1. Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Georgia Tech is an innovative intellectual environment with more than 900 full-time instructional faculty and more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Chronicle of Higher Education Tech's National Rankings U.S. News and World Report No. 7 public university in the country No. 4 graduate engineering college No. 5 undergraduate engineering college No. 1 industrial engineering program 7 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 5 10 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10 Chronicle of Higher Education: Faculty Scholarly Productivity (07) No. 1 in Materials Science & Engineering No. 3 in Architecture No. 3 in Information Technology/Information Systems No. 8 in Engineering Mechanics No. 9 in Engineering (various disciplines) No. 10 in Systems Engineering

3. Georgia Institute of Technology “Universal adoption of electronic medical records by hospitals, physicians and other health care professionals is vital to our country’s health care delivery system, Georgia Tech has centers conducting transdisciplinary research in key areas such as health privacy and security, human centered computing and logistics. We’re committed to partnering with Health IT companies to design solutions that will improve lives, grow the industry, and make our nation more economically competitive in a global economy” – Dr. G.P. “Bud” Peterson, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology

4. Georgia Institute of Technology We will identify and focus on several research areas, identify the appropriate local and global partners, and make Institute-scale investments. The strategic planning process has identified a number of potential targets, including transportation and logistics; micro and nano technologies; power and sustainable energy; health information technology; integrated bioscience, bioengineering and biotechnology (e.g., health manufacturing, medicine, policy, and management); smart materials; technology-related policy, law, national security, and ethics; and the technological aspects of neuroscience. Strategy 2 – Lead in targeted reputational areas