{"68555":{"#nid":"68555","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Names Chief Manufacturing Officer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStarting Jan. 1, 2012, Ben Wang will assume the role of Georgia Tech\u0027s chief manufacturing officer. He will be introduced to the Tech community on Oct. 6 at a 20th-anniversary event for the Manufacturing Research Center.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDr. Wang is an internationally renowned scholar and leader who will oversee Georgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary manufacturing programs and their impact on economic development,\u201d said Steve Cross, executive vice president for research. \u201cThrough his leadership, we will see a renaissance in manufacturing in this state.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang will follow in the footsteps of Steven Danyluk, who served as the center\u2019s director from 1994 to 2010. In addition to his work at MaRC, Wang will also hold an appointment as a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver the last 30 years, I have worked in various positions related to manufacturing \u2014 from operations and planning to strategy and policy,\u201d Wang said. \u201cThe approach we will take to reaching the center\u2019s goal of becoming the world\u2019s manufacturing thought leader and trendsetter is to create an innovation ecosystem. We will add substantial commercial, economic and societal values to Tech professors\u2019 inventions to license the technology to a company, create a joint venture or form a new spin-off company.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, Wang is director of the High-Performance Materials Institute at Florida State University. He also serves as an assistant vice president for research in engineering and holds the following three distinguished professorships: the Simon Ostrach Professor of Engineering, the FSU Distinguished Research Professor and the U.S. Department of Energy Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang earned his bachelor\u2019s in industrial engineering from Tunghai University in Taiwan and his master\u2019s in industrial engineering and PhD from Pennsylvania State University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStarting Jan. 1, 2012, Ben Wang will assume the role of Georgia Tech\u0027s chief manufacturing officer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Ben Wang will assume the role of executive director of the Manufacturing Research Center (MaRC)."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-06-27 13:34:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68556":{"id":"68556","type":"image","title":"Ben Wang","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Ben Wang","file":{"fid":"193333","name":"ben_wang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ben_wang_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ben_wang_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3066794,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ben_wang_1.jpg?itok=CXBtDfNN"}}},"media_ids":["68556"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.marc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Manufacturing Research Center (MARC)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13523","name":"Ben Wang"},{"id":"13524","name":"executive director"},{"id":"13522","name":"Manufacturing Research Center"},{"id":"632","name":"marc"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}