Features & Announcements
GW Rocket Team excels at Spaceport America Cup
The GW Rocket Team took three awards in the competition, including the First Place prize in the Student Research and Development Solid Booster Competition.
SEAS Baja Team excels at SAE Baja Competition
The SEAS Baja Team recently excelled in the Society of Automotive Engineers intercollegiate Baja competition, held April 10-13 in Cookeville, TN.
GW’s Baja Team prepares for SAE Baja competition
Watch highlights of the GW Baja Team’s test drive of the vehicle it is taking to the SAE Baja competition in Tennessee.
Tenure-track faculty opening
The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant or associate professor level, beginning as early as Fall 2019. View the full job description and apply.
MAE graduate Helena Salvi featured in GW Today
Ms. Salvi has contributed to several long-term, interdisciplinary research projects at GW, and has spent her summer wrapping up loose ends before transitioning her work to a new generation of student leaders. She plans to continue building bridges through engineering and biology in her post-graduate career.
Dr. Leng featured in GW Today article
Dr. Yongsheng Leng’s research team believes they have settled a long-debated fundamental science question: How do simple lubricants act under extreme conditions?
An Engineer’s Friend
We all need friends, and who among us wouldn’t appreciate a friend who does the hard, unglamorous, behind-the-scenes work that allows us to shine? Dr. Solares is that friend. He does the behind-the-scenes materials and measurement science research that other engineers can rely on to build the nano-scale devices that amaze the rest of the world.
ASEE names Dr. Saniya LeBlanc to "20 High-Achieving Researchers and Educators Under 40” list
Dr. LeBlanc's varied experiences led her ultimately to academia.
Dr. Keidar installed as A. James Clark Professor of Engineering
Dr. Michael Keidar was installed in the endowed professorship in a recent ceremony at the Science and Engineering Hall.
Innovate to help Puerto Rico
Join the SEAS Innovation Challenge and develop creative technological solutions to help meet needs in Puerto Rico. The entry deadline is January 8.
SEAS receives $300k Clare Boothe Luce Program award
Female sophomore students in SEAS are eligible for one of the four research scholarships that will be awarded this year. Funding for each scholarship will total $37,250. Find out more and apply.
U.S. Patent Innovations LLC awards Dr. Keidar $5.3M in funding for novel plasma cancer therapy
Dr. Michael Keidar has received $5.3 million in funding from U.S. Patent Innovations LLC for a five-year project titled “Plasma Medicine Initiative”.
At the Crossroads of Science
Dr. Elias Balaras conducts research in multi-physics simulations in a variety of fluid mechanics problems.
Dr. Plesniak Honored with ASME Fluids Engineering Achievement Award
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has selected Michael Plesniak to receive the 2017 ASME Fluids Engineering Award.
Adding It All Up
As a doctoral student at Stanford University, Saniya LeBlanc was given a simulation exercise that tasked her with designing an energy portfolio to meet the human population’s demand for energy. With that exercise, Dr. LeBlanc found her field of study.
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