{"497541":{"#nid":"497541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two GT-AE Faculty Receive Teaching Excellence Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo GT-AE professors this week learned that their passion for teaching has been recognized as outstanding by two very different groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Lakshmi Sankar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;was named as the 2015 recipient of the Dean George C. Griffin Faculty of the Year Award during the Up with the White and Gold Awards ceremony, held April 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Narayanan Komerath\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;learned that he has been chosen as the 2015 recipient of the John Leland Atwood Award, a joint honor bestowed on a top educator by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace (AIAA) and the Aerospace Division\u0026nbsp;of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe White and Gold Awards are a\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech tradition where student organizations, administrative units, staff, and faculty who have made a significant impact are recognized and honored. Dr. Sankar, who recently received the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, learned of the White and Gold Award just a day before it was announced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was truly a surprise,\u0022 said the Regents Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Leland Atwood Award is named after an early pioneer in the discipline. John Leland Atwood believed that the aviation field would be a cornerstone of our national security and serve as a principal medium of world commerce. He played a major role in the development of aviation and aerospace technologies for more than 50 years.The Award is bestowed by ASEE\u0026nbsp;and endowed by Rockwell Collins. Komerath will be recognized, first at the\u0026nbsp;June ASEE meeting in Seattle, and, then, again, at the AIAA\u0026nbsp;SciTech Forum, to be held in January 2016 in San Diego.\u0022It was truly a surprise,\u0022 said the Regents Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKomerath learned of his newest honor via email earlier this week, after returning home from a work-related trip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is such a tremendous honor,\u0022 he said. \u0022 I need to let this sink in for a couple of days.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two GT- AE professors this week learned that their passion for teaching has been recognized as outstanding by two very different groups."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 16:09:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","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"}},"497551":{"id":"497551","type":"image","title":"Narayanan Komerath","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Narayanan Komerath","file":{"fid":"204636","name":"01-27-15.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01-27-15_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/01-27-15_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3966558,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/01-27-15_0.jpg?itok=-pb5NCs9"}}},"media_ids":["496791","497551"],"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":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"171673","name":"Dean George C. Griffin Faculty of the Year Award"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171674","name":"John Leland Atwood Award"},{"id":"129771","name":"Lakshmi Sankar"},{"id":"134751","name":"Narayanan Komerath"}],"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":""}}}