SEAS Newsletter
Week of October 5 – October 11, 2009
Faculty News
RESEARCH:
Prof. Rachelle Heller (CS) has been awarded a $417,200 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “PAY It FORWARD,” a collaborative award within the Advance Program at NSF. Prof. Heller will work with colleagues at Galluadet University and the University of Ottawa in this effort to significantly expand the reach and dissemination of information and materials developed in previous NSF-supported projects. She and her colleagues will also convene representatives of groups that offer faculty development and leadership training to share lessons learned and discuss what future research and procedures may be needed to advance knowledge, as well as introduce the newly engaged institutions to the plethora of expertise available to aid in their efforts to advance their women faculty.
Profs. Lance Hoffman and Rachelle Heller (CS) received a supplement of $79,413 to their current National Science Foundation grant in the Scholarships for Service program. This will support a workshop to bring together professors, IT professionals, and program managers from government, as well as other stakeholders and experts to look back at developments since the first formal programs supporting information assurance education and workforce development (IAEWD) were launched. The group will also reflect on the successes, lessons learned, and potential challenges and opportunities in the years to come. This workshop will enable participants to use the lessons of the past to guide consideration of how IAEWD programs will meet challenges in a Web 2.0 world – especially the challenges of developing the government workforce in IA – and will insure that IAEWD programs continue to produce college graduates educated in information assurance and ready to bring up-to-the-date, needed, appropriate skills to their jobs.
The Board of Directors of the Robotic Technology Consortium (RTC) recently approved the GW Robotics and Mechatronics Lab’s application to join the RTC. The RTC was created to support top-tier research within the robotic technology community to speed the deployment of technology from the lab to operational deployment. To meet this goal, the RTC relies on its members: traditional and non-traditional government contractors, small and large businesses, for-profit and not-for-profit entities, and academic organizations. As a member, the GW Robotics and Mechatronics Lab will perform R&D and provide input on strategies for government agencies executing ground robotics programs. The Robotics and Mechatronics Lab is headed by Prof. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi (MAE).
CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS:
Associate Dean Martha Pardavi-Horvath (ECE) was invited to give a course on nanomagnetism at the 2nd Annual Summer School on Magnetism of the IEEE Magnetics Society. The Magnetics Society supported about 100 graduate students from all over the world to attend the School in Nanjing, China, held September 19th - 26th.
Research conducted by Profs. Matthew Kay and Vesna Zderic (ECE) and Luther Swift was presented at the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Rome, Italy, September 20th – 23rd. The research is entitled "Dual-mode imaging of acute cardiac ischemia and reperfusion using contrast echocardiography and fluorescence imaging."
Other:
William Soller, a senior student at the School Without Walls High School in Washington, DC, has been working in Prof. Matthew Kay's (ECE) laboratory to conduct studies aimed at measuring the electrical impedance of stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes. Mr. Soller recently submitted his results for the 2009 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology in a report entitled "Electrical properties of rat neonatal cardiomyocyte monolayers: Development of measurement techniques." Huda Asfour, a graduate student working with Prof. Kay, assisted Mr. Soller to complete the studies.
Student News
Dr. Miaoqing Huang, a postdoctoral research scientist in GW’s High-Performance Computing Lab (HPCL) and a former doctoral student of Prof. Tarek El-Ghazawi (ECE), has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Huang has to his record two dozen research publications, including four journal papers that have appeared or have been accepted in leading venues such as IEEE Computer, Parallel Computing, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Computers. Dr. Huang will start at the University of Arkansas on January 1, of 2010. His research at GW has focused on reconfigurable computing and solid state disks, and his work has been supported by federal grants under the NSF CHREC Center and HPCL. At the University of Arkansas, he will join an active research group that focuses on computer architecture, multicore processors, and reconfigurable computing.
Other News
Bentley/LeapSoftware has agreed to give the CEE Department 20 free licenses of LEAP Bridge V8i. This software consists of about five software programs that are used in the design and analysis of concrete/prestressed bridges. This offer has a tag price more than $10,000 a year. Bentley/LeapSoftware has also been providing SEAS with a free copy of another software, "CONSPLICE," which has a price tag of about $8,000 per license. This software is used in our advanced prestressed and bridge design courses (CE207 and CE209) and by our graduate students who study bridge engineering. For more information about these products, please visit: http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+LEAP+Bridge/
Guest Vignette
 Researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are working on a project that is a joint effort between the GW Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering (COBRE) and the U.S. Olympic Kayaking Team. The research is being carried out by doctoral candidate Tewodros Mengesha. The goal of the project is to develop a system that can measure the forces generated by a kayaker while paddling. The U.S. Olympic Kayaking Team will use this information for training to develop the most efficient strokes. The COBRE team, supervised by Prof. Ryan Vallance and MAE chair Michael Plesniak, is designing instrumentation that can be easily mounted on a paddle, measure the paddle forces, and wirelessly transmit the data to a remote laptop. The project is now in its final stages, and the team plans to test the instrumented paddle in water in the near future. MAE hosted two students doing summer internships to work on this project: Ojas Mainkar, a sophomore from Carnegie Mellon University, who lives in the DC area and is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School; and Thomas Esch, a junior at Sidwell Friends (High) School. Both students have completed their internships and are looking forward to seeing the deployment and test of the system.
(Provided courtesy of Michael Plesniak, chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Upcoming Events
SEAS Seminar Series: Engineering Challenges in the 21st Century: October 5th
"Energy and Climate Change: Challenges & Opportunities"
6:30 pm
651 Duques Hall
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GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering Colloquium: October 5th
1:00 –2:00 pm
MAE Conference Room, 736 Phillips Hall
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LOOKING AHEAD
CS Colloquium: October 26th
4:00 pm
736 Phillips Hall
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SEAS 125th Anniversary Events
Frank Howard Lecture Series–Dr. Mihail Roco, Speaker: Monday, October 12th
6:00 - 9:00 pm at 1957 E Street N.W., Room 213
Registration required for this event
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Frank Howard Lecture Series–Dr. Frieder Seible, Speaker: Thursday, November 12th
6:00 - 9:00 pm at 1957 E Street N.W., Room 213
Registration required for this event
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Frank Howard Lecture Series–Dr. Barbara Liskov, Speaker: Wednesday, December 2nd
6:00 - 9:00 pm at 1957 E Street N.W., City View Room
Registration required for this event
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Dissertation Defenses:
Name of Student Defending: Wilson Rosa
Title of Dissertation: "Impact of Object-Oriented Methods on Software Productivity Gain”
Thursday, October 15th
1776 G Street, NW, Conference Room 120
Name of Student Defending: Kai Xing
Title of Dissertation: "Coding-based Channel Assignment in Multi-channel Wireless Networks”
Thursday, December 4th at 10:00 am
736 Phillips Hall
SEAS Career Services Events
Resume Critique Night: Thursday, October 22nd
6:00 – 8:00 pm at the GW Alumni House
To RSVP or reserve space at the event, email seasalum@gwu.edu
Southeast Biomedical Engineering Career Conference: October 30th
Washington D.C. Convention Center
For more information: http://www.Sebecconference.org
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