Dear Consortium Partners,

Please join me in congratulating Ed Coyle on receiving the “Advancing Civic Engagement and Socially Beneficial Science and Engineering” Award at the SUNY-Industry Conference, held June 3-5 at Stony Brook, New York. Conference themes included the following areas of critical civic and social importance: energy and environment, health, broadening participation in STEM (human resource development), education and the technological workforce), integrating STEM and the arts and humanities, infrastructure development, technology and security, social media, and data science.

Ed took part in this conference as one of the plenary speakers and represented the Vertically Integrated Projects Program at Georgia Tech. He was nominated for this award by David Ferguson who is a Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Society and Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook University and was presented the award by Samuel Stanley, the president of Stony Brook University. To learn more about the conference, please visit http://ncsce.net/suny-industry-conference-and-showcase/. 

We appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to VIP and engineering education as a whole, Ed! We are very proud of you and your achievement.

-VIP @ Georgia Tech