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CEE Faculty Profile
Nelson C. Baker
Vice Provost and Associate Professor
Affinity Group: Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
| Office: | SEB 322 |
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| Phone: | 404/894-9658 |
| Email: | nelson.baker@dlpe.gatech.edu |
| Web: | http://people.ce.gatech.edu/~nbaker |
Biography
Dr. Nelson Baker is the Vice Provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education at Georgia Tech and an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a nationally recognized leader in educational technologies designed for and applied to engineering and technical environments having won numerous awards in this area. As the Associate Vice Provost, Dr. Baker is responsible for the oversight of all the professional education programs offered by Georgia Tech and for the distance delivered masters' degree programs. Within the educational technology domain, Dr. Baker pursues the creation and assessment of technology used by engineering students in the pursuit of learning the impacts on knowledge retention and transfer. These activities have included multi-lingual web-based intelligent simulations for problem solving, intelligent tutors, student models, virtual reality interfaces for education, and medical assistants for physicians.
