{"649902":{"#nid":"649902","#data":{"type":"news","title":"\u201cThe Best Job on Campus\u201d","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Eaheem Beyah grew up in Atlanta with no engineers in his life. He didn\u0026rsquo;t even know what an engineer did. And yet, four decades later, he has what he calls the \u0026ldquo;best job on campus\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; dean of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhere did the 44-year-old, who would later get his master\u0026rsquo;s and doctoral degrees from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE), discover the passion that would allow him to lead the nation\u0026rsquo;s largest engineering college? The same place many other kids of the 1980s looked: video games. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My grandmother bought me an Atari 2600, and it changed my life,\u0026rdquo; Beyah said. \u0026ldquo;As I played, I would question, \u0026lsquo;Why can\u0026rsquo;t I do this? Why can\u0026rsquo;t I drive this vehicle?\u0026rsquo; That later got me interested in programming and computing, because that\u0026rsquo;s how you change the game itself.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah recently sat down with Georgia Tech President \u0026Aacute;ngel Cabrera for the latest edition of \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/president.gatech.edu\/publications-presentations\/conversations\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConversations with Cabrera\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; The two leaders \u0026mdash; and Georgia Tech alumni \u0026mdash; talked about Beyah\u0026rsquo;s goals as dean, the threats of cybersecurity, and accessibility in higher education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/best-job-campus\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Dean Raheem Beyah talks about accessibility, video games, and the future with President \u00c1ngel Cabrera"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERaheem Beyah grew up in Atlanta with no engineers in his life. He didn\u0026rsquo;t even know what an engineer did. And yet, four decades later, he has what he calls the \u0026ldquo;best job on campus\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; dean of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Raheem Beyah grew up in Atlanta with no engineers in his life. He didn\u2019t even know what an engineer did. And yet, four decades later, he has what he calls the \u201cbest job on campus\u201d \u2014 dean of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2021-08-19 20:18:24","changed_gmt":"2021-08-19 20:18:24","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649901":{"id":"649901","type":"image","title":"Dean Beyah and President Cabrera","body":null,"created":"1629403959","gmt_created":"2021-08-19 20:12:39","changed":"1629403959","gmt_changed":"2021-08-19 20:12:39","alt":"Dean Beyah and President Cabrera in the Interdisciplinary Design Commons.","file":{"fid":"246672","name":"dean_beyah_and_president_cabrera002.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dean_beyah_and_president_cabrera002.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dean_beyah_and_president_cabrera002.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113858,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dean_beyah_and_president_cabrera002.jpg?itok=MbgV7gmI"}}},"media_ids":["649901"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jason.maderer@coe.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}