{"65972":{"#nid":"65972","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gary May Named Dean of the College of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search,\nGary S. May, alumnus, professor and current chair of Electrical and Computer\nEngineering, has been appointed as the next dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of\nEngineering\u003C\/a\u003E, effective July 1. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGary exemplifies the type of\nleadership qualities we hope to instill in each of our students,\u201d Provost\nRafael L. Bras said. \u201cAs a faculty member, administrator and representative of\nGeorgia Tech, his impact on his profession and on this institution has been\nprofound.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMay will succeed Don Giddens, who will be stepping down as dean of the College of Engineering, a post he has held since 2002, and retiring from the Institute at the end of June.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs\ndean, May will assume responsibility for directing the nation\u2019s largest\nengineering program, one that enrolls nearly 60 percent of Georgia Tech\u2019s student\nbody and is home to about half of its tenured and tenure-track faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\nam grateful for the opportunity to lead a premier institution like the College\nof Engineering,\u201d said May. \u201cIt is truly an honor and a privilege to be\nentrusted with one of the world\u2019s most respected brands, and I am looking\nforward to working with faculty across the college to advance the quality of our\neducation and research programs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of St. Louis,\nMissouri, May earned his bachelor\u2019s in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech as a student in Georgia Tech\u0027s Cooperative Education Program, a five-year accredited, academic program in which students alternate semesters of full-time study with semesters of full-time, paid employment directly related to their major. Current College of Engineering Dean Giddens was also a co-op student at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor his graduate studies, May\u0026nbsp;pursued\u0026nbsp;both his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from the University of\nCalifornia, Berkeley. He returned to Tech as an assistant professor in 1991,\nachieving full professor status in 2000. Two years later he was tapped by\nthen-President Wayne Clough to serve as his faculty executive assistant, a role\nthat introduced him to administrative responsibilities at an institutional\nlevel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMay,\nwho has chaired the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E since 2005, shared\nhis aspirations for the future of the college during a public presentation last\nmonth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy vision is to create an\nenvironment where anyone with the aptitude and inclination to study engineering\nwill want to come to Georgia Tech,\u201d he said. In partnership with colleagues in\nthe other colleges, he added, \u201cwe will build a community of scholars to address\nthe issues and challenges of the world through technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGary\u2019s\nrecord of scholarship, his collaborative nature and his tireless mentorship to\nstudents are admirable,\u201d President Bud Peterson said. \u201cWe are very excited about the future of engineering\neducation and research at Georgia Tech under Gary\u2019s leadership.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBras thanked the members of\nthe search committee for their service, as well as the members of the larger\ncampus community who participated in the evaluation process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\nconducted an international search to identify the best possible candidates to\nlead our largest academic unit,\u201d Bras said. \u201cThat the final choice for this\nmost important and desirable position is one of our own , as a graduate,\nprofessor and academic leader, speaks to the excellence of Georgia Tech.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Gary S. May, alumnus, professor and current chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed as the next dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, effective July 1.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alumnus to lead Georgia Tech\u0027s largest academic unit."}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2011-05-06 08:59:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:41","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"2078","name":"dean"},{"id":"2484","name":"Gary May"},{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"}],"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":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}