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Greetings, SEAS Alumni,
Here's a look at what's been happening recently at SEAS:
Engineers' Week 2006 at SEAS
SEAS students put forth a good deal of effort to make Engineers' Week 2006 a success. Engineers' Week is wholly planned and implemented by students, and this year's E-Week schedule was chock full of activities.
Students participated in a wide range of activities that began on Friday, February 17th with the first-ever Academic Technical Bowl -- a quiz game that tests engineering knowledge -- and ended on Friday, February 24th with the annual favorite, the Engineers' Ball. Other activities included a science fair, a popsicle bridge contest, a saltine challenge, a paper airplane contest, and an alumninum foil boat contest. Students also had several opportunities to join job and internship fairs and panel discussions on outsourcing and engineering careers and futures.
Photos of some of the E-Week activities are available here.
The EAA Tailgater
More than 30 SEAS alumni and friends came out on February 8 to show their school spirit and to cheer on the #6-ranked GW men's basketball team in their game against Dayton. Colonials fans gathered in the dean's conference room in Tompkins Hall for a pre-game tailgater that included food, drink, and lots of laughter. They then headed over to the Smith Center to watch the game.
This event was sponsored by the Engineer Alumni Association. Photos of the tailgater are available here.
Arizona Alumni Reception with Dean Tong
Jim McDowell, MEA '73, and his wife Joanne hosted Phoenix-area alumni and parents on February 15, 2006 at the Wild Horse Pass Resort for a reception with Dean Timothy Tong. A number of SEAS alumni, friends, and prospective students joined Dean Tong and the McDowells at the reception, which has become an annual event thanks to the generosity of Jim McDowell. Jim is CEO and president of AAA of Arizona.
Photos of the reception are available here.
Transportation Research Board Reception
In late January the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the SEAS Office of Advancement hosted their first joint reception for SEAS alumni, and more than 30 alumni and friends attended. The reception was held here in DC, during the National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB) 85th Annual Meeting. Jim E. Hall, a former Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and a current partner at Hall & Associates, LLC, was the guest speaker for the evening.
The CEE Department hopes to host a reception again next year and to make the reception a tradition at the TRB meetings. To prepare for this, the CEE Department is now collecting the names and contact information of those who would like to be included in next year's reception.
If you would like to be notified of the reception next year, please send an e-mail to: cee@gwu.edu and type "TRB Reception" in the subject line. Please include in your contact information the telephone number and e-mail address in at which you prefer to be reached.
Feel free to browse photos from this year's TRB reception.
"From Lab to IPO" Lecture Series
Whether planning a start-up or just being a strategic employee who receives stock options, this lecture series deals with what you need to know to succeed. It discusses the practical and legal issues that you will deal with every day in taking a great idea from the lab and creating a successful hi-tech or biotech company. Attendees are provided with lectures and readings to enable them to identify the major issues in organizing a business venture around intellectual property, including employment agreements, stock options, angel and venture capital, IPOs and tech transfer from university/government labs. This lecture series is appropriate for attendees who have started a new company, intend to start one, or are in a senior management position, such as CIO, CTO, CEO or strategic employee with stock options.
Sponsors/Partners: DCTech Council; Northern Virginia Technology Council; Maryland's TEDCO; Greater Washington Board of Trade; Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT); MITRE; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer; GW Cancer Institute; GW Medical Center Office of Health Research, Compliance & Technology Transfer; GW's Entrepreneurial Roundtable; GW's Engineers Council; SEAS Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer & Commercialization; Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA); Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center; Springboard Enterprises; Washington, DC Chapter of the Technology Transfer Society, GW School of Engineering and Applied Science, and GW School of Business.
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm (Optional networking: 3:00 - 5:00 pm)
Dates: Classes meet on the following Fridays:
January 27, 2006
February 3, 10, 17, 24
March 3, 10, 24
April 7, 14, 21, 28
Cost: Free, but space is limited and registration is required. To register, e-mail Marilyn Shazier at mshazier@gwu.edu.
Location: The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Instructor: Tony Stanco, Director, Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization (CET2C)
The George Washington University
Contact information: Tel: 202-994-5513; E-mail: stanco@gwu.edu
Lectures:
Lecture 1: Overview of Venture/Angel Capital; Google IPO Case Study
January 27, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecturers: Jonathan Aberman and Don Rainey
Lecture 2: Patents
February 3, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 3: Copyright and Trademarks
February 10, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 307 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 4: Trade Secrets and Licensing Agreements
February 17, 2006: Alumni House Salon at 1925 F. St NW
Lecture 5: Founders and Employment Agreements, Stock Options, Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs); Non-Competes
February 24, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 6: Partnerships, Corporations and LLCs Shareholder Agreements; Directors and Executives
March 3, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture7: Angels and Venture Capital, Part I
March 10, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 8: Angels and Venture Capital, Part II
March 24, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 307 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 9: Negotiating Angel/Venture Capital, Terms Sheets and Stock Purchase Agreements, Part I
March 31, 2006: Alumni House Salon at 1925 F. St NW
Lecture 10: Negotiating Angel/Venture Capital, Terms Sheets and Stock Purchase Agreements, Part II
April 7, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 11: Exits: M&As and IPOs
April 14, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 101 at 800 21st NW
Lecture 12: Government Programs for Start-Ups, SBIRs Partnering with Universities and Fed Labs to take their R&D and Commercialize it
April 21, 2006: Marvin Center Rm 413/414 at 800 21st NW
Leading angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, consultants and government officials are invited to guest lecture throughout the lecture series. For more information, please visit: http://lab2ipo.org/lab2ipolectures.
SEAS is proud to announce the GW Engineering group on LinkedIn, an independent, commercial, online networking tool.
SEAS has partnered with LinkedIn to provide this service for SEAS alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and we invite you to join the GW Engineering group. We hope that you will find it a useful tool for business networking, job searches, or simply for locating other members of the SEAS community.
To join the GW Engineering group, just click here and complete a LinkedIn member profile. Access to the group is free, completely optional, and is available only to members of the SEAS community.
About online business networking: You can use LinkedIn to expand and track your network in an organized and systematic way. The GW Engineering group on LinkedIn provides an ideal starting point, and it also provides a point of contact for people outside the SEAS community who are connected to your fellow GW Engineering group members.
About privacy: Please read the LinkedIn privacy policy to answer any concerns about privacy.
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