{"690244":{"#nid":"690244","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dima Nazzal Recognized with Class of 1934 Outstanding Service Award\u00a0","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Chair for Academic Administration Dima Nazzal is the recipient of Georgia Tech\u2019s 1934 Outstanding Service Award, one of the Institute\u2019s highest honors for sustained and impactful service.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes contributions that benefit Georgia Tech, the profession and the public. Her contributions reflect all three, through leadership in shared governance, education, and community engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENazzal has had a central role in faculty governance as chair of the Faculty Executive Board (FEB), where she is currently serving her third term. In this elected role, she has helped guide faculty governance and collaborated with the GT Administration though a period of significant complexity in higher education, bringing a steady, thoughtful approach that builds trust across faculty and administration while advancing difficult but necessary conversations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027m deeply honored. The work that led to this\u0026nbsp;award\u0026nbsp;has been some of the most meaningful of my career, not because of any single project, but because of the people it connected me to: students, faculty and staff colleagues, and the broader community Georgia Tech serves,\u0022 said Nazzal. \u0022Receiving recognition from the Class of 1934 makes it feel especially significant.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer leadership has extended to Institute-wide priorities, such as serving as Chair of the Georgia Tech Faculty Executive Board, Director of Education and Projects for the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, and service on the Georgia Tech Athletic Association Board of Trustees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin ISyE, Nazzal has made lasting contributions to education. She founded the School\u2019s Cornerstone Design course and led the Senior Design program for seven years, overseeing large-scale experiential learning for hundreds of students annually. These efforts have strengthened how students connect theory to practice while maintaining a consistently high-quality learning experience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research and applied work extend this impact beyond campus, with contributions in public health and healthcare operations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Associate Chair, Nazzal provides strategic oversight of undergraduate and graduate education in one of the largest industrial engineering programs in the country, integrating curriculum, accreditation, and long-term planning.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Chair for Academic Administration Dima Nazzal is the recipient of Georgia Tech\u2019s 1934 Outstanding Service Award, one of the Institute\u2019s highest honors for sustained and impactful service.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Chair for Academic Administration Dima Nazzal is the recipient of Georgia Tech\u2019s 1934 Outstanding Service Award, one of the Institute\u2019s highest honors for sustained and impactful service."}],"uid":"36760","created_gmt":"2026-05-12 19:20:32","changed_gmt":"2026-05-12 21:00:54","author":"jsmith830","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680261":{"id":"680261","type":"image","title":"Dima Nazzal with Class of 1934 Outstanding Service Award ","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Chair for Academic Administration Dima Nazzal receives Georgia Tech\u2019s 1934 Outstanding Service Award\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778613643","gmt_created":"2026-05-12 19:20:43","changed":"1778613643","gmt_changed":"2026-05-12 19:20:43","alt":"Dima Nazzal recognized with Class of 1934 Outstanding Service Award ","file":{"fid":"264507","name":"Dima-Award.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/12\/Dima-Award.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/12\/Dima-Award.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3510354,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/12\/Dima-Award.jpg?itok=B3mZLUK5"}}},"media_ids":["680261"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/outstanding-employees-honored-annual-luncheon","title":"Outstanding Employees Honored at Annual Luncheon"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Smith, Communications Officer II\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}