{"53736":{"#nid":"53736","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IDEA Workshop (Improvisation for Design of Engineering Alternatives)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIDEA is a group of Georgia Tech researchers who apply the techniques of improvisational humor to catalyze technical innovation. While this approach has been used in non-technical innovation for years, they apply it to generating unique technical solutions to engineering design problems.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoin Georgia Tech professors Pete Ludovice, Lew Lefton, and Richard Cantrambone for a workshop on using improvisation (the funny kind you see on \u201cWhose Line Is It Anyway\u201d) to improve engineering design.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBring your puzzling design problems to an evening that will be both educational and funny. Refreshments will be served.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"IDEA is a group of Georgia Tech researchers who apply the techniques of improvisational humor to catalyze technical innovation. While this approach has been used in non-technical innovation for years, they apply it to generating unique technical solutions to engineering design problems.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Appling the techniques of improvisational humor to catalyze technical innovation"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2010-02-17 13:13:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:42","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-02-24T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2010-02-24T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-02-24T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-02-24 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-02-25 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-02-25 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/idea\/","title":"Improvisation for Design of Engineering Alternatives (IDEA)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4086","name":"comedy"},{"id":"823","name":"design"},{"id":"3397","name":"fun"},{"id":"3962","name":"improv"},{"id":"7726","name":"puzzle"},{"id":"167334","name":"stand-up"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1791","name":"Student sponsored"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:charlie.bennett@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECharlie Bennett\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELibrary \u0026amp; Information Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-0879\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}