ICES — The Institute for Complex Engineered Systems — fosters multidisciplinary research and relationships between Carnegie Mellon University, industry, and government agencies.

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Dowd-ICES Fellows Announced for 2011-12

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The Philip and Marsha Dowd Engineering Seed Fund was established in 2001 through a generous gift to the College of Engineering (CIT) from Philip (B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, 1963) and Marsha Dowd. This fellowship grant program, administered through ICES, provides support for graduate students working on cutting edge research projects which do not have other sources of funding.

ICES is pleased to announce the 2011-12 Dowd-ICES Fellowship recipients: Katherine Hess, Quentin Jallerat, Prahlad Menon, and Zonghui Su. This fall, both the new fellows and the outgoing 2010-2011 fellows will present their research projects to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) community and to Philip and Marsha Dowd at the Dowd Fellowship Symposium.

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Supporting New Research Through Social Media
Since 2001, the Philip and Marsha Dowd Engineering Seed Fund has been providing financial support for graduate students who are working on new and innovative ideas that require seed funding to prove their potential. To date, the program has contributed to many successes, counted in patents, doctorates, published papers, and follow-on funding.

Now, College of Engineering alumnus Philip Dowd (B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, 1963) and his wife, Marsha, have envisioned the next step of supporting the needed technologies of the future through the launch of a new website: dowdseedfund.com. The project is a collaboration between the Dowds, ICES, and Gross Strategic Marketing LLC. Its goals are to build awareness of the program and encourage financial contributions to fund future fellowships.

This effort taps into social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to publicize and promote the Dowd-ICES Fellowship, as well as the people and projects it supports. The website went live on May 1, 2011 and will soon be accessible through http://www.dowdseedfund.com/Home.aspx.
Dowd-ICES Fellows Announced for 2011-12