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Greetings, SEAS Alumni,
The regular academic year is drawing to a close at SEAS and GW, but plenty of interesting things are still happening here. Here's a look:
Share Your News with Other Alumnae/Alumni!
We're beginning work on the next issue of Synergy, the SEAS alumni magazine, and we hope to include as much information on our alumni as possible.
We know that many of you enjoy keeping up with your classmates, and the magazine is a great way to do that. Please share your news with us, and we'll share it with your friends and classmates by publishing it in the magazine's alumni section.
You can send us any news that is important to you - where you currently work, promotions, professional or academic honors, weddings, births, or other events - and we'll do our best to publish all the news that we receive by August 1st. Please be sure to include your name, degree, and year of graduation in your information, and feel free to send any photos, as well. (Please note that photos cannot be returned).
If you wish to respond electronically, please send your information and digital photos to: synergy@gwu.edu.
You may also fax information (no photo scans, please) to:
Ms. Joanne Welsh
202-994-3394
If you prefer to send the information via mail, please send it to:
Ms. Joanne Welsh
Director of Communications
School of Engineering and Applied Science
106 Tompkins Hall
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052
If your home address, e-mail address, or telephone number have recently changed, please go to the University's Online Community to update them: http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/GEW/oldintro/oldintro.cgi
SEAS Ranked 16th Nationally for Number of Master's Degrees Awarded
GW's School of Engineering and Applied Science was recently ranked 16th in the country for the number of master's degrees awarded in engineering, according to statistics released by the American Society for Engineering Education. The rankings are based on the 2003-2004 academic year, when the school awarded 481 master's degrees.
"SEAS is very pleased to have been recognized for the strong job we are doing to educate this generation of engineers," said Dean Timothy Tong. "We are very aware that our location in Washington, D.C., creates myriad opportunities for our engineering students, and we make a great effort to help our students avail themselves of the unique advantages that we can offer because of our location. We look forward to having many more graduates pass through both the undergraduate and graduate engineering programs."
The American Society for Engineering Education's profile of SEAS states that the school is "at the vortex of technological innovation," recognizing the unique role that it has as an engineering school in the nation's capital. Our professors and students working across a wide range of disciplines regularly receive research grants from government agencies. Our students have received more than $3 million for scholarships from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.
In 2004, the American Society for Engineering Education recognized GW for awarding the highest percentage of engineering doctoral degrees among American universities to women. In addition, the school ranked 10th nationally for the highest percentage of women faculty. Female students make up more than 25 percent of the student body at SEAS, a much higher proportion than most engineering schools.
SEAS Students Named Goldwater and Fulbright Scholars
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Izaak Beekman |
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Congratulations to SEAS students Izaak Beekman and Nathan Green, who recently received the Goldwater Scholarship and the Fulbright Scholarship, respectively.
Izaak Beekman, a junior studying mechanical engineering, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for the coming year. This is the second time in recent years that a SEAS student has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. In 2002, SEAS student Alison Alvarez also received the scholarship.
The prestigious Goldwater Scholarship was established by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation in 1986 to provide the United States with a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, and it covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year for two years.
The trustees of the Foundation awarded 323 scholarships for the 2006-2007 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the United States. Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.
Nathan Green, a master's candidate studying computer science, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Iceland for the 2006-2007 academic year. This is also the second time in recent years that a SEAS student has won this prestigious scholarship. In 2002, Keith Zielenski received a Fulbright to study in Germany for the following academic year.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's flagship program in international educational exchange. Since 1946, the program has made Fulbright grants to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. The U.S. Fulbright Scholars Program sends 800 scholars and professionals each year to more than 140 countries.
EAA Hosts Reception for High School Science Fair Winners
On April 20th, more than 100 high school students, parents, current students, alumni, faculty, and staff joined Dean Tong at a reception to honor the student winners of the 2006 area high school science fairs.
Throughout the months of March and April, high school students participated in six science fairs in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and volunteers from the GW Engineer Alumni Association served as judges at the fairs. The judges recognized approximately 90 student projects and invited those students to the science fair reception at the GW Marvin Center on April 20th.
At the reception, students were recognized with certificates and GW engineering hats, and they watched a presentation by a current SEAS student, Iman Alsharkawi. The students also had the opportunity to visit SEAS beforehand to take a tour of the building.
SEAS alumni who participated as judges at the science fairs include: Joel D'Cruz (MS '05); Ken Dymond (MS'79); Gregory Ferguson (BS'95); Bob Fulcher (BS'57, MEA'67); Randy Graves (D.Sc. '78); L. Jim Heller (MEA '86); Art Howard (BS'63); Orron Kee (BS'57); Bob Kemelhor (BS'49); Kim Kessler (BS'99); Rachel Miller (BS'03); Tejbir Singh Phool (MS'04); Gayle Rubin (MS'82); Manouchehr Soheily (BS'79); and Sean Walsh (BS'79).
Anyone who is interested in participating in next year's science fairs or in becoming involved with the EAA should contact Ms. Anita Ponchione, the SEAS associate director of advancement and school alumni programs, at 202-994-9866 or at apytlarz@gwu.edu.
