{"656516":{"#nid":"656516","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Lecturer to Receive Teaching Honor from Georgia Tech Women in Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDamon Williams\u003C\/strong\u003E, a senior lecturer in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to receive the 2022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wie.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Women in Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(WIE) Teaching Excellence Award, which will be presented at the organization\u2019s annual banquet on April 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is selected by polling current female undergraduate students in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;about who they consider to be their best engineering professor thus far in their academic careers. Williams, also the Director of the Center for Academics, Success, and Equity, is one of two receiving the award along with Aerospace Engineering Lecturer\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKelly Griendling\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am humbled and honored that the effort my teaching assistants and I put into creating an engaging environment for learning are being received positively by students,\u201d said Williams, who also graduated from ISyE in 2002. \u201cWe believe in active learning, and it appears that belief is allowing all students to learn in my course, which is a great thing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliams\u2019 teaching interests lie in engaging a diverse set of learners in larger classes, and his research interests involve the development of analytical models to solve large-scale operational problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of Williams\u2019 largest contributions to the school remains the Center for Academics, Success, and Equity (CASE).\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news\/isye-launches-center-academics-success-and-equity\u0022\u003ELaunched in 2021, the center aims to encourage academic growth, professional development, and inclusivity for all ISyE students.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;The goal has been to leverage the extensive resources of ISyE, the largest and No. 1-ranked program of its kind in the United States, to provide students with industry collaborations, networking and career opportunities, and access to cutting-edge research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe created the Center to foster connection and interaction,\u201d Williams said in Fall 2021 when the center was launched. \u201cThere are so many points at which our various groups need to interact with each other, so we really wanted to build community \u2013 with this great push that Georgia Tech has for diversity, equity, and inclusion \u2013 while supporting students academically and professionally, and bring all our programs together into one place.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech WIE program, a part of the office of College of Engineering Dean\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E, helps to recruit and retain more women engineering students at Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech is one of top universities in the country, having graduated more women engineers than any other institution in the United States since 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDamon Williams\u003C\/strong\u003E, a senior lecturer in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to receive the 2022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wie.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Women in Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(WIE) Teaching Excellence Award, which will be presented at the organization\u2019s annual banquet on April 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Damon Williams has been selected to receive the 2022\u00a0Georgia Tech Women in Engineering\u00a0(WIE) Teaching Excellence Award, which will be presented at a banquet on April 14."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2022-03-22 03:00:15","changed_gmt":"2023-05-17 16:37:46","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646968":{"id":"646968","type":"image","title":"Damon P. 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