Strategy & Branding
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It's all about the numbers: Applicant FAQ
Career Services
SEAS At a Glance
100
The engineering school's two colors are: (Hint: not the university's official colors)
What is blue and orange
100
These two programs have no areas of focus.
What is Cybersecurity and Telecommunications
100
The SEAS application fee is ____ and this financial cost covers the administrative cost of processing the student's application.
What is $75
100
The world's largest professional social network boasting 300 million members.
What is LinkedIn
100
GW SEAS has 3 campuses located at Foggy Bottom, _______, and Ashburn
What is Arlington
200
The new Science and Engineering Hall will have this, which notates that it was built and will operate in such a way to optimally use the building location, minimize non-renewable energy use, reduce water consumption, while offering healthy settings in which to work and live.
What is LEED Certification
200
The NCAC and CISR conduct pioneering research in three main themes of vehicle/barrier crashworthiness, intelligent transportation systems and traffic flow dynamics. These centers conduct research in __________, an area of focus under Civil and Environmental Engineering, including operation of a host of advanced laboratories such as the driving simulator laboratory, the traffic and networks research laboratory and the vehicle modeling laboratory.
What is Transportation Engineering
200
In regards to minimum scores, admitted students who are required to submit a TOEFL or IELTS are also required to take the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at GW. Those who have a TOEFL score of 600 on the paper-based, 250 on the computer-based, or _____ on the Internet-based test, or who have an overall band score of 7.0 on the academic IELTS, with no individual band score below 6.0, are exempt from taking the placement test.
What is 100
200
Chairman of the Board of Amyx, Inc. and class of 1975 SEAS alumnus, _______, is founder of SEAS Career Services and donated space in the new Science & Engineering Hall to provide career services to our students.
Who is Scott Amey
200
___ percent of the SEAS faculty was newly hired within the last five years. More than half of them earned their doctoral degrees from the nation's top engineering and computer science programs, including MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton, and Georgia Tech.
What is 40
300
In 2012, GW celebrated a living alumni network of _____ people.
What is 250,000
300
A true example of the multidisciplinary nature of engineering, the MAE department offers an area of focus in Robotics,_______ , and Controls. Hint: It is a design process and field of engineering that includes a combination of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, control engineering and computer engineering.
What is Mechatronics
300
Although most awardees receive this from multiple sources, a student's chances of receiving ______ cannot be determined prior to the faculty review of a student's completed application package.
What are assistantships and fellowships OR financial aid
300
This association is the leading source of information on the employment of the college educated, and forecasts hiring and trends in the job market; tracks starting salaries, recruiting and hiring practices, and student attitudes and outcomes; and identifies best practices and benchmarks.
What is the National Association of Colleges and Employers
300
SEAS promotes student innovation through its annual Student _____________. One of our recent winners went on to start an optical technologies company to develop and produce the technology he presented at the event.
What is Research and Design Showcase
400
Research plays a central role in achieving our vision to become a world class center for innovative and collaborative engineering research and learning in the heart of the nation's capital. As a school our 6 "Strategic Priorities" are: Biomedical Engineering Cybersecurity ______________ Nanotechnologies Robotics Transportation Engineering
What is "High-Performance Computing"
400
Proud of their faculty member, this current department likes to use patent recipient, Professor Jason Zara, as an example of their exemplary research for his work on an imaging probe used to detect cancer in mucosal tissues-- where 90% of all cancer originate and tend to be very treatable if found early.
What is Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
400
If admitted, students may request to defer their admission for up to _____. They may make this request by email to engineering@gwu.edu. If the admitted student does not attend after one year, they may be required to reapply for admission.
What is one year
400
For graduates in F-1 status, Optional Practical Training (OPT) allows up to 12 months of employment after graduation. For those holding Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math degrees may get an additional ___ months under the STEM extension.
What is 17
400
After completing their coursework, students completing this unique program will help protect the nation's information infrastructure by working as security experts in a government agency for at least the amount of time they have been supported by this program. The full tuition and $20-$30k stipend doesn't hurt either.
What is CyberCorps
500
The four broad themes of the latest GW Strategic Plan include: ______, globalization, governance & policy, and citizenship & leadership. The missing of which is a quality SEAS exemplifies.
What is "Innovation through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration"
500
Bill Westenhofer, GW SEAS alumnus and graduate of the ______ program, has worked on several motion pictures, including “Batman Forever,” the “Stuart Little” movies, “Babe: Pig in the City,” “Elf,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Golden Compass,” for which he won an Academy Award for achievement in visual effects in 2008. He recently won an Oscar for his visual effects work on “Life of Pi,” directed by Ang Lee.
What is Computer Science
500
To apply for departmental funding applicants will need to submit ______ letters of recommendation along with their application.
What is 3
500
Reaching more than 15,000,000 students each year, ______ is currently one of the largest providers of information about organizations that recruit on university campuses.
What is Symplicity
500
SEAS was a member of __________, a consortium of area schools that won a spot as one of only 20 teams selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to compete in its 2013 Solar Decathlon Competition. After the competition, the solar house was donated to a wounded U.S. veteran.
What is Team Capitol DC
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