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ECE Associate Professor Omer T. Inan has been invited to attend the 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, to be held June 20-22 in San Diego, California.

Georgia Tech’s Institute Diversity and Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development, began offering workshops in fall 2015.

A pilot program seeking to build a network of ambassadors in support of inclusive excellence celebrated the completion of its second group of fellows this month at the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program Poster Expo.

ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been elected to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Board of Governors for a remarkable, seventh consecutive three-year term.

Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.

ECE Associate Professor Pamela Bhatti has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (J-TEHM) for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2019. 

ECE Professor Shyh-Chiang Shen has been elected to the class of 2019 OSA Fellows.

ECE Associate Professor Morris B. Cohen has been named president-elect of the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section (ASE) of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

While the holiday season is traditionally one of giving, Georgia Tech gets the giving started early each year through the State Charitable Contributions Program.

With a number of political campaigns underway, it’s important to be aware of the University System of Georgia’s (USG) policies on employee involvement. 

John D. Cressler, Lukas Graber, Tushar Krishna, Sung Kyu Lim, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

ECE and CEE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.

The former deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy will join the faculty of Georgia Tech as a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and as energy-national security fellow at the Strategic Energy Institute.

The former deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy will join the faculty of Georgia Tech as a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and as energy-national security fellow at the Strategic Energy Institute.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome three new faculty members – Angelos Keromytis, Negar Kiyavash, and Shimeng Yu – to Georgia Tech. They have joined ECE throughout this past summer.

Scientists from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have made remarkable advances into recording the electrical activity that the nervous system uses to control complex skills, leading to insights into how the nervous system directs an animal’s behavior. 

ECE Associate Professor Patricio Vela received the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2018 John O. Bickel Award for a paper co-authored with colleagues from the University of Cambridge.

Petit Institute researcher selected for the 2018 Sensors Council Young Professional Award

ECE Associate Professor Omer T. Inan has been selected for the 2018 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award.

ECE Associate Professor Maryam Saeedifard has been chosen for the 2018 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) J. David Irwin Early Career Award.

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury received the 2018 IEEE/ACM "Innovator Under 40 Award" at the Design Automation Conference, held June 24-28 in San Francisco, California. 

ECE Professor Edward J. Coyle received the “Advancing Civic Engagement and Socially Beneficial Science and Engineering” Award at the SUNY-Industry Conference and Showcase: Science and Engineering for Social Good.

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship, effective May 1, 2018.

From a new Teaching with Technology Summer Institute to a Teaching Scholars Faculty Learning Community, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has a variety of upcoming events and programs for faculty to get involved with. 

ECE Associate Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as the graduate recruitment coordinator for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective May 14.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on April 17, 2018. Dean Jacqueline Royster recognized the accomplishments of the College throughout the year, and highlighted that this is the 130th Year of Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology.

There is now a transparent and equitable process for academic professionals and lecturers to seek promotion.

ECE Professor Muhannad S. Bakir has been named the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Exceptional Technical Achievement Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Joint Sounds Sensing for Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.”

EAS Professor Felix Herrmann has been named as a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the period covering January through June 2019. In addition to his primary faculty appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Herrmann holds joint appointments in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Computational Science and Engineering.  

EAS Professor Felix Herrmann has been named as a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the period covering January through June 2019. In addition to his primary faculty appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Herrmann holds joint appointments in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Computational Science and Engineering.  

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan D. Saltaformaggio has received the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled “Feedback-Controlled Microfluidic Chips with Integrated Sensor Networks for Blood Analysis.”

ECE Associate Professor Linda M. Wills has been chosen as a recipient of the Women in Engineering (WIE) Teaching Excellence Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for a two-year term. 

ECE Professor Robert J. Butera has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) for a two-year term, which began on January 1, 2018 and will end on December 31, 2019. 

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for his research project entitled “MAXIMA: Multi-Mode Hybrid Power Amplifier with EXtreme Instantaneous Bandwidth and Recursive Scalable Marchand-Doherty Load ModulAtion Network.” 

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, which is given by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Assessment of Warfighter Blood Volume Status using Graph Mining Algorithms.” 

According to a recent satisfaction survey among Georgia Tech faculty members, participants listed quality of colleagues and quality of undergraduate students as the two best aspects of working at the university. 

John D. Cressler, Magnus Egerstedt, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

OIE is looking for faculty members to create faculty-led study abroad programs that will be academically relevant and of interest to Georgia Tech students. 

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has been selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled “Correct-By-Design Control of Traffic Flow Networks.”

ECE Professor Abdallah Ougazzaden has been named to the National Academy of Metz as an honorary member.

Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2018. They are BME Professor Jaydev Desai, ECE Professors Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Justin Romberg, and GTRI Senior Research Engineer Kevin James “Jim” Sangston.

ECE Professor Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora has been named a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for 2018-2019.

