{"638075":{"#nid":"638075","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Welcomes Brandy Ball Blake","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrandy Ball Blake joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u0026nbsp;on August 14, 2020 as the director of professional and technical communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this role, Blake\u0026nbsp;coaches ISyE students on writing, presentations, visual design, and data visualization. Working primarily with Senior and Cornerstone Design classes, she\u0026nbsp;will also develop a communication program to help meet the needs of ISyE students and faculty. Additionally, she will advise and assist students with their scholarship and graduate fellowship applications, including those for the NSF Graduate Fellowship program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to assuming her current position, she was the director of the Institute\u0026rsquo;s Communication Center, where she worked extensively with students and professors across Georgia Tech, managed day-to-day operations of the center, developed initiatives to help STEM students improve communication, and created and led numerous workshops on communication skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer research is on perceptions of engineers in culture and how they shape the way engineers communicate. In conjunction with this research, she teaches English classes on engineers in literature and culture. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. from Georgia State University, and a B.A. from Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Blake Joined ISyE in August as director of professional and technical communication."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBlake Joined ISyE in August as director of professional and technical communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Blake Joined ISyE in August as director of professional and technical communication."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2020-08-19 14:30:18","changed_gmt":"2020-08-19 15:50:19","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"638069":{"id":"638069","type":"image","title":"Brandy Ball Blake","body":null,"created":"1597845881","gmt_created":"2020-08-19 14:04:41","changed":"1597845881","gmt_changed":"2020-08-19 14:04:41","alt":"Brandy Ball Blake","file":{"fid":"242676","name":"Brandy-Blake-square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brandy-Blake-square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brandy-Blake-square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":557991,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brandy-Blake-square.jpg?itok=tWcTdWBQ"}}},"media_ids":["638069"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"185600","name":"Brandy Ball Blake"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laurie.haigh@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELaurie Haigh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}