[the status of "
alumni"] is open to all graduates of Georgia Tech, all former students of Georgia Tech who regularly
matriculated and left Georgia Tech in good standing, active and retired members of the faculty and administration staff, and those who have rendered some special and conspicuous service to Georgia Tech or to [the alumni association].
The first class of 128 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888, and the first two graduates, Henry L. Smith and
George G. Crawford, received their degrees in 1890. Smith would later lead a manufacturing enterprise in
Dalton, Georgia and Crawford would head
Birmingham, Alabama's large Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company.[2] Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 12,769 undergraduates and 6,464 postgraduate students as of spring 2011[update].[3]
Businessman, chairman and CEO of
venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of
Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of
Telstra in Australia
Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada. Former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings which is the parent company of United Airlines.
Member of the Georgia State Senate (1957–1964); chairman of commission (1945–1947, 1976–1978, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974); Fulton County commissioner (1941–1948, 1966–1979)
Advisor of
Honduras Government team during the negotiations of
CAFTA; former
Honduras Ambassador in the US; former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of
Honduras; affiliated with
PNH
Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (1937–1951); member of the Georgia State Senate (1923–1924); member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1917–1920)
Surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran; spent 24 years in the
United States Navy serving as a battlefield casualty physician in
Afghanistan and
Iraq
Known as "Georgia's First Aviator"; aviation pioneer; in 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the
Epps 1907 Monoplane, followed by other original monoplane and biplane designs
NASA astronaut (
STS-127); Among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Physicist known for his research into superconductor applications; professor and assistant chairman for undergraduate studies of the physics department at the
University of Virginia
Nuclear physicist and
young Earth creationist, known for his claims that
radiohalos provide evidence for a young
age of the Earth; entered the physics doctoral program at Georgia Tech, but left when he was refused permission to work on the age of the Earth for his dissertation
Ceramic engineer at Georgia Tech and the founder of its Department of Ceramic Engineering, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, engineer, and college football coach; professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University (now known as the
University of Arkansas)
Director of the GVU Center (Georgia Tech); professor of School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech; former manager of the
Ubiquitous Computing group at
PARC
Executive director, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech; director of the
GVU Center at Georgia Tech; associate dean of strategic planning,
Georgia Tech College of Computing
Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker; director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train, holder of numerous U.S. and foreign
patents in the field of
streaming media
Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits, mostly of the sunshine pop genre, including most of the hits of
The 5th Dimension and
The Association
^Goettling, Gary (Spring 1992).
"TechNotes: Alumni on Council". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^Schwartz, Jerry (Summer 1993).
"On His Own". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"Waffles and More ... Any Time". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Fall 2000. Archived from
the original on October 28, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"A Conversation With Sam Nunn". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Spring 1990. Archived from
the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^Roberts, Paul Craig (Summer 1991).
"The Economy Takes a Fall". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"Our Leadership". American Veterans Committee for Puerto Rico Self-Determination. Archived from
the original on September 23, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^"Astronaut Bio: Jan Davis". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. January 2006.
Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^"Charlie Hillard". Air Show Hall of Fame. International Council of Air Shows Foundation. 1997. Archived from
the original on August 15, 2007. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^"Astronaut Bio: Sandra Magnus". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. February 2007.
Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^Block, Robert (2008-11-04). "Space shuttle Endeavour blasts into night sky". Orlando Sentinel.
^"Kleinert Hagen"(PDF). International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^"Eugene H. Spafford". Purdue University Department of Computer Science. 2006-12-02.
Archived from the original on 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
^"Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa". California Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 2019-02-11.
Archived from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^"Home, Sweet, Smart, Sensible Home". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association Online. Winter 2003. Archived from
the original on November 15, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
^"Pacesetters: Piled High". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Winter 2006. Archived from
the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
^"Jeff Crouse". The Internet as Playground and Factory. Archived from
the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
^"James Crumley Papers". Southwestern Writers Collection. Special Collections at Texas State. Archived from
the original on January 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
^Goettling, Gary (Fall 1992).
"Redneck Repartee". Tech Topics. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
^"Phil Gordon Plays a Winning Hand". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Spring 2005. Archived from
the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
^"Gift of the Generations". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Winter 2005. Archived from
the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
[the status of "
alumni"] is open to all graduates of Georgia Tech, all former students of Georgia Tech who regularly
matriculated and left Georgia Tech in good standing, active and retired members of the faculty and administration staff, and those who have rendered some special and conspicuous service to Georgia Tech or to [the alumni association].
