{"66340":{"#nid":"66340","#data":{"type":"news","title":"One Helluva Engineer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a presentation to an alumni group in Chattanooga, Tenn., in March, Georgia Tech\u2019s dean of engineering Don Giddens was posed a question: How will a University of Georgia engineering degree compare to one from Georgia Tech?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps it was a rhetorical question, but after some of the snickers in the crowd subsided, Giddens replied, \u201cFirst of all, one of the arguments that the University of Georgia used was that \u2026 they really needed to offer engineering and medicine both in order to be a first-tier university. So our kind of tongue-in-cheek comeback to that was, \u2018Are you going to add a third-rate engineering program and become a first-rate university?\u2019\u201d\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtalumnimag.com\/?p=6176\u0022\u003E Read Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a presentation to an alumni group in Chattanooga, Tenn., in March, Georgia Tech\u2019s dean of engineering Don Giddens was posed a question: How will a University of Georgia engineering degree compare to one from Georgia Tech?\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2011-06-01 08:28:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:49","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"40276":{"id":"40276","type":"image","title":"Don Giddens","body":null,"created":"1449174171","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:51","changed":"1475894298","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:38:18"}},"media_ids":["40276"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2551","name":"College of  Engineering"},{"id":"2549","name":"Don Giddens"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}