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.
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.
Award recipients stemmed from all six departments of SEAS and their mentors received a combined $35,000 in prize money. “The level of sophistication of the student work seems to get higher each year. These students are bright and highly motivated,” said Provost Steven Lerman. “I think the extraordinary creativity of our students is going to move to even greater levels as they inhabit Science and Engineering Hall.”
SEAS made two changes to this year’s competition: Judges divided the graduate student research prizes into “experimental” and “theoretical” categories and also required participants to submit two-page project abstracts in the fall, which were scored along with students’ showcase presentations.
