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July 2022

A group of headshots on green and blue backgrounds and the logo for the Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40 Class of 2022
5 CEE Alumni Selected for GT Alumni Association's 40 Under 40
July 18, 2022
two men and one woman smile with a gold hexagon pattern in the background
CEE Welcomes New Faculty Members
July 06, 2022
A smiling man wearing a tuxedo
Kevin Lewis selected for National Academy of Construction scholarship
 July 06, 2022

May 2022
22 Alumnae Named on List of Influential Women in Georgia Engineering
 May 20, 2022
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Creating a Safer Future for Cyclists
 May 20, 2022
A smiling man in front of trees
A Framework for Equity in Energy and Environmental Engineering
 May 16, 2022
A man sits at a table with a book in front of a brick wall
Student Column: A Fulbright Scholar's Journey to PhD
 May 06, 2022
A woman holding an award poses with a man
6 CEE Alumni Honored by Georgia Tech College of Engineering
May 05, 2022
A woman wearing a cap and gown poses with her dog
Sixth Time's the Charm
 May 03, 2022

April 2022

A group of people poses in front of a large painting
Georgakakos Honored for International Impact
April 27, 2022
A woman holds a large check in front of a building
Muscalus Named Georgia Tech's Graduate Instructor of the Year
 April 21, 2022
Two people stand next to a silver sign with black text
CEE Celebrates the New P2K Classroom
 April 20, 2022
A man poses in front of laboratory equipment
Jorge Macedo receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award
 April 13, 2022
Two men and one woman stand together on the street in front of cars and buildings
The Link Between Transit Use and Early Covid Cases
 April 12, 2022
From left to right: Aidan Labrozzi, Johanna Hall, Thomas Papageorge, Zoe Zhang, Anthony Sanseverino
CEE Recognizes Outstanding Undergraduate Students
 April 12, 2022
From left to right: Francesco Fedele, Eric Marks, Maria Warren, Alexandra Muscalus, Rachel Grant
Five CEE Faculty Recognized in CIOS Awards
 April 05, 2022

March 2022

A photo of a building with the words No. 3 Civil and Environmental Engineering According to U.S. News and World Report's 2023 graduate rankings
Georgia Tech’s Civil and Environmental Grad Programs Ranked No.3
March 29, 2022
A man wearing a coat and tie smiles in a portrait
Bras selected to serve on President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
March 24, 2022
Alexandra Israel Wins Top American Concrete Institute Scholarship
 March 17, 2022
From left to right: Jianfeng Zhou, Samuel Coogan
CEE Faculty Recognized in 2022 Sigma Xi Research Awards
 March 15, 2022
Emily Sanders smiles for a photograph.
Alumni Spotlight: Emily D. Sanders
 March 07, 2022
Bras, DesRoches, Messner awarded Gold & White Honors for service to Georgia Tech
 March 04, 2022
Bonaparte: CEE students must be leaders in climate change solutions
 March 04, 2022
The American Institute of Steel Construction Recognizes CEE's Ryan Sherman
 March 03, 2022

February 2022

A composite photo of the 2022 Class of Future Faculty Fellows.
Meet the 2022 Class of CEE Future Faculty Fellows
 February 24, 2022
Zoe Zhang smiles for a photograph.
Zoe Zhang Recognized as One of Nation's Top Civil Engineering Undergraduates
 February 23, 2022
Nine people appear in individual boxes on a screen as part of a virtual event
Students impress with innovative concepts at Entrepreneurial Impact Competition
February 11, 2022
Mourin Jarin poses in front of the 2022 VentureLab Innovation Competition sign at the award ceremony.
CEE’s Mourin Jarin takes VentureLab’s grand prize
 February 10, 2022
Laurence Jacobs smiles for a photograph.
Laurence Jacobs Tapped as Institute's First Senior Vice Provost for Education and Learning
 February 10, 2022
The Flow of Innovation
 February 04, 2022
The six winners of the 2022 Eisenhower Fellowships pose.
Six grad students recognized by Federal Highway Administration
February 01, 2022
Wensi Chen poses in front of a brick building for a portrait
Wensi Chen Recognized for Excellence in Environmental Chemistry
February 01, 2022

January 2022

A woman wearing a blue surgical map looks at her smartphone as a bus drives by
Trends to Watch in 2022
 January 25, 2022
Text over image of buildings on Georgia Tech Campus reads "Entrepreneurial Impact Competition"
4 finalists selected to compete in Entrepreneurial Impact Competition
 January 25, 2022
A portrait of Associate Professor Chloe Arson with trees in the background
Arson Selected for National Science Foundation’s BRITE Award
 January 11, 2022

December 2021
It Takes Two: Joshua Garrett
 December 16, 2021
A silver ruler in the lower third of the photograph provides scale for small pieces of municipal solid waste
CEE Researchers Awarded $1M to Develop Technology for Converting Trash into Fuel
 December 14, 2021
Student Column: Transforming Perspectives on Equity and the Built Environment
 December 14, 2021
CEE Student Recreates Taylor Swift Album Covers With Grad Photos
 December 13, 2021
An airplane flies through the sky over a setting sun
CEE professor offers tips for planning air travel this holiday season
 December 03, 2021

November 2021

An aerial photo of buildings against a sky at sunset
Valdosta Traffic Calming and Connectivity Project Selected as Finalist for World Smart Cities Awards
 November 16, 2021
Researchers Chloé Arson, Thomas DiChristina, and Martial Taillefert stand near wetlands on Georgia Tech’s campus
Modeling Water-cleansing Wetlands in Extreme Weather
 November 04, 2021
A photo of Hudson McGaughey wearing a yellow T-shirt and glasses in front of a gold and white striped background
Student Column: Youth Empowerment and Equitable Design in Clarkston
 November 04, 2021

October 2021
Home at Georgia Tech: Then and Now
 October 26, 2021
Tech Blitz Teams Innovate with Safety in Mind
 October 20, 2021
Yongsheng Chen, Xing Xie Recognized for Leadership in Environmental Engineering
October 18, 2021
Assistant Professor Jennifer Kaiser, wearing a gray blazer, poses on campus with the Atlanta skyline in the background.
Kaiser receives NOAA Grant to Study Urban Air Quality
October 12, 2021
A photo of large mountains with a few trees and small white spots of snow in Yellowstone National Park.
$12 Million NSF Grant Will Establish Nationwide Atmospheric Measurement Network
 October 08, 2021
A man in a suit and tie gives a lecture with a screen to his right. The backs of people's heads in attendance can be seen in the foreground.
Values-based Leadership: Blake Peck Shares the Importance of Building the Right Culture for Your Business
 October 07, 2021
A group of people sitting at tables look at a man with a microphone giving a presentation
NextProf Nexus Program Cultivates Georgia Tech’s Rising Talent
 October 05, 2021
Portraits of Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, left, and Professor Kim Kurtis, right, are set against a gold geometric background
Amekudzi-Kennedy, Kurtis Selected for Alumni Awards from Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley
 October 05, 2021

September 2021
Ivey Recognized among "Chemical & Engineering News" Talented Twelve
September 30, 2021
A graphic featuring a smart phone with yellow, blue and orange lines next to the words On-Dmand Multimodal Transit
On-Demand Multimodal Transit Solution to Bring Equitable, Affordable Transportation to Atlanta’s Underserved Communities
 September 30, 2021
modest flames burn along the ground beneath a field of pine trees as a firefighter walks through the background
Protecting Rural Schoolchildren from Prescribed Fire Emissions
 September 23, 2021
A woman wearing protective face mask looks at her smartphone as a bus goes by
Georgia Tech Researchers Receive $2.5 Million Grant to Focus on Improving Atlanta-Area Transportation Through Holistic Community Approach
 September 22, 2021
New CEE Faculty: Bozeman, Pinto, Meyer, Graham (left to right)
CEE Welcomes New Faculty
 September 21, 2021
Civil and Environmental Engineering Programs Rank Among Nation’s Best
 September 13, 2021
Remembering 9/11
 September 10, 2021
Georgia Tech President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough stands with his arms resting on a stair handrail with international flags hanging in the background.
The Reimagining of Georgia Tech: In new book, Clough recalls challenges and changes of his 14-year tenure
September 09, 2021
Michael Rodgers poses in a coat and tie with trees in the background
Regents Titles Awarded to Cressler, Lieuwen, and Rodgers
 September 02, 2021

August 2021
CEE Staff Recognized for Excellence by College of Engineering
August 27, 2021
A closely cropped headshot of Andrew White
Andrew White Selected as Fulbright Recipient
August 19, 2021
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CEE Faculty to Study Sustainability in New Artificial Intelligence Center
August 05, 2021

July 2021

two men wearing white hard hats install solar panels
National Academy Publishes Study Showing How Georgia Could Halve its Carbon Footprint
 July 28, 2021
three headshots in hexagonal shapes on a yellow background with the words Forty Under Forty
3 CEE Alumni Selected for Tech's 40 Under 40
 July 15, 2021
Cars and trucks drive on an interchange with roads branching off in several directions.
Investing in America’s infrastructure: Faculty weigh in on what to address in proposed infrastructure legislation
July 02, 2021

June 2021

A close up of coal ash and a silver instrument in a dish held by hands in white latex gloves
Reusable Ionic Liquid Enables Extraction of Precious Rare-earth Elements from Coal Fly Ash
June 23, 2021
A person in a white hard hat works on a blue canoe with red orange and yellow stripes
Tech Team Selected to Compete in National Concrete Canoe Competition
 June 16, 2021
A portrait of Professor Patricia Mokhtarian
Mokhtarian Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
June 08, 2021

May 2021

A portrait of Professor Srinivas Peeta
Srinivas Peeta Receives 2020 Matthew G. Karlaftis Best Paper Award
 May 26, 2021
Maria Warren holds the book "BUILT" by Roma Agrawal standing in front of trees and a brick building.
PhD Student Creates Community through Virtual Book Club
May 24, 2021
CEE Recognizes Outstanding Students
 May 11, 2021
Arash Yavari stands in front of shelves stacked with colorful books
Research Lays Foundation for Partial Cloaking of Holes in Elastic Plates from Stress Waves
May 10, 2021
A black and white portrait of Assistant Professor Emily Grubert in front of green and blue graphics of the earth, environment and infrastructure.
Grubert Contributes to New Report - "On the Path to an Equitable Energy Transition"
May 10, 2021
Tech Students Win 1st Place in Steel Bridge Competition
 May 04, 2021

April 2021
Sheng Dai Earns Tenure
 April 27, 2021
A composite photo on a gold background. From left: Professor Susan Burns, Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy and Professor Kostas Konstantinidis
CEE Faculty Recognized for Excellence by Georgia Tech
 April 23, 2021
PhD Student Emily Sanders, left, and Professor Glaucio Paulino, right, hold red 3-D printed models as they stand on a campus sidewalk surrounded by greenery.
Marine Animals Inspire New Approaches to Structural Topology Optimization
 April 15, 2021
Zhou Receives American Chemical Society Graduate Student Award
 April 13, 2021
What if Working at Home Makes Us Drive More, Not Less
 April 13, 2021
A close up view of a typewriter ribbon with with the words "Stories Matter" typed on a piece of white paper
Writing New Chapters: $3M Grant Will Expand Story-Driven Learning in College of Engineering
 April 02, 2021

March 2021

A graphic featuring a woman smiling in commencement regalia with banners reading "Civil Engineering No. 2" and Environmental Engineering No. 6" and "According U.S. News and World Report's 2022 graduate rankings
CEE Grad Programs Highly Ranked by U.S. News and World Report
March 30, 2021
Timothy Purvis, wearing a blue collared shirt, speaks during the virtual Entrepreneurial Impact Competition. At the bottom of the screen are boxes with the other participants, and the Georgia Tech logo is at the bottom right.
Winning Teams Display Innovative Technology at Entrepreneurial Impact Competition
March 26, 2021
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
 March 26, 2021
Laura Yang wears a striped sweater and poses in front of a wooden background with a plant visible in the lower right corner
Yang Selected for Sigma Xi's Best Undergraduate Research Award
March 19, 2021
Victoria Lynn, at right, smiles wearing a red striped shirt. To the left is a gold chevron with the words A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.
Finding a Community Through Scholarship
 March 16, 2021
Glaucio Paulino Wins J.N. Reddy Medal, Award Named in Honor of Friend, Mentor
 March 12, 2021
Four Finalists to Compete in Entrepreneurial Impact Competition
 March 11, 2021
Demonstrators hold a banner reading "March for Science"
Beyond the Lab: Early Career Researchers May Find Purpose through Policy, Advocacy, and Public Engagement
 March 04, 2021
A compilation of 10 headshots with a banner that reads, "ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering College 2021"
Psaltakis Selected as One of ASCE's New Faces of Civil Engineering
 March 02, 2021

February 2021

A portrait of Reginald DesRoches on a black background with text
DesRoches Shares the 10 C’s of Academic Leadership in Hyatt Lecture
 February 26, 2021
A snowy residential street with gray skies
LISTEN: Grubert Shares Expertise on What Went Wrong with the Electric Grid in Texas
February 17, 2021
LISTEN: How Airlines Are Still Flying High During the Pandemic
 February 16, 2021
Professor Glaucio Paulino, wearing a gray blazer, smiles as he looks to the left
Paulino Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 10, 2021
A split image includes a portrait Donald Webster to the left and Sotira Yiacoumi to the right.
Webster, Yiacoumi Recognized as Top Teachers
February 01, 2021

January 2021

This illustration depicts a multifunctional, magnetically responsive origami system, possessing distributed, untethered control capabilities.
Research: Extending Origami Into Untethered Robots and Morphing Devices
 January 26, 2021
Standing before a white board wearing a black blazer, Lisa Rosenstein leads a class.
A Different Kind of Engineering Education
 January 26, 2021
Gretchen Goldman wears a light blazer and sits before a microphone
CEE Alumna Gretchen Goldman Featured as Rising Star of Engineering
 January 20, 2021
Emily Grubert is wearing a blue blazer and standing outdoors in front of a tree.
Grubert Appointed Olmsted Early Career Professor
January 15, 2021
A black and white photo of Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy layered on top of a color photo of a busy city with the Uncommon Engineer Podcast logo in the corner
Listen: A Call for Engineers to Lead
January 04, 2021

December 2020
Xie Recognized as Emerging Investigator
December 17, 2020
Georgia Tech Team Wins Grand Challenge Award in ASCE Innovation Contest
December 17, 2020
Timothy Weiler: Nontraditional Student Makes the Grade
 December 14, 2020
Elisabeth McDonnell will be graduating in December with a B.S. in environmental engineering.
Elisabeth McDonnell to Engineer Clean Water Solutions Abroad
 December 09, 2020
Bras to Deliver Langbein Lecture
December 07, 2020
A map of the United States uses color to illustrate the lifespan of existing power plants
Research: Shuttering Fossil Fuel Power Plants May Cost Less Than Expected
 December 04, 2020

