{"55506":{"#nid":"55506","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Joel Sokol Receives Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel\nSokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), is the recipient of the 2010 Annual Award for\nExcellence in the Teaching of Operations Research from the Institute of\nIndustrial Engineers\u2019 (IIE) Operations Research (OR) Division. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol was nominated in recognition of his outstanding\nteaching in the required core Engineering Optimization course and the follow\u2010on Advanced Optimization elective. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDave\nCoit, IIE OR division president, stated that the award committee was impressed\nwith the innovative techniques Sokol developed to facilitate better learning\nexperiences for his students. Colt went on to state that the selection process\nfor the 2010 IIE OR Teaching Award was an extremely difficult process. \u201cThere\nwere more nominees than there has ever been and the quality of the nomination\npackages was uniformly excellent. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOzlem Ergun, ISyE associate professor who nominated Sokol\nfor the award, said in her nomination letter that the \u201cEngineering Optimization\nclass Dr. Sokol teaches is one that I have also taught. From all I have seen\nand heard from students who took the class when he taught it, it is clear that\nDr. Sokol is the \u2018gold standard\u2019 for teaching Engineering Optimization.\u201d Ergun\nsaid that is not just her opinion, but also the opinion of the ISyE faculty at\nlarge. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the IIE award, Sokol\u0026nbsp; is also the recipient\nof some of Georgia Tech\u0027s highest awards for teaching, including \u0026nbsp;the Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use\nof Educational Technology Award 2010,\u0026nbsp;\nthe Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teaching Award 2008, \u0026nbsp;and the CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching\nExcellence Award 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\u0027s research\ninterests include operations research and its application in a wide variety of\nareas, from logistics, manufacturing, and network design to biology, social\nlogistics, and sports modeling. His research has won the EURO Management\nScience Strategic Innovation Prize, and his LRMC method (predictive modeling\nfor the NCAA basketball tournament) has been featured in the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E and on CNN and ESPN.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\nshares this honor with co-recipient Amy Cohn of the University of Michigan. The\ntwo professors will receive their awards at the OR Division Town Hall Meeting\nduring the IIE Annual Conference in Cancun, Mexico, June 5 - 9, 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel\nSokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\n and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), is the recipient of the 2010 Annual Award \nfor\nExcellence in the Teaching of Operations Research from the Institute of\nIndustrial Engineers\u2019 (IIE) Operations Research (OR) Division.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joel Sokol Receives Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-29 10:19:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55507":{"id":"55507","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol, ISyE associate professor","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Joel Sokol, ISyE associate professor","file":{"fid":"190304","name":"Sokol_Joel_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2017737,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=_NHtZSzU"}}},"media_ids":["55507"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1200","name":"joel sokol"}],"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\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}