{"392391":{"#nid":"392391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"German Foreign Minister Tours Manufacturing at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGermany\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, recently visited Tech for an up-close look at the latest research in logistics and manufacturing. The visit, led by Steve Cross, executive vice president for Research, and Yves Berthelot, vice provost for International Initiatives, included an overview of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and a tour of the Manufacturing Research Center. Sebastian Pokutta, assistant professor in ISyE and a native of Germany, was instrumental in arranging the visit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGerman companies have a strong presence in Georgia, which has led to 12 strategic industry partnerships with Georgia Tech. Additionally, Tech has 11 university partnerships in Germany and approximately 50 students who study there each year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022Over 40 German companies are located in the Atlanta region, and Georgia Tech values the mutually beneficial relationships we share with them,\u201d Cross said. \u201cThe partnerships provide important insights that help drive our interdisciplinary research in cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, and advanced manufacturing, which all collectively power a fourth revolution in industry that began after the initial assembly lines of 100 years ago. This is often called\u0026nbsp;Industry 4.0.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReflecting on his visit, Steinmeier said it was a good opportunity to delve into the world of Industry 4.0. He also said that \u0022talking with German and American researchers about their innovative projects at one of the leading public universities in the United States brought home to me once again that there is so much going on in science, but also that there is still a lot of potential for German-American cooperation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESteinmeier went on to say that at Georgia Tech \u201cone can see in very concrete terms that, if we join together, the U.S. and Europe can lead the way in science and business, and set global standards.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBerthelot echoed Steinmeier\u2019s enthusiasm: \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful that the Germans have identified Georgia Tech as a top partner. Now, the hard work is to take concrete steps. We are proposing to have a German structure for R\u0026amp;D embedded here and to have more German companies at Tech Square.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGermany\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, recently visited Tech for an up-close look at the latest research in logistics and manufacturing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Germany\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, recently visited Tech for an up-close look at the latest research in logistics and manufacturing."}],"uid":"27713","created_gmt":"2015-04-03 08:04:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:54","author":"Victor Rogers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"392921":{"id":"392921","type":"image","title":"German Minister with Prof Das","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475895107","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:47","alt":"German Minister with Prof Das","file":{"fid":"75587","name":"german_minister_and_prof_das.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german_minister_and_prof_das.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german_minister_and_prof_das.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4311713,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/german_minister_and_prof_das.jpg?itok=ZPWwxHlC"}},"392931":{"id":"392931","type":"image","title":"German Minister selfie with intern","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475895107","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:47","alt":"German Minister selfie with intern","file":{"fid":"75588","name":"german_minister_selfie_with_intern.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german_minister_selfie_with_intern.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german_minister_selfie_with_intern.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2930263,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/german_minister_selfie_with_intern.jpg?itok=aZ4b5dQs"}}},"media_ids":["392921","392931"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"123161","name":"Frank-Walter Steinmeier"},{"id":"123151","name":"German Foreign Minister"},{"id":"768","name":"Germany"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"66601","name":"Manufacturing Research Center (MARC)"},{"id":"167317","name":"Steve Cross"},{"id":"168939","name":"suman das"},{"id":"29761","name":"Yves Berthelot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6398\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}