In an interview, Dr. Javidi spoke very well of GWU. \u201cIt is an excellent school, always in the top 50 and is in an incredible location.\u201d However, when asked what his best memories are, Dr. Javidi explained that his experiences in DC and as an undergraduate were cut short. \u201cI studied very hard,\u201d he explains. \u201cI wish I had more time to explore the city, I always took extra classes so that I could graduate early.\u201d After finishing his undergraduate degree, he continued directly on to graduate school at Pennsylvania State University, but always looked back at his time fondly, and still returns for walks through campus when he is in DC.<\/p>\n Along with receiving his award from the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of GWU at a ceremony on May 6th<\/sup>, Dr. Javidi made a formal presentation based on his scholarship, and took part in informal discussions on a range of topics with GWU colleagues, administrators, and students; throughout the university.<\/p>\n Dr. Javidi is passionate about engineering and seeing future engineers succeed and not be deterred by the difficulty of the discipline. \u201cI want to encourage students and tell them that anything they want to be great at takes hard work.\u201d And that is certainly the example he has set.<\/p>\n \u201cThis award was really a great honor for me,\u201d Dr. Javidi said. \u201cGWU has really great programs, and I really appreciated being a student there.\u201d They also have great resources and access to engineering companies which will hopefully lead to the future success of many GWU engineering students. For now, however, UConn students have access to one of GWU\u2019s best resources \u2013 their Distinguished Alumni Scholar for 2009-2010.<\/p>\n Read more about Dr. Javidi\u2019s many accomplishments here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As an alumnus from George Washington University (GWU), Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Dr. Bahram Javidi (ECE) has been awarded the university\u2019s highest honor \u2013 the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award for 2009-2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 11:20:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/media\/2010\/07\/javidi2-300x294.jpg\" "\\"javidi2\\"")
<\/a>Dr. Javidi was nominated by David S. Dolling, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The two men have never met, and modestly Dr. Javidi explains, \u201cI was completely surprised because I didn\u2019t know that I was nominated.\u201d Dr. Javidi was altogether unaware that his career was being tracked by his alma mater<\/em>.<\/p>\n