| Overall Rating | Gold |
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| Overall Score | 65.15 |
| Liaison | Emma Blandford |
| Submission Date | Feb. 29, 2024 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
AC-9: Research and Scholarship
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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12.00 / 12.00 |
Emma
Blandford Portfolio Manager Office of Sustainability |
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Part 1. Sustainability research
1,351
Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
525
Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
38.86
Part 2. Sustainability research by department
75
Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
58
Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
77.33
Research Inventory
Inventory of the institution’s sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
• Mr. Jason Wang (Director of Data Management, Office of Institutional Research and Planning) downloaded and made available an Excel spreadsheet consisting of a list of research awards made to Georgia Tech in FY21-FY23 from the Office of Sponsored Program's Contract Information System. The list consisted of 5749 lines with each line representing a contractually distinct research award.
• Using the title of the research award and/or keywords that investigators may have attached to the project in the database, sustainability projects were screened by sustainability keyword (a project was considered a "match" if the title or project keyword matched at least one sustainability keyword; matches were determined based on the first instance of a matching keyword; it was not determined if a project may have matched additional sustainability keywords after an initial match was found).
• Dr. Michael Chang (Deputy Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems) and Mr. James Hauser (Graduate Student Assistant in the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and graduate student in the Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management (MSEEM) program) reviewed all 5749 data entries to determine which of them belonged to the subset of "sustainability research."
• The project PI and any Co-PIs of each sustainability research project were identified.
** The full methodology is uploaded as additional documentation to support the submission.
• Using the title of the research award and/or keywords that investigators may have attached to the project in the database, sustainability projects were screened by sustainability keyword (a project was considered a "match" if the title or project keyword matched at least one sustainability keyword; matches were determined based on the first instance of a matching keyword; it was not determined if a project may have matched additional sustainability keywords after an initial match was found).
• Dr. Michael Chang (Deputy Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems) and Mr. James Hauser (Graduate Student Assistant in the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and graduate student in the Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management (MSEEM) program) reviewed all 5749 data entries to determine which of them belonged to the subset of "sustainability research."
• The project PI and any Co-PIs of each sustainability research project were identified.
** The full methodology is uploaded as additional documentation to support the submission.
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“Academic Units” definition: Research and Courses
Teams of faculty, students, and researchers throughout our six colleges, 11 interdisciplinary research institutes, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and hundreds of research labs and centers are pushing the boundaries of science and technology every day. More than half of Georgia Tech’s research is done in GTRI, Georgia Tech’s applied research organization. GTRI has grown to more than 2,400 employees supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country, and performs more than $600 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. In addition to GTRI, schools, research labs and centers, Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary research institutes, bring together research to address specific challenges. With staff knowledgeable about broad research areas, these institutes provide single points of contact for organizations conducting research at Georgia Tech.
As it relates to the STARS report, Georgia Tech’s research units include the “academic units” (those that teach courses) used for the courses inventory as well as the expansive research centers, IRIs, and GTRI units that conduct research. These centers do not perform instruction, only research, yet provide an academic research function. To include the vast research portfolio of the research units, Georgia Tech is expanding the total departments related to research. Otherwise, including the research conducted by the “academic units” consistent with courses (IPEDS-based instructional units) leaves out the majority of the research conducted at Georgia Tech.
Teams of faculty, students, and researchers throughout our six colleges, 11 interdisciplinary research institutes, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and hundreds of research labs and centers are pushing the boundaries of science and technology every day. More than half of Georgia Tech’s research is done in GTRI, Georgia Tech’s applied research organization. GTRI has grown to more than 2,400 employees supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country, and performs more than $600 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. In addition to GTRI, schools, research labs and centers, Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary research institutes, bring together research to address specific challenges. With staff knowledgeable about broad research areas, these institutes provide single points of contact for organizations conducting research at Georgia Tech.
As it relates to the STARS report, Georgia Tech’s research units include the “academic units” (those that teach courses) used for the courses inventory as well as the expansive research centers, IRIs, and GTRI units that conduct research. These centers do not perform instruction, only research, yet provide an academic research function. To include the vast research portfolio of the research units, Georgia Tech is expanding the total departments related to research. Otherwise, including the research conducted by the “academic units” consistent with courses (IPEDS-based instructional units) leaves out the majority of the research conducted at Georgia Tech.
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