Georgia Tech - Couverture souple

Hild, Matthew; Morton, David

 
9781467129602: Georgia Tech

Synopsis

Georgia Tech has become one of the nation's top-10-ranked public universities and boasts a former U.S. president, TV personality and Hall-of-Fame athletes among its prominent alumni.


From humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech is now renowned throughout the world for its excellence in technological education and research. A top-10-ranked public university, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings, famous Georgia Institute of Technology alumni include Jimmy Carter, G. Wayne Clough, Jeff Foxworthy, Sam Nunn, Randolph Scott, and Leonard Wood, along with many famous athletes. Georgia Tech has won four national college football championships, the first in 1917 under the legendary coach John Heisman. Today, Georgia Tech has a student body of more than 29,000 at the undergraduate and graduate levels and more than 155,000 living alumni. The institute has an annual economic impact of about $3 billion upon Georgia's economy. Authors and Tech alumni Matthew Hild and David L. Morton take you inside the journey of how this institute got to where it is today.

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À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Hild and David L. Morton each earned a doctorate in the history of technology at Georgia Tech. Dr. Hild teaches history at Georgia Tech and the University of West Georgia. Dr. Morton is the director of communications and technology at the Associated Colleges of the South in Atlanta. In this book, they draw upon resources from the Georgia Tech Archives and other campus agencies to tell the story of Georgia Tech in words and photographs.

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9781540235558: Georgia Tech

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ISBN 10 :  1540235556 ISBN 13 :  9781540235558
Editeur : Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2018
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