{"664025":{"#nid":"664025","#data":{"type":"event","title":"WST Lrn C dinner with Dr. Ece Erdogmus, College of Design","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join Dr.\u0026nbsp;Ece Erdogmus,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Professor and Chair at the School of Building Construction in the College of Design\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Institute of Technology, for dinner and in-person discussion about her career, research, and opportunities for women in construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr, Erdogmus\u0026rsquo; research expertise covers assessment and rehabilitation of historical and existing structures; masonry design and analysis, and STEM education research assessing the impact of virtual\/augmented reality technology on student engagement and diversity-awareness. Erdogmus has been the principal investigator on numerous external grants, including National Science Foundation, Nebraska Department of Transportation and National Park Service. She has nearly 100 technical articles published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. She has been recently awarded, as the Principal Investigator (PI), a new $1.7 Million NSF grant titled \u0026ldquo;Virtual\/Augmented Discipline Exploration Rotations (VADERs) for Improved Engineering Student Engagement, Self-Efficacy, Diversity Awareness, and Retention\u0026rdquo;, which will kick off on 10\/15\/2021. This project, in partnership with University of Nebraska and Tennessee State University combines her passion for diversity and inclusion with high-quality, technology-driven, and industry supported undergraduate education. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Georgia Tech, she was a professor and Associate Director at the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Architectural Engineering (Structural) from the Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in Architecture from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She is a licensed Professional (Civil\/Structural) Engineer. She has numerous teaching awards including a national recognition as the 2019 Architectural Engineering Educator of the year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EErdogmus is an active member of TMS serving as the Chair for the Structural Members subcommittee of the Masonry Code and Specifications Committee (TMS402\/602), member of the Technical Activities Committee, and chair of the upcoming international 14th North American Masonry Conference (June 2023).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENote: Interested GT students who do not reside in the WST Lrn C should email carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu if they would like to attend.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ece Erdogmus, Chair of Building Construction, College of Design, will speak about her career and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Erdogmus will speak about her career and research"}],"uid":"27680","created_gmt":"2022-12-21 16:36:23","changed_gmt":"2022-12-21 16:37:53","author":"Carol Colatrella","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-02-06T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-02-06T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-02-06T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-02-06 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-02-07 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-02-07 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"132371","name":"The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8563","name":"careers"},{"id":"3672","name":"WST"},{"id":"83691","name":"learning community"},{"id":"1400","name":"Construction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"10377","name":"Career\/Professional development"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Ecarol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}