November 2020

A black and white vintage photo of cars parked in front of the marquee sign for Paschal's Motor Hotel and Restaurant
Tech Blitz Teams Tackle Affordable Housing in Atlanta
 November 19, 2020
A yellow lift drops a white shipping container next to a brick building.
From Wastewater to Farm-Fresh Produce
November 12, 2020
Biological wastewater treatment equipment reflected on smooth water with a blue sky and clouds.
Covid-19 Response: Disinfecting Wastewater
 November 12, 2020
A composite photo featuring six portraits of the future faculty fellows
Future Faculty Fellows Bring Passion for Teaching, Research
November 12, 2020
a commercial airplane viewed from below is flying against a blue sky with white clouds
Covid-19 Response: Monitoring Air Quality
 November 02, 2020

October 2020

Red, navy blue and yellow paper folded into origami structures illustrate how the shapes change when pressure is applied.
Small Imperfections Can Have Significant Impact on Origami Metamaterials
 October 26, 2020
New Members Join External Advisory Board
October 23, 2020
Garrow Elected President of Airline Group
 October 22, 2020
A woman sitting with a laptop computer on her lap and a cup of coffee on the floor of her home
Covid-19 Response: Telecommuting Past, Present and Future
 October 20, 2020
Covid-19 Response: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
 October 09, 2020

September 2020

Four students sit attentitively at a long table in a lecture hall
CEEatGT Awarded $1 Million Educational Grant
September 24, 2020
Jacobs Appointed Interim Dean of College Engineering
September 18, 2020
A black and white photo of Kari Watkins layered on top of a stylized image of a commuter train with the logo of the Uncommon Engineer podcast
LISTEN: Traveling in a Covid-19 World
September 18, 2020
A graphic with a portrait of Stacie Sire in a blazer advertising the Hyatt Distinguished Leadership Speaker Series
Stay Humble, Stay Curious: Stacie Sire Shares Learnings from Career Journey
 September 18, 2020
GT Civil Engineering Ranked No. 1
 September 14, 2020

August 2020

A candid photo of Professor Glaucio Paulino
Paulino Awarded Daniel C. Drucker Medal
August 26, 2020
Huang Appointed Turnipseed Family Chair
August 26, 2020
An AeroMexico Airplane is taking off with a blue sky in the background
The First 100 Days: How Airlines Responded to the Covid-19 Crisis
 August 24, 2020
Professor John E. Taylor stands in front of the Mason Building
Taylor Elected to National Academy of Construction
August 19, 2020
CEE Faculty Selected to Lead Smart Development Projects in 3 Georgia Communities
 August 07, 2020
Georgia Tech Team Wins $1 Million Grant to Lead University Transportation Center
August 03, 2020

July 2020

A man in a yellow hard hat and orange reflective vest works on a concrete sensor installation
CEE Introduces Construction and Infrastructure Systems Engineering Concentration
July 29, 2020
Larissa Novelino, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, has long black hair and is wearing a black shirt and a black mask ovrer her nose and mouth. She is standing next to a table showing several metamaterial prototypes at different scales. They are different colors and range in size from smallest to largest.
New Research in Origami Metamaterials Promises Wide Implications
 July 29, 2020
CEE Alum Selected for Inaugural 40 Under 40
 July 27, 2020
Coogan Selected for Donald P. Eckman Award
 July 15, 2020
Schreiber Named SMART Scholar
July 14, 2020
The Akyem Mine TSF Cell 1 (background) and TSF Cell 2 (foreground) at a tailings storage facility in Ghana.
New Research Center Will Study Mine Tailings and Industrial Waste
 July 09, 2020

June 2020

Tech Tower against a blue sky surrounded by trees
College of Engineering Statement on Racial Bias
 June 23, 2020
CEE Student Wins National Transportation Award
June 22, 2020
A Portrait of Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy
Amekudzi-Kennedy Honored by Georgia Tech for Curriculum Innovation
June 18, 2020
Video: CEE Panel Discussion on Race
 June 12, 2020
The four members of the student team River Recon pose in front of the Atlanta skyline
Student Team Creates Microplastics Detection Device
 June 12, 2020
Konstantinidis, Stewart, Tien Selected for New Endowed Professorships
 June 05, 2020

May 2020
The Intersection of Skyscrapers and Trees
 May 26, 2020
Turnipseed Engineers, Inc. Builds Georgia Jobs Through Infrastructure Expansion
 May 15, 2020
CEE Recognizes Outstanding Students
 May 06, 2020
COVID-19’s Lessons for Sustainable Development
 May 04, 2020

April 2020
Tech ASCE Chapter Named Distinguished Chapter for Region
 April 24, 2020
In the Way of Traffic
 April 17, 2020
Paulino Receives American Society of Civil Engineers Mindlin Medal
 April 15, 2020
Two CEE Students Awarded Scholarships from American Concrete Institute
April 07, 2020
Luo receives ACS Graduate Student Award
 April 02, 2020

March 2020
Brown and Tien earn tenure, four others promoted to full professor
 March 31, 2020
Two CEE Alumni Win Engineer of the Year Awards
 March 25, 2020
Tech’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Degrees Ranked Among Top Programs
 March 17, 2020
New York Times: The Mystery of the Missing Bus Riders
 March 13, 2020
Paulino, Watkins named some of Tech’s Top Teachers
 March 12, 2020
CEE Researchers Study Inland Flood Risks with AT&T
 March 09, 2020
Clough Honored as Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient by the University System of Georgia
March 06, 2020
Sheng Dai
Dai Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
 March 02, 2020

February 2020
Scholarship Luncheon Brings Students and their Benefactors Together
 February 26, 2020
President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough
Clough Honored for Lifetime of Contributions to the Field of Engineering
 February 24, 2020
Burns Named 2020 Engineer of the Year
 February 17, 2020
An illustration depicts how the device would inactivate pathogens in drinking water using an electic field
Research: Water Pipe Technology Kills Microorganisms with Localized Electric Field
 February 13, 2020

January 2020

Portrait of Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras to Step Down as Georgia Tech's Provost, Remain as CEE Professor
 January 23, 2020
Bill Higginbotham presents at the Hyatt Lecture on Feb. 6.
Building a Career at the Intersection of Engineering and Entrepreneurship
 January 21, 2020
Sherman Uses Emerging Technologies to Repair and Preserve Bridges
 January 14, 2020
A grid featuring eight head shots of ENR Southeast's 2020 Top Young Professionals
CEE Alumni Selected as 2020 Top Young Professionals
January 13, 2020

December 2019

Donald Webster, Karen and John Huff Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, poses with Tech Green in the background.
Webster Honored for Teaching Excellence by University System of Georgia
December 19, 2019
Messner Faculty Challenge Funds 7 New Chairs and Professorships
 December 17, 2019
rendering of the proposed "Burrowing Robot with Integrated Sensing System"
Researchers Receive $1.7 Million Grant to Build Robot for Sub-surface Soil Exploration
 December 06, 2019
CEE Teams Impress at Capstone Design Expo
December 03, 2019

November 2019

Rendering of 16-story Piedmont Atlanta Tower
Tech Blitz Challenges Teams to Reduce Construction Time with Virtual Reality
 November 21, 2019
Sachin Shailendra portrait
CE Alumnus Tapped to Serve as Georgia Board of Regents Chair
 November 13, 2019
Research On Large Storm Waves Could Help Lessen Their Impact On Coasts
November 04, 2019

October 2019

Coal-fired power plant in central Wyoming billowing smoke
Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone
October 31, 2019
Ellen Dunham Jones, Chuck Marohn and Kari Watkins talk about transportation infrastructure
Georgia Tech Hosts Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Transportation Infrastructure
October 23, 2019
Three Georgia Tech students stand by the podium at the Water Environment Federation's student design competition
Environmental Engineering Team Places 2nd in International Design Competition
 October 17, 2019
Alex Ip, Abigail Crombie, and Matthew Falcone were selected for the Millennium Fellowship
CEE Students Chosen for Millennium Fellowship
October 09, 2019
John Huff, CE 68, delivered the fall 2019 lecture in the Kenneth Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series Oct. 3. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
John Huff Shares Advice for Leadership and Life
October 08, 2019
Moyosore Afolabi has been selected to receive a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. program.
Afolabi Awarded Sloan Scholarship
October 01, 2019

September 2019
How Amateur Video is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
 September 25, 2019
National leaders in smart city digital twin technology gathered at the Coda Building at Georgia Tech Sept. 16-17. Photo By: Amelia Neumeister
Georgia Tech Hosts National Workshop on the Future of Smart City Digital Twin Technology
September 23, 2019
Glaucio Paulino, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, demonstrates hyperbolic paraboloid origami
Faculty Research: Hyperbolic Paraboloid Origami Harnesses Bistability to Enable New Applications
 September 18, 2019
Civil and Environmental Engineering Programs Once Again Rank Among the Nation’s Best
 September 09, 2019
Top Companies on Campus for CEE Career Expo
 September 04, 2019

August 2019

Chris Lai
New faculty: Lai’s work on turbulent flows helps us better understand coastal marshes, city microclimates
 August 20, 2019
Ryan Sherman
New faculty: Sherman studies steel to make old bridges safer and new ones last longer
 August 19, 2019
New Faculty: Leadership scholar Robert Simon joins faculty to infuse leadership theory, organizational behavior, change management into curriculum
 August 19, 2019
Lauren Stewart. Text: Uncommon Engineering Podcast Episode! Blast Engineering. Listen Now. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)
LISTEN: Simulating blasts in labs, Stewart leading the research
 August 08, 2019

July 2019

Alumni Dwight Evans and Wick Moorman, with his wife Bonnie. They've each established new endowed professorships to support faculty in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Messner Challenge update: Evans, Moorman family latest to endow new professorships
 July 23, 2019
The volcanic tsunami generator simulates a volcanic eruption by “punching” through the water’s surface. Professor Hermann Fritz built this one-of-a-kind setup and conducted a series of experiments to better understand tsunamis created by eruptions of underwater volcanoes. (Photo: Yibin Liu)
NSF natural hazards group highlights Fritz’s unique volcanic landslide generator
 July 16, 2019
Ph.D. student Shahrokh Shahi
Shahi produces best paper at fuzzy systems conference
 July 10, 2019
Researchers studied the impact of warming on microbial communities in a tundra area near Denali National Park in Alaska. (Photo: Ted Schuur, Northern Arizona University)
Rising tundra temperatures create worrying changes in microbial communities
 July 08, 2019
Screenshot of GPB story about G. Wayne Clough's new book, "Things Strange and New: A Southerner’s Journey through the Smithsonian Collections."
LISTEN: Clough shares new book, his explorations of Smithsonian archives on GPB’s On Second Thought
 July 02, 2019
Frederick Law Olmstead John E. Taylor (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Taylor appointed associate chair of graduate programs
 July 01, 2019

June 2019

Ph.D. student Anye Zhou drives the new full-size simulator in Srinivas Peeta’s lab. The simulator is built from a 2013 Ford Focus and includes wraparound screens to immerse test drivers in the simulated environment. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)
New simulator puts people in a full-size car to understand their driving behavior
June 26, 2019
A laptop computer and iPhone show the Filio web app and mobile app, respectively. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Grad students’ startup Filio makes it easy to capture and catalog worksite photos
 June 24, 2019
Angshuman Guin demonstrates how a cell phone tracks Gwinnett County Fire Department trucks and data about traffic to improve response times. Guin is working with Gwinnett on connected vehicle technology as part of the first round of Georgia Tech’s Georgia Smart Communities Challenge. (Photo: Allison Carter)
Taylor, Watkins, Guin will help Columbus, Milton with smart communities projects
 June 19, 2019
Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy.
Amekudzi-Kennedy elected to National Academy of Construction
 June 18, 2019
Alejandro Martinez welcomes engineers, biologists, physicists and others to the First International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Geotechnics in May at the University of California, Davis. The unique gathering aimed to better define the emerging field of bio-inspired geotechnics and connect researchers from a broad range of disciplines to collaborate on groundbreaking ideas in the area. (Photo: Noah Pflueger-Peters/UC Davis)
NSF workshop sets out to define ‘bio-inspired geotechnics’ and lay groundwork for new collaborations
 June 14, 2019
The new class of Future Faculty Fellows: Bill Jin, Sung Hoo Kim, Yunping Liang and Ming Liu.
New Future Faculty Fellows had great teachers so they want to become great teachers
 June 11, 2019
Roman arenas have survived in many earthquake-prone regions. Did the Romans inadvertently build seismic wave cloaks when they designed colosseums? Some researchers believe they did due to the arenas' resemblance to modern experimental elastodynamic cloaking devices. (Photo: Paolo Costa Baldi via Wikimedia Commons)
Dashing the dream of ideal ‘invisibility’ cloaks for stress waves
 June 07, 2019

May 2019

Screenshot of Atlanta Journal-Constitution story "Could drones be the solution to Atlanta's traffic gridlock?" including a rendering of a city with a four-propeller Uber Eats drone flying above.
AJC: New Tech center prepping for future where drones fly people over Atlanta traffic
 May 27, 2019
A researcher measures the width of a crack in a reinforced concrete column after testing the strength of the column. A new project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency will develop a field-deployable tool to detect cracks far smaller than this — and inside rather than outside — thick reinforced concrete structures. (Photo: Chris Kiser)
New tool will give large concrete structures what amounts to an ultrasound, finding tiny cracks before they grow
 May 23, 2019
Ph.D. student Tuo Zhao stands in front of shelves filled with books. (Photo Courtesy: Center for Teaching and Learning)
Zhao honored as Institute-wide TA of the Year
 May 15, 2019
Raymond Allen Jones Chair Glaucio Paulino looks leftward and smiles. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Mechanical engineering society elevates Paulino to fellow
 May 09, 2019
Andrea Hence Evans, BCE 1999, who's now an intellectual property attorney outside Washington. (Photo Courtesy: Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans)
Patented Calling: Best-selling author, TV expert and civil engineer Andrea Hence Evans helps entrepreneurs protect their ideas
 May 07, 2019
Guiliana Stovall sits on a bench with her roller derby roller skates. Stovall, a long-time roller derby player, knew she would continue to skate when she came to Georgia Tech. And since Tech had no outlet, she founded Yellow Jacket Roller Derby. (Photo Courtesy: Giuliana Stovall)
Community is what matters to Giuliana Stovall, in life and in career
 May 01, 2019

