{"501121":{"#nid":"501121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE\u0027s Brian German Invited to Join 2015 NAE Frontiers of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian German\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;has been selected to attend the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, to be held Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGerman is one of only about 100 engineers nationally invited to the two-day symposium, which is sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe annual event gives rising stars within various fields of engineering a rare opportunity to make cross-disciplinary and cross-professional connections and to promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches that promise to build US innovative capacity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s FOE event was coordinated by NAE member and GT-AE professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Braun\u003C\/strong\u003Eand will feature four formal sessions: Cybersecurity and Privacy; Forecasting National Disasters; Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials; and Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets. The final of these presentations will be co-chaired by GT-AE assistant professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMitchell Walker,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;himself, a 2014 FOE invitee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022All of these areas are fascinating to me,\u0022 said German, whose research focuses on multidisciplinary design, multi-objective optimization, and decision methods applied to air vehicle design and systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m particularly intrigued by the cyber-security component, because it intersects with my work, looking at electrically powered aircraft and automated systems. If you have a system whose architecture is electrically based, and there are computers running different systems, you have to protect against the possibility that it will be hacked.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn invitation to the USFOE symposium is considered a true honor by rising talents in the profession. The annual meeting recognizes exceptional engineering research and technical work among engineers ages 30 to 45. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- are nominated by fellow engineers or organizations. In addition to professors German, Walker and Braun, GT-ME professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAnna Erickson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and GT College of Computing professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Richard Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;have also been invited to attend the fall meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Professor Brian German has been selected to attend the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, to be held Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-16 13:25:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"501131":{"id":"501131","type":"image","title":"Brian German","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Brian German","file":{"fid":"204714","name":"german-brian2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german-brian2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/german-brian2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86184,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/german-brian2_0.jpg?itok=c1RZY5vn"}}},"media_ids":["501131"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169923","name":"Brian German"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171715","name":"NAE Frontiers of Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}