{"73040":{"#nid":"73040","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Test Tubes, Tubas \u0026 Threads - A Winning Combination","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Thomas L. Friedman, renowned best-selling author and New York Times columnist, Georgia Tech\u0027s President G. Wayne Clough \u0022had to rethink education in a flattening world out of sheer necessity.\u0022  Friedman showcases Georgia Tech\u0027s approach to education in the 21st century, as well as the College of Computing\u0027s redesign of the computer science major called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThreads\u003C\/a\u003E, in the rerelease of his most recent book, \u003Cem\u003EThe World Is Flat\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Chapter Seven, entitled \u0022The Right Stuff,\u0022 Friedman extensively quotes Clough in the \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/documents\/excerpt_the-world-is-flat.pdf\u0022\u003ETubas and Test Tubes\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 section and describes how Georgia Tech has worked over the last ten years to attract and retain more students who have more wide-ranging interests such as music and film, with the thought that these students are more flexible and able to adapt and work across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFriedman points out that, \u0022very few presidents of premier technology universities boast about their tubas as much as their test tubes. But Clough has reason to boast, because my guess is that by making Georgia Tech sing-and by making other user-friendly additions to the undergraduate teaching system, and by making education overseas easily available for Georgia Tech students-he is producing not just more engineers, but the right kind of engineers.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFriedman continues his observations, sharing conversations with Rich DeMillo, dean of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and Merrick Furst, associate dean of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. Friedman highlights the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E redesign of the computer science major called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/view\/692\/144\/\u0022\u003EThreads\u003C\/a\u003E. The new curriculum features nine \u0027threads\u0027 that combine computing with another field such as media, information, or people, to produce graduates with a broader knowledge base and set of experiences than the traditional fixed set of computer science skills.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What the Georgia Tech model recognizes is that the world is increasingly going to be operating off the flat-world platform, with its tools for all kinds of horizontal collaboration,\u0022 writes Friedman.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Institute Prepares Students for Global Reality of 21st Century According to Best-Selling Author"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"According to Thomas L. Friedman, renowned best-selling author and New York Times columnist, Tech\u0027s President G. Wayne Clough \u0022had to rethink education in a flattening world out of sheer necessity.\u0022","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech prepares students for global reality"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2006-04-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:23","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73041":{"id":"73041","type":"image","title":"Tom Friedman","body":null,"created":"1449177971","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:11","changed":"1475894671","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:31"}},"media_ids":["73041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.thomaslfriedman.com\/","title":"Thomas L. Friedman"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/music\/","title":"Georgia Tech Music Department"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coc.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Computing"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/","title":"Georgia Tech President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}