April 2019

First-year Ph.D. student Aaron Miller
Tapping Georgia’s resources to make stronger concrete for bridges wins Miller a national American Concrete Institute scholarship
 April 25, 2019
Professor Spyros Pavlostathis
Pavlostathis honored for connecting education, research, practice with medal named for former Tech professor
 April 24, 2019
Vakaa Design — a team comprising, left to right, Justin Liu, Chris Folsom, Kailee Unangst and Hannah Davis — accepts the first-place check for civil and environmental engineering at the spring 2019 Capstone Design Expo alongside Associate Professor Kari Watkins. The team had to design the alignment of new express lanes along Interstate 285 in northwest Atlanta, including the structural elements to supported the elevated lanes. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Capstone projects reuse wastewater and dredging material, protect pedestrians, create new ways to move traffic in congested NW Atlanta
 April 23, 2019
Ideas to Serve solutions winner Abigail Cohen presented by judge Kathleen Kurre.
A new approach to sustainable fertilizer takes top prize at Ideas to Serve competition
 April 23, 2019
Graphic of cars, trucks and buses with clouds of smoke and a hazy city skyline. Text: The Next Frontier in Air Quality - Finding new ways to understand air pollution. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)
The next frontier in air quality: Kaiser studies the precursors to pollution to improve our cities’ air
 April 22, 2019
A new type of origami can morph from one pattern into a different one, or even a hybrid of two patterns, instantly altering many of its structural characteristics. (Photo: Allison Carter)
New origami can morph from one pattern to another, unlocking possibilities for new structures and materials
April 19, 2019
Structure of a methane clathrate block found embedded in sediment in the subduction zone off Oregon’s coast. A German research ship found this hydrate roughly 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface in the top layer of the ocean floor. (Photo Courtesy: Wusel007 via Wikimedia Commons)
Unlocking the mystery of methane clathrates — on Earth and on our solar system’s icy moons
 April 19, 2019
Georgia Tech’s American Society of Civil Engineers chapter won second place overall at the 2019 Carolinas Regional Conference, including top finishes in the paper competition as well as the structural tower load efficiency, steel bridge weight, and steel bridge aesthetics categories. (Photo Courtesy: David Scott)
Tech’s ASCE chapter earns 2nd at regional conference, produces top paper on diversity
 April 09, 2019
Civil engineering alumnus G. Ben Turnipseed, who was inducted into the Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame April 6. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Turnipseed elected to Engineering Hall of Fame, College honors Bir’s impact at alumni awards
 April 08, 2019
Undergraduates Marissa Grant and Suleman Rana.
Grant, Rana earn national support from civil engineering honor society
 April 04, 2019
Environmental engineering Ph.D. student Laura Mast, left, and math Ph.D. student Samantha Petti visit Georgia congressman John Lewis' office. They were unable to meet with Lewis, but they did have conversations with staffers from several Georgia representatives' offices during the Catalyzing Advocacy for Scientists and Engineers Workshop, a three-day crash course in federal policymaking and science advocacy. Mast and Petti were the only two students from Georgia Tech who attended. (Photo: Robert Knotts)
Mast gets a taste of policy, advocacy during Washington science communication workshop
 April 01, 2019

March 2019

Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham at dusk with the Midtown Atlanta skyline in the background. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Higginbothams answer Messner challenge, endow new professorship
 March 28, 2019
Students from the International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies course walk through ruined buildings in Old Beichuan, China. The city has been left as a memorial to those killed when it was rocked by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in central China. The site was one of the places students visited in China and Japan over Spring Break as they considered the impact of disasters and how communities rebuilt. (Photo Courtesy: Lynnae Luettich and Katie Popp)
Spring Break travelers reflect on disaster recovery, a different approach to transportation, and water quality challenges after week abroad
 March 27, 2019
Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart in the Structural Engineering and Materials Lab. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Undergrad women say Lauren Stewart is one of their best engineering professors
 March 21, 2019
Former Ph.D. students Shelly Zhang and Eric Johnston, who have won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis award for 2019.
Johnston, Zhang produce two of Georgia Tech’s best Ph.D. dissertations this year
 March 20, 2019
Natual gas storage tanks with excess methane burning off. (Photo Courtesy: Jeffrey Phillips via Flickr)
Your carbon footprint is probably higher than you thought, thanks to methane leaking from natural gas systems
 March 18, 2019
Professor and Associate Dean Laurence Jacobs, left, accepts a lifetime achievement award in nondestructive evaluation from Tribikram Kundu at the SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Symposium in early March. (Photo Courtesy: Laurence Jacobs and SPIE)
Jacobs’ nondestructive evaluation work earns lifetime achievement honor
 March 15, 2019
Lauren Stewart and Nelson Baker, who both have earned promotions.
Stewart earns tenure, Baker promoted to full professor
 March 14, 2019
CEE's graduate programs in civil engineering and environmental engineering are No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2020 survey. (Graphic: Amelia Neumeister)
Tech’s civil and environmental engineering graduate degrees again ranked among America’s best
 March 12, 2019
Water pouring from a faucet. (Photo Courtesy: Steve Johnson via Flickr)
Better water purification without the byproducts of using chlorine
 March 07, 2019
Ph.D. student April Gadsby. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Gadsby to tackle policy side of transportation at Eno Future Leaders Development Conference
 March 06, 2019
Cargo ship loaded with freight containers at sea with a muted, gray sky. (Photo Courtesy: Mike Baird via Flickr)
Maritime journal editor: Paper on shippers’ reluctance to use Northern Sea Route the year’s top research
 March 04, 2019

February 2019

First-year student Alex Ip.
Freshman Alex Ip selected for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps
 February 27, 2019
Fourth-year civil engineering student Rana Suleman accepts a scholarship from the Georgia Engineering Foundation in December. The award was one of two scholarships Rana received at the end of the year to fund his final year of undergraduate studies. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Engineering Foundation)
Rana caps year with scholarships from concrete trade group, engineering foundation
 February 26, 2019
Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia graphic from Engineering Georgia magazine, including headshots of many of the women on the list.
Stewart, Watkins and a baker’s dozen alumnae make list of influential women in Georgia engineering
 February 22, 2019
Professor and Associate Dean Kimberly Kurtis (Photo: Christopher Moore)
Kurtis receives Concrete Institute’s Anderson Medal for excellence, creativity, leadership in concrete
 February 15, 2019
Professor of the Practice John Koon talks teaches his Senior Design class on a recent Thursday. Koon is one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors for the nation's engineers. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Koon elected to National Academy of Engineering
 February 08, 2019
Ph.D. student April Gadsby stands on a bridge over a canal in the Netherlands in 2017 with a few of the country's famed windmills in the background. (Photo Courtesy: April Gadsby)
Gadsby taking her cyclist safety research to the mecca of bicycling
 February 05, 2019
Rendering of a two-story air-mobility hub with a landing area for four-rotor aircraft and a lower level for vehicle traffic. If the new Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility has its way, "vertiports" like this may soon be as popular as bus stops for city commuters and package transport. (Illustration: Yongmin Kim)
Making the case for urban air mobility in Atlanta
 February 01, 2019

January 2019

Ph.D. student Jackie Knee
Marshall Commission names Jackie Knee the 2019 Marshall Sherfield Fellow
 January 31, 2019
Downtown Atlanta skyline with traffic on the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)
Amekudzi-Kennedy on Georgia infrastructure report card: Progress made, more to be done
 January 30, 2019
Screenshot of Scientific American/Knowable Magazine story, "How Humans Get in the Way of Clean Water," which features an image of a silver tap with water flowing out.
Scientific American highlights Brown’s work understanding the behavioral obstacles to getting people clean water
 January 29, 2019
Michael and Jenny Messner. (Photo Courtesy: The Messners)
Messners launch $5M faculty endowment challenge
 January 25, 2019
Professor John Crittenden
Crittenden to receive ASCE’s Freese Award for his work solving water quality problems
 January 24, 2019
Assistant Professer Iris Tien sits at her desk in her Georgia Tech office. (Photo: Allison Carter)
Building a better foundation: Iris Tien accepts the challenge
 January 23, 2019
Video screenshot of Rudy Bonaparte delivering the Karl Terzaghi Lecture on March 8, 2018. Split screen shows Bonaparte at a podium on the right and his title slide on the left, "Geotechnical Stability of Waste Fills – Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges."
VIDEO: Watch Bonaparte’s Terzaghi Lecture
 January 18, 2019
Cover design for the new National Academy of Engineering report, "Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Address Grand Challenges." It features the Earth in the center with photos around the circumference of a child drinking water from a spigot, a piece of glacier breaking off, a bulldozer atop piles of trash, a city skyline, and professional-looking people gathered around a laptop.
Clough, Crittenden co-author National Academy report on grand challenges in environmental engineering
 January 16, 2019
Frederick R. Dickerson Chair Srinivas Peeta (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)
India’s top engineering college honors Peeta as distinguished alumnus
 January 10, 2019
Assistant Professor Emily Grubert
New faces: Grubert blends engineering, social science to help us make decisions about our infrastructure systems
 January 03, 2019

December 2018

Winners of 2018 Eisenhower Fellowships: Ph.D. student David Ederer, Ph.D student Atiyya Shaw and master's student Andreas Wolfe.
Newest Eisenhower fellows designing better models, improving rural transit, fixing unsafe roads
 December 20, 2018
Karen and John Huff School Chair Donald Webster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Webster elected a sustaining fellow of international aquatic sciences society
 December 17, 2018
Visitors consider the artwork created by students in Francesco Fedele's Visual Arts and Geometry course at the Kai Lin Gallery Dec. 11. The drawings hung for one night at the gallery to celebrate the students' work in the class, which connected advanced geometry with art through the lenses of Einstein and Picasso.
Art and geometry: Exhibition features student art inspired by Einstein and Picasso
 December 12, 2018
An autonomous Waymo Chrysler Pacifica drives around Los Altos, California. (Photo Courtesy: Dllu via Wikimedia Commons)
Op-Ed: Will driverless cars make our traffic problems worse?
 December 12, 2018
Screenshot of BBC News story about new data collected by Hermann Fritz and his colleagues after the tsunami in Indonesia in September.
Fritz, colleagues find surprising clue to severity of Indonesia tsunami
 December 11, 2018
Silver dipoles are arranged across the folds of a Miuri-Ori pattern to create a radio frequency filter that’s tunable. By adjusting the dimensions, the filter can block a wide range of frequencies. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Shape-shifting origami could help antenna systems adapt on the fly
 December 11, 2018
Ph.D. student Atiyya Shaw, who is the student of the year for the Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks.
Shaw picked as national student of the year for US DOT-funded research center
 December 10, 2018
Downtown Atlanta skyline with the Downtown Connector and the eastern edge of Georgia Tech's campus. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)
Tien picked to help lead working group for Atlanta’s ‘roadmap to resilience’
 December 07, 2018
Professor Arash Yavari, who has been elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Yavari elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science, only the 2nd from Tech
 December 06, 2018
2018 CEE Awards Winners: Shelly Zhang, Phanish Suryanarayana, Anna Nord, Jorge Laval, Jamia Luckett, Susan Jin, Shauna Bennett-Boyd, Billy Plum, Cong Luo, David Scott, and Melisa Hubbs. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Awards honor leadership, teaching excellence, impactful research for 2018
 December 05, 2018
The BAMM Engineering senior design team won top prize among the 18 civil and environmental engineering groups at the fall 2018 Capstone Design Expo Dec. 4. Team members with Buzz at the expo awards ceremony: Michael Nieman, left, Bailey Little, Andrew White and Matthew Gruba. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)
Safer approach to I-20 project wins top civil and environmental engineering prize at fall Capstone Design Expo
 December 04, 2018
Professor Emeritus Samuel Martin, who died Nov. 14. Faculty members and colleagues remembered Martin as a dedicated mentor, colleague and friend.
Remembering Professor Emeritus Sam Martin
 December 03, 2018

November 2018

Sam Coogan, who is the new Demetrius T. Paris Assistant Professor.
Coogan appointed to Paris early career professorship
 November 29, 2018
The global amount of recoverable fecal waste harbors risks, such as water contamination, but also opportunities to harvest natural resources. A new study from Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor Joe Brown, left, and others at Georgia Tech has determined just how much of that recoverable biomass exists. Here, Brown is pictured with former student Andrew Loo. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Growing pile of human and animal waste harbors threats, opportunities
 November 28, 2018
The new members of the School's External Advisory Board: Raul Delgado, Fred Carlson, Art Williams, Murray Griffin and Rebecca Nease.
Family traditions, entrepreneurship link new members of School’s advisory board
 November 26, 2018
Alumni Jim Anderson, Andrea Hence Evans and Rick Garcia, who all studied civil engineering but have ended up in far different careers.
Where can a CEEatGT degree take you? Newest Field Notes podcast has some unexpected answers
 November 20, 2018
These five School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students won scholarships from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia for their essays about the ways intelligent transportation systems and technology could help the United States eliminate roadway deaths and serious injuries by 2025. From left, Ph.D. students Somdut Roy, April Gadsby and Cibi Pranav; undergraduate Katie Popp; and Ph.D. student Hanyan "Ann" Li. (Photo Courtesy: Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia)
ITS Georgia awards Shackelford scholarships to 5 students for their ideas using technology to eliminate roadway deaths
 November 19, 2018
Screenshot of North Avenue Smart Corridor: One Year Later video, with student riding a scooter on separated bike path and traffic in vehicle lanes.
North Ave Smart Corridor wins mobility award at international Smart City Expo
 November 16, 2018
Civil engineering master's student Cheyenne Hunt waves during one of Georgia Tech's football games this year. Hunt is a walk-on offensive tackle finishing his final year on the team. (Photo: Danny Karnik/Georgia Tech Athletics)
Master’s student Hunt reflects on his final football games: ‘I’ve loved every second about being part of the team’
 November 16, 2018
McCarthy Building Company Project Manager Justis Brogan tells a group of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students about the canopies being installed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Teams of students and industry mentors spent a day brainstorming ways to use robotics to improve the installation as part of the School's second Tech Blitz Nov. 9. (Photo: Eric Marks)
Industry pros team with students at Tech Blitz to ‘hack’ construction of Atlanta airport canopies with robots
 November 14, 2018
Master's student Nicholas Sianta and Ph.D. student Seth Mallett, winners of national scholarships from ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Drilling. (Photos: Belal Elnaggar, Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Two grad students win national scholarships from foundation drilling association
 November 13, 2018
Professor Laurie Garrow
Garrow elected vice president of operations research and analytics organization INFORMS
 November 12, 2018
WTS Atlanta Chapter scholarship winners Michelle Henriques, Susan Jin, Becca Kiriazes and Abhilasha Saroj.
Four Tech women win WTS Atlanta scholarships and move on to national competition
 November 09, 2018
Heavy traffic with sun setting. Text: Uncommon Engineering: New Podcast Episode! Travel Behavior in the Modern Age. Listen Now. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)
LISTEN: With technology driving transportation’s future, Mokhtarian is at the center of the action
 November 05, 2018
Looking up at several levels of highway bridges and overpasses stretching across roads with blue sky above. (Photo Courtesy: Drriss & Marrionn via Flickr)
TRB highlights Ashuri’s work with GDOT on alternative project delivery as research that has paid off
 November 02, 2018
Professor Kimberly Kurtis, who is the newest member of the ASCE Foundation's Council of Trustees. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Kurtis takes seat on ASCE Foundation trustees council
 November 01, 2018

