{"46097":{"#nid":"46097","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Professor Selected for NAE Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Institute of Technology faculty member has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering\u0027s (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Dirk Schaefer, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, will join 48 of the nation\u0027s brightest young engineering researchers and educators who have been selected to take part in the inaugural symposium. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchaefer, who works at Georgia Tech\u0027s Savannah campus, was selected along with other top engineering faculty members in the first half of their careers who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of disciplines. They will gather in Herndon, Va., November 15-18 to share ideas and best practices to bring back to their home institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am proud that Dr. Schaefer is playing a strategic role in transforming engineering education,\u0022 said David Frost, director of Georgia Tech-Savannah. \u0022We are fortunate to have someone of his caliber as part of our Savannah campus.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe participants were nominated by fellow engineers or deans and chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants. Schaefer, who joined Georgia Tech in 2006, has focused his research on the strategic design of engineering education including virtual learning environments and remotely\/robotically controlled physical laboratory exercises for distance learning settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Program Explores Innovative Approaches to Engineering Education"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"A Georgia Institute of Technology faculty member has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering\u0027s (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Inaugural Program Explores Innovative Engineering Education"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2009-10-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:09","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46098":{"id":"46098","type":"image","title":"Dirk Schaefer","body":null,"created":"1449174347","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:47","changed":"1475894409","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:09","alt":"Dirk Schaefer","file":{"fid":"100980","name":"tpn33205.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpn33205_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpn33205_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28130,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpn33205_0.jpg?itok=PqFKmuwR"}}},"media_ids":["46098"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/schaefer.shtml","title":"Dirk Schaefer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtsav.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Savannah"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/","title":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"7024","name":"engineering education"},{"id":"541","name":"Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}