Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 56) Georgia Tech The Institute’s Savannah campus offers students the same top-notch engineering education without the big-city bustle By Leslie Overman Early one Thursday morning in mid-August, David Frost finished up some work in his thirdfloor office and headed downstairs. Georgia Tech Savannah’s newest set of students was to arrive on campus that morning for orientation, and faculty and staff were invited to drop by the lobby to greet them over coffee and doughnuts. As he stepped off the elevator, Frost saw a line of about 40 students waiting to get their Buzz Cards. “My first reaction was, ‘Wow, this is the first time I’ve seen a legitimate line on our campus, and it’s awesome,’” says Frost, director of Georgia Tech Savannah. “You just feel a completely different energy.” Frost joined the Tech faculty as a civil engineering professor in 1992 and now is a vice provost. Just five years old, Georgia Tech Savannah has a student body of about 250 undergraduate and graduate students — a far cry from the more than 19,400 on the Atlanta campus. But with the recent addition of new academic programs, including a joint-degree track with a nearby university, enrollment numbers have been climbing. Georgia Tech Savannah welcomed its largest group of students to campus in August. 56 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Fall 2008
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