{"496781":{"#nid":"496781","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Lakshmi Sankar Recognized by Women in Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Women in Engineering has chosen GT-AE Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/sankar-l\u0022\u003ELakshmi Sankar\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive one of two WIE Teaching Excellence Awards for 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESankar and Dr. Dima Nazzal, the director of Student Services in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering, will officially receive their honor at the Women in Engineering Banquet, March 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Regents Professor and associate chair for the School of Aerospace Engineering, Sankar is a well-known presence in the academic lives of undergraduates, where his calm voice and wry sense of humor have helped many a panicked student get back on track.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are all assigned students as advisees, but I always tell the undergraduates they don\u0027t have to wait to get an advisor, my door\u0027s open,\u0022 he said. \u0022If I\u0027m busy when they come by, I tell them to come back.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClearly, a lot of them have.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his Montgomery\u0026nbsp;Knight office, which is jammed with books, journals, and all manner of paperwork, he makes sure that a side table is always cleared off, ready for a student\u0027s notebook or computer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat same attitude is likely\u0026nbsp; what prompted Sankar to receive themost votes for the WIE\u0026nbsp;Teaching Excellence Award. He has worked closely with the group to recruit high school students to the field of engineering. And, once they are at Georgia Tech, he makes a strong case for aerospace engineering.\u0022They can see that there\u0027s a place for them,\u0022 said Sankar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of his more successful recruits somes to mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I remember when [Associate Professor]\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/community\/staff\/bio\/feigh-k\u0022\u003EKaren Feigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was visiting Georgia Tech with her father [a career Air Force officer] and he wanted to know why his daughter should come to Georgia Tech,\u0022 Sankar says, with a smile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You could tell, even then, that she had this gleam in her eyes, that she was bound to be successful, so her father wanted to make sure she went somewhere that would be worthwhile. He was right about that.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sankar\u0027s belief that there are other bright young women, like Feigh, who are looking for a place to launch their success, motivates him to keep that door open.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Regents Professor and associate chair for the School of Aerospace Engineering, Sankar is a well-known presence in the academic lives of undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Women in Engineering has chosen GT-AE Professor Lakshmi Sankar to receive one of two WIE Teaching Excellence Awards for 2015."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-08 16:41:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"496791":{"id":"496791","type":"image","title":"Lakshmi Sankar","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Lakshmi Sankar","file":{"fid":"204605","name":"sankar-lakshmi1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4420,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sankar-lakshmi1_0.jpg?itok=xE_R_ZqB"}}},"media_ids":["496791"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"129771","name":"Lakshmi Sankar"},{"id":"171643","name":"WIE Teaching Excellence Awards"},{"id":"1235","name":"women in engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}