{"id":17891,"date":"2017-06-21T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2017-07-10T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:34:53","slug":"new-director-appointed-utc-simcenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-director-appointed-utc-simcenter\/","title":{"rendered":"New director appointed to UTC SimCenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17904\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"17904\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-director-appointed-utc-simcenter\/skjellum_front\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"479,319\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"skjellum_front\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-17904 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/skjellum_front.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tony Skjellum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Tony Skjellum has been appointed as director of UTC&#8217;s SimCenter.<\/p>\n<p>The SimCenter uses computer modeling and other applications to solve problems in such areas as engineering, manufacturing, healthcare and energy usage, among others. Supported by federal agencies and commercial businesses nationwide, it is available to students and faculty across the university.<\/p>\n<p>Skjellum formerly was the director of the Cyber Research Center at Auburn University.\u00a0 He also led research and development in high-performance computing in Auburn&#8217;s College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>From 2003-2013, he was a professor and chairman in the Department of\u00a0Computer and Information Sciences at the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Alabama at Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>He received his bachelor&#8217;s of science, master&#8217;s of science and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tony Skjellum has been appointed as director of UTC&#8217;s SimCenter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-director-appointed-utc-simcenter\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":17904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,59,831],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","8":"category-news","9":"category-research-institute","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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