October 2018

A pilot project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will use wastewater nutrients to grow produce on Georgia Tech’s campus to test a model for decentralizing production of vegetables such as these.
Pilot project will use campus wastewater to grow vegetables
 October 30, 2018
Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo and Professor Paul Mayne.
Editor’s Choice: Geotechnical journals feature studies from Macedo, Mayne
 October 29, 2018
Environmental engineering Ph.D. student Victoria Dean.
Dean wins Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship for her work to improve health and equity in marginalized communities
 October 26, 2018
Closeup of an origami structure created through Digital Light Processing 3D printing. (Photo: Christopher Moore)
Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot
 October 22, 2018
This image from software developed by NASA shows air traffic across the United States. Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to use new techniques to understand and manage how physical networks with interconnected components function. His work applies to all kinds of systems, like roads, airspace, water systems and factories. (Image Courtesy: NASA)
Coogan wins Air Force Young Investigator award to improve roads, pipes and other physical networks
 October 17, 2018
Professor of the Practice Eric Marks
Students say Marks is one of Tech’s best teachers
 October 12, 2018
Microbes in soil can break down nitrous oxide, N2O, into harmless nitrogen, N2, but they don't always do a good job, according to Professor Kostas Konstantinidis. He has a new grant from the National Science Foundation to understand why. The problem is that the nitrous oxide is a powerful and damaging greenhouse gas. The study will focus on agricultural land, where nitrogen is often added to soil as fertilizer, and tropical forests. (Image Courtesy: Kostas Konstantinidis)
NSF funds two new projects to understand greenhouse gas emissions from soil, expand microbial big-data analysis tools
 October 09, 2018
Wassim Selman, a triple alumnus of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, delivered the fall 2018 lecture in the Kenneth Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series Oct. 2. Selman focused on the importance of keeping people in the equation — and even presented his own equation for how to do that. (Photo: Qiusen Huang)
Hyatt speaker Wassim Selman offers his one key factor for success: Always keep people in the equation
 October 02, 2018
Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart in the Structural Engineering and Materials Lab. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Stewart one of the ‘New Voices’ who will bring ideas, perspectives to National Academies
 October 01, 2018

September 2018

An illustration depicting chemical catalysis on surfaces and nanostructures. A new $2.8 million study led by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Phanish Suryanarayana will harness the power of future supercomputers to understand the interactions that take place in these kinds of chemical reactions. (Image Courtesy: Andrew Medford)
Suryanarayana leads new $3M project to unlock the power of tomorrow’s supercomputers for understanding chemical phenomena
 September 27, 2018
Fourth-year civil engineering student Schayne Fox, left, said mentor Mary Shinners has become her go-to person for questions about everything from class schedules to preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering exams. Schayne and Shinnners, who finished her bachelor's in civil engineering in 2014 and her master's in 2015, met this summer through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's GOLD Mentoring Program. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Latest Field Notes podcast answers the question, what can you get out of mentoring?
 September 19, 2018
Amanda Wall Vandegrift, BSCE 2012, MSCE 2013, one of Mass Transit magazine's Top 40 Under 40 for 2018. (Photo Courtesy: InfraStrategies LLC)
‘TranspoNerd’ Vandegrift one of Mass Transit mag’s 40 Under 40
 September 17, 2018
Professor Kostas Konstantinidis, who will attend the 2018 Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the invitation of the National Academy of Science. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
National Academy invites Konstantinidis to join young leaders at Arab-American Frontiers symposium
 September 13, 2018
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's undergrad civil program is No. 2 in the nation and environmental is No. 4, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2019 survey (graphic includes photo of the Ramblin' Reck).
Extending history: Civil and environmental undergrad programs remain among nation’s elite program in new U.S. News rankings
September 10, 2018
Ph.D. student and Sandia National Labs intern Rebecca Nylen kneels next to blasted steel cylinders, some of her handy work as a computational shock physicist. (Photo: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories)
Shocking experiences keep Nylen going back for more
 September 07, 2018
Srinivas Peeta, the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)
Peeta delivers public transportation keynote at global mobility summit
 September 06, 2018
Power poles stretch into a bright sun with mist hovering just above the ground.
How much water is used to fulfill the energy needs of the US?
 September 05, 2018
Graduate student Cynthia Lee, left, and Assistant Professor Iris Tien with their first-place infrastructure paper aware at Resilience Week 2018. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)
Tien, Lee win top paper award at Resilience Week 2018
 September 04, 2018

August 2018

A photomicrographic view of Bacillus anthracis bacteria taken from heart blood and processed using a carbol-fuchsin stain. (Image Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new clues about why some strains are more virulent than others
 August 29, 2018
Associate Professor Yong Cho with his Distinguished Professor award from the Construction Industry Institute. (Photo Courtesy: Construction Industry Institute)
Cho is construction group’s distinguished professor of the year
 August 28, 2018
Srinivas Peeta, the new Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in the School of CIvil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo Luke Xinjing Xu)
Our autonomous transportation future: New Dickerson Chair Srinivas Peeta and the human-vehicle-infrastructure connections to make that future a reality
 August 23, 2018
Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo
New faces: Macedo driven to understand geotechnical risks and make cities more resilient, sustainable
 August 22, 2018
Assistant Professor Jennifer Kaiser. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
New faces: Kaiser combines ground-, space-based data to understand air pollution
 August 21, 2018
Michael Rodgers, principal research scientist in the school and now a Regents Researcher. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
USG names Rodgers a Regents Researcher
 August 20, 2018
Hermann Fritz helping install the Volcanic Tsunami Generator at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University earlier this summer. (Photo: Angela Del Rosario / Courtesy: Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure)
LISTEN: Studying volcano eruptions deep underwater with Hermann Fritz
 August 17, 2018
Field Notes podcast logo with headphones
New school chair talks about the future in the second-season debut of Field Notes podcast
 August 15, 2018
Ph.D. student Sangy Hanumasagar, who has won a 2018 fellowship from the Geosynthetic Institute.
Geosynthetics Institute picks Hanumasagar for 2018 fellowship
 August 08, 2018
Susan Burns, the new associate chair for administration and finance, and Kevin Haas, the new associate chair for undergraduate programs.
Burns named associate chair of admin and finance, Haas takes over leadership of undergrad programs
 August 03, 2018
Karen and John Huff School Chair Donald Webster, who will be part of the inaugural year of the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Leaders Network. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Webster selected for inaugural ACC leadership program
 August 01, 2018

July 2018

Ph.D. student Jianfeng Zhou, who has won a fellowship from the National Water Research Institute.
NWRI fellowship boosts Zhou’s work on non-chlorine approach to water disinfection
 July 26, 2018
Geothermal plant. The Next Frontier in Renewable Energy: Hot rocks combine with water to create power. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)
The next frontier in renewable energy: Dai aims to generate clean power from the earth’s heat
 July 24, 2018
Army Lt. Col. Kate Sanborn, the new commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District. (Photo Courtesy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Ph.D. finished, Sanborn takes over Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District
 July 23, 2018
Screenshot of WABE-FM website featuring Randall Guensler and Daniel Walls explaining their simple wheelchair-based system for cataloging sidewalk conditions.
LISTEN: Guensler, Walls show WABE how they’re tracking Atlanta’s sidewalk problems
 July 20, 2018
Professor Hermann Fritz
Fritz wins teaching award, fellowship to enhance student learning
 July 19, 2018
Two samples of the super-absorbent polymer beads Xing Xie is developing to improve diagnostic tests on biological samples in far-flung places. These beads, roughly half a millimeter in size, have been dyed so they're easier to see. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Xie wins grant to help extend shelf life of biological samples
 July 16, 2018
Environmental engineering senior Megan Haynes, center, with her mechanical engineering collaborators Andrey Gunawan, left, and Shannon Yee. Haynes has been doing research on desalination that recently won her second place in an American Society of Mechanical Engineers paper competition. (Photo Courtesy: Megan Haynes)
Haynes combines environmental and mechanical engineering in award-winning undergrad research
 July 10, 2018
Kostas Konstantinidis, the new Maulding Faculty Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Konstantinidis named Maulding Faculty Fellow
 July 09, 2018
Paper origami models demonstrate various folding patterns that can be useful in engineering applications. In the foreground is a sheet in the Miura-ori pattern. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Students from sciences, engineering, design make for unique mix in first origami engineering class
 July 03, 2018

June 2018

Assistant Professor Iris Tien, who was one of 30 engineers from the United States invited to the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering and its Japanese counterpart. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
National Academy invites Tien to Japan-America Frontiers symposium
 June 27, 2018
Joe Brown, who is the new Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor in the School as of July 1. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Brown named new Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor
 June 25, 2018
Joe Manous, BCE 1980, the new director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources. (Photo Courtesy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Corps of Engineers appoints alumnus Manous to lead water resources institute
 June 20, 2018
Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)
ASCE elevates Amekudzi-Kennedy to fellow
 June 18, 2018
OceanVisions: Science and Engineering to enable solutions, an initiative of the Georgia Tech Ocean Science & Engineering program, the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. (Image: Emanuele Di Lorenzo)
OceanVisions initiative will foster design, research that ensures healthy oceans for future generations
 June 13, 2018
Georgia Smart Communities Challenge graphic with the state of Georgia and the four winning communities, Albany, Chamblee, Chatham County and Gwinnett County.
Guin helps lead connected vehicle master plan for Gwinnett, one of four inaugural Georgia Smart Communities
 June 12, 2018
Civil engineering undergrad Elie Cohen flexes his biceps while holding his mandolin in front of an American Ninja Warrior 2018 sign. (Photo Courtesy: NBC)
Tech undergrad competes for title of American Ninja Warrior
 June 11, 2018
Ph.D. student Scotty Smith, who will spend six months living in Paris next year as a Chateaubriand Fellow.
Smith Paris-bound next year as Chateaubriand Fellow
 June 05, 2018

May 2018

Floodwaters cover Port Arthur, Texas, on August 31, 2017, following Hurricane Harvey. Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez took this photo from a South Carolina Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during rescue operations following the storm. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez, U.S. Air National Guard)
Silence to sound: Looking at Twitter posts from 2017’s Hurricane Harvey shows lack of activity can tell first responders where trouble’s brewing
 May 24, 2018
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's new Future Faculty Fellows: Aaron Bivins, Albert Liu, Neda Mohammadi and Saubhagya Singh Rathore.
CEE picks 4 for new class of Future Faculty Fellows
 May 21, 2018
Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Pavlostathis elected an ASCE fellow
 May 17, 2018
Claudio Martinez from the Dominican Republic’s Oficina Nacional de Meteorologia in Matancitas with local resident Patria, right, who took Martinez and Georgia Tech’s Hermann Fritz back to the site of a 1946 tsunami in the area. Patria remembered how high waters had reached at this palm tree, helping the team reconstruct the tsunami’s impacts more than seven decades after it happened. (Photo Courtesy: Hermann Fritz)
Eyewitness accounts fill in details of 1946 Dominican Republic tsunami
 May 15, 2018
Screenshot of Civil + Structural Engineer magazine's 2018 Rising Stars web page.
Alumna Weger makes Civil + Structural Engineer’s 2018 list of rising stars
 May 14, 2018
Rachel Brashear, a fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate, stands in front of the Van Leer Building and the under-construction Interdisciplinary Design Commons. Brashear has been working as the project's on-site engineer with Gilbane Building Company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
She started as an intern, now Rachel Brashear is helping Gilbane build Tech’s newest maker space
 May 10, 2018
Civil engineering students Yang Jiang, Emily Sanders and Heng Chi plus computation science and engineering student Yuyu Zhang with their first-place check after the Siemens FutureMakers Challlenge. Their concept for the hackathon at Georgia Tech combined machine learning and topology optimization to make computational design and digital manufacturing more efficient and effective. (Photo Courtesy: Glaucio Paulino)
Tech students win $140K from Siemens for machine learning, topology optimization project
 May 08, 2018
Sam Dennard, who graduates May 5 from Georgia Tech with a bachelor's in civil engineering and a job at Pond & Company waiting. (Photo: Rob Felt)
A dream fulfilled: Dennard got in and got out
 May 04, 2018
Andrew Pofahl explains to judges some of the design ideas his Delft Blauw Design team proposed for Ted Turner Drive in downtown Atlanta. Two teams of Georgia Tech students offered redesigns of the road for the Ted Turner Drive Resiliency Corridor Challenge. Delft Blauw Designs won second place in the competition. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Students offer Dutch-inspired ideas to turn Ted Turner Drive into a resilient gateway to downtown Atlanta
 May 03, 2018
Austin Sanders, who graduates from Georgia Tech with his bachelor's in civil engineering May 5. (Photo: Allison Carter)
Georgia-grown grads: Sanders celebrates two graduations, two degrees
 May 02, 2018
Amy Ingles, the Florida Bicycle Association's Professional of the Year for 2017. Ingles earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering at Georgia Tech. (Photo Courtesy: Amy Ingles)
Alumna’s work making Jacksonville more bike-friendly earns statewide honor from Florida Bicycle Association
 May 01, 2018

April 2018

Atlanta Cypress Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the spring 2018 Capstone Design Expo. The team poses with the winning check. From right: Blane Solomon, Andrew Pofahl, Buzz, Alex Hare, and Ramiro Santana along with senior design professor John Koon. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Capstone Expo winners create a simple solution that saves drivers tons of time at I-20 and I-285 in west Atlanta
 April 24, 2018
Alumnus Leo Vecellio speaks after his induction into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Hall of Fame April 21. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Vecellio inducted into College of Engineering Hall of Fame, Sanivation wins inaugural Impact Award
 April 23, 2018
Ph.D. student Abby Francisco, who has received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
NSF awards graduate fellowship to Francisco for work helping people understand their energy use and act more sustainably
 April 20, 2018
Power plant smoke stacks. A new study led by Tellepsen Chair Armistead "Ted" Russell found that power plant and motor vehicle pollution regulations resulted in better air quality and fewer emergency hospital visits for Atlanta area residents for respiratory problems. (Photo Courtesy: Nick Humphries via Flickr.)
Study shows air quality and health improved in metro Atlanta after power plant and motor vehicle pollution controls
 April 19, 2018
Professor Paul Mayne, who will be the 2018-2019 Cross-USA Lecturer for the American Society of Civil Engineers' Geo-Institute.
Mayne to take expertise on the road as ASCE Geo-Institute Cross-USA lecturer
 April 17, 2018
Professor Don White, who has received a lifetime achievement award from the American Institute of Steel Construction.
Steel construction group honors White with lifetime achievement award
 April 12, 2018
The ASCE concrete canoe team launches their vessel for the women’s sprint race, where chapter president Caroline Stanton and conference chair Alesa Stallman placed second after winning their heat. (Photo: Vy Le)
ASCE chapter wins first place at regional conference
 April 10, 2018
The Living Building from the northwest, showing the building's "porch" opening to the Eco-Commons to the west. (Image Courtesy: The Miller Hull Partnership and Lord Aeck Sargent)
Teams of industry mentors, students compete in Tech Blitz to 'radically' boost Living Building construction productivity
 April 09, 2018
Civil engineering senior Arjun Bir and his Oasis team, center, won the $15,000 grand prize in the MIT Water Innovation Prize competition April 4. The team created a simple, inexpensive test for detecting E. coli in drinking water in India. (Photo: Andi Sutton/Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab at MIT)
Simple, low-cost E. coli test wins MIT Water Innovation Prize
 April 09, 2018
Ph.D. student David Ederer, who has been selected for the 2018 class of the Eno Center for Transportation Future Leaders Development Conference.
Ederer invited to DC for inside look at transportation policymaking as Eno fellow
 April 03, 2018

