{"290201":{"#nid":"290201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sokol Receives the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor, has received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award for teaching excellence including extraordinary efforts in teaching, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, intellectual integrity and scholarship, and impact on post graduate success of students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECombining rigor with dedication, respect, and friendship, Sokol is a cornerstone of Georgia Tech\u2019s leadership in industrial engineering education. The excitement that encompasses Sokol while teaching is palpable to his students. They say he comes to class with the purpose of teaching and a goal for every student to understand the topic. Sokol\u2019s students express life-long appreciation of their Georgia Tech education and he continues to mentor his students, both graduate and undergraduate, even after they leave Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; His former mentees include not just PhD students at top universities and successful engineers and consultants, but also prosperous entrepreneurs, military officers, vice presidents and directors across at least four continents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESokol has helped revamp the Senior Design curriculum, developed or co-developed five new courses, and created new course materials for optimization and logistics courses at multiple levels.\u0026nbsp; His materials have been requested and used not only by colleagues at Georgia Tech, but also at MIT and several other universities.\u0026nbsp; Sokol\u2019s teaching has even reached the popular press: his use of The Simpons TV show to illustrate game theory concepts is mentioned in Simon Singh\u2019s book: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince joining Georgia Tech in 1999, Sokol has been an outstanding teacher in all facets of the profession.\u0026nbsp; He has won recognition for curriculum development and educational technology, and he has held national leadership positions in education. Sokol has proven to be an impactful teacher time and time again as well as a mentor to undergraduates and graduate students alike.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor, has received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award for teaching excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joel Sokol, Fouts Family Associate Professor, has received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award for teaching excellence."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-04-14 08:59:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:11","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"280101":{"id":"280101","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"Joel Sokol","file":{"fid":"198901","name":"sokol-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sokol-1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sokol-1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3112397,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sokol-1_0.jpg?itok=gpFOtcUT"}}},"media_ids":["280101"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1200","name":"joel sokol"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}