Denning T&M Executive Summary (2021 – 2022)

Executive Brief for Annual Report 2021-22 (July 2021 – June 2022)

Table of Contents

Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................. 1 Leadership Update.................................................................................................................................... 2 Faculty and Staff ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Admissions and Program Statistics ........................................................................................................... 3 Corporate Statistics .................................................................................................................................. 5 Corporate Affiliate History........................................................................................................................ 5 Salary Statistics ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Class of 2022 Capstone Projects ............................................................................................................... 6 Commencement ....................................................................................................................................... 8 International Events ............................................................................................................................... 10 Alumni Events and Involvement ............................................................................................................. 10 Alumni LinkedIn Initiative ....................................................................................................................... 12 Class of 2023 and Class of 2024 Photos ................................................................................................. 14

COVER PHOTO: The cover photo features the graduating T&M Class of 2022.

Executive Summary The Steven A. Denning Technology & Management (T&M) Program helps create cross-functional leaders in technology and business-related fields by building upon Georgia Tech’s outstanding programs and curriculum. Classes emphasize experiential learning and include hands-on elements, allowing Denning T&M students the opportunity to offer interdisciplinary-team solutions to real-world problems faced by the program’s corporate affiliates.

The Denning T&M Program is open to all Georgia Tech undergraduate students, including the Scheller College of Business, the College of Computing, the College of Engineering, the College of Design, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Sciences.

Business and Engineering students who complete the program earn a 22-credit minor in Engineering & Business. Computer Science and IT Management students earn a minor in Computing & Business.

Students from all other colleges earn a minor in Technology & Business.

Vision: To develop a generation of collaborative, professionally adept, ethical, and successful business leaders with an openness to seeking and learning from alternative points of view and with the capability to leverage technology to improve the state of the world.

Mission: To be the flagship interdisciplinary program at Georgia Tech, offering minors at the intersections of technology and business, involving rigorous academic and professional training in collaboration with world-class faculty and corporate partners across a breadth of industries.

There are two sides to the program: students and corporate affiliates, and the five-member T&M faculty/staff team, with the support of our exceptional professors, bridge these two sides. Additionally, as the alumni base expands, the team strives to incorporate them into the program whenever possible.

When it comes to supporting our students, we offer rigorous academic challenges paired with events to encourage their growth as individuals and team members. We categorize our events as career development, corporate partnerships, academic, international, alumni-centered, community building, and administrative.

When it comes to establishing and nurturing our corporate partnerships, the T&M Program team works closely with each affiliate to meet their specific innovation and hiring needs. From on-site visits by our Administrative Director and Senior Manager, Corporate Relations & Student Counseling to office takeovers, the T&M career fair, and capstone project development, mentoring, and execution, we listen intently and execute process improvement to benefit affiliates and students alike.

This report includes our curriculum and information on our events to create a broad view of the T&M Program’s opportunities. In addition, it will touch on students, alumni, and corporate affiliates to show the unique ecosystem known across Georgia Tech as one of the unique offerings available to undergraduate students.

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Leadership Update Dr. Han Zhang has completed the sixth year of his six-year term as the Faculty Director of the Steven A. Denning Technology & Management Program and renewed his contract for three more years. He is a Professor in Information Technology Management (ITM) and the Steven A. Denning Professor of Technology & Management.

Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on the economics of information technology, online trust and reputation, online word-of-mouth, and the evolution of electronic markets. His research on the institutional setup to help small businesses grow in the digital economy has been used as the basis for testimony before the Congressional House Committee on Small Business. He currently serves as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, a top-tier journal in the information systems field.

Faculty and Staff The T&M Program staff have been working together under the guidance of Faculty Director Han Zhang for six years and Administrative Director Bob Burgess for eight years. Sheena Brown (Academic Program Manager) handles all events, student recruiting and attrition, scholarships, and finances. Anne Lynch (Communications Manager) and John Stanford (Senior Manager, Industry Engagement & Student Counseling) partner to coach the students for career success. After offering career guidance, John passes the students back to Anne for writing advice. Between the two of them, the students receive the oneon-one attention needed to excel. John also coordinates all corporate engagement to nurture industry partnerships, while Anne maintains alumni engagement.

Sheena Brown

Academic Program Manager

sheena.brown@scheller.gatech.edu

Robert “Bob” Burgess

Administrative Director

robert.burgess@scheller.gatech.edu 404.894.3899

Anne Lynch

Communications Manager

anne.lynch@scheller.gatech.edu

404.385.3108

John Stanford

Senior Manager, Industry Engagement & Student Counseling

john.stanford@scheller.gatech.edu

404.385.4504

Han Zhang

Faculty Director

han.zhang@scheller.gatech.edu

404.894.4373

404.385.7688

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T&M Faculty, Staff, and Student Assistants: John Stanford, Sarah Shin, Jack Terry, Ava Gribble, Bob Burgess, Sheena Brown, Sam Hatcher, and Han Zhang.