March 2018

Georgia Tech researchers Glaucio Paulino, left, and Jerry Qi hold 3-D printed objects that use tensegrity, a structural system of floating rods in compression and cables in continuous tension. They’ve developed a new way to create structures with “memory” that can expand dramatically when heated. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Paulino, Qi win Sigma Xi faculty award for 4-D printing research
 March 28, 2018
Students collect samples along the Choqueyapu River in La Paz, Bolivia, over spring break. They were one of three classes that traveled to three different continents this year. (Photo Courtesy: Joe Brown)
40 students, 3 continents, 9 days. Experience engineering classes' spring break abroad in the travelers' own words and pictures
 March 26, 2018
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Facilities Manager Andy Udell holds a his Building Manager of the Year plaque March 19 at Georgia Tech's Building Manager Symposium. (Photo: Allison Carter)
Udell is Tech’s Building Manager of the Year
 March 23, 2018
Associate Professor Baabak Ashuri, who was named Outstanding Early Career Researcher for 2018 by the Construction Industry Institute.
Construction industry group honors Ashuri as outstanding researcher
 March 22, 2018
CEE's graduate civil engineering program is No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2019 survey. Graduate environmental engineering ranked No. 5. #WeCanDoThat
U.S. News ranks CEE among top 5 grad programs in the nation
 March 20, 2018
The sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji in Japan in August 2016. Students in the International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class that semester hiked all night to reach the top of the mountain in time for this view. (Photo: Kieron McCarthy)
Spring Break travel gives students chance to make impact, see their subject come alive
 March 15, 2018
Donald Webster will be the new Karen and John Huff Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective May 1. Webster has been a professor in the School since 1997 and served as a member of the leadership team since 2007.
Donald Webster named new chair of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 March 14, 2018
3-D printed models of the deep-pile foundations seventh-graders from Atlanta’s Drew Charter School designed as part of a STEM outreach program through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the NSF-funded Center for Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Drew 7th-graders design, 3-D print, test bio-inspired foundations
 March 12, 2018
James Clark, former president and CEO of Clark Construction and founder of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation. The foundation has given Georgia Tech $15 million to create a Clark Scholars Program for students who want to study engineering. (Photo Courtesy: A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation)
Clark Foundation gives Tech $15M to expand access to engineering education
 March 09, 2018
Fourth-year civil engineering student Lin Htet Kyaw, who has won a national scholarship from Chi Epsilon.
Kyaw wins Chi Epsilon national scholarship, a first for Georgia Tech
 March 07, 2018
Inclusivity in Engineering graphic with multicolored hands reaching up. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)
Missing or invisible? Inclusivity conference is first step in NSF project to make engineering field more welcoming to LGBTQ+ professionals, students
 March 06, 2018
Associate Professors Yong Cho and Jingfeng Wang, who have earned tenure at Georgia Tech.
Cho and Wang earn tenure, Hunter and Konstantinidis promoted
 March 02, 2018

February 2018

Fizza Hassan, center, stands in front of the Sensoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood. Hassan, a civil engineering master's student, traveled to the city with her classmates from an origami engineering course she took at Georgia Tech in the fall taught by Glaucio Paulino. The class visited attractions around Japan and learned about origami principles from Paulino's collaborators in the country. (Photo Courtesy: Fizza Hassan)
Week in Japan takes origami engineering class to the roots and pioneers of their subject
 February 26, 2018
Ph.D. student Ajay Saini, one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' O.H. Ammann Research Fellows in Structural Engineering for this year. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
ASCE picks Saini for Ammann Research Fellowship
 February 21, 2018
Jacqueline Quinn, an environmental engineer with NASA and a 1989 graduate of Georgia Tech, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May. (Photo Courtesy of Jacqueline Quinn)
Environmental cleanup technology for the space program earns NASA’s Quinn a spot in Inventors Hall of Fame
 February 19, 2018
Bill Calhoun talks with students after his spring 2018 presentation for the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. Calhoun, vice chairman and executive vice president of Clark Construction, talked about the five principles that guide how he leads people and his company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Calhoun outlines his 5 guiding principles of leadership in spring Hyatt lecture, starting with doing the right thing and being accountable
 February 15, 2018
Pensacola Beach in the Florida Panhandle, one of the areas where oil washed ashore after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. (Photo Courtesy: Smruthi Karthikeyan)
Karthikeyan’s research uncovering a new oil-eating microbe wins top student award at Gulf oil spill conference
 February 14, 2018
Cars speed along the Interstate 75/Interstate 85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Coogan wins CAREER grant to build mathematical foundation for modeling and predicting traffic flow
 February 13, 2018
Engineering Georgia January/February 2018 issue featuring 100 influential women to know.
Watkins, 18 other alumnae make Engineering Georgia’s 100 Influential Women list
 February 07, 2018
K.P. Reddy, BCE 1994, published his first book Feb. 5. "What You Know About Startups Is Wrong" aims to set the record straight on entrepreneurship and startup culture. (Photo Courtesy: The Combine)
Reddy’s new book says what we know about startups is wrong
 February 05, 2018

January 2018

Four photos: Spices in Istanbul, Turkey; a silhouetted figure takes in the water and mountains in Interlaken, Switzerland; a young woman stands in front of Stonehenge in England; and a dive swims near colorful coral at the Great Barrier Reef.
New Feldman endowment offers students $1K to do something extra when they study abroad
 January 31, 2018
Glaucio Paulino, Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Susan Burns and Donald Webster have been named four of the most-effective teachers at Georgia Tech, according to end-of-course surveys of their students.
Students say 4 of the top teachers at Tech are civil and environmental engineering professors
 January 22, 2018
Professor Arash Yavari stands in front of his packed bookcase in his Mason Building office. Yavari has embarked upon a four-year research project to lay the mathematical foundations for cloaking structures from earthquakes and other stress waves. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Yavari’s new project will lay a mathematical foundation for cloaking structures
 January 18, 2018
Alejandro Martinez collects data in Mexico after a major earthquake in September 2017. Martinez, MSCE 2012, Ph.D. 2015, was part of a team from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association that traveled to the impact zone to gather “perishable” data about the earthquake to help scientists and engineers prepare for future events. (Photo Courtesy of Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association via the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine)
Documenting disaster: Group led by Tech experts gathers key data after major catastrophes to prepare for the next one
 January 09, 2018
Ph.D. student Bill Jin, this year's winner of the Robert H. Kuhlman Student Scholarship from the Georgia chapter of the American Concrete Institute.
Jin wins ACI scholarship for his work on concrete sustainability
 January 04, 2018
Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20, 2017, based on MODIS/Terra satellite image and processed by Antti Lipponen. (Photo Courtesy Antti Lipponen via Wikimedia Commons)
In the wake of Maria, two Tech alumni lead effort to restore water and sewer services in Puerto Rico
 January 02, 2018

December 2017

Calvin Clark, David Boyer, Chelsea Dyess, Daniel Walls, David Ederer and Lauren Gardner have won Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration.
Six grad students win competitive, coveted Eisenhower transportation fellowships
 December 21, 2017
Ph.D. students Emily Sanders and Aaron Bivins, who have been invited to ComSciCon Atlanta, a new conference in the southeast that aims to help graduate students improve their skills at communicating their scientific work to the general public.
Science communication workshop expands to southeast, invites 2 CEE grad students
 December 20, 2017
Google Earth view of Lake Lanier from Buford Dam. Gwinnett County is to the right of the dam. (Image Courtesy: Google, Landsat/Copernicus)
Georgia Water Resources Institute leads effort to understand how residential septic systems impact Lake Lanier water quality
 December 18, 2017
Sharani White poses in her cap and gown with Midtown Atlanta in the background. White struggled in her first year, to the point that she almost had to transfer. But now she's finished her civil engineering degree and has been accepted to graduate school. (Photo: Titilayo Funso)
Struggling at Tech, Sharani White almost transferred; instead, she graduates this fall with a job and grad school waiting
 December 14, 2017
The Yoshi Group used a single Miura-ori based Yoshimura origami pattern to design four unique structures. From left, Phoebe Edalatpour, Jared Williams, Maria Yagnye and Emanuel Ferro hold models of their designs. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Students showcase final projects using origami engineering for social good
 December 14, 2017
A row of awards plaques presented to students, faculty and staff at the 2017 CEE Awards Ceremony Dec. 11. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
CEE honors teaching, scientific, staff excellence
 December 11, 2017
"The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues." Joe Brown and a student test environmental samples in his lab. (Photo: Gary Meek, Design: Sarah Collins)
The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues through the microscope
 December 11, 2017
Team J2AD Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the fall 2017 Capston Design Expo. From left, Jessie Lei, Jiyoon Oh, Austin Foo and Donald Smith accept their winnings from Buzz (yellow jacket, center). (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Project balancing economics, historic preservation, community needs wins over Capstone Design Expo judges
 December 05, 2017
Oloo, Uganda, community members stand with the water pump that Engineers Without Borders has helped them construct.
Engineering a better world: Students apply their knowledge through philanthropic groups
 December 05, 2017

November 2017

Screeen capture of Governing op-ed by Kari Watkins and Cathering Nagel, "Urban Parks' Emerging Role as Transportation Infrastructure"
Watkins extols virtues of parks as transportation infrastructure in 'Governing' op-ed
 November 28, 2017
Ph.D. student Anirban Chatterjee, a 2018 International Road Federation Fellow.
Road Federation names Chatterjee a 2018 fellow
 November 27, 2017
A split-screen shot shows the very beginning and the aftermath of the Georgia Dome implosion Nov. 20, with nothing but a dust cloud remaining. (Photos: Zonglin "Jack" Li)
REPLAY: Watch the Georgia Dome implosion with structural engineer Lauren Stewart
 November 20, 2017
Five School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students have won Wayne Shackelford Scholarships from the Intelligent Transportation Society Georgia chapter. From left, Haobing Liu, Cibi Pranav, Lauren Gardner, Anirban Chatterjee and Zoe Turner-Yovanovitch each had to suggest smart technologies governments could use to improve urban mobility. (Photo Courtesy: ITS Georgia)
Smart mobility ideas earn Shackelford scholarships for 5 students
 November 15, 2017
Master's student Alana Wilson is the Student of the Year for the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health, a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded research center.
Transportation research center picks Wilson as its unanimous student of the year
 November 13, 2017
Five alumni joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering External Advisory Board in October: Richard Hummel, Orlando Mendez, Donald Paul, Meg Pirkle and I.J. Scott III. Each will serve six-year terms as outside counselors to the School’s leadership on everything from curriculum and student preparedness to fundraising and alumni outreach.
Desire to give back to Tech, next generation unite newest members of School’s advisory board
 November 10, 2017
Georgia Tech and Georgia Department of Transportation researchers have earned an award for their work to automatically detect cracks, ruts and other pavement issues on the state's highways. Their system uses lasers and artificial intelligence to also detect and catalog roadside signs. This image shows an automatically detected pavement rut modeled in 3-D. (Image: James Tsai)
National group honors research using lasers and AI to automatically assess health of highway pavement and catalog road signs
 November 08, 2017
Students from the Georgia Tech chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers take down a piece of playground equipment for International Women's House in Decatur, Georgia. (Photo Courtesy: ASCE Georgia Tech)
ASCE helps shelter replace playground
 November 03, 2017

October 2017

Grace Brosofsky, BSEnvE 2017, stands with her Student Sustainability Leadership award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. (Photo Courtesy: Grace Brosofsky)
Brosofsky’s natural herbicide project wins national higher ed sustainability award
 October 30, 2017
Alice Grossman, Tu Nguyen and Ann Li, winners of scholarships this year from the WTS Atlanta chapter. They will now compete with nominees from every other chapter for more financial support.
WTS Atlanta honors 3 transportation students
 October 27, 2017
Part of the cover of Barry Goodno's new textbook, "Statics and Mechanics of Materials," co-written with James Gere. The new text offers a coordinated approach to both foundational courses in mechanics, according to Goodno. (Image Courtesy: Cengage and Barry Goodno)
Goodno publishes new hybrid statics and mechanics textbook
 October 25, 2017
Several chickens walking on a leaf and stick-covered area in Hapeville, Georgia. Joe Brown and a team of Georgia Tech researchers have received a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study how antibiotic use on poultry farms might impact waterways near and downstream from the farms. They will collect samples in north Georgia to measure antibiotic resistance genes and resistant pathogens in the environment. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
New CDC-sponsored research seeks to understand water-related risks of antibiotic use in agriculture
 October 23, 2017
Chloe Johansen, left, and Iris Tien hold their first-place paper award at the Resilience Week 2017 conference for their work analyzing the vulnerabilities of interdependent infrastructure. They used Atlanta's water and power systems as a case study. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)
Tien, Johansen win Resilience Week top award for paper on vulnerabilities of interdependent infrastructure
 October 19, 2017
A drawing shows potential new temporary barracks for Army troops built with cross-laminated timber. Researchers Lauren Stewart and Russell Gentry have received funding from the U.S. Forest Service to create designs for the barracks. (Image Courtesy: Lauren Stewart)
Forest Service funds project using Georgia timber for stronger Army barracks
 October 17, 2017
Skanska’s Jimmy Mitchell talks with a student at the School’s 2017 Career Expo. Mitchell, a 2005 civil engineering grad, has long been involved in mentoring Tech students. The School has launched a new program to involve more alumni in these kinds of relationships and is recruiting professionals and students. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
GOLD-en opportunity: New mentoring program connects CEE students with professionals, alumni
 October 13, 2017
Researchers Glaucio Paulino (left) and Ke Liu with origami structures that can be simulated in new software. (Photo: Rob Felt)
New software speeds origami structure designs
 October 11, 2017
"Mass Transit" Expo Daily edition for Oct. 9, 2017, featuring article by Simon Berrebi about his research with Kari Watkins and Jorge Laval on bus bunching.
‘Mass Transit’ features vehicle-dispatching research that fixed ‘bunching’ for Atlanta Streetcar, Tech’s Stinger
 October 09, 2017
Andy Phelps delivers the fall 2017 lecture for the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. (Photo by Zonglin "Jack" Li)
Ethics, trust, taking care of your people some of fall Hyatt speaker Andy Phelps’ key traits for leaders
 October 03, 2017
G7 2017 Italia logo
Fedele invited to present rogue wave research at the G7 maritime security meeting in Rome
 October 02, 2017

