{"64179":{"#nid":"64179","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Elected to National Academy of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. \u201cBill\u201d Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is one of 68 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECook is known widely for his work with the traveling salesman problem and his research in combinatorial optimization and integer programming. In November, Cook was also elected fellow by the Institute for Operational Research and Management Sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECook joins two Georgia Tech alumni who were also selected for the NAE honor. Parker H. \u0022Pete\u0022 Petit, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering and master\u2019s degree in engineering mechanics, as well as Linda Griffith, a professor of teaching innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in chemical engineering in 1982, were also elected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElection to NAE is considered among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. According to NAE, membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to \u0022engineering research, practice or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,\u0022 and to the \u0022pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Two alumni also receive NAE honor"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. \u201cBill\u201d Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor in the H. \nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is one of \n68 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National \nAcademy of Engineering (NAE).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two alumni also receive NAE honor."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2011-02-10 14:30:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64180":{"id":"64180","type":"image","title":"William \u0022Bill\u0022 Cook","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894564","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:44","alt":"William \u0022Bill\u0022 Cook","file":{"fid":"191961","name":"Bill_Cook.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bill_Cook_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bill_Cook_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2445037,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Bill_Cook_0.jpg?itok=s1rXTOvP"}}},"media_ids":["64180"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/profile.php?entry=wc115","title":"William \u0022Bill\u0022 Cook"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nae.edu\/Activities\/MediaRoom\/20095\/42133.aspx","title":"NAE Elects 68 Members"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11342","name":"Bill Cook"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"11866","name":"Industrial Systems and Engineering"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"},{"id":"11867","name":"Parker H."},{"id":"512","name":"William Cook"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein, 404-894-8835\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}