{"58053":{"#nid":"58053","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Industrial Ecology: Moving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003ESociety\nof Women Engineers\u003C\/em\u003E magazine featured an article titled \u201cIndustrial Ecology:\nMoving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\nIn the article, Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor\nof Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,\ndiscusses how a bag of potato chips illustrates the far-reaching implications\nof industrial ecology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Factors like cost and consumer appeal affect most decisions\nabout making and buying products.\u0026nbsp; Industrial ecology introduces another\nperspective. A bag of potato chips, according to Thomas, involves decisions\nabout growing potatoes, the materials to make the bag, and where the waste from\nthe potatoes and bag goes.\u0026nbsp; She clarified, \u0022Consumption and\nproduction affect not just the immediate use of products but have a past and a\nfuture.\u0026nbsp; Products do not appear out of nothing and they do not disappear\nwhen we throw them away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/swe\/spring10\/#\/0.\u0022\u003ERead more:\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003ESociety\nof Women Engineers\u003C\/em\u003E magazine featured an article titled \u0022Industrial \nEcology:\nMoving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\nIn the article, Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor\nof Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems \nEngineering,\ndiscusses how a bag of potato chips illustrates the far-reaching \nimplications\nof industrial ecology.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-14 11:35:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:47","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49873":{"id":"49873","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449175366","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:46","changed":"1475894451","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:51","alt":"Valerie Thomas","file":{"fid":"126988","name":"tpd91861.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32508,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg?itok=OQEwZvh3"}}},"media_ids":["49873"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1135","name":"valerie thomas"}],"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\n\n \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":""}}}