{"557521":{"#nid":"557521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Weitnauer Appointed as ECE Senior Associate Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Ann Weitnauer has been appointed as senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1. She succeeds Douglas B. Williams, who served in this position since fall 2012 and who has been named as the associate dean for Administration and Finance in Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeitnauer joined the ECE faculty in 1989, after graduating with her bachelor\u0027s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and was the School\u2019s third female faculty member. She is the director of the Smart Antenna Research Laboratory, where she and her team apply both real and virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures to wireless networks with emphases on WLAN, ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks, often with demonstration on networks of software defined radios. Weitnauer has graduated 26 Ph.D. and 2 M.S. students and currently advises three Ph.D. students. In addition, she has advised 56 M.S. special problems students, 38 undergraduate researchers, and 13 capstone design teams. She has been active in course development, most recently by helping develop the blended method of teaching ECE 2040 Circuit Analysis and in recording some of the MOOC videos for ECE 3710 Linear Circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeitnauer is the author or co-author of over 190 refereed journal and conference papers, including four conference papers that won Best Paper Awards, and she holds 23 patents and invention disclosures. She was an associate editor for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing \u003C\/em\u003Efrom 2009-2012 and is currently associate editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\u003C\/em\u003E. She is a senior member of IEEE and has been a visiting professor at Aalborg University in Denmark and Idaho National Labs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her career, Weitnauer has been consistently involved in many different Georgia Tech faculty governance committees, most recently as a member of the Institute\u0027s Statutes Committee and the Georgia Tech Executive Board, and in creating a supportive environment for women at Georgia Tech. From 2006-2012, Weitnauer held the Georgia Tech ADVANCE Professorship, where she led activities to support the advancement of female tenure-track faculty in the College of Engineering. She has served on several search committees, including committees for the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair, the ELSYS lab director at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and the vice president for Institute Diversity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPlease join me in congratulating Mary Ann on her new role and in lending her your support as she takes on these new responsibilities,\u201d said Steven W. McLaughlin, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u201cWith her many years of diverse experiences at Georgia Tech, I am sure that she will excel and serve ECE very well as senior associate chair.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Ann Weitnauer has been appointed as senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mary Ann Weitnauer has been appointed as senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-08-01 15:25:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"557531":{"id":"557531","type":"image","title":"Mary Ann Weitnauer","body":null,"created":"1470079587","gmt_created":"2016-08-01 19:26:27","changed":"1475895358","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:58","alt":"Mary Ann Weitnauer","file":{"fid":"206688","name":"maryannweitnauer131023ar139_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maryannweitnauer131023ar139_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/maryannweitnauer131023ar139_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1677598,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/maryannweitnauer131023ar139_web.jpg?itok=n_lHeuzK"}}},"media_ids":["557531"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/mary-ann-weitnauer","title":"Mary Ann Weitnauer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/sarl\/","title":"Smart Antenna Research Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"172023","name":"Mary Ann Weitnauer"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"172224","name":"Smart Antenna Research Laboratory"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}