The first class of 128 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888, and the first two graduates, Henry L. Smith and
George G. Crawford, received their degrees in 1890. Smith would later lead a manufacturing enterprise in
Dalton, Georgia and Crawford would head
Birmingham, Alabama's large Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company.[2] Since then, the institute has greatly expanded, with an enrollment of 12,769 undergraduates and 6,464 postgraduate students as of spring 2011[update].[3]
Businessman, chairman and CEO of
venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of
Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of
Telstra in Australia
Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada. Former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings which is the parent company of United Airlines.
Member of the Georgia State Senate (1957–1964); chairman of commission (1945–1947, 1976–1978, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974); Fulton County commissioner (1941–1948, 1966–1979)
Advisor of
Honduras Government team during the negotiations of
CAFTA; former
Honduras Ambassador in the US; former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of
Honduras; affiliated with
PNH
Georgian Member of the US House of Representatives (1937–1951); member of the Georgia State Senate (1923–1924); member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1917–1920)
Surgeon, medical professor, and military veteran; spent 24 years in the
United States Navy serving as a battlefield casualty physician in
Afghanistan and
Iraq
Known as "Georgia's First Aviator"; aviation pioneer; in 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the
Epps 1907 Monoplane, followed by other original monoplane and biplane designs
NASA astronaut (
STS-127); Among the first candidates selected for astronaut training in the United States following the
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Physicist known for his research into superconductor applications; professor and assistant chairman for undergraduate studies of the physics department at the
University of Virginia
Nuclear physicist and
young Earth creationist, known for his claims that
radiohalos provide evidence for a young
age of the Earth; entered the physics doctoral program at Georgia Tech, but left when he was refused permission to work on the age of the Earth for his dissertation
Ceramic engineer at Georgia Tech and the founder of its Department of Ceramic Engineering, now known as Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, engineer, and college football coach; professor of mechanical engineering and the head football coach at Arkansas Industrial University (now known as the
University of Arkansas)
Director of the GVU Center (Georgia Tech); professor of School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech; former manager of the
Ubiquitous Computing group at
PARC
Executive director, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech; director of the
GVU Center at Georgia Tech; associate dean of strategic planning,
Georgia Tech College of Computing
Technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker; director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train, holder of numerous U.S. and foreign
patents in the field of
streaming media
Grammy-award-winning record producer and recording engineer associated with 1960s and 1970s hits, mostly of the sunshine pop genre, including most of the hits of
The 5th Dimension and
The Association
^Goettling, Gary (Spring 1992).
"TechNotes: Alumni on Council". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^Schwartz, Jerry (Summer 1993).
"On His Own". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"Waffles and More ... Any Time". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Fall 2000. Archived from
the original on October 28, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"A Conversation With Sam Nunn". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Spring 1990. Archived from
the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^Roberts, Paul Craig (Summer 1991).
"The Economy Takes a Fall". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
^"Our Leadership". American Veterans Committee for Puerto Rico Self-Determination. Archived from
the original on September 23, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^"Astronaut Bio: Jan Davis". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. January 2006.
Archived from the original on 2012-10-23. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^"Charlie Hillard". Air Show Hall of Fame. International Council of Air Shows Foundation. 1997. Archived from
the original on August 15, 2007. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^"Astronaut Bio: Sandra Magnus". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. February 2007.
Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
^Block, Robert (2008-11-04). "Space shuttle Endeavour blasts into night sky". Orlando Sentinel.
^"Kleinert Hagen"(PDF). International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
^"Eugene H. Spafford". Purdue University Department of Computer Science. 2006-12-02.
Archived from the original on 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
^"Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa". California Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 2019-02-11.
Archived from the original on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
^"Home, Sweet, Smart, Sensible Home". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association Online. Winter 2003. Archived from
the original on November 15, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
^"Pacesetters: Piled High". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Winter 2006. Archived from
the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
^"Jeff Crouse". The Internet as Playground and Factory. Archived from
the original on October 9, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
^"James Crumley Papers". Southwestern Writers Collection. Special Collections at Texas State. Archived from
the original on January 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
^Goettling, Gary (Fall 1992).
"Redneck Repartee". Tech Topics. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from
the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
^"Phil Gordon Plays a Winning Hand". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Spring 2005. Archived from
the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
^"Gift of the Generations". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Online. Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Winter 2005. Archived from
the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2007-07-28.