{"153711":{"#nid":"153711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Engineer\/Businessman\/\u2028Poet Becomes the Teacher","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBruce McEver, IE 1966, spent most of his days at Tech focused on \u2028engineering courses, but an English class he took with professor James Dean Young left a lasting impression \u2028on the young man.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcEver went on to earn an MBA from Harvard and founded financial services firm Berkshire Capital, but he carried an understanding of the connections between the mechanical arts and the fine arts that led him to endow the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Tech in 1999 and establish the McEver Program for Engineering and the Liberal Arts in 2001.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat longstanding support \u2028continued this spring when McEver\u2014who has published three chabpooks of poetry and one collection, Full Horizon\u2014returned to Tech to teach a seminar in the School of History, Technology and Society. \u201cWitness to a Changing Conscience: Writing and Personal Transformation\u201d (HST 3818) focused on \u201cwriting that witnesses to fundamental transformations in individual moral consciousness in a world transformed by scientific and technological development,\u201d according to its syllabus. McEver made weekly trips from New York City to teach the course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course was co-taught with K. J. Knoespel, currently the McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, and included visits from a number of guest speakers, among them noted theologian Harvey Cox and Bill Foege, the 2012 recipient of the Ivan Allen Prize for Social Courage. In February, the McEver Poetry Reading featured poets Theresa Davis (one of the four 2012 McEver Visiting Chairs in Writing at Tech) and Chris Forhan, as well as McEver himself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis story was written by Rachael Maddux and originally appeared in Vol. 88 of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBruce McEver, IE 1966, returned to Tech this past spring to teach a seminar in the School of History, Technology and Society titled, \u0022Witness to a Changing Conscience: Writing and Personal Transformation.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-09-12 15:10:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:47","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"153721":{"id":"153721","type":"image","title":"Bruce McEver, IE 1966 (Photo courtesy of Ivan Allen)","body":null,"created":"1449178859","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:59","changed":"1475894787","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:27","alt":"Bruce McEver, IE 1966 (Photo courtesy of Ivan Allen)","file":{"fid":"195239","name":"brucemcever.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brucemcever_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/brucemcever_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26343,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/brucemcever_0.jpg?itok=AsZ-WVEg"}}},"media_ids":["153721"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"43371","name":"Bruce McEver"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"169545","name":"Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering"}],"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:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}