{"132211":{"#nid":"132211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professional Education Dean to Lead Georgia Tech-Savannah Campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-Savannah campus is transitioning into a hub for professional education, as recommended by the Institute\u2019s task force report last summer. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EProfessional Education\u003C\/a\u003E Dean Nelson Baker will lead the new direction of the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaker is a nationally recognized leader in award-winning educational technologies designed for and applied to engineering and technical environments.\u0026nbsp; As the dean of Professional Education, Baker is responsible for the oversight of all professional education programs at Georgia Tech and for the distance delivered master\u2019s degree programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNelson will provide the leadership and direction needed to guide Georgia Tech-Savannah through this transformation,\u201d said Georgia Tech Provost Rafael Bras.\u0026nbsp; \u201cHe has a strong vision for professional education at Georgia Tech, and Savannah can play a key role through its new mission focused on meeting the needs of the community and industry in the coastal Georgia area.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech-Savannah will begin to offer professional education classes this fall in the areas of OSHA, LEAN Healthcare, supply chain logistics, and project management, with additional programs to be scheduled in the future. The Savannah campus will also continue to deepen engagement with the community via partnerships with industry, other educational institutions, K-12 outreach, and the military.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m excited that Georgia Tech is investing in the Savannah campus through our professional education program,\u201d said Baker.\u0026nbsp; \u201cOver the last year, I have learned that the Savannah business community is very dedicated to working with Georgia Tech-Savannah.\u0026nbsp; Our goal is to create new programs that will have a vital and lasting impact in Savannah and the coastal region.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin the educational technology domain, Baker has helped create and assess technology used by students in the pursuit of evaluating the impacts on knowledge retention and transfer.\u0026nbsp; These activities have included multi-lingual web-based intelligent simulations for problem solving, intelligent tutors, student models, virtual reality interfaces for education and medical assistants for physicians.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaker\u2019s research interests include intelligent learning environments for engineering, applications of artificial intelligence and other computer-based techniques to solve engineering problems, as well as robotic applications in civil engineering. He has a master\u2019s and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and bachelor\u2019s degree from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EProfessional Education\u003C\/a\u003E Dean Nelson Baker will lead the new direction of the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professional Education Dean Nelson Baker will lead the new direction of the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2012-05-22 16:39:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:18","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"132181":{"id":"132181","type":"image","title":"Nelson Baker","body":null,"created":"1449178659","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:39","changed":"1475894759","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:59","alt":"Nelson Baker","file":{"fid":"194709","name":"nelson-baker.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nelson-baker_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nelson-baker_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38866,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nelson-baker_0.jpg?itok=oL2e8gx5"}}},"media_ids":["132181"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtpe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Professional Education"},{"url":"http:\/\/savannah.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech-Savannah"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7046","name":"Georgia Tech-Savannah"},{"id":"34281","name":"Neslon Baker"},{"id":"2662","name":"professional education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENikki Troxclair\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager, Professional Education\u003Cbr \/\u003E Phone (912) 966-7913\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Nikki.Troxclair@pe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ENikki.Troxclair@pe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Nikki.Troxclair@pe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}