Annual Report 2007

GTRI and Georgia Tech: a Great Complement, a Greater Synergy hen customers work with GTRI, they are getting much more than the world-class expertise and experience of a leading research institution. They are also opening the door to the vast intellectual resources of one of America’s leading research universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). GTRI and Georgia Tech are complementary world-class institutions that collaborate to solve the innovation equation on behalf of clients. This combination provides unmatched expertise, capabilities, and know-how in solving some of the toughest problems facing government and industry. • Georgia Tech has the largest voluntary cooperative education program of any university in the nation. GTRI is the largest employer of Georgia Tech students, hiring more than 200 each year. GTRI operates a number of multi-disciplinary research centers that facilitate research collaboration with Georgia Tech’s academic colleges (see page 45). Nearly 40 GTRI researchers hold joint appointments with Georgia Tech’s academic colleges. GTRI researchers hold top-level leadership positions on the Georgia Tech Faculty Council. GTRI teaches more than half of the courses offered by Georgia Tech’s Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE). A GTRI researcher serves as the national security liaison for the Strategic Partners Office in Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute. Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s listing of America’s top 10 public universities. In addition, the magazine ranked Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering in the nation’s top five. For producing African-American engineering graduates, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks Georgia Tech first among U.S. universities at the bachelor’s level, second at the master’s level, and first at the doctoral level. W • • • • • • • • • • • • Georgia Tech is home to or partner in 19 federal centers of excellence, up from six in 1997. They range from photonics to the engineering of living tissues. Georgia Tech is second in the nation in engineering research expenditures, both overall and in federal funding. The number of patents awarded to Georgia Tech researchers increased 193 percent during the past 10 years, and today Tech ranks among the top 10 universities in the nation. A total of 365 invention disclosures were filed in 2006, up more than 200 percent over the past decade. Georgia Tech launched 75 new companies during the past decade. In 2006 alone, 10 startup companies were launched and another 18 were in formation. Global analysis of university biotechnology commercialization by the Milken Institute ranked Georgia Tech fourth in the number of biotechnology startup companies and eighth in patents awarded. Young and Fearless: The Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers TRI is the largest employer of bright Georgia Tech graduate and undergraduate students who work alongside world-class researchers, making unique contributions to real projects for real customers. In fact, many of our highly skilled researchers began their careers as student employees. Each year, as many as a quarter of GTRI’s new full-time researchers emerge from the ranks of student researchers working throughout our organization. These are fearless young researchers who see no limits, only possibilities. G GTRI also has relationships with other prominent universities, providing opportunities for their students to work with Georgia Tech experts to gain practical engineering experience. Graduate Research Assistants and Graduate Students . . . . . 33 (in GT’s Cooperative Education (Co-Op) program) Undergraduate Co-Op Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Student Assistants/Interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 51 www.gtri.gatech.edu http://www.gtri.gatech.edu

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Annual Report 2007 Contents From the Director Research at GTRI Defense and Security Health and Human Systems Energy and Environment Manufacturing Technologies Information and Communication Technologies GTRI Around the World Interdisciplinary Research Centers The Laboratories of GTRI Georgia Tech Ireland GTRI by the Numbers GTRI and Georgia Tech Supporting Breakthrough Research GTRI Professional Education The People of GTRI

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