Perdue, Nemhauser to speak at Georgia Tech fall Commencement ceremonies

Fall Commencement at the Georgia Institute of Technology Dec. 11-12 will feature speeches from U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga, and Industrial & Systems Engineering Professor George Nemhauser.

Fall Commencement at the Georgia Institute of Technology Dec. 11-12 will feature speeches from U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga, and Industrial & Systems Engineering Professor George Nemhauser.

The ceremony for Ph.D. and master’s degree graduates will be from 7 to 9 p.m., Dec. 11, at McCamish Pavilion on 10th Street. No tickets are required to attend. Students should arrive no later than 6 p.m. and report to Zelnak Center, adjacent to McCamish. Bernard Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, will be presented an honorary degree during the graduate degree ceremony.

The evening’s speaker will be George Nemhauser, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The 2015 recipient of the Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, Nemhauser is an expert on operations research, combinatorial and integer optimization and sports scheduling.

The Dec. 11 ceremony will also include the first-ever graduates from the groundbreaking Online Master of Science in Computer Science program. More than 20 OMSCS graduates are expected to be present to receive their degrees.

The bachelor’s degree ceremony will be 9 to 11:30 a.m., Dec. 12, also at McCamish Pavilion. Tickets are required for guests. Students should arrive at the Zelnak Center no later than 8 a.m. Sen. Perdue, a Georgia Tech alumnus and the junior senator from Georgia will deliver the Commencement address. Perdue has more than 40 years of business experience as the former CEO of Reebok athletic brand and Dollar General stores.

More than 1,200 will receive bachelor’s degrees while the graduate ceremony will award 969 master’s and 196 doctorates.

 

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