{"282341":{"#nid":"282341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Oriented Competitive Speaker Event to Feature  Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics John Cressler","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor of Microelectronics John Cressler will be the keynote speaker at this year\u2019s TechTalks competition on Monday March 24, 2014. \u0026nbsp;TechTalks, a student speech competition based on the mini lecture format of TedTalks, will take place at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s Scheller College of Business as part of the Atlanta Science Festival series of events. The competition is designed to give students the chance to communicate their science passions and why they matter socially to a large public audience.\u0026nbsp; Prize award is based on clarity of speech, relevance of speech to topic and personality and enthusiasm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechTalk\u2019s 2013 keynote speaker, Professor John Cressler, is the Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics in the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a specialist in the field of Microelectronics and Silicon-Germanium Devices. Professor Cressler is an accomplished author, with over 500 refereed journal papers as well as several books on electronic devices and two historical fiction works set in Moorish Spain.\u0026nbsp; Professor Cressler has himself presented at TEDx, giving a lecture entitled \u0022The Many Miracles of Micro Electronics\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe theme for this year\u2019s student lecture competition, \u201cWhy does society need science?\u201d, will be debated by Tessa Solomon-Lane, Neuroscience Ph.D. student at Georgia State University; Zev Greenberg, Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech; Natalie Schloeder, Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech; Mahdi Al Husseini, Biomedical Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech; and Nick Selby, Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech. For more information on TechTalks visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/techtalks.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/techtalks.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E or view the event listing at the Atlanta Science Festival website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atlantasciencefestival.org\/events\/event\/99\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/atlantasciencefestival.org\/events\/event\/99\u003C\/a\u003E. For more information on Professor Cressler, visit his research site: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/cressler\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/cressler\/\u003C\/a\u003E or his official author\u2019s website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/johndcressler.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/johndcressler.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor of Microelectronics John Cressler will be the keynote speaker at this year\u2019s TechTalks competition on Monday March 24, 2014."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-03-11 10:02:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"282331":{"id":"282331","type":"image","title":"John Cressler with Wafer","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894971","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:31","alt":"John Cressler with Wafer","file":{"fid":"198959","name":"cressler_with_wafer.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":680826,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png?itok=ppfbdrQd"}}},"media_ids":["282331"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"66491","name":"Atlanta Science Festival"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"7763","name":"John Cressler"},{"id":"88681","name":"TechTalks"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}