{"70055":{"#nid":"70055","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sokol Selected to Attend the 2011 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sokol, associate professor of the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to\nattend the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s (NAE) 2011 Frontiers of\nEngineering Education (FOEE) Symposium.\u0026nbsp; Sokol\nwas selected for being among the nation\u2019s most engaged and innovative\nengineering educators. \u0026nbsp;The symposium, to\nbe held November 13-16 at the National Academies\u2019 Beckman Center in Irvine,\nCalifornia, will be a highly interactive meeting, allowing attendees to share\ntheir innovations with others, learn from best practice, and network with\ncolleagues. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol was selected from a large number of applications\nfor his innovations in project-based learning.\u0026nbsp;\nAn example of Sokol\u2019s innovations in the classroom is his project\nTeamBuilder, an online team-building software he developed for ISyE students in\nthe capstone design course Senior Design.\u0026nbsp;\nRealizing that the task of finding compatible teammates is in many ways\nsimilar to dating, Sokol used an open-source online dating software and\nmodified the code to create a site appropriate for teammate-matching.\u0026nbsp; Sokol developed the software with the\nobjective of decreasing the high levels of intra-team conflict within project\nteams, as well as to improve the experiences and achievement of the students\nwho were unable to find a team on their own.\u0026nbsp;\nStudents are encouraged to start a TeamBuilder profile the semester\nprior to Senior Design.\u0026nbsp; The profiles focus\non five areas of information: personal details, time preferences\/work styles\/goals,\nproject interests, academic\/professional background, and specific skills\/strengths\/\nweaknesses.\u0026nbsp; The TeamBuilder profiles assist\nstudents in finding teammates with compatible goals and work ethic, and\ncomplementary skills and abilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESince Sokol implemented TeamBuilder three years ago, only\n1-2% of students have been unable to find a team (down from 5-10%), and the\nnumber of teams self-reporting significant conflict has been cut in half.\u0026nbsp; Last year, TeamBuilder won the Class of 1934\nOutstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award, Georgia Tech\u2019s\nhighest award for innovative education technology.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\u0027s research interests include operations research\nand its application in a wide variety of areas, from logistics, manufacturing,\nand network design to biology, social logistics, and sports modeling. His\nresearch has won the EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize, and\nhis LRMC method (predictive modeling for the NCAA basketball tournament) has\nbeen featured in the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E and on CNN and ESPN.\u0026nbsp; Sokol is also a recipient of some of Georgia\nTech\u0027s highest awards for teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FOEE Symposium brings together some of the nation\u2019s\nmost engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize,\nreward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering\neducation through a sustained dialogue within the emerging generation of\ninnovative faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sokol, associate professor of the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to\nattend the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s (NAE) 2011 Frontiers of\nEngineering Education (FOEE) Symposium.\u0026nbsp; Sokol\nwas selected for being among the nation\u2019s most engaged and innovative\nengineering educators.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-09-19 08:29:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:09","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-19T00:00:00-04:00","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":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14331","name":"Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. 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