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EMPLOYEE PROFILE

Name: Ramzi Ghezawi

Title: Associate Professor, Engineering and Media Technologies

Major responsibilities: Teaching, doing research for classes

Length of service at the College: 11 years

Place of birth: Jordan, in the Middle East

Family members: Karen, Saeed, Ali

Something no one knows about you: I am a perfectionist to a fault.

Greatest achievement or proudest moment: Having two boys.

Favorite things outside work: Reading.

Most rewarding part of your job: Changing stereotypes.

Most influential person in your life and why: [Pellissippi State employee] Karen Ghezawi—you need to meet her and you will know why.

Favorite quote:

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”—Thomas Jefferson

P.S.—I do believe in God.




 

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