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Gaining Business: 2012 Georgia Manufacturing Survey Shows More Firms Benefiting from In-Sourcing than Losing from Outsourcing

October 17, 2012 — The 2012 Georgia Manufacturing Survey provides some welcome good news for Georgia companies. For the first time since researchers began tracking the statistic, more Georgia manufacturers have been benefiting from in-sourcing – production work coming to them from outside the state – than have been losing work to other states and countries.

National Science Foundation Selects Georgia Tech to Help Expand its Innovation Corps Commercialization Program

July 18, 2012 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology will be a founding network node for its Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which aims to develop scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes.

Computer to Construction: Technique Enables Mass Production of Custom Concrete Building Components from Digital Designs

May 16, 2012 — Researchers are automating some of the processes by which computer-based designs are turned into real world entities, developing techniques that fabricate building elements directly from digital designs, and allowing custom components to be manufactured rapidly and at low cost.

2012 CASE District III: Georgia Tech Communications Programs Receive Recognition in Southeast Competition

February 24, 2012 — Three communications projects of Georgia Tech’s research program received recognition Feb. 21, 2012 at the District III awards ceremony of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Statewide Support: Georgia Tech Helps Georgia Businesses Compete

Research Horizons Magazine — The Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) was chartered in its original form in 1960 to help the state’s industry. It began its existence as the Industrial Extension Service of the Engineering Experiment Station, which is now the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Building on that foundation, Georgia Tech now serves a broad range of companies with a goal of helping them compete better in world markets.

Serving Georgia: Matching Students and Employers in Georgia

Fall 2010 Research Horizons — The Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) is home to Georgia Tech’s popular undergraduate Cooperative Education (Co-op) Program, founded in 1912. It also administers the Graduate Co-op Program, the Georgia Tech Internship Program (GTIP) and the Work Abroad Program.

CASE District III: Georgia Tech Communications Programs Receive Recognition in Southeast Competition

March 1, 2010 — Two communications projects of Georgia Tech’s research program received recognition February 23 at the District III awards ceremony of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Undergraduate Curriculum Teaches Skills to Solve Real-life Engineering Problems

Research Horizons Winter/Spring 2009 — A strong focus of the undergraduate curriculum in the Coulter Department is problem-based learning, a student-centered instructional strategy in which students work in small collaborative groups to solve open-ended problems with a faculty member serving as facilitator.

New Field-Deployable Biosensor Detects Avian Influenza Virus in Minutes Instead of Days

QUICK IDENTIFICATION of avian influenza infection in poultry is critical to controlling outbreaks, but current detection methods can require several days to produce results.

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Researchers develop system to thwart unwanted video and still photography

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to …