SEAS Fact Sheet

The SEAS student body is a highly diverse mix of bright young adults from around the world.

Fact: The average SAT composite score of this year's entering SEAS class was 1315.
Fact: 74% of the students in this year's entering SEAS class were in the top 10% of their respective high school classes.
Fact: The female/male student ratio at SEAS is 1:3, much higher than that of most engineering schools.
Fact: Nearly 7% of the SEAS undergraduates are African-American.
Fact: Among its 580 undergraduate students, SEAS counts more than 65 international students.

The SEAS engineering education emphasizes contact with faculty, research experiences, and study abroad and extra-curricular engineering opportunities.

Fact: The student/faculty ratio at SEAS is less than 6:1.
Fact: All SEAS students complete senior research projects of their own design that provide them with hands-on learning opportunities that complement their classroom learning.
Fact: New study abroad programs in Ireland and Korea, and soon in Spain and Hungary, are teaching our students how to adapt to new cultures. Sixteen SEAS students spent the spring semester 2010 at University College, Dublin.

Engineering at SEAS encompasses a broad range of disciplines, with strong and growing programs in environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, robotics, nanotechnologies, transportation safety, and high-performance computing.

Fact: SEAS has five academic departments, which offer the bachelor of science and bachelor of arts degrees to undergraduates and eight degree programs to graduate students.
Fact: SEAS students use one of the world's largest wastewater treatment plants as a real-world laboratory to find solutions to wastewater treatment.
Fact: Faculty and students in the SEAS biomedical engineering program have created a micro-fabricated imaging probe to improve early cancer detection, and they are collaborating with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Molecular Interventions Lab on a novel cancer therapy method protects healthy tissues by utilizing therapeutic ultrasound and heat-sensitive liposomes to precisely target diseased tissues.
Fact: The research team at GW's Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory studies plasmas and their applications to healthcare, energy, defense, communications, and other sectors. They have already generated a device called a cold atmospheric plasma jet, which can kill an individual skin cancer cell without damaging neighboring cells.
Fact: Faculty in the SEAS robotics program developed a new paradigm that generated a revolutionary improvement in mobile robot design: a hybrid system that combined locomotion (the ability to move) and manipulation (the ability to grasp, carry, etc.) and increased both the strength and resiliency of the mobile robot.
Fact: In the area of high-performance computing and reconfigurable computing, SEAS is one of the nation's leaders. In 2006, GW and the University of Florida founded the Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), a national center and consortium for HPCR research, created under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Centers program. CHREC provides a sort of in-house internship for SEAS students, who interact on a daily basis with the top leaders in industry and government in these areas.

SEAS maintains several state-of-the-art research facilities, where our faculty and students work in partnership with public and private sector organizations.

Fact: Created with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the GW earthquake simulator - or "shake table" as it's more commonly known - is the only one of its kind on the East Coast of the United States. Powered by hydraulics and with six degrees of freedom, it simulates motion in three translational and three rotational degrees.
Fact: 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 GW. Using simulations and advanced computing, researchers at the NCAC study vehicle safety and biomechanics, and highway safety and infrastructure to help reduce fatalities and injuries on the nation's roadways. CISR and the NCAC together have the ability to study all phases of an accident, and this gives SEAS a unique capability that other universities do not have.
Fact: GW's High-Performance Computing Lab (HPCL) provides an umbrella for the university's research projects in high-performance and reconfigurable computing. The HPCL has a unique, top-quality set of equipment, and because of this, the students have been able to study very important problems in the high-performance computing field.