Alumni Magazine - Summer 2008 - (Page 8) INQUOTES I knew my entire life what I wanted to do was study architecture. To me, the built environment has such power to kind of enhance the quality of all of our lives, and so for me, that’s what I was always passionate about. — Vern Yip MS Mgt 94, M Arch 95 host of “Deserving Design” on HGTV, in The Washington Post the wire’s conductivity, which is something we can measure. If the conductivity changes, that indicates blood pressure is changing. — Zhong Lin Wang Regents professor and director of the Center for Nanostructure Characterization, who has designed an implantable nanowire that measures blood pressure fluctuations constantly, enabling patients to track their vital stats from home, in Popular Mechanics The idea that cities could attract the Olympics by promising lavish facilities probably began after 1906, when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius put an end to a plan to have the 1908 Games in Rome. Since then, cities have been keen to use the Olympics to leverage other civic improvements, on the premise that if ” Overall, you can control what you spend even in an environment where food prices are escalating fast. You can save without sacrificing quality. — Goutam Challagalla associate dean in the College of Management, who recommends that consumers make a list of needed food items before they go shopping and stick to it, in the Associated Press ” If all the trucks in the United States trucking fleet used the same scheme and reduced fuel economy by 1 percent, each 1 percent represents 200 million gallons of gasoline. — Bob Englar Tech research engineer whose team devised relatively simple flow control techniques and aerodynamic improvements on trucks that improve fuel efficiency by 12 percent, on 11Alive.com It’s not a good time to own your own rig. It’s a tough life even when the economy is reasonably good. — Chip White chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, concerning the impact of fuel costs on independent truckers, in The New York Times Like Picasso, I still view myself as that little boy, he’s still alive down there and he doesn’t realize what’s happening to him so he just keeps going. — John Portman Arch 50, in the Atlanta Business Chronicle ” The climate change problem is an energy problem. — Marilyn Brown public policy professor, at the first Georgia Climate Change Summit, in the Macon Telegraph ” ” But architects aren’t really technology innovators. — Chuck Eastman professor in the colleges of Architecture and Computing, about why many architects have disregarded building-information modeling, in The Economist ” The nanowire we use has two important properties: It’s both a semiconductor and piezoelectric. That means that if there’s an external mechanical force that bends the nanowire, such as blood vessel contractions, it creates an electrical field inside the wire. The presence of this electrical field affects 8 Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine • Summer 2008 http://11Alive.com
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