September 2017

Air pollution hangs over a portion of Beijing, China. A new study by researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Minnesota, Yale University and partners in China finds that cities could cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third, significantly improving air quality and health, by adopting a series of strategies to reuse industrial waste. (Photo Courtesy: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota)
Waste reuse strategies could take a big bite out of greenhouse gas emissions in China’s cities
 September 28, 2017
Professor Emeritus Lawrence Kahn, who will accept the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute's Educator of the Year Award in early October. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Concrete industry group names Kahn educator of the year
 September 28, 2017
Associate Professor Michael Hunter explains his work with the North Avenue Smart Corridor at the ribbon-cutting event for the roadway. Hunter appeared on WABE-FM's Closer Look Sept. 26 to talk about his work on autonomous vehicles, one of the technologies that will be tested along North Avenue. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology)
On WABE, Hunter lays out challenges and research questions that will help define the autonomous-vehicle future
 September 27, 2017
Headphones in front of an audio mixer and laptop during a podcast recording. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Speed networking with CEE student clubs on the latest episode of Field Notes podcast
 September 22, 2017
The stern of the El Faro is shown on the ocean floor where it came to rest after sinking in Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. (Photo Courtesy: National Transportation Safety Board)
Fedele's rogue wave analysis supports investigation of the El Faro sinking
 September 20, 2017
Associate Professor Michael Hunter stands along North Avenue, the City of Atlanta's new "smart corridor." Along with the city, the Georgia Department of Transportation and other partners, Hunter will help cut the ribbon for the corridor Sept. 14. (Photo: Chris Moore)
Energy, emissions and a smarter North Ave: Hunter, Guensler crunch data from new smart corridor to improve traffic, safety
 September 13, 2017
CEEatGT's undergraduate civil and environmental engineering programs are No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2018 survey.
US News: Tech’s civil and environmental engineering bachelor’s programs No. 2 in US
 September 12, 2017
Calvin Clark, Xenia Wirth, Osvaldo Broesicke and Anna Skipper, who have each earned a scholarship from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation for 2017.
ARCS awards go to 4 grad students
 September 07, 2017
Alumnus C. David Moody Jr., who made the Atlanta Business Chronicle's list of the city’s most-admired chief executives.
Business Chronicle names Moody one of Atlanta’s most-admired CEOs
 September 01, 2017

August 2017

Associate Professor David Scott, right, accepts a President's Award from American Society of Civil Engineers Georgia Section President Shaukat Syed. (Photo Courtesy: John Pierson)
Scott, Goldman, Blissit win statewide ASCE awards
 August 31, 2017
Ph.D. student Rodrigo Borela, who is a 2017 fellow of the Geosynthetics Institute.
PhD student Borela named a 2017 GSI fellow
 August 29, 2017
Post-doctoral researcher Neda Mohammadi is one of the few early career women invited to MIT's Rising Stars workshop in October. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Mohammadi to join select early career engineers at Rising Stars workshop
 August 25, 2017
WABE webpage for story featuring Kari Watkins, 'Do the "slow down" signs around Atlanta work?'
WABE asks Watkins, do those neighborhood ‘slow down’ signs work?
 August 24, 2017
Eric Marks joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Aug. 1 as a professor of the practice — a homecoming of sorts, since Marks earned his Ph.D. in the School a few years ago.
Marks joins faculty as construction engineering professor of the practice
 August 22, 2017
Sam Coogan joins the Georgia Tech faculty this fall as an assistant professor in both the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
New faculty member Sam Coogan connects civil and electrical engineering to run the transportation systems of tomorrow
 August 21, 2017
New faculty member Xing Xie stands in the lobby of the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
New faculty member Xing Xie works to clean water by killing bad microbes and harnessing the power of useful ones
 August 18, 2017
Students in Kari Watkins' Sustainable Transportation Abroad class ride bicycles in the kind of bike lanes that permeate the Netherlands. The class spent nearly two weeks riding across the country and exploring the Dutch approach to transportation. (Photo: Anna Nord)
From London to Amsterdam: Summer study abroad takes students to experience what they’re learning about
 August 16, 2017
Screenshot of the BET Black Girls Rock! 2017 webpage, featuring alumna Suzanne Shank and other winners, Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Natalie and Derrica Wilson, Roberta Flack, and Yara Shahidi.
Alumna Shank honored at BET’s Black Girls Rock awards
 August 15, 2017
Undergraduate Maggie Lindsey, left, with structural engineer Priyanka Singh in the main room of the Gaddi Baithak in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lindsey was an intern with Miyamoto International in the country during spring 2017, where she worked on a project to restore the 100-year-old palace. (Photo: Binod Shrestha)
Lindsey tells Global Atlanta her internship in Nepal showed her the power of earthquake engineering to improve lives, communities
 August 11, 2017
Benjamin Hurwitz, Alexandra Muscalus, and Youngjun Son, the three civil and environmental engineering students who are part of the inaugural class of the ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program.
Ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program welcomes first class, including 3 in CEE
 August 11, 2017
Social media flyer for Arcadis Global Shapers 2017 in Malaysia. Three people smiling at laptops and a photo of the Kuala Lumpur skyline.
Arcadis picks three young alumnae for its 2017 Global Shapers program
 August 07, 2017
Ph.D. student Anna Skipper, who will spend several months doing research at the University of Cambridge this fall as a Crighton Fellow.
Skipper will spend fall at Cambridge as Crighton Fellow
 August 03, 2017
Going with the Flow: On their entrepreneurial quest to make drinking water safe for all, two new Tech alumnae stand as testimony to the gumption and perseverance necessary to sustain a startup.
TruePani goes with the flow and adjusts approach in quest to make drinking water safe
 August 01, 2017

July 2017

Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who is this year's recipient of the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal from the Water Environment Federation.
Pavlostathis awarded Fair Medal for his contributions to engineering education
 July 31, 2017
Using an iPad and an augmented reality model like this, students and other future users of Georgia Tech's Living Building will be able to tour the facility long before it opens, offering input on some of the design decisions. A user shows how the model will work at the future site of the building. (Photo Courtesy: Kendeda Fund Living Building Chronicle)
Using augmented reality to crowdsource Tech’s Living Building
 July 28, 2017
University of Oregon volcanologist Thomas Giachetti stands with an iceberg washed ashore by a landslide-generated tsunami in Greenland in June. (Photo: Hermann Fritz)
After recon trip, researchers say Greenland tsunami in June reached 300 feet high
 July 21, 2017
Smart Cities graphic with a rendering of the city of Atlanta.
Smart Cities: Innovative approaches combining engineering, technology and the social sciences are boosting the urban IQ
 July 21, 2017
Students in the Japan Program on Sustainable Development traveled all over Japan during the first week of the program and saw some iconic landmarks, like this "floating" torii gate on the island Miyajima. The group includes students from Georgia Tech, Tokyo Tech in Japan, and faculty members from Tech’s College of Engineering. (Photo: Alexandra Akosa)
Study abroad and sustainability in the world's largest city
 July 20, 2017
Professor of the Practice Rudy Bonaparte, who will deliver the 2018 Terzaghi Lecture at the ASCE Geo-Institute annual meeting. (Photo Courtesy: Geosyntec Consultants)
Meet the 2018 Terzaghi Lecturer: Rudy Bonaparte
 July 17, 2017
Patricia Mokhtarian, the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor. She has been invited to deliver the Deen Distinguished Lecture at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
Transportation Research Board invites Mokhtarian to deliver 2018 Deen Distinguished Lecture
 July 05, 2017
Global Atlanta website story featuring civil engineering alumna Guiomar Obregon.
Building her business and Colombian engineers’ capacity: Global Atlanta profiles alumna Guiomar Obregon
 July 03, 2017

June 2017

Claire Anderson rides a ferry to the Oslo fjords in Norway. The environmental engineering junior spent the spring semester studying at Lund University in nearby Sweden with support from the Joe S. Mundy Global Learning Endowment. (Photos Courtesy: Claire Anderson)
Anderson finds balance — in life and the environment — during semester in Sweden
 June 29, 2017
Ph.D. students Courtney Di Vittorio, Laura Mast and Xenia Wirth, the School's first Future Faculty Fellows.
New CEE Future Faculty program selects first three fellows
 June 27, 2017
Assistant Professor Iris Tien, who will join 80 other exceptional young engineers at the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering symposium. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Tien invited to join nation’s brightest young engineers at 2017 Frontiers of Engineering symposium
 June 23, 2017
Civil engineering senior Lin Htet Kyaw, who just won a scholarship from the Simpson Strong-Tie Company. (Photo Courtesy: Lin Htet Kyaw)
Kyaw wins Simpson Strong-Tie scholarship for structural engineering students
 June 22, 2017
Students wait to meet with company representatives at the 2016 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Expo. Among the firms that had success recruiting at the event were ARCADIS and Skanska, who were inaugural members of the School’s Corporate Affiliates Program and had prominent placement at the expo. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Companies say affiliates program nets them recruits, interns, and deeper ties with CEE
 June 19, 2017
Georgia Tech researchers Glaucio Paulino, left, and Jerry Qi hold 3-D printed objects that use tensegrity, a structural system of floating rods in compression and cables in continuous tension. They’ve developed a new way to create structures with “memory” that can expand dramatically when heated. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Researchers print objects that ‘remember’ their shape, allowing them to change dramatically when heated
 June 14, 2017
Alumni Leo Vecellio and Bill Calhoun have been selected as fellows of the National Academy of Construction. (Photos Courtesy: Vecellio Group and Clark Construction)
Alumni Calhoun, Vecellio elected to the National Academy of Construction
 June 13, 2017
Ph.D. student Javaid Anwar with his first-place poster at the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering conference. (Photo: David Scott)
Anwar wins poster competition with work on durability of connections between fiber-reinforced polymer materials
 June 12, 2017
A bicyclist rides in a marked bike lane alongside a multi-lane road in Lutz, Florida. A new study of bicycle infrastructure from a team of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers has found we don’t know much yet about how well bicycle infrastructure like these lanes protect riders. (Photo Courtesy: Daniel Oines via Flickr.)
Which bicycle infrastructure makes riders safer? Turns out, we don’t yet know
 June 09, 2017
A paper that grew from Cesunica Ivey's doctoral research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been named one of the two best papers in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering for 2016. The article outlines a new way to estimate the amount and source of secondary PM2.5 pollution in the air.
Journal names Ivey’s paper on sourcing and counting pollution from atmospheric reactions the best of 2016
 June 06, 2017
Raymond Allen Jones Chair and Professor Glaucio Paulino has been named a fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Paulino elected a fellow of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute
 June 05, 2017
International Atomic Energy Agency fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman examines Reactor Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on May 27, 2011. The team assessed damage from an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 that caused three reactors at the plant to meltdown. (Photo: Gregg Webb / International Atomic Energy Agency)
Researchers work to make robots the first-responders after nuclear power plant disasters
 June 01, 2017

May 2017

Judges watch as members of the Georgia Tech steel bridge team work to put together their creation at the National Student Steel Bridge Competition May 27 in Corvallis, Oregon. The team, which placed 14th out of 43 teams, advanced to nationals after winning their regional competition. (Photo: Zonglin “Jack” Li)
Steel bridge team places in top third at national competition
 May 31, 2017
Assistant Professor Iris Tien, center, with WABE-FM's Jim Burress and Rose Scott after their conversation about Atlanta's infrastructure on the station's daily program Closer Look. (Photo Courtesy: WABE)
LISTEN: I-85 collapse provides Tien a test case of infrastructure interdependence
 May 24, 2017
Courtney Di Vittorio, left, with her Ph.D. adviser, Aris Georgakakos and some of the data she's using for her research. Di Vittorio's work to incorporate satellite data into hydrologic models so decision-makers can improve water management plans has won her a 2017 Earth and Space Science Fellowship from NASA. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
NASA fellowship supports Di Vittorio’s work using satellites to improve water management
 May 24, 2017
A company founded by Georgia Tech students is pioneering a new model for helping rural communities in developing countries maintain — and sustain — water security.
Alumni-founded company pioneers a new way to keep the water flowing in rural communities
 May 22, 2017
Traffic moves through the interchange at Ashford-Dunwoody Road and Interstate 285 in Atlanta's Perimeter area. The busy district is one of several areas where the Georgia Department of Transportation and some School of Civil and Environmental Engineering alumni at Kimley-Horn and Associates are using advanced technology and traffic signal timing to maximize the flow of traffic. (Photo Courtesy: Kimley-Horn and Associates)
These two alumni help make Atlanta’s everyday commute better, saving drivers time and money
 May 17, 2017
Newly minted Ph.D. Sujith Mangalathu received more good news in the days after he officially graduated from Georgia Tech: he also has won the 2017 Nevada Medal for his research on bridge engineering.
2017 Nevada Medal goes to newly minted PhD Sujith Mangalathu
 May 15, 2017
Civil engineering Ph.D. student Heng Chi, right, won the Robert J. Melosh Medal from Duke University in late April. Chi, who is the first Georgia Tech student ever to win the prestigious competition in computational mechanics, stands with co-winner Matthias Mayr, center, from Technical University of Munich, and Duke Associate Professor Guglielmo Scovazzi. (Photo Courtesy: John Dolbow/Duke University)
Chi becomes first Tech student to win Melosh Medal in computational mechanics
 May 10, 2017
Ph.D. student Laura Mast is one of just 50 students nationwide who will learn how to better communicate the value and impact of their scientific work at a Harvard University conference for grad students in June. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Mast invited to Harvard science communication conference for grad students
 May 09, 2017
Civil + Structural Engineer magazine has named Lauren Stewart one of the industry’s rising stars. She's the only full-time faculty member among the list's 29 professionals under 40 years old. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Stewart one of Civil + Structural Engineer mag’s 2017 rising stars
 May 05, 2017
Fred Donovan Sr. speaks at the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Alumni Awards after being inducted in the Engineering Hall of Fame.
Donovan elected to College of Engineering Hall of Fame; Carlos, Flower, Bern honored at engineering alumni awards
 May 03, 2017
Ph.D. student Alice Grossman will spend 10 weeks in the nation’s capital this summer as a transportation policy fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Grossman selected for summer DC fellowship at Eno Center
 May 03, 2017
Water, water everywhere: In the world of water research, underserved communities provide the ultimate learning ground for undergrads.
Water, water everywhere: In the world of water research, underserved communities provide the ultimate learning ground for undergrads
 May 01, 2017

