SEAS Research Highlights
In areas ranging from environmental engineering to transportation safety to biomedical engineering and beyond, SEAS is making cutting-edge research contributions to some of the big engineering challenges that our world faces. By carefully matching our expertise with those engineering challenges that greatly impact people's lives, we believe that we can help improve the physical quality of life of people around the world.
Environmental Engineering
In research on wastewater treatment and management, bio-solids treatment, and water purification, SEAS faculty and students are looking for solutions that will help address problems associated with water scarcity, environmental pollution and sustainability, and energy use. >> Learn more
Nanotechnologies
The research team at GW's Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory studies plasmas and their applications to healthcare, energy, defense, communications, and other sectors. >> Learn more
Biomedical engineering
On the biomedical engineering side, SEAS faculty conduct a broad array of research with very tangible benefits. >> Learn more
Transportation Safety
In the area of transportation safety, SEAS operates the Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) and the National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC), which is a collaborative effort among the Federal Highway Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and The George Washington University.
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High Performance Computing
In the area of high-performance and reconfigurable computing - also known as supercomputing - SEAS is one of the nation's leaders. >> Learn more
Robotics
The GW Robotics and Mechatronics Lab is leading the effort at SEAS to find robotics solutions to very practical problems: to use robots to provide assistance to the elderly or disabled, to perform search and rescue or surveillance missions, to assist the police or soldiers in dangerous missions, and even to probe space.
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