Benjamin D.B. Klein has been appointed as associate chair for Graduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1.

ECE Professor Marilyn C. Wolf is the co-editor of the current special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE, which is focused on safe and secure cyber-physical systems.

ECE Professor Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is part of the Class of 2017 NAI Fellows, consisting of 155 renowned academic inventors who will be inducted during the Seventh Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors. The conference will take place on April 4-6, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

For a number of recent graduates of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, the experience has provided a springboard for successful academic careers at colleges and universities across the country. Some have remained in industrial engineering disciplines while others have obtained positions teaching business, underscoring the versatility of an ISyE education at Georgia Tech.

Professor Douglas M. Blough has been appointed as the associate chair for Faculty Development in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1, 2018.

ECE Professor Mary Ann Weitnauer has been named the recipient of the Vivian A. Carr Award, which will be presented by the Radio Club of America (RCA) at its 108th Banquet and Awards Presentation on November 17 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ECE Academic Professional Joyelle Harris was one of 40 individuals from the metro Atlanta area who were honored at the 2017 Atlanta Business Chronicle 40 Under 40 Awards.

ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Technical Recognition Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas.

Frank Lambert has been named president-elect for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). 

The Regents Professor title is the highest academic recognition bestowed by the University System of Georgia, and demonstrates excellence and achievement in teaching and research

ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term. 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $300,000 grant to a multi-university team that will explore ways of utilizing emeriti and retired engineering professors to support expanded mentoring and advocacy networking opportunities for underrepresented minority (URM) engineering faculty.

John Krige has been appointed a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Allen Hyde, assistant professor of history and sociology, has a forthcoming article in the Southern Sociological Society flagship journal Social Currents analyzing the impacts of financialization on income inequality and redistribution, which served as inspiration for his dissertation completed in 2016.

Last year, there were nearly 100 counts of theft at Georgia Tech — not physical theft, but theft of words. 

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has published a new textbook entitled On-Chip Networks, Second Edition. 

ECE Professor Joseph L.A. Hughes has been named as the recipient of the 2017 William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education, given by the IEEE Education Society.

Elliot Moore II has been appointed as associate chair for Undergraduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 15.

David Bamburowski has been named director of Academic and Research Faculty Affairs and will assume the role on Aug. 1.

Malcolm B. Polk, 79, Professor Emeritus in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, died Monday, May 22, from complications arising from an operation.

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received the 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award for his project titled “All-Electronic Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for High-Throughput Multi-Modal Cell Phenotyping.”

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled “Exploiting the LF/MF Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing.”

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard is featured in Atlanta magazine's Women Making a Mark.

The FAR serves as the liaison between the Institute and the Athletic Association on issues regarding rules compliance, developments at the NCAA, and activities related to ACC membership

Georgia Tech Basketball Coaches MaChelle Joseph and Josh Pastner invite the children of all Tech employees to register for basketball camps this summer.

On April 18, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 16th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

After 19 years of service to Tech, Cozzens, vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development (VPGEFD), will retire on June 30.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on April 18, 2017.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been chosen for the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication. 

Interested in taking a break and releasing some stress during finals week? The Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Complex (CRC) can help. During finals week, the CRC will offer free GIT FIT drop-in classes to all members.

The annual President’s Campus Walk, hosted by the Office of Health & Well-Being and Go T.E.C.H., will take place on Thursday, May 11 at 4 p.m. Join your Georgia Tech colleagues for a walk through campus. Two routes will be offered this year: a one-mile option or a three-mile option, both along the Tyler Brown Pi Mile.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as one of Atlanta magazine’s 2017 Women Making a Mark, a distinction reserved for a select group of women working to grow and strengthen the metro Atlanta community. 

17 faculty have been selected for the Center for Teaching and Learning’s new Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows program.

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as one out of 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers, representing eight scientific fields, to receive a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.

ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai has received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award.

Starting Feb. 20, Georgia Tech faculty can participate in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey.

Faculty members of all levels are wanted to serve on committees as part of Georgia Tech’s Faculty Governance.

The majority of the Faculty Senate’s Feb. 14 meeting was devoted to student-related matters and business, with several student guest speakers in attendance.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah was named as an Emerging Scholar in the January 26, 2017 edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 

Students, teaching assistants, and faculty can continue to use Piazza as they have in the past, without concern that their data might be sold, accessed, or used in ways that breach their privacy.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

Today's most pressing problems faced by humanity and our planet are complex, requiring a systems-level perspective, such as that of William W. George Chair and Professor Pinar Keskinocak.

We asked several members of the Georgia Tech community for leisure reading recommendations.

Once again, faculty members and graduate students from ISyE have received awards at this year's INFORMS conference.

Starting this year, participation in this benefit program will require membership in the form of a one-time donation of at least eight hours and a qualifying personal retainer.

