EEM students and graduates were involved in a wide variety of interesting and exciting activities over the Summer and Fall semesters in 2014. Here’s a brief summary of some of them.
2013 EEM Master of Science graduate, Vanessa Trejos, began a new position as an Energy Engineer/Analyst with Energetics in July 2014. Vanessa is working at the Fuel Cells Technology Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Vanessa, who said that she is “just so happy to start this new job,” reports that EEM Professorial Lecturer Elvin Yuzugullu, who teaches the Energy Management course, is working on the same team.
Armin Vakili, another 2013 EEM Master of Science graduate, was promoted at PEER Consultants this past summer. Armin is working in Black and Veatch's office in Gaithersburg where he prepares Construction Notebook Packages for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Armin reports that he prepares Engineer's Cost Estimates, Scope of Work documents and Tracking Sheets for different sites within different Environmental Sensitive Areas.
Armin Vakili received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran where he graduated in 2011, before coming to GW to undertake his graduate work.
James Lynch, a 2007 EEM Master of Science graduate, provided some spectacular photos he took while on a September 2014 climb up Mt. Rainier in the State of Washington.
Jim, who works as a Technical Program Manager for the Office of River Protection, U.S. Department of Energy, in Richland, Washington, reports that he is doing nuclear clean-up, pollution prevention, and environmental security work with the Office of River Protection.
Jim commented that “Washington state is amazing,” his “government job is very exciting” and “I owe a lot to the great education I received at GW.”
EEM doctoral candidate Mohammed Qaradaghi has been intensively involved in the affairs of Iraq and Kurdistan before and during his graduate program at GW. Mohammed has worked with senior officials in both governments, as well as those in the U.S. federal government, and now is assisting the World Bank in conjunction with his doctoral research.
Mohammed Qaradaghi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Technology in Baghdad, Iraq, where he graduated in 1997.
He received his Master of Science degree in Project Management from the GW School of Business in 2007, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Environmental and Energy Management at GW, where the topic his doctoral research is “Investigation of Multiobjective Decision Consistency: A Triplex Approach to Optimal Oil Field Portfolio Investment Decisions.”
