{"57564":{"#nid":"57564","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Enhancing Public Understanding Of The Engineering Profession","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Engineer\u003C\/em\u003E - October 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003EColumn by Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech and chair of the National Academy of Engineering Committee that conducted the engineering perceptions and messaging study, \u0022Changing the Conversation.\u0022 Ask a typical teenager to describe an engineer, and more likely than not, the image will focus on someone, usually male, who designs and builds cars, bridges, buildings and the like. While the example is certainly valid, this narrow and outdated image is troubling on several levels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thegeorgiaengineer.com\/view_articles.asp?artid=75\u0026amp;nid=9\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.thegeorgiaengineer.com\/view_articles.asp?artid=75\u0026amp;nid=9\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"1999-11-30 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:29","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}