{"667631":{"#nid":"667631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Community and Mentors Help Mechanical Engineer Chart Her Own Path","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFatima Sheriff was part of history in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe was one of the first 10 students to join the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/clarkscholars.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EClark Scholars Program\u003C\/a\u003E, a landmark commitment to expand access to a Georgia Tech engineering education. After this spring, all of those students will have graduated. So, Commencement closes a chapter for the College, just as it closes one for Sheriff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYet Sheriff\u2019s Clark community persists. Later this year, she will start as a product manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where several Clark Scholars from other universities also will be working.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s really nice and exciting to have people you can talk about things and connect with,\u201d said Sheriff, who is earning her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emechanical engineering\u003C\/a\u003E bachelor\u2019s degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Microsoft, Sheriff likely will work with the Surface product team, a group she became familiar with during an internship last summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe might not have considered exploring a career at the tech giant if not for her mentor, Kathleen Bernhard Jones, who works at the company and saw Sheriff\u2019s potential to bridge engineering and other disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/community-and-mentors-help-mechanical-engineer-chart-her-own-path\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more of Fatima\u0027s story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFatima Sheriff heads to Microsoft with technical know-how and business skills thanks to the people who guided her along the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fatima Sheriff heads to Microsoft with technical know-how and business skills thanks to the people who guided her along the way."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-05-03 18:10:39","changed_gmt":"2023-05-03 18:16:35","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670738":{"id":"670738","type":"image","title":"Fatima Sheriff Class of 2023","body":null,"created":"1683137463","gmt_created":"2023-05-03 18:11:03","changed":"1683137463","gmt_changed":"2023-05-03 18:11:03","alt":"Fatima Sheriff at the Georgia Tech historical marker with a \u0022Helluva Engineer - Class of 2023\u0022 graphical overlay","file":{"fid":"253657","name":"Fatima_Sheriff_thumb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/03\/Fatima_Sheriff_thumb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/03\/Fatima_Sheriff_thumb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":702673,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/03\/Fatima_Sheriff_thumb.jpg?itok=_hWazSA5"}}},"media_ids":["670738"],"groups":[{"id":"604685","name":"Clark Scholars"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"108731","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"186162","name":"Georgia Tech Clark Scholar"},{"id":"186163","name":"Georgia Tech Clark Scholars Program"}],"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:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}