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Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, will deliver the commencement address to more than 2,100 master's and undergraduate candidates at Georgia Tech's spring graduation at 9 a.m. May 5 at the Georgia Dome.
Janice Wittschiebe, chair of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, will also speak to the graduates and welcome them as the Institute's newest alumni.
Immelt began his career in 1982 working in GE's plastics, appliance and medical divisions, joined the GE Capital Board in 1997 and was appointed CEO in 2001. Barron's named him one of the World's Best CEOs in 2005 and 2006 and GE was named "America's Most Admired Company" in a poll conducted by Fortune magazine.
Immelt earned a bachelor's in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.
Ray Orbach, director of the Department of Energy's science office, will speak to 142 doctoral candidates May 3 at the Ferst Center for the Arts. Orbach oversees the third-largest sponsor of basic research in the United States with a budget of $3.6 billion funding programs in nuclear physics, basic energy sciences, magnetic fusion, biological and environmental research and computational science, according to the Department of Energy Web site.
Orbach received his bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1956 and his doctorate in physics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1960.
Tickets are required to attend the PhD ceremony. More information may be obtained at www.gatech.edu/commencement/.
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