EEM News Database

May 4, 2015

A record number of students -- more than 120, including a number of environmental and energy projects -- competed in the Ninth Annual School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Research and Development Showcase at the George Washington University in the spring 2015 semester, a big jump in participants from previous years.

May 4, 2015

Kristin Deason, a 2009 doctoral graduate of the Environmental and Energy Management program, was spotlighted in the corporation-wide publication of the environmental consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton in May 2015. Below is the article on Kristin, who is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen in charge of the corporation’s U.S. Army Energy Initiatives Task Force support team.

May 4, 2015

EEM students and faculty met with former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for Water as part of the University’s Sustainability Collaborative “Frontiers in Sustainability” seminar series. At the seminar, Ms. Stoner made a presentation on “Too Much, Too Little, Too Polluted: Restoring Water Sustainability in the US.”

May 4, 2015

On June 24, 2015, EEM Professors Royce Francis and Jonathan Deason served as technical and plenary session moderators at the Workshop on Nutrient Monitoring to Support Water Quality Trading, conducted by the Partnership on Technology Innovation and the Environment (PTIE) in Washington, D.C. The PTIE is a partnership among government, business, investment, academic and environmental organizations to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies to protect public health and the environment. The organization is exploring ways to leverage its multi-sector membership to increase the future use of low cost nutrient sensor technology. The effort complements the EPA’s National Nutrient Sensor Challenge that is aimed at to reduce the price of nutrient sensor technologies.

May 4, 2015

EEM faculty members were active in publishing peer-reviewed papers and making professional society presentations during the Spring 2015 semester. Here are summaries of several of them:

May 4, 2015

Nassim Khalili, an Environmental and Energy Management Masters student, was awarded a trip to Detroit, MI to participate in the April 2015 Shell Powering Progress Together program. GW’s environmental information program “Planet Forward” sponsored the trip for Nassim. All of her expenses were paid and logistics taken care of by Planet Froward, and she got the chance to meet the Planet Forward team and network with students from other consortium schools and businesses represented at the event. In several international cities, the Shell Powering Progress Together program brings together some of the world’s principal intellectuals and thinkers from industry, business, academia, government and NGOs to discuss challenges of energy in the future. In the past, these events have been held in the Netherlands (2012), Germany, the Philippines, Turkey, and the USA. The objective of the program is to address several dilemmas ranging from how the world’s vital resources, including energy, water and food, will experience growing pressure in future decades to what the role of the resilience thinker is in addressing these future resource stresses.

May 4, 2015

EEM Master of Science graduate Benjamin Heras joined the Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Medio Ambiente del Sector Hidrocarburos (National Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment) in Mexico City. The agency was created in 2014 to implement a major energy reform law in Mexico. Benjamin is in charge of developing and supervising a set of industrial safety and environmental protection regulations that companies investing in shale oil and gas in Mexico will have to comply with.

May 4, 2015

Environmental and Energy Management program faculty, students and alumni were heavily involved in the “SEAS 2015 Celebration of Student Achievement” ceremony that was conducted in the Smith Center on Friday evening, May 15, 2015. In addition to several dozen EEM graduates, EEM Lead Professor Jonathan Deason served as the School Marshall (emcee for the event), EEM Assistant Professor Ekundayo Shittu served as the Chief Faculty Marshall, and EEM alumnus Kristy McDonnell Ortiz served as the Keynote Commencement Speaker for the event.

May 4, 2015

On January 16th, 2015, Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) faculty and students participated in a climate change seminar in the Jack Morton Auditorium and the Media and Arts Building. The seminar was conducted jointly by GW’s Sustainability Collaborative in conjunction with officials from the municipality of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

May 4, 2015

Patrick Murphy successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on April 8, 2015. The title of Patrick's dissertation is “A method for determining the cost of highly available electricity considering grid unavailability: A case study and applied analysis in Uganda.”

January 2, 2015

Benjamin Heras Cruz, a 2015 Master of Science graduate of the Environmental and Energy Management program, has been appointed as the Deputy Director for Domestic and International Standards for the Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Medio Ambiente del Sector Hidrocarburos (National Agency for Safety, Energy and Environmental Protection of the Hydrocarbons Sector) in Mexico City.

January 2, 2015

Indrajeet Viswanathan, a 2012 graduate of the Environmental and Energy Management Program was elected as Chairman of the George Washington University's Engineering Alumni Association in May 2015. “Jeet” as he is known, will serve a two-year term as the EAA Chair.