Stellar Faculty and Customized Classes

Georgia Tech faculty members have developed completely new courses to complement the four existing courses. Of the 10 faculty teaching in the program, five hold Professorships or chaired positions. Here is an overview of two courses and the faculty who teach them.

"Analysis of Emerging Technologies" will launch students on a path of integrative learning of business and technology. Professor Eric Overby, assistant professor of IT Management, will teach students how to analyze the latest technical discoveries and measure their potential impacts on business practices, market shifts, policies and society. Eric will focus on the information collected and transmitted by new technologies and the opportunities/challenges associated with these transactions.

Eric joined the Georgia Tech College of Management faculty in fall of 2007 after completing his PhD at Emory University. His research focuses on the "virtualization" of business and society. He studies how processes that have traditionally been conducted physically are increasingly being conducted electronically and the economic implications of this shift.

"Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology" will be taught by John Cressler, Ken Byers Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering. This introductory course teaches the general scientific and engineering underpinnings of microelectronics/nanotechnology, and examines how this new technological revolution is influencing a broad array of interdisciplinary fields.

John received a BS degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984. From 1984 until 1992 he was on the research staff at IBM, working on high-speed Silicon and Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices and technology. While continuing his full-time research position at IBM, he pursued graduate studies at Columbia University in 1985, receiving his MS and PhD degrees in applied physics in 1987 and 1990, respectively. In 1992 he left IBM Research to pursue his dream of becoming a professor and conducting research focused on the understanding, development, and application of new types of Si-based bandgap-engineered microelectronic devices for high-speed electronics in emerging communications systems.