{"64165":{"#nid":"64165","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Cressler Honored with IEEE Graduate Teaching Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn D. Cressler, Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and\nComputer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is being honored with\nthe 2011 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. IEEE is the world\u2019s\nlargest professional association advancing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award, sponsored by the Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial\nFund, recognizes Cressler for inspirational teaching and student mentoring in\nthe field of advanced microelectronic devices and circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler will be presented with the award on February 21 at the IEEE\nInternational Solid-State Circuits Conference, in San Francisco, Calif.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown for his approachability and his unlimited patience,\nCressler includes unique design experiences within his graduate courses so that\nstudents gain exposure to real-world challenges, learn to communicate with\ndiverse audiences and work together in a team environment to solve complex\nproblems, the IEEE award announcement said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022John is passionately dedicated to finding engineering and technological solutions to the challenges that the world faces today, and\u0026nbsp;he is an exemplary ambassador for our profession,\u0022 said Gary May, fellow professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler also instills his passion for social awareness\nwithin his students, examining both the positive and negative aspects of the\nglobal micro- and nanoelectronics revolution. According to former students,\nknown to many in industry as \u201cCressler Students,\u201d Cressler has inspired them to\nuse technology to build a better world and to seek balance in life while they\nexcel professionally. Cressler consistently receives high ratings from student\nsurveys and is admired by students and faculty alike.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECressler is considered a leading expert in silicon-germanium\nheterojunction bipolar transistor technology. This technology opens the door\nfor low-cost but high-performance electronics and systems needed to support\never-increasing global communications needs. The experience he gained in\nindustry prior to starting his teaching career clearly influences his classroom\nstyle and philosophy. He has maintained close ties to both industry and\ngovernment sponsors, ensuring that his students\u2019 research has timely impact on\nthe ever-changing communications marketplace.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECressler also serves as\nfaculty mentor for Georgia Tech\u2019s SURE program, which brings top-notch minority\nundergraduates to the school and incorporates them into research teams for a\ntaste of what graduate school is all about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining Georgia Tech in 2002, Cressler worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and served on the ECE faculty at Auburn University. He is an IEEE Fellow and is a previous recipient of the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants Award (2007) and the Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (2010).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn D. Cressler, Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and\nComputer Engineering, is being honored with\nthe 2011 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. IEEE is the world\u2019s\nlargest professional association advancing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"John Cressler, Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is honored with  2011 IEEE Graduate Teaching Award."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-02-09 15:33:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46184":{"id":"46184","type":"image","title":"John Cressler","body":null,"created":"1449174358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:58","changed":"1475894412","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:12","alt":"John Cressler","file":{"fid":"101007","name":"tgr64084.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgr64084_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tgr64084_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1893724,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tgr64084_1.jpg?itok=xLIzSIa9"}}},"media_ids":["46184"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=123","title":"John Cressler"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/","title":"IEEE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"167197","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineeering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Liz.klipp@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}