Research Symposium Program - Individual Details
5th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 17, 2025
Colin Fortner https://pc.fsu.edu/student-research/symposium/symposium-program-2025/systems-engineering
BIO
I am an Electronics Engineer with the US Air Force working at Eglin AFB, FL. I am a student in the Systems Engineering program currently, but I was a part of the first freshman class that FSU Panama City Hosted in the fall of 2013.
George Washington's Leadership through
Authors: Colin Fortner, Dr. Daniel GeorgiadisStudent Major: Systems Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Georgiadis
Mentor's Department: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department Mentor's College: College of Engineering Co-Presenters:
Abstract
George Washington was the leader America needed when fighting for independence. Throughout his life, however, he found himself seeking leadership roles and ways to better the people of the, at the time, colonies. This study focuses on the leadership qualities that Washington accrued through his life and how he applied them to not only his time as commander and chief of the revolutionary army, but also his time serving the British before the revolution and as our first president. George Washington is a unique leader in history because he did not come from nobility or have an extensive education to help support him. Lacking many of the traits required of the time, he persevered and became the greatest leader America had until that point, and one of the greatest examples that we have had since.
Keywords: George Washington Leadership Leader