April 2017

Team SEVEN Engineering with Buzz and Associate Professor Kari Watkins after they won for the best project among civil and environmental engineering teams at the spring 2017 Capstone Design Expo. Kemeria Abdella and Sharani White, middle, designed a full site development plan for a proposed medical office building in Cobb County, Georgia, along with Cathy Wong and Ming Yang. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Team SEVEN Engineering wins top prize among record 7 CEE teams competing at Capstone Expo
 April 25, 2017
Professor Kimberly Kurtis has been named interim chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective July 1, when current chair Reginald DesRoches departs for Rice University. Kurtis has been associate dean for faculty development and scholarship in the College of Engineering since 2014. (File Photo: Gary Meek)
Kimberly Kurtis named interim chair, effective July 1
 April 21, 2017
Students learn about a rainwater collector in the El Campo community from a local engineering during their Spring Break research trip to Bolivia. The trip, part of the Environmental Technology in the Developing World class, included days of collecting water samples and surveying residents as well as days learning how rural communities have developed their own water systems. (Photo: Donald Smith)
Changed: Students just back from Bolivia research trip talk about how it shifted their thinking in latest podcast
 April 20, 2017
Winnie Zambrana took home a Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher award April 18 for her work with Joe Brown's research group. (Courtesy: Brown Water Group on Twitter)
Zambrana wins undergraduate research award
 April 19, 2017
Three School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students have won National Science Foundation graduate fellowships. Hannah Greenwald, left, is a graduating senior. April Gadsby, middle, and Rebecca Nylen are in the early stages of the graduate studies. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Gadsby, Nylen, Greenwald earn coveted NSF graduate fellowships
 April 17, 2017
Reginald DesRoches, chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will become dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering effective July 1. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
School Chair Reginald DesRoches named dean of engineering at Rice University
 April 13, 2017
Joe Brown won the 2017 Women in Engineering Teaching Excellence Award April 11 for the postitive impact he's had on the lives of Georgia Tech's female engineering students. Two faculty members are recognized each year based on a survey of undergrad women in the College of Engineering. (File Photo)
Students say Joe Brown is among best engineering teachers at Tech
 April 12, 2017
Hannah Greenwald poses for the traditional senior photo with the Georgia Tech Ramblin' Reck. Greenwald has won the top honor for Tech engineering students, the Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup. (Courtesy: Hannah Greenwald)
Greenwald named Tech’s top engineering undergrad, receives Tau Beta Pi Cup
 April 10, 2017
Christopher Pappas is this year’s recipient of the Leadership Award for Outstanding Corporate Reinvention from the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Marketing and Economics group. (Courtesy: Business Wire)
Pappas wins American Chemical Society leadership award
 April 07, 2017
Despina Tsementzi has won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Dissertation award for 2017. (Courtesy: Despina Tsementzi)
Tsementzi wins Sigma Xi Best PhD Dissertation award for her widely published work in environmental microbiology
 April 06, 2017
Members of the ASCE steel bridge team put together their design at the Carolinas Regional Conference for student chapters April 1. The team, led by Colin Martin and Mihai Mavrodin, won first place and advance to national competition in May. (Photo: Thomas S. Teichmann)
ASCE student chapter wins steel bridge competition at regional conference, moves on to nationals
 April 04, 2017
The cover of "The Connector" in "Atlanta" magazine featuring the MARTA Army. (Courtesy: "Atlanta" magazine)
MARTA Army helping first-time users in wake of I-85 collapse, featured in Atlanta magazine
 April 03, 2017

March 2017

Lauren Stewart talks with WSB-TV's Tom Regan about the Interstate 85 bridge collapse in Atlanta. Stewart said coordinated investigationsof the cause, cleanup of the site, and reconstruction of the highway will likely take months. She was among a handful of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers who offered their engineering expertise to Atlanta and national media in the wake of the disaster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
National media tap Tech structural engineering, transportation expertise after I-85 bridge collapses
 March 31, 2017
Junior Arjun Bir’s work to improve lives in his native India and in the developing world has earned him the 2017 Alvin M. Ferst Leadership and Entrepreneur Award from Georgia Tech.
Bir wins Ferst Award for leadership, entrepreneurship
 March 28, 2017
Alumnus Falak Shah has been named to a select group of young leaders who represent the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ next generation, the Young Professionals Ambassadors. (Photo Courtesy: Falak Shah)
Shah joins young professional leadership of Chicago Council on Global Affairs
March 22, 2017
Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)
Kennedy keynotes University of Toronto E-week research day
 March 22, 2017
Yannis Dialynas defended his Ph.D. thesis in January and hasn’t even celebrated his graduation. Yet he’s been working on the second State of the Carbon Cycle Report’s soils chapter, contributing insight from his doctoral research on the influence of soil erosion and carbon burial on the global carbon cycle.
Dialynas just finished his PhD, now he’s contributing to a national carbon cycle report
 March 21, 2017
Art Williams talks with students at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's first scholarship and fellowship lunch. Williams and his family created the F. Everett Williams Scholarship for civil engineering students. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Students meet the families making their studies possible
 March 17, 2017
Screenshot of GPB web page featuring the March 16 segment on self-driving cars that included Michael Hunter.
Hunter tells GPB many more questions remain about self-driving cars
 March 17, 2017
Laurence J. Jacobs, associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering, will serve as interim dean of the College of Engineering starting July 1.
Jacobs appointed interim dean of College of Engineering
 March 16, 2017
The Eno Center for Transportation has selected Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson for its 2017 class of fellows. The fifth-year Ph.D. student will attend the center's Future Leaders Development Conference this summer to hear from federal officials, transportation policymakers, and business leaders. (Photo Courtesy: Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson)
Amoaning-Yankson invited to leadership conference as an Eno Fellow
 March 16, 2017
CEE's graduate civil engineering program is No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2018 survey. Graduate environmental engineering ranked No. 7. (Image: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
U.S. News: Georgia Tech civil and environmental programs among the nation’s best engineering grad schools
 March 14, 2017
Team TruePani reacts after they're announced as the People's Choice Award winners at the 2016 InVenture Prize finals. The team designed an antimicrobial cup and water storage device that makes drinking water safer. Shannon Evanchec and Samantha Becker have been working full-time for the last year to turn their winning invention into a viable business. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)
One year later, InVenture team has turned idea into startup
 March 10, 2017
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers have found that bacteria present in only small numbers in freshwater systems contain key genes that help the broader microbial community respond to environmental changes such as pollution or oil spills. The team used water from Lake Lanier northeast of Atlanta to test how microbial communities respond to common organic compounds. (Photo Courtesy: PBT1981 via Wikimedia Commons)
Study sheds light on key role for ‘rare’ aquatic microbes in dealing with pollution, balancing ecosystems
 March 06, 2017

February 2017

Professor Emeritus Bruce Ellingwood
Ellingwood wins ASCE lifetime achievement award
 February 27, 2017
Assistant Professor Joe Brown has won an Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. These so-called CAREER grants recognize promising young faculty with funds to help them establish the research director of their careers. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Danger in the air? Brown wins NSF CAREER grant to find out
 February 24, 2017
Suzanne Shank delivers the spring 2017 lecture for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Kenneth Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)
In Hyatt lecture, Shank says leadership is about connection, not isolation
 February 21, 2017
Marc and Kate Sanborn are working on doctorates in civil engineering with Lauren Stewart. The couple, married since 2012, are majors in the U.S. Army and need advanced degrees to continue their careers teaching at the U.S. Military Academy. (Photo: Missy Jurick)
Balancing military service, marriage, grad school: Two Army majors pick Tech to advance their careers
 February 17, 2017
Michael Rodgers
Rodgers, Watson win ASEE Evans award for paper on concept maps
 February 16, 2017
Kari Watkins and Phanish Suryanarayana, who have earned tenure and will be promoted to the rank of associate professor this summer. (Photos: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Suryanarayana and Watkins earn tenure, four others promoted to full professor
 February 14, 2017
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently named Kim D. Jones a regents professor. (Photo: Texas A&M-Kingsville)
Alumnus Kim Jones named a regents professor at Texas A&M-Kingsville
 February 14, 2017
Headphones and a sound board before a recording for the first edition of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's new "Field Notes" podcast. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
New podcast debuts with insider help for future civil and environmental engineering students
 February 09, 2017
Georgia Power Distinguished Professor Susan Burns
Burns honored as one of Tech’s most effective teachers
 February 02, 2017

January 2017

Junior Maimuna Jallow at the Lake of Love in Bruges, Belgium. Jallow studied at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in the fall with help from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Joe S. Mundy Global Learning Endowment. (Photo Courtesy: Maimuna Jallow)
Jallow’s semester abroad reveals a diverse Europe and new career interests
 January 30, 2017
Arjun Bir talks about low-cost water tests at UNICEF in Bolivia. (Photo Courtesy: Arjun Bir)
Bir wins 2017 Buchberg Scholarship from SGH
 January 24, 2017
Associate Professor Kevin Haas, one of the inaugural Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows.
Haas will help strengthen faculty teaching, student learning with new fellowship
 January 20, 2017
Howard T. Tellepsen Chair Armistead "Ted" Russell (Photo: Justen Clay/Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine)
Building healthier cities: 10 questions with Ted Russell
 January 17, 2017
Professor Terry Sturm, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Sturm elected an ASCE fellow
 January 12, 2017
Water drop
Liquid Assets: Tech researchers are working to solve the world’s water problems
 January 09, 2017

December 2016

Alesa Stallman accepts a scholarship from the International Concrete Repair Institute Georgia Chapter Dec. 6. (Photo Courtesy: Alesa Stallman)
Stallman wins concrete repair group scholarship
 December 22, 2016
K.P. Reddy, co-founder of The Combine and a 1994 civil engineering graduate. (Photo: The Combine)
Alumnus KP Reddy tapped to help engineering firm commercialize 5 in-house startups
 December 20, 2016
Master's students Himanshu Wad and Helen Heindl. (Photo: Rob Felt)
With Gratitude: 2 graduates on how they got to and through Georgia Tech
 December 16, 2016
A screencapture from civil engineering senior Raunac Khandaker's "Tech Reflections" audio slideshow.
Tech Reflections: Graduating senior Raunac Khandaker sees her future in academics, research
 December 15, 2016
John E. Taylor, the new Frederick L. Olmsted Profession in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Change agent: Many resist change, but John Taylor has made a career studying it
 December 12, 2016
Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, seated left, signed an agreement in a ceremony in Shenzhen, China, Dec. 2 to create a new collaboration with the City of Shenzhen and Tianjin University. Co-signers with Peterson are Vice Mayor Yihuan Wu of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, center, and Tianjin University President Denghua Zhong, right.
Expanding to China: Tech’s new Shenzhen Institute will offer environmental engineering MS
 December 09, 2016
A group of Georgia Tech and Georgia Department of Transportation researchers after they received an AASHTO Sweet Sixteen award from DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry Dec. 8. Their work on corrosion-resistant concrete piles for marine environments has been used on bridges in Georgia and is being tested for use in nearby states.
New corrosion-resistant concrete reinforcement wins AASHTO Sweet 16 award for extending life of coastal bridges
 December 09, 2016
U.S. Department of Transportation map showing all of the newly funded University Transportation Centers and the affiliated universities.
Sustainability, emissions, travel behavior among challenges researchers will tackle in 6 new University Transportation Centers
 December 07, 2016
Aaron Bivins and Rebecca Yoo (Photo: StoryCorps Atlanta)
StoryCorps: Bivins and Yoo learn from each other and build a friendship on class trips to Bolivia
 December 02, 2016
Microbiologists use next-generation sequencing technology to identify a bacterial DNA fingerprint. (Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Genomics technique could revolutionize how we detect bacteria in food poisoning outbreaks
 December 01, 2016

November 2016

Professor Emeritus Wilton W. King
Colleagues pay tribute to mentor, friend Wilton King (1937-2016)
 November 30, 2016
Georgia Tech senior Maya Goldman at Machu Picchu in Peru. The structure behind her shows how Inca engineers used terraces as retaining walls. "Being in Machu Picchu inspired me like no other place on Earth to continue my study of civil engineering," Goldman said, "to follow in the footsteps of those before me, and to build a future based on sharing knowledge and closely observing environmental processes, just like Incan engineers." (Photo Courtesy: Maya Goldman)
Visit to Machu Picchu inspires Maya Goldman to walk in the footsteps of Incan engineers
 November 22, 2016
Students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering learn OSHA guidelines for worksite safety in early November. The Atlanta office of JE Dunn provided the training — and lunch — to the group of nearly two dozen undergraduate and graduate students. (Photo: Yong Cho)
JE Dunn teaches students about worksite safety
 November 16, 2016
CEE Awards Plaques (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
Awards recognize CEE’s top scientists, researchers, teachers and staff members
 November 14, 2016
Veterans John Temple and Mike Anderson in one of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering server rooms. The pair now provide information technology support to the School's students, faculty and staff. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Staff who served share thoughts on Veterans Day
 November 11, 2016
New External Advisory Board members Jim Anderson, John Kelley, Edward Metzger, Stephen Mulva, Frank Rucker and Deborah Staudinger.
Leaders in construction, law, social media among newest members of School’s External Advisory Board
 November 08, 2016
Yang Wang and students in his research group install sensors on a bridge in Bartow County, Georgia, in July 2016. Wang, Francesco Fedele and Rafi Muhanna in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering will use data from instruments like these to feed a new interval-based optimization approach to assess structural systems and detect damage. (Photo Courtesy: Yang Wang)
Dealing with uncertainty: New NSF project will create more accurate, faster interval-based approach to assessing structures for damage
 November 04, 2016
Sierra Magazine story about the explosion at a gas pipeline in Alabama.
Tien: Pipeline blast reminds us of our dependence on a few key infrastructure systems
 November 03, 2016
Screen shot of Ph.D. student Simon Berrebi's interview with WSB-TV in Atlanta about his group's effort to crowdfund trash cans for East Point bus stops.
WATCH: MARTA Army crowdfunding trash cans at East Point bus stops
 November 02, 2016
WTA Atlanta scholarship winners Xiaodan Xu, Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson and Cindy Bledsoe.
Georgia Tech students sweep WTS Atlanta scholarships
 November 02, 2016
G. Wayne Clough with National Academy of Construction President Hugh Rice. Clough was inducted into the academy's 2016 class of new members Oct. 20. (Photo Courtesy: National Academy of Construction)
Clough elected to National Academy of Construction
 November 01, 2016
Ph.D. student Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson.
Amoaning-Yankson wins Society of Women Engineers leadership scholarship
 November 01, 2016

October 2016

Ocean Science and Engineering webpage screenshot
Georgia Tech launches Ph.D. in ocean science and engineering
 October 27, 2016
Ph.D. student Osvaldo Broesicke, right, with Latinos in Science and Engineering President Will Davis. Broesicke won the organization's highest honor for students, the Padrino Scholarship and Medalla de Plata, or silve medal. (Photo Courtesy: Osvaldo Broesicke)
Broesicke honored with highest student award from Latino STEM group
 October 26, 2016
Ph.D. student Chloe Johansen meets with her TI:GER program group in October 2016 to talk about their project. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Failing infrastructure: We can’t fix it all, so Chloe Johansen’s research will help us prioritize
 October 20, 2016
Ph.D. student Fikret Atalay will be part of a five-student delegation from the United States at next year's International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in South Korea.
Atalay picked for 5-member U.S. delegation to young geotech engineers conference
October 17, 2016
Ph.D. student Sangy Hanumasagar will attend the International Research Association on Large Landslides meeting in China this month for two weeks of workshops and high-level courses on landslides.
Hanumasagar selected for ‘landslide school’ with some of world’s top scholars
 October 13, 2016
SEC Country website screen shot of a story looking at the effects of major hurricanes on college football stadiums.
Hurricanes vs. Stadiums: Stewart explains why the massive structures can withstand storms
 October 10, 2016
The Taj Mahal (Photo: Michael Bergin)
Burning trash in India major cause of Taj Mahal discoloration, leads to hundreds of premature deaths
 October 07, 2016
Reginald DesRoches, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Karen and John Huff School Chair
Haiti engineers honor DesRoches for his work on disaster recovery, serving the community
 October 07, 2016
Hermann Fritz, right, talks with people in Haiti on one of his research trips after an earthquake wreaked havoc on the island nation in 2010. Fritz told public radio's Marketplace the temporary communities that have since sprung up on the country's hillsides are now at risk from flooding and landslides in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. (Photo: Jean Vilmond Hilaire, Université de Quisqueya)
AUDIO: Hurricane Matthew compounds problems for Haiti’s infrastructure
 October 05, 2016

