{"426081":{"#nid":"426081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Julian Rimoli named to Goizueta Junior Professorship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Julian Rimoli has been selected for the newly created Goizueta Early Career Professorship, a rotating three-year position.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his announcement of the selection earlier this week, Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras commended Rimoli for having the \u0022potential to become an international leader in your field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We expect that the support provided by the Goizueta Foundation Junior Professorship will be used to further develop your educational and scholarly programs,\u0022 Bras added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBras\u0027s sentiments were echoed by AE Chair Vigor Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In Julian RImoli, we have a faculty whose intense intellectual rigor is matched by an infectious enthusiasm for teaching. These are qualities that Dr. Rimoli\u0027s colleagues have long recognized and appreciated.They are also welcomed by the many students who seek out Dr. Rimoli for guidance and inspiration.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunds made available through the professorship will enable Rimoli to both advance his career and support his service to the academic community. An ardent advocate for STEM outreach to under-represented communities, Rimoli said he is pleased to have the additional support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022You cannot underestimate the need to forge a pipeline between the resources that Georgia Tech has to offer and the many smart, deserving students who are expressing interest in the sciences,\u0022\u0026nbsp;he said. \u0022This will allow me to be more effective in reaching them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the three-year term of the professorship, Rimoli will work closely with Goizueta Chaired Professor Dr. Carlos Santamarina and GT Hispanic Programs Director Jorge Breton to improve the Institute\u0027s recruitment and mentorship of Hispanic\/Latino students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Rimoli\u0027s research interests lie within the broad field of computational solid mechanics with a particular focus on aerospace applications. Over the past year Rimoli has gained much notoriety and respect for \u0022Truss Me!\u0022 an educational app that he developed to help his students gain a more intuitive understanding of truss behavior. In May, the app was officially adopted into the curriculum of the prestitious ETH-Zurich.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA graduate of CalTech, Rimoli is a member of AIAA, ASME, and\u0026nbsp;USACM. He is ther recipient of the Donald W. Douglas Prize Fellowship, the Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award in Aeroanutics, and the James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize. Earlier this year, he was chosen for the Lockheed Dean\u0027s Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Julian Rimoli has been selected for the newly created Goizueta Early Career Professorship, a rotating three-year position."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 14:57:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130061","name":"Julian Rimoli"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}