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Mason
engineering
student, Jeff Bynum, works in Professor David Latanzi's 3-D
printer
lab, in the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil,
Environmental and
Infrastructure Engineering.
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LITE Seminar - From Ideas to
Ventures [Tue Dec 2, 1pm]
Title:
From Ideas to Ventures Speaker:
Suresh Shenoy, IMC, Inc.
Date:
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 from Time: 1pm
to 2pm Location:
Nguyen Engineering Building,
Room 4801, Fairfax Campus
Biography: Mr.
Shenoy served as Chairman of
the National Capital Region chapter of the American
Red
Cross and on the boards of Kevric Company, IMC Global Services,
Fairfax
County Information Technology Advisory Committee, Capital IIT
Alumni
Association and Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining
IMC,
Mr. Shenoy was a partner at Maridyne International, an international
marketing
company and joint venture with Marubeni Corporation of
Japan.
After selling Maridyne, Mr. Shenoy owned and operated Northeast
Investment
Castings. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty in the School of
Engineering at
George Mason University. Mr. Shenoy holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the
University of
Connecticut.
Abstract: Starting
a new venture is an
exciting and challenging experience at the same time.
Aspiring
entrepreneurs will need thorough planning, discipline, and a keen
ability
to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Mr. Shenoy will provide
an
overview of the key steps needed to successfully plan, launch, and
run a
new venture. Some of these key elements include developing an
understanding of
the industry and the competitive environment, evaluating the
feasibility of
your idea, assessing market forces, and the importance of
developing an
effective business plan.
Bioengineering Seminar - Discrete
Droplets for Chemical Analyses [Thu Dec 4, 12pm]
Title:
Discrete Droplets for Chemical
Analyses: Reagent Delivery and Mass Spectrometry Speaker:
Kaveh Jorabchi, PhD, Assistant
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University
Biography:
Professor Jorabchi received his
BS in chemistry from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran,
Iran and his
PhD in chemistry from George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. He
completed a post-doctoral program at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison prior
to working as an industrial R&D scientist at Syagen Technology
Inc. He has
been an assistant professor of chemistry at Georgetown University
since 2011.
Prof. Jorabchi’s work has focused on molecular mass spectrometry
for trace
analysis in a variety of applications from explosive detection and
security
analysis to bio-analytical measurements.
Abstract:Discrete
droplets (e.g. water droplets in oil) provide an isolated
environment for
chemical, biochemical, and biological investigations. Small
volumes of micro-droplets
dramatically reduce the use of solvents, reagents, and precious
materials, such
as enzymes. Moreover, discrete droplets can be used to encapsulate
single
cells, providing a new experimental window to cellular processes
at a
single-cell level. To enable these studies, our work is focused on
analytical
methods for controlling the chemical composition of the droplets,
and mass
spectrometric methods for analysis of discrete droplet contents.
In this
presentation, we will discuss our new reagent delivery method
based on partial
injection of reagent droplets into a reactant droplet, providing a
means for
small volume injection using large droplets. Partial injections as
low as
0.003% of the reagent droplet are achieved with this method,
enabling pL volume
injections using nL droplets. We will also discuss a pneumatically
assisted
single-droplet electrospray developed for the mass spectrometric
analysis of
droplets as small as 50um in diameter.
2nd Annual Undergraduate Research
Celebration [Mon Apr 20, 5pm]
The
2nd
Annual Undergraduate Research Celebration will be held on Monday,
April 20,
2015, from 5-8 pm in the Grand Ballroom of the Global Center.Hosted jointly by VSE
Undergraduate Student
Services and the office of Corporate Development, the evening
features poster presentations
of Design, Research and Scholarly Work by undergraduate students.
More
information
on this event will be distributed in early 2015.
John Miller Receives Funding from
South Dakota State Univ. & Dept. of Justice
John
Miller
of the Statistics Department received $96K from South Dakota State
University and the U.S. Department of Justice for his project,
“The Value of
Evidence.”
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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Phone: (703) 993-1505
Fax: (703) 993-1633
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