{"56705":{"#nid":"56705","#data":{"type":"event","title":"George W. Woodruff Distinguished Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Mechanical Engineering welcome Dan Mote, president of the University of Maryland, to be its 2010 Woodruff Distinguished Lecturer on the topic: \u0022Innovation: What\u0027s the Problem?\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile much is known about particular innovators and innovative companies, less is known about: the culture that nurtures innovation and how that culture can be enlarged so that innovation can address the global problems relying on it. Two great challenges confronting innovation for the world\u0027s problems are: (1) How can the pace of innovation be accelerated to keep up with the rate of discoveries in science, creations in technology and product development for the market place? (2) How can innovation take on the complex global challenges\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering welcomes Dan Mote, president of the University of Maryland at College Park and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor in Engineering, as its 2010 Woodruff Distinguished Lecturer. His topic will be on th","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dan Mote, University of Maryland president, will speak on April 13."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2010-05-24 10:51:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:41","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-04-13T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-04-13T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-04-13T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-04-13 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-04-13 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-04-13 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"167377","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly  Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Colly  Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}