{"65180":{"#nid":"65180","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Names New Women in Engineering Director","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristine Valle has been appointed as the new director of\nthe Women in Engineering program in the Dean\u2019s Office of the College of\nEngineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EValle, an academic professional in the G. W. Woodruff School\nof Mechanical Engineering, received her master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from\nGeorgia Tech in mechanical engineering. She also holds a master\u2019s degree in\naerospace engineering from a French \u201cGrande Ecole,\u201d EPF, the first engineering\nschool in France to admit only women.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Women in Engineering program is dedicated\nto recruiting top female students into engineering majors and, once enrolled,\nto ensure the highest level of retention by fostering an environment that\nencourages curiosity, creativity and intellectual and personal growth. The\nprogram strives to redefine the engineering profession as a positive societal\nforce with the potential to improve the quality of life through the creation of\nworld changing technologies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is home of the largest engineering program in\nthe country and graduates more women engineers than any other institute in the\nU.S. \u0026nbsp;Since 1990, Georgia Tech has\nincreased the number of women awarded engineering degrees by 70 percent. In\nFall 2010, the College of Engineering enrolled almost 12,000 students with a\nfemale enrollment of more than 2,600.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EValle has taught at Georgia Tech since 2004 both in civil\nand environmental engineering and mechanical engineering. She has also been on\nthe faculty of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of\nMaine. She spent several years in private industry with the MetLife Group as a\nbusiness analyst.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, Valle has received numerous awards including\nan Amelia Earhart Zonta Foundation Fellowship, the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis\nAward, and the CETL Undergraduate Educator Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristine Valle,\u0026nbsp;an academic professional in the G. W. Woodruff School\nof Mechanical Engineering, \u0026nbsp;will direct the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering program, which is dedicated to recruiting top female students into engineering majors and, once\nenrolled, to ensure the highest level of retention by fostering an environment\nthat encourages curiosity, creativity and intellectual and personal growth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christine Valle to lead recruiting program for top female students."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-03-28 11:19:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:26","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65181":{"id":"65181","type":"image","title":"Dr. Christine Valle","body":null,"created":"1449176801","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:41","changed":"1475894577","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:57","alt":"Dr. Christine Valle","file":{"fid":"192186","name":"ap-valie.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ap-valie_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ap-valie_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59978,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ap-valie_0.JPG?itok=JVoVQws7"}}},"media_ids":["65181"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12518","name":"College of Engineering; Women in Engineering program; Christine Valle"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}