Still gotta catch ‘em all? Take part in the Campus Recreation Center’s Halloween Holla 5k Pokemon Challenge on Friday, October 28th! Walk the Tyler Brown Pi Mile with your cohorts, and enter for a chance to win a Pikachu Halloween costume.

Starting this fall, Campus Recreation will offer a Faculty/Staff Tennis League. The Friday night mixed-doubles tennis round-robin program will provide a social and healthy outlet for faculty and staff through tennis.

In collaboration with Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE Program, Institute Diversity has been offering 90-minute workshops to address the concepts of implicit bias and perceptions of competence. 

Huan Xu was hired in August 2016 by ISyE as an assistant professor.

Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1. 

Georgia Tech Human Resources announces an enhancement to its supplemental retirement investment options. Employees now have access to a Roth 457(b). 

Ayanna Howard has been named to the Invention Ambassadors Program, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation.

Beginning in September, the nine-month program will include monthly workshops, as well as a weekend workshop in late October.  Other program activities will include small team teamwork, as well as self - and 360 assessments. 

When Rimoli was little, he shared a dream with many other kids who grew up watching space missions: He wanted to be an astronaut.

Faculty Upbeat After Road Trip to Oak Ridge National Lab

Georgia Tech faculty and staff members can attend all seven home games this year and receive a 20 percent discount on season tickets. 

The Stamps Health Services Pharmacy, located on Ferst Drive next to the Campus Recreation Center, now has the ability to process most presciption insurance.

With the exception of some students-only expeditions, ORGT activities and resources are available to all members of the Georgia Tech community — alumni and sponsored guests included.

While many students are away, faculty and staff can play. Registration is now open for Tech’s first faculty/staff summer bowling league. 

The Center for Community Health and Well-Being and Go T.E.C.H. are hosting the seventh annual Employee Health Fair on Wednesday, May 25th. All faculty and staff are invited to attend the Health Fair free of charge.

School of Building Construction Professor, Debbie Phillips, was profiled for the series "In The Classroom"

Many alumni find themselves back at Tech as faculty and staff members, and even back at Commencement time and again. 

The Office of Human Resources hosted its Employee Service Awards celebration to honor employees who have worked at Georgia Tech for 10 and 25 years.

Georgia Tech boasts some of the finest faculty and staff members in higher education, and each year it honors some of them at the annual Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on Tuesday, April 19.

Raheem Beyah has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective March 1. 

The Mutual Expectations of Research Advisors and Advisees is meant to serve as a starting point in the Institute’s efforts to improve advisor and advisee relationships.

After an extensive international search, Building Construction at GT has a new professor.
Eunhwa Yang has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in the teaching areas of Facility and/or Real Estate Management. 

FLCs are cohorts of eight to 12 faculty members who meet regularly over the course of a semester or year.

Georgia Tech offers the Faculty/Staff Assistance Program as a confidential resource to all faculty and staff, as well as their families. 

ECE Professor Bonnie Ferri has been unanimously selected for the 2016 Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. 

Fellows serve as coaches for Georgia Tech students and also have the chance to strengthen their own leadership skills.

Both Faculty Governance and Staff Council are looking for volunteers to serve on a number of committees that shape life at Tech. 

The College remembers our colleague Wister Cook who passed away on January 13, 2016.

With Presidents Day on Feb. 15 and the 2016 presidential election in full swing, this is a good time to look at a few books written by or about some who have held the nation’s highest office. 

Instead of buying loved ones flowers or chocolates, make them a disaster preparedness food kit.

Faculty members, the Graduate Student Government Association and other sponsors of the annual Career Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) need your help. 

Matt Baker, an award-winning professor in Tech’s School of Mathematics, also happens to be an award-winning magician. 

Goel, an award-winning professor in the College of Computing, talks about how he got into teaching and what inspires him in the classroom.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

With Georgia Tech continuing to get more competitive, the Office of Undergraduate Admission has been looking for ways to better evaluate the growing pool of candidates. 

Celebrate your colleagues by nominating them for a 2015 award. 

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for a 2015 Intel Early Career Faculty Award. 

Sudhakar Yalamanchili has been promoted to the rank of Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective November 1.

Georgia Tech’s current regalia was adopted in 2009. Take a look at the caps and gowns worn by Institute leaders.

From monster El Niños to electronic spaghetti, the thesis topics covered during Georgia Tech’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition were as different as the students who presented them. But it was a compelling argument to leave ancient rocket engines behind that brought home the gold.   

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology is considering applicants for a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant, Associate or Professor level for its European campus of Georgia Tech Lorraine in Metz, France.

ECE Professor Anthony J. Yezzi has been offered a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Italy, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University faculty members are uniting to train the next generation of engineering students in healthcare robotics technologies, so they can better understand the changing needs of patients and their caregivers and healthcare providers. 

