Talks@Tech: Dean McLaughlin
Dr. Steven W. McLaughlin is the Dean and Southern Company Chair of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. He serves as the chief academic officer of the College and provides leadership to more than 450 faculty members and 13,000 students, the largest engineering college in the country.
Among other distinctions, Dean McLaughlin has:
- co-founded CREATE-X
- was awarded the honor Chevalier dans l`Ordre Nationale de Merite, (Knight of the French National Order of Merit), the second highest civilian award given by Republic of France
- was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), where he was cited by President Clinton "for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats."
- was a past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society
- is a Fellow of the IEEE