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First Company to Lease Space Scores Big Hit
Metron
Aviation Wins Largest Small Business Award in FAA History
Dulles, Virginia, June 30, 2010-The Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) awarded Metron Aviation the System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020) Research
and Mission Analysis Set-Aside. SE-2020 is the FAA's strategic program
for implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).
The ten-year contract awarded to Metron Aviation has a value of $1.15 billion,
making it the largest single award to a small business in FAA history.
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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Award
Dr. Long Nguyen was recently awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in Greater Washington in the IT Services category. Dr. Nguyen is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Pragmatics, Inc. He and his wife, Kimmy Duong, named the Nguyen Engineering Building at George Mason University in 2009.
New Bioengineering Undergraduate Degree Program
George Mason
University’s Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
Offers New Leading
Edge Bioengineering Undergraduate Degree Program
Fairfax, VA, June 9, 2010 --
George
Mason University, the largest public university in Virginia, is once
again on
the forefront of science and commerce just having obtained approval from
the State
Council of Higher Education for Virginia to offer a Bachelor of Science
degree
in Bioengineering for the fall 2010 semester.
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Voice-Activated Wheelchair
Graduate Students and Faculty created a Voice-Activated Wheelchair at Mason's state of the art Nyugen Engineering Building.
Click the full story for a video of the chair in action.
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Northrop Grumman at Volgenau
 Wes Bush (center), CEO and President of Northrop Grumman Corporation, presents a check during his recent visit to George Mason to Dean Lloyd Griffiths and President Alan Merten.
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ITEA Scholarships
Two students recently received scholarships from the GW
Chapter of ITEA (International Testing and Evaluation Association). Jarret
Askvig, a systems engineering student, received the ITEA Scholarship, and Ira
Hunt, an electrical engineering student, received the Robert Bell
Scholarship. Both were recognized at an ITEA Luncheon at the Army Navy
Country Club in Arlington, VA.
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2010 Convocation Speech by Dr. Vint Cerf
Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering Convocation
On the Responsibilities of Engineering
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AUGUST 2010
Fall Graduate Student Orientation
Date: 25 August 2010
Time: 5:30-9 PM
Location: To Be Announced
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SEPTEMBER 2010
Ice Cream Social
Date: 2 September 2010
Time: 2-4 PM
Location: Nguyen Engr Bldg, Atrium
Tickets can be picked up in the Nguyen Engineering Building Suite 5100
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