When it comes to speaking to lay audiences — particularly the popular press — many researchers put on the brakes because they are afraid of being misunderstood or misquoted. What are the benefits to overcoming this fear and communicating with a broader audience?

Amber Johnson, nutritionist in Health Promotion and Dining Services, offers advice on how to pack easy, healthy lunches.

Twelve faculty members have been selected to the inaugural class of fellows with the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.

When the United States Supreme Court announced last month that same sex couples would be legally recognized within all 50 states, questions about practical matters such as healthcare coverage soon followed.

The Priestley Medal honors nearly 60 years of work from Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents’ Professor and the Julius Brown Chair in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $300,000 grant for research in environmental sustainability to Juan Moreno-Cruz, Assistant Professor of Economics.

Dana Randall is the ADVANCE Professor of Computing and director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Randall and her time at Tech. Here’s what she said.

The Center for 21st Century Universities recently assembled a team of “flipping veterans" to share successes and failures they’ve experienced in learning to flip a class. 

Sara Loughran Dommer is an assistant professor in the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Dommer and her time at Tech. Here’s what she said.

Numerous faculty and staff were honored for their hard work and service to the Institute this month.

Richard Barke is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Barke and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

Jason Freeman is an associate professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Freeman and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

M.G. Finn is a professor and chair of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Finn and his time at Tech. Here’s what he said.

John Matthew Smith, assistant professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, has been named a recipient of the 2015 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

Jeanne Balsam will replace Bohlander beginning this month.

Recently, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) joined the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs, which has resulted in a name change. 

Celebrating Teaching Day will take place on March 26.

For anyone with student interactions on campus, one option for becoming well-versed in suicide prevention is through specialized training offered by the Counseling Center.

Events will be hosted for faculty, staff during the spring semester.

The committees cover a range of topics such as benefits, curriculum, regulations, and academic integrity. 

Election to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. 

Iris Tien is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Recently, the Office of Faculty Affairs had the opportunity to learn more about Tien and her time at Tech. 

The chair position is awarded to outstanding tenured faculty who have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching, as well as leadership in the campus Hispanic community and beyond.

Dupuis and Prausnitz join Peterson and Juang who were named in recent years.

The Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering is starting the New Year off with a new School Chair, H. Edwin Romeijn.

Natashia Boland joins the ISyE faculty this winter as a professor. She hails from the University of Newcastle's School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences where she was a Professor of Applied Mathematics. Boland is no stranger to Georgia Tech, having completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at ISyE.

Out of twenty four teams of undergraduate students in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), the Emory Winship Senior Design Team took home first place in the Fall 2014 Senior Design Competition. 

IEEE is focused on advancing electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering, and other related disciplines.

Christopher W. Jones, C. David Sherrill, and Howie Weiss earn top honor from peers in scientific community.

Georgia Tech Professor Spyros Reveliotis has been named a 2015 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) for his extraordinary accomplishments in the field of discrete event systems for resource allocation.

Paul Griffin will be returning to ISyE as the Joseph C. Mello Chair, starting January 2015. The Joseph C. Mello Chair was created through an endowment established by Joseph Mello, IE 1980, to support the work of an outstanding ISyE faculty member whose work focuses on health care delivery operations.

Faculty from the College of Computing and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will lecture and conduct research abroad. 

For new faculty, the university environment is not necessarily new but can be an overwhelming entity of operations during the first years. At Tech, many find their place among their peers on campus through mentoring.

Professor Sandra Slaughter, holder of the Alton M. Costley Chair, died Nov. 3.

Whether through formal or informal means, mentoring proves crucial for faculty acclimation.

Sebastian Pokutta, Coca-Cola Assistant Professor in ISyE, along with Nadine Gatzert, Professor for Insurance Economics and Risk Management at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and her Ph.D. student, Nikolai Vogl, received the 2014 SCOR/EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award at the 41st Annual Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (ERGIE).

Kamran Paynabar, ISyE assistant professor, has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) sixth Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium. He is one of the nation's seventy-seven innovative, young engineering educators who were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants.

The School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at Georgia Tech invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professorship with an expected start date of August 2015.  The successful candidate will show great promise to make significant contributions to the advancement of transportation/city and regional planning; will contribute to our teaching program in transportation planning and core curricular areas; and will become an active participant in Georgia Tech’s multiple University Transportation Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Mark Hay, Dimitri Mavris, Helena Mitchell, and Lora Weiss earned the highest academic and research status bestowed by the University System of Georgia.

Fellows serve as coaches and mentors to undergraduate students who want to develop stronger leadership skills.

The associate professor in the Scheller College of Business once planned to go into medicine, but now studies how people decide their career choices.

The electronic system designed to reduce the amount of time faculty and researchers spend each year gathering information for annual activity reports, promotion and tenure packages, CV updates, and grant applications.