School of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty
The School of Engineering
and Applied Science (SEAS) faculty are committed
to excellence in teaching, scientific research,
and practice. Our faculty work at the cutting
edge of research, developing new technologies
that hold the promise of revolutionizing many
aspects of the world we live in. Our professors
include both young investigators who represent
some of the freshest thinking in their fields
and seasoned scholars with a history of contributions
to engineering research. This provides students
a rich breadth of knowledge to draw upon whether
they are beginning their first introductory level
course or are completing their senior year project.
Selected notable SEAS faculty include:
Kahlid Mahmood
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Professor Mahmood’s research focus is on hydraulics,
water resources, river mechanics, sedimentation engineering, and
physical and mathematical modeling.
Azim Eskandarian
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Eskandarian’s
research highlights intelligent systems and controls, computational methods,
and dynamics simulation and modeling with applications in transportation and
automotive safety, intelligent transportation systems, collision avoidance,
and driver assistance systems. Professor Eskandarian works with GW’s
Car Crash Test Center.
Simon Y. Berkovich
Department of Computer Science. Professor Berkovich’s research includes information systems, data structures, associative memories and processors,
computer organization, and mathematical modeling.
Rachelle S. Heller
Department of Computer Science. Professor Heller is an active member in
the professional societies of the Association for Computing Machinery and Association
for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Her research focuses on computers
in education, interactive multimedia, enabling women and underrepresented minorities
in careers in science, technology, and engineering and mathematics.
Robert L. Carroll
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Carroll’s
research topics at GW include adaptive identification and control, multidimensional
systems, control of robots, and multi-target tracking algorithms.
Edward Della Torre
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Della Torre
is a fellow of the Society of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
as well as a fellow in the American Physical Society. He is also the Past President
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society.
Professor Della Torre’s research focuses on magnetic devices, magnetic
recording, magneto-optical recording, and computers in micro-magnetic and Preisach
modeling.
Roger E. Kaufman
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Biology
and Anatomy. Professor Kaufman is a member of the Steering Committee for the
GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the Coordinator for the SEAS Special
Projects Laboratory. His research is specialized in kinematic synthesis of
mechanisms, mechanical and electro-mechanical design, biomedical engineering, virtual reality interfaces, and computer-aided design.
Kim Roddis
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Roddis is the
member of several professional societies including the American Concrete Institute, the
American Institute of Steel Construction, the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the American Society of Engineering Education, and the Society of Women Engineers. Professor Roddis conducts research in design,
fabrication, and construction engineering processes, applications of artificial
intelligence to civil and structural engineering, web enhanced teaching of
engineering design, design of computer-aided tools for civil engineering, fatigue
and fracture in steel bridges, behavior of structural steel joints, frame stability,
nondestructive testing, and evaluation of structures.
Jonathan P. Deason
Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. Professor
Deason is a member of several professional engineering societies including
the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Management,
and The American Water Resources Association. His research involves national
parks, environmental sustainability, alternative fuel vehicles, energy policy,
decision aiding, multi-objective optimization, hydrogen economy, environmental
management, and water resources.
James K. Hahn
Department of Computer Science. Professor Hahn is the director of the Institute
of Biomedical Engineering as well as the Director of the Institute of Computer
Graphics. Professor Hahn’s research focuses on but is not limited to,
computer graphics; medical simulation and visualization; information visualization,
image rendering, virtual reality, and computer animation.