Ava Gribble, senior undergraduate office assistant, led her peers Parker French, Sam Hatcher, Kylee Johnson, Anaya Patel, Sarah Shin, and Jack Terry as undergraduate office assistants during this academic year. In addition, Chris Arms, Charles Blondeau, Dylan Hutcheson, Colton Orr, Amada Shojaee, Scott Spencer, and Kyle Winkler served as MBA Mentors.

Admissions and Program Statistics Sixty students from the T&M Program Class of 2022 completed minors in either Computing & Business, Engineering & Business, or Technology & Business. In Fall 2022, 58 students in the Class of 2023 will begin the Pre-Capstone class, and 67 students in the newly admitted Class of 2024 will begin classes.

The Class of 2024 of 67 students has an average GPA of 3.76 and spans 16 Georgia Tech majors.  Aerospace Engineering (AE)  Architecture  Business Administration (BA)  IT Management  Finance  General Management  Marketing  Operations and Supply Chain Management  Strategy and Innovation  Biomedical Engineering (BME)  Civil Engineering (CE)

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Computer Engineering (CMPE) Computer Science (CS) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Economics Electrical Engineering (EE) History, Technology, and Society Literature, Media, and Communication Industrial Design (ID) Industrial Engineering (IE) International Affairs Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Women students represent 44% of this class, Latino students represent 13.4%., African American students represent 7.5%, and students identifying as two or more races represent 10.4%. We continue to reach out to all Diversity & Inclusion offices across campus to recruit a diverse cohort.

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There have been 2,706 applications received up through the Class of 2024, with 852 students accepted into the program

There have been 718 students accepted through the Class of 2022, with 668 earning one of the three T&M minors.

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College of Engineering Scheller College of Business College of Computing Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts College of Design College of Sciences

Enrollment Growth by College through 2024 (Total Enrollment = 865) College of Engineering Scheller College of Business College of Computing Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts College of Design College of Sciences

444 268 116 16 14 7

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Corporate Statistics The 2021-22 AY marked the official beginning of the T&M Program’s partnership with the Atlanta Braves and Tempus Ex. We also continued our partnerships with Boeing, Caterpillar, Equifax, Georgia-Pacific, Navy Nuclear Labs (NNL), NCR, PACCAR, Siemens, Southwire, Steelcase, and Ware2Go for a total of 13 corporate affiliates for the Class of 2022. Georgia-Pacific sponsored an operations project as well as one for their innovation division. We had a total of 14 capstone projects for the Class of 2022.

Corporate Affiliate History

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Salary Statistics Across the board, students who graduate from Georgia Tech with one of our three minors realize a financial benefit in their starting salary. The graph below illustrates the differences across the five colleges for alumni starting full-time jobs in the summer of 2022. We used a two-year average median to account for anomalies in salary data caused by COVID-19. Also, the average hourly rate for T&M students interning was $29.53/hour.

Two-Year Average Median for T&M vs. 2021 College Median

Class of 2022 Capstone Projects The backbone of the Denning T&M Program is the capstone project. Each year, our second-year students carefully weigh their options and select five projects (ranking them 1 – 5) where they believe they will be able to contribute significantly and learn the most. Then the T&M Program faculty and staff carefully form the teams using a wide array of criteria. This academic year we had 14 projects split between our 60 Class of 2022 cohort members.

Corporate affiliates remain involved throughout the year as they interact with their capstone team and the T&M staff. In April, capstone students presented their findings in-person or over video conferencing platforms. One of more T&M staff members attended the 14 final presentations to the corporate sponsors and fellow executives.

The corporate affiliates were overwhelmingly impressed with the students’ presentations. Twelve out of 14 projects were recommended as Best Project of the Year by at least one of their sponsors.

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John Stanford (T&M), Kate Mandrell (NCR VP), Judah Krug (computer science), Stephanie Yao (computer science), Owen Sullivan (NCR COO), Zachary Bellis (mechanical engineering), Divita Chillakuru (industrial design), Alex Kalenchits (computer science), Patrice Graves (NCR CHRO), Tony Burdett (NCR University Relations), and Daniel Herrmann (NCR VP).

Equifax after their final on-site presentation: Tracy Bracken, Jim Griggs, Gururaj Deshpande (biomedical engineering), Sreya Atmuri (computer science), Raveena Vellingiri (neuroscience), Nicholas W. Meyer (computer engineering), and Chris Stanko.

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Commencement On Monday, April 25, 2022, all Class of 2022 T&M students met at the Academy of Medicine for their Commencement ceremony. The Class of 2022 nominated two Class Speakers, and Bob Burgess announced awards for students of the year and best capstone project as well as best capstone presentation. All award winners are listed in the “Denning Awards” section.

Class speaker Chakrika Ratra takes a selfie after her speech.

Class of 2022 graduates and class speaker Nick Rokos.

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Faculty Director Dr. Han Zhang speaking to the Class of 2022 and their families.

