Annual Report 2007

LeARn FRoM The WoRLd’s BesT I GTRI Professional Education In addition to course offerings in defense technology, GTRI offers continuing education courses in dental technology and occupational safety and health standards. Such academic offerings are an outgrowth of the kind of work being done at GTRI. Through DenTeC – Georgia Tech’s Dental Technology Center – doctors, clinicians, technicians and industry researchers are introduced to innovative dental technologies that will increase efficiency and proficiency, minimize discomfort for patients, reduce the amount of time required for procedures and lower overall health costs. Courses and workshops are available in management areas such as financials and insurance, marketing, scheduling and administration, and clinical areas such as ceramic restorations and restorative dentistry. In 2008, a certificate in dental practice management will be available to professionals via the Internet. Manufacturers in Georgia and the Southeast are also able to tap into GTRI’s expertise via the Occupational Safety and Health Program. In addition to offering a certificate, GTRI offers a free, confidential, on-site consultation service for small companies in Georgia as well as safety and health courses in more than 20 topics throughout the Southeast. Additional resources such as Web-based training, slide presentations, Spanish language training materials and video guides are also available through the program. n 2007, approximately 5,100 students took one or more of the 100 GTRI-related professional education courses in areas that included defense technology, dental technology, and occupational safety and health. The courses are offered through Georgia Tech’s Department of Distance Learning and Professional Education (DLPE), and can also be taught at customer locations and GTRI field offices. GTRI’s modeling and simulation certificate, whose courses are taught by GTRI scientists and resident instructors, is geared toward engineers, scientists and technicians who have been out in the workforce for several years. The new certificate joins seven other defense technology-related certificates offered by GTRI and DLPE: systems engineering, test and evaluation, antenna engineering, electronic warfare technology, radar signal processing and techniques, radar systems and infrared and electro-optical technology. Since 1995, GTRI’s Test & Evaluation Research and Education Center (TEREC) has offered academic courses in test and evaluation, including courses in software testing, electronic warfare, directed infrared countermeasures and safety for explosives, among others. Another area of defense technology professional education in which GTRI offers a certificate is systems engineering. The certificate program will soon be augmented by a graduate level certificate and a professional master’s degree program in systems engineering. The remaining five GTRI defense technology certificates are sensorrelated: antennas, electronic warfare, radar systems and infrared and electro-optical technology. All are in high demand. For more information about GTRI’s professional education program visit www.gtri.gatech.edu www.gtri.gatech.edu 5 http://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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