014, at the Maritime Aquarium
at Norwalk in Norwalk, CT.
Benjamin Rosenfeld, BS ’08 (electrical
engineering), received his PE license in the
state of California in 2014.
John A. Sporidis, BS ’74, MS ’81
(electrical engineering), has completed 40
years in the field of consulting engineering
and four years as managing principal of
Vanderweil Engineers in the Washington, DC
Metro area. His office has completed major
projects for GW both at the DC and Ashburn
campuses and currently is involved as
mechanical-electrical engineers in the
new District House (super-dorm) student
housing project currently in construction.
In Memoriam:
Marshall A. Levitan, BS ’64, MS ’73,
passed away March 7, 2014.
Several current SEAS students and alumni
attended the 2014 Theta Tau Professional
Engineering Fraternity National Convention
in Fort Worth, TX, held last July. From left to
right: Sean Walsh ’76; Emma Fletcher, ’13;
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