Corporate Advisory Panel Meeting After a two-year hiatus, we held our Corporate Advisory Panel Meeting in person at Top Golf so that affiliates could meet with each other as well as the T&M faculty and staff. At this end-of-year meeting, affiliates looked back over the year and offered advice on continuing to improve the program.

Corporate affiliates with John Stanford and Han Zhang.

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International Events The sixth annual International Experience was planned for March 13 to March 21, 2020, to Beijing, China, in partnership with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Due to Covid-19 protocols, we canceled the trip. When it is safe to do so and approved by the Georgia Tech Office of International Education, the T&M Program will resume our International Experience trips over Spring Break. We hope to take students abroad again in March 2023.

The T&M Program has enabled 223 students to have an International Experience while an undergraduate student. Many students have commented that they would have missed out on the opportunity to study abroad if not for the “Spring Break travel structure” and the fact that the T&M Program subsidizes the cost of the trip.

Alumni Events and Involvement We did not hold any in-person social alumni events during this past academic year, but our alumni liaison, Anne Lynch, engaged with alumni one-on-one through phone conversations, LinkedIn messaging, emails, and in-person lunch meetings. John Stanford, Senior Manager, Industry Engagement & Student Counseling, also maintained open communication with alumni during the past year and focused his efforts on alumni working for corporate affiliates.

Seventy-five alumni completed a Dress for Success survey, which was used to teach current students, and 33 alumni critiqued midterm presentations for the Class of 2022 capstone teams. During in-person meetings, Anne discussed ways to measure success to gather potential survey questions. Administrative Director Bob Burgess plans to execute a comparison study between Georgia Tech graduates and Georgia Tech graduates with a minor from the Denning Technology & Management Program.

John Stanford meets with Boeing affiliates and T&M alumni working at Boeing. | Anne Lynch meets with Alex Berry (T&M Class of 2016) for lunch in Tech Square.

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This year, all capstone teams created midterm presentation videos. We then solicited alumni to critique a subset of these presentations that were approved for sharing by the corporate affiliates. Thirty-three alumni T&M Program alumni gave a total of 56 detailed critiques on the T&M Class of 2022’s midterm presentations. They also offered to meet with current students to expand on their advice. Our Denning Scholars took their projects and presentations to the next level with their expertise. We are continually impressed by our community’s generosity.

T&M Class of 2011: T&M Class of 2012: T&M Class of 2014: T&M Class of 2015: T&M Class of 2016: T&M Class of 2017: T&M Class of 2018: T&M Class of 2019: T&M Class of 2020: T&M Class of 2021:

Alvin Chen and Hari Gopal Andrew Elkins and Michael Tribo Tuure Pasto and Jason Ye Grant Heffley, Taylor Kersteen, Alec Li, and Jonathan Porter Henderson Johnson II and Dalton Nechanicky Marguerite Bernard, Laura McCray Dunigan, Megan Emery, Richard Huckaby, and Olivia Jagiella-Lodise Jessica Jiang, Sarah Jory, and Sarah Selim Jared Borders, Rishab Mokkapati, and Jason Quill Karan Achtani, Ford Coleman, Kiran Gite, Davis Massey, Venkatesh Muppaneni, Lucas Nativio, Ted Vlady, and Charlie Ye Ross Cefalu and Ashlyn Sasser

Thirty-three alumni volunteered to critique midterm presentations.

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Thirty-three alumni volunteered to critique midterm presentations.

Alumni LinkedIn Initiative In June 2019, we created a Higher Education page on LinkedIn for the Denning Technology & Management Program to post public content about our program, students, corporate affiliates, and alumni. Most importantly, our 668 alumni can add the T&M Program under their LinkedIn Education section to officially list the minor they earned at Georgia Tech. Once added, alumni become searchable in a directory based on location, company, career field, major, and skillset. This directory can also be queried by keyword to find alumni with expertise in anything from machine learning to corporate finance to diversity and inclusion. There are currently 616 registered alumni, a 92% participation rate.

We also have 1,518 LinkedIn page followers.

Students, alumni, corporate affiliates, and headhunters can use the alumni directory to find experts, future colleagues, mentors, speakers, and former classmates. Current students have used the directory to reach out to alumni who worked at their target companies, navigated being an F-1 visa holder, and asked for advice on pursuing an MBA. Alumni have used the directory to reconnect with former classmates and look for a new job. And corporate affiliates can now easily target alumni for recruitment.

It has also facilitated city-specific alumni networking.

The T&M Program’s dynamic public presence on LinkedIn enables connectivity and relationships in a way that wasn’t possible before. These relationships have the potential to drive innovation, build community, and impact future income. We can also post public content about our program, students, corporate affiliates, and alumni. You can access the page at: https://www.linkedin.com/school/denning-technology-management-program.

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Banner for public LinkedIn group featuring T&M students with Shenzhen University students.

Screenshot from LinkedIn alumni directory.

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Class of 2023 and Class of 2024 Photos

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