EEM News Database
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EEM Professors Lead Workshop Nutrient Monitoring to Support Water Quality Trading
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.
EEM Faculty Papers and Presentations
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:
EEM Student Wins Trip to Participate in Energy Management Program in Detroit
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.
News of EEM Graduate Students, Faculty and Alumni
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.
Graduation 2015
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.
Climate Change Seminar: Adaptation, Resilience, Mitigation
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.
Patrick Murphy Defends Doctoral Dissertation
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.”
EEM Graduate Appointed to Top Position in the Mexican Federal Government
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.
EEM Graduate Elected Chairman of GW’s Engineering Alumni Association
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.
Environmental and Energy Management Institute Defines Focus Areas
January 2, 2015
GW’s new Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI), having been recently chartered as a University-wide Institute by the Advisory Council on Research, has identified eight areas in which to focus its research, educational and service activities ...
EEM Hosts Leaders in Energy and Sustainability Summit
January 2, 2015
EEM Hosts Leaders in Energy and Sustainability Summit
EEM Moves into New Science and Engineering Hall
January 2, 2015
EEM Moves into New Science and Engineering Hall