Dr. Nelson C. Baker

Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural Engineering and Mechanics Group

Associate Vice Provost Distance Learning and Professional Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Global Learning Center
84 5th Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-1031 USA
For Internal Campus Mail Code is 0385
Phone: (404) 894-9658
FAX: (404) 894-7398
NetMeeting IP: nbaker.ce.gatech.edu
E-mail: nelson.baker@dlpe.gatech.edu
 

Education

  • Ph.D.: Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
  • M.S.: Carnegie Mellon University, 1985
  • BCE: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980

Honors/Awards

  • Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997
  • W. Roane Beard Georgia Institute of Technology Outstanding Teacher Award, 1994
  • National Science Foundation National Young Investigator, 1992-1998.
  • Recipient of ENR Educator for Construction's Next Generation, 1996.
  • W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence, 1994.
  • ASCE Journal of Computing Best Paper, 1990
  • Lilly Teaching Fellow, 1991 - 1992
  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award 1989 - 1990 as determined by the Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award 1993 - 1994 as determined by the Georgia Tech Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Research Interests

  • Intelligent Learning Environments for Engineering (Project EPITOME)
  • Sustainable Education Building
  • Knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence techniques
  • Study of design process
  • Temporal geometric representations and simulations of the constructed environment

Partial List of Publications:

  • S. St. Clair and N.C. Baker. "Faculty Use and Impressions of Courseware Management Tools: A National Survey", Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, pgs. 113-121, April, 2003.
  • T. Sulbaran and N.C. Baker. "A Study of Engineering Students Interaction with Distributed Virtual Reality in the Classroom", Southeast Section Meeting of ASEE, April 2001.
  • S. St. Clair and N.C. Baker. "Online Assistant for Writing Course Objectives", Frontiers in education, Paper #1186, October, 18021, ASEE, 2000.
  • T. Sulbaran and N.C. Baker. "Enhancing Engineering Education through Distributed Virtual Reality", Frontiers in Education, Paper #1245, October 18-21, ASEE, 2000.
  • N.C. Baker. "Effective Teaching with Technology". Workbook for day long workshop, SUCCEED, 1999, revised 2002.
  • N.C. Baker and P.S. Chinowsky. Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom: Introduction & Assessment. American Society of Engineering Educators, 1996 Annual Conference, Session 3515, 1996.
  • N.C. Baker and C. Srisethanil ITS-Engineering: Providing Adaptive Teaching in an Engineering Tutor. Frontiers in Education: Engineering Education for the 21st Century, pages 2a3.22-2a3.26, November, ASEE, 1995.
  • N.C. Baker. The Need for Learning Environments in Engineering. In Bridging the Generations: An International Workshop on the Future Directions of Computer-Aided Engineering", D. Rehak, Ed., Carnegie Mellon University, June 1994.
  • N.C. Baker and C. Srisethanil. Adaptive Instructor Model for An Engineering ITS. In First Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, K. Khozeimeh, Ed., pages 1059-1066, American Society of Civil Engineers, June 1994.
  • N.C. Baker and O. El Kordy. Multimedia Implications to Structural Engineering. In Analysis and Computation, Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference, pages 37-46, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994.
  • N.C. Baker. Explanation Facilities for Intelligent Engineering Tutors. In Fifth International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, pages 431-438. American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993.
  • N.C. Baker. Intelligent Tutoring Frameworks for Engineering. In Information Technology for Civil and Structural Engineers, pages 295-300, Proceedings of The Third Intemational Conference in the Application of Artifical Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering. B.H.V. Topping and A.I. Khan Editors, Civil-Comp Press, 1993.
  • M. Bertz and N.C. Baker. CELL - A Vertically Integrated Learning Resource. in the Proceedings of the Third Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, pages 348-354, Anaheim, California, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996.
  • M. Boyd and N.C. Baker. A Distributed Engineering Problem Generator. in the Proceedings of the Third Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, pages 466-472, Anaheim, California, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996.
  • P. Chinowsky and N. Baker. Cooperative Solutions to Lifelong Civil Engineering Education. Lifelong Learning in Engineering Education, Proceedings of 1996 ASEE Southeastern Section Meeting, J.P. Mohsen (Ed.), pg 1-5, 1996.
  • G. Rix, N.C. Baker, L. Jacobs, J. Vanegas, and A. Zureick Infrastructure Assessment, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction. In Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education, pp. 4c1.11 - 4c1.14, November, ASEE, 1995.
  • C. Srisethanil and N.C. Baker. Application and Development of Multiple Teaching Styles to an Engineering ITS in the Proceedings of the 7th World Conference On Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 315-322, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, August, 1995.
  • C. Srisethanil and N.C. Baker. Adaptive Instruction Strategies for a Tutoring System Shell in Engineering. Journal of Computer Based Instruction. Association for the Development of Computer-Based Instructional Systems, 1996.
  • H.G. Thompson, and N.C. Baker. ITS-CONCRETE: A Functional Description. In Eighth Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering. B. Goodno and J. Wright (Eds), Dallas, TX, pgs 222-228, Sponsored by Technical Council on Computer Practices (of ASCE), Society of Computers in Engineering, Planning and Architecture (CEPA), and the ICES User's Group (UG), 1992.
  • J.A. Vanegas and N.C. Baker. Multimedia in Civil Engineering. Civil Engineering, Vol. 65, No. 5, pages 71-73, American Society of Civil Engineers, May 1994.

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