SEAS Makes Fred Kohloss Honorary Alumnus
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Pictured left to right: Fred Kohloss (JD '49); Dr. Haaren Miklofsky (BS CE '46); Dean Timothy Tong; Michael Bondy (BS EE '43); and CDR Edmund Hughes (BS CE '52, MEA '67)
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When Dean Tong traveled to Arizona earlier this semester, he used a luncheon meeting with Tuscon alumni as an opportunity to present GW law alumnus Fred Kohloss (JD '49) with a SEAS medal and a certificate granting him honorary status as a SEAS alumnus "in recognition of over sixty years of distinguished service to the engineering profession and generous support of engineering education." Mr. Kohloss has mechanical engineering degrees from the University of Maryland and University of Delaware, and he taught classes at SEAS while attending law school. His original intent was to become a patent attorney, but he never took the bar exam and instead embarked on a distinguished career in engineering in the area of heating, ventilating, and cooling systems in construction.
His career has taken him from chief engineer of a mechanical contracting firm in Washington D.C. and Cleveland, to a consulting engineer in Hawaii, to principal of Frederick H. Kohloss & Associates Inc. from 1961 to 1991. In 1991 he merged his Hawaii Company into the Australia-based Lincolne Scott Group. He retired from the group in 2001, but continues to work part-time as an engineering consultant.
He has designed the mechanical services for many major projects in Hawaii and elsewhere, including the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, the Honolulu Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center, Grosvenor Center, Tucson Newspaper, and Clark Air Base and Hospital in the Philippines. Over these years Fred operated branch offices of his Hawaii engineering firm in Guam, Australia, Tucson, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Denver.
He has been, and remains, active in many professional organizations and technical advisory services, and he has received many awards throughout his distinguished career. He is a past president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and a Life Fellow of ASHRAE and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Fred received Hawaii's Engineer of the Year award in 1980, the, the Bill and Louise Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award (ASHRAE) in 1998, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies in 1999.
In bestowing alumnus status on him, Dean Tong said, "Fred has been a loyal friend and generous supporter of SEAS for many years. I am pleased and proud to finally be able to officially claim Fred as our own now that he has status as an honorary SEAS alumnus."
SEAS Alumnus David Karlgaard to Keynote SEAS Celebration
Dr. David C. Karlgaard (D.Sc. '74), a co-founder of PEC Solutions, will deliver the keynote address at this year's SEAS Commencement Celebration. The Celebration begins at 7:30 pm on Saturday, May 20, 2006, and will be held at the Charles E. Smith Center on The George Washington University's main campus. The Smith Center is located at 600 22nd Street, N.W.
Dr. Karlgaard has over 31 years of technical and managerial experience in the information sciences industry. In April 2000, Dr. Karlgaard and his partners launched PEC Solutions as a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Under his leadership, PEC Solutions was recognized by Forbes Magazine as 14th in its "America's Best 200 Small Companies" issue; by the Washington Post as 74th among the "Top 200 Companies" in the Washington, DC area; and, by Business 2.0 as 39th in its first annual B2-100. Dr. Karlgaard served as chairman of the boand and CEO of the company until it was sold to Nortel in 2005. He now serves as vice chairman of the board at Nortel Government Solutions.
SEAS is proud to announce the GW Engineering group on LinkedIn, an independent, commercial, online networking tool.
SEAS has partnered with LinkedIn to provide this service for SEAS alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and we invite you to join the GW Engineering group. We hope that you will find it a useful tool for business networking, job searches, or simply for locating other members of the SEAS community.
To join the GW Engineering group, just click here and complete a LinkedIn member profile. Access to the group is free, completely optional, and is available only to members of the SEAS community.
About online business networking: You can use LinkedIn to expand and track your network in an organized and systematic way. The GW Engineering group on LinkedIn provides an ideal starting point, and it also provides a point of contact for people outside the SEAS community who are connected to your fellow GW Engineering group members.
About privacy: Please read the LinkedIn privacy policy to answer any concerns about privacy.
Upcoming SEAS Events
Order of the Engineer Induction Ceremony and Reception
Guest Speaker Poh C. Chua, BS'88; JD'97, Senior Associate, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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Friday, May 12, 2006 |
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8:00 p.m. - The ceremony and reception will last approximately one hour. |
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Alumni House, 1925 F Street, NW, Washington, DC |
The Engineers' Council (EC) and the Engineer Alumni Association (EAA) invite you to attend the Order of the Engineer Induction Ceremony and Reception, hosted to celebrate the upcoming professional status of our graduating seniors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science through induction into the Order of the Engineer.
The guest speaker for this event is Poh C. Chua, BS'88; JD'97, senior associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LL.
Additionally, the EC and EAA would like to invite any members of our alumni community who have not been inducted into the Order of the Engineer to participate in this event by being inducted. *For those choosing to be inducted, we request a fee of $10 to support the cost of materials for induction.
RSVP by close of business on Friday, May 5th if attending, or by Friday, April 21st
if requesting to be inducted. For more information or to RSVP, please e-mail Kim Kessler at kkessler@tcco.com.
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