September 2016

The city of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Bluefields Bay. Environmental engineering undergraduate Kelsey Eichbauer spent eight weeks this summer working in this community with the nonprofit blueEnergy. She helped design and build simple water-filtration systems to reuse so-called "greywater" — all the semi-clean wastewater that comes from everywhere except the toilet. (Photo: Kelsey Eichbauer)
Eichbauer learns simple sometimes works best during summer water project in Nicaragua
 September 30, 2016
Professor Paul Mayne
Mayne to deliver Croatia’s signature geotechnical engineering lecture
 September 26, 2016
In the fall 2016 Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Lecture, Emmy Montanye, BCE 1982, offered five essential skills for young engineers to develop as they pursue their careers: Be curious and keeping learning, develop your personal brand, learn the business of engineering, develop your personal board of directors, develop others. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)
In fall Hyatt lecture, Montanye says relationships, curiosity, business skills key to a fulfilling engineering career
 September 20, 2016
Screenshot of Rebeeca Yoo's first-place ForeCAST Competition video, "TOHL Centers: A Sustainable approach for Rural Water Supply."
Water system sustainability, geotechnical engineering and origami win CEE video competition
 September 16, 2016
U.S. News and World Report ranks Georgia Tech's civil engineering program No. 2 in the nation and the environmental engineering program No. 4.
Undergrad civil and environmental programs rise in 2017 U.S. News rankings
 September 13, 2016
Patricia Mokhtarian, the new Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor
Mokhtarian appointed to new Pappas Professorship
September 08, 2016
Donald Webster
Webster among leading engineering educators invited to National Academy of Engineering symposium
 September 07, 2016
Logo for ARCS Foundation
Record five civil and environmental grad students receive ARCS awards
 September 06, 2016
Pointivo co-founder Habib Fathi, Ph.D. 2013.
How civil grad's Pointivo went from idea to disruptive startup
 September 02, 2016
Screenshot of Line//Shape//Space story on coastal engineering and sea level rise.
Saving coastal cities from rising seas: Clough shares his New Orleans experience
 September 01, 2016

August 2016

Screen capture of the new leadership video.
New video showcases perspectives on leadership
 August 31, 2016
Iris Tien, left, with Gwinnett County middle school teacher Kathylee McElroy and Jamila Cola after Tien and McElroy won awards for their collaboration on engineering lesson plans for McElroy's science classes. They've been working together for two years through a program made possible by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Research, Innovation, and Multi-Scale Engineering. Cola is the director of that program. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)
Tien wins award for helping bring engineering concepts to middle school science lessons
 August 29, 2016
The International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class on the Great Wall of China, one of their first stops during their two-week trip to China and Japan.
Two weeks in China and Japan teaches students about disaster engineering, Asian culture — and themselves
 August 26, 2016
Civil engineering undergrad Andrew Melissas diving during his semester studying abroad in Australia. (Photo Courtesy: Andrew Melissas)
Rethinking career and competition: Australian culture, respect for native tribes make an impression on Andrew Melissas
 August 24, 2016
Rudy Bonparte and John Taylor, two of the new faces in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering this fall.
New year brings new faces to CEE classrooms
 August 22, 2016
Charles "Wick" Moorman
Railroad veteran Moorman tapped to lead Amtrak
 August 22, 2016
Ph.D. student Christine Dykstra in her lab.
Dykstra wins highly competitive Canham Scholarship from Water Environment Federation
 August 16, 2016
Assistant Professor Kari Watkins added the title of Frederick L. Olmsted Junior Faculty Professor this summer, becoming the first faculty member to occupy the newly created position. Watkins studies multi-modal and sustainable transportation as well as using technology to improve transportation systems. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Watkins appointed the first Olmsted Junior Professor
 August 11, 2016
Reginald DesRoches stands with the ruptured cinder block wall one of his Ph.D. students destroyed while testing different kinds of masonry infill designed to strengthen similar structures in the Caribbean. DesRoches will draw on decades of earthquake research like this for the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering distinguished lecture he'll deliver in September. (Photo: Rob Felt)
‘From Haiti to California’: DesRoches to deliver UC Davis distinguished lecture
 August 10, 2016
Researchers Liz Robertson from the University of Southern Denmark and Josh Manger from the University of California, San Diego, ready a sample collector off Mexico's Pacific coast. They’re part of a research team that discovered bacteria making oxygen minimum zones in the ocean even deader by sucking up all life-giving nitrogen molecules. (Photo: Heather Olins)
Global warming, a dead zone and mysterious bacteria
 August 08, 2016
Col. Tom Rickard, BSCE 1990, assumed command of the U.S. Army’s Fort George G. Meade August 4. During the change of command ceremony, Rickard passes the garrison colors to Command Sergeant Major Rodwell L. Forbes.
Civil engineering grad takes command of Army’s Fort Meade
 August 08, 2016

July 2016

A neighborhood on the Westside of Atlanta, an example of the premise that has been stuck in Iris Tien's mind recently: how the infrastructure civil and environmental engineers build — or the lack thereof in areas like this — influences the surrounding community. (Photo: Iris Tien)
Tien: What we build builds communities
 July 28, 2016
Screen shot of Perimeter Center traffic solutions story featuring Michael Hunter.
Hunter: No ‘magic bullet’ for traffic tangles in Atlanta’s Perimeter area
 July 26, 2016
Water Resources Research editors say Bras’ work some of the year’s most significant
 July 26, 2016
Young person driving
Will millennials transform the future of transportation? Maybe not as much as we thought
 July 25, 2016
2016 Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship recipients Jack Cebe, Calvin Clark, April Gadsby, Alice Grossman, Janille Smith-Colin and Elliot Sperling
Federal Highway Administration awards Eisenhower Fellowships to 6 grad students
 July 19, 2016
Susan Burns
Burns named one of Tech’s emerging leaders
 July 14, 2016
Reginald DesRoches, Karen and John Huff School Chair
DesRoches to serve as Atlantic Coast Conference vice president
 July 11, 2016
Ph.D. student Aaron Bivins
Bivins wins EPA fellowship to study water quality in rural Alabama
 July 06, 2016
Jim Hamilton, BSCE 1977
Jim Hamilton’s advice for a successful merger? Talk about values, culture
 July 05, 2016

June 2016
Ashuri receives Civil + Structural Engineer’s 2016 Rising Star Award
 June 27, 2016
A simulated landslide splashes into a wave basin at Oregon State University.
Understanding landslide-generated tsunamis — and predicting their impact
 June 27, 2016
A MARTA train in the Edgewood-Candler Park transit station.
Watkins to AJC: MARTA expansion vote will have huge effect on Atlanta
 June 22, 2016
A large wave towers astern of the NOAA ship Delaware II in the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. (Photo: Delaware II Crew/NOAA)
Understanding rogue ocean waves may be simple after all
 June 21, 2016
ShanghaiRankings Academic Program Ranking: Civil Engineering No. 7
Civil engineering program 7th in the world, 3rd in U.S. in new global rankings
 June 21, 2016
Professor Paul Mayne
GEOSTRATA magazine profiles ‘GeoLegend’ Paul Mayne
 June 20, 2016
John Kelley, BSCE 1992, at the Avalon development in Alpharetta, Georgia
Kelley finds his passion in creating places that build community
 June 16, 2016
The Atlanta Streetcar near the original Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a way to improve the timing of the streetcar, eliminating the need for schedules and reducing passenger wait time. (Photo: Spmarshall42 / Wikimedia Commons)
Tracking the Atlanta Streetcar in real time
 June 15, 2016
Rendering of SunTrust Park, scheduled to open in spring 2017. (Image: Atlanta Braves)
Braves’ New World
 June 10, 2016
IndustryWeek website screen shot
Reddy and his sewing robots are IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing Leader of the Week
 June 10, 2016
Yannis Dialynas, a hydrology Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras, discuss a model of soil erosion. This research is studying the role of erosion on carbon cycling. (Photo: Rob Felt)
New model explains how soil erosion affects the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere
 June 09, 2016
Senior Maggie Lindsey in Costa Rica with one of the young students who will attend a primary school she helped design and build.
Lindsey’s thoughts on engineers and ethics win her ASCE’s Daniel Mead Prize
 June 09, 2016
Prescribed burn near Griffin, Georgia
Odman’s new project will help us understand how prescribed burns impact health, air quality across the Southeast
 June 07, 2016
The Sustainable Transportation Abroad class outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Class bikes through the Netherlands to study sustainable transportation
 June 03, 2016
Hurricane Isabel, the strongest storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. (Photo: NASA)
As hurricane season begins, how a Georgia Tech civil engineer created the five categories we use to classify storms
June 01, 2016

May 2016

Cover of Science special issue on urban issues.
How do we build sustainable cities? Russell co-authors Science piece that offers a prescription
 May 27, 2016
Ph.D. student Yannis Dialynas
Dialynas wins NASA support for his work on soil erosion and atmospheric carbon dioxide
 May 26, 2016
Professor Aris Georgakakos with Philip Sarris, BSCE 1952.
64 years later, Philip Sarris gets the diploma he earned
 May 24, 2016
A screenshot of the Poets&Quants website naming master's student Trevor Clark on the nation's best MBA students.
Website says dual master’s student Trevor Clark is one of nation’s brightest MBAs
 May 23, 2016
Alumnus and former faculty member James R. Wallace (1938-2016)
Remembering alumnus, former faculty member James Wallace (1938-2016)
 May 20, 2016
The Haitian Roundtable's 2016 1804 List of Changemakers and Ones to Watch.
Haitian Roundtable recognizes DesRoches as one of 2016's change-making Haitian-Americans
 May 18, 2016
Associate Professor Yong Cho and Dimitri Seneca Snowden with the robot Snowden has donated to Cho's research lab.
Self-taught roboticist Dimitri Seneca Snowden donates his creation to Cho’s construction engineering research lab
 May 13, 2016
Coral reef off Kiritimati Island. (Photo: Pamela Grothe)
Shellby Miller’s trip to Kiritimati Island illustrates stark realities of climate change
 May 09, 2016

April 2016

Research Horizons illustration for Rolling Robots story
A roadmap to robotic vehicles
 April 29, 2016
Helen Grenga Award winner April Gadsby with Associate Chair Susan Burns.
Women in Engineering selects Gadsby for 2016 Helen Grenga Award, gives scholarships to 18 others
 April 28, 2016
The winning CEE team at the spring 2016 Capston Design Expo pictured with Assistant Professor Kari Watkins, left: Lilian Ayala, Sage Roberts, John Bolen and Ryan Liu.
Nearly shovel-ready roundabout design wins first place at Capstone Design Expo
 April 26, 2016
The four projects School of Civil and Environmental Engineering teams will present at the 2016 Capstone Design Expo.
Capstone Expo teams present road studies, wind-tunnel tests, police HQ designs
 April 25, 2016
Daniella Remolina, who graduated in December and started work this month with the Boston Consulting Group.
How to turn a civil engineering degree into a job with one of the country’s ‘big 3’ consulting firms
 April 21, 2016
ASCE Georgia Tech Chapter at 2016 Carolinas Regional Conference
ASCE students win hydraulics competition at regional conference
 April 20, 2016
Ph.D. student Natalia Cardelino
Cardelino wins more support for her work on limestone in self-consolidating concrete
 April 20, 2016
Howard Tellepsen speaks at the College of Engineering Alumni Awards April 16. Tellepsen, BSCE 1966, was inducted into the College's Hall of Fame.
Tellepsen joins College of Engineering Hall of Fame; Higginbotham and Mitchell win alumni awards
 April 18, 2016
Charles "Wick" Moorman (Photo: Gary Meek)
As luck would have it: Wick Moorman found serendipity in a life of railroading
 April 18, 2016
Georgene Geary and Laura Mast, winners of NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Geary, Mast win NSF graduate fellowships
April 14, 2016
Genevieve Pezzola
Pezzola wins Defense Department fellowship and a guaranteed job after graduation
 April 13, 2016
Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart in her lab.
A Booming Career
 April 11, 2016
Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin. Georgia Tech researchers used long-term data on the lake’s microbial communities to develop what may be the largest-ever dynamic model of how those communities interact. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Kostas Konstantinidis says that could help restore sick lakes and may one day help scientists better understand the human body’s microbiome. (Photo: Good Free Photos)
Dynamic model helps scientists understand healthy lakes to heal sick ones
 April 07, 2016
Aaron Bivins
Fulbright Program sends Bivins to India for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ research opportunity
 April 06, 2016
Chloe Arson
Arson earns tenure, promotion to associate professor
 April 05, 2016
Students collecting water samples along Bolivia's Choqueyapu River.
#GTBolivia: Spring Break research trip aims to make water safer in Bolivia
 April 01, 2016

March 2016

Lauren Stewart in her lab. (Photo: Gary Meek)
Air Force selects Stewart for summer faculty fellowship program
 March 25, 2016
Senior April Gadsby
April Gadsby wins Sigma Xi’s undergraduate research award for her work on intelligent and sustainable infrastructure
 March 22, 2016
Brittany Bruder, Ph.D. 2015
Sigma Xi names Bruder’s dissertation on tidal energy one of the best of the year
 March 22, 2016
Graduate students Jack Cebe and Atiyya Shaw, who will attend the Eno Center's Future Leaders Development Conference this year.
Cebe, Shaw invited to Future Leaders Development Conference as Eno Fellows
 March 18, 2016
Team True Pani: Samantha Becker, civil engineering; Naomi Ergun, business administration; Shannon Evanchec, environmental engineering; and Sarah Lynn Bowen, business administration. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)
TruePani wins InVenture Prize People’s Choice Award
 March 17, 2016
U.S. News and World Report Graduate Program Rankings: Civil #4, Environmental #5
Top 5: US News ranks civil and environmental engineering graduate programs among nation’s elite
 March 16, 2016
Samantha Becker, left, and Shannon Evanchec film a segment about their water purification system ahead of the live-televised finals of the InVenture Prize. Their team, TruePani, will compete with five other finalists for $20,000, a free patent filing, and a place in a Georgia Tech startup incubator at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. (Photo: TruePani)
InVenture team creates a simple system to keep household water clean in developing countries
 March 14, 2016
Growth of Mycobacterium isolated on a plate of culture medium. (Photo: Stacey Pfaller, EPA)
Bacteria in the pipes: Study identifies the hard-to-detect microbes in hospital shower hoses
 March 14, 2016
CEE Graduate Programs Manager Robert Simon
Simon wins Tech’s top award for graduate academic advising
 March 11, 2016
Master's student Annie Blissit, one of the American Council of Engineering Companies' 2016 Young Professionals of the Year.
Blissit named a Young Professional of the Year for her service, professional work
 March 11, 2016
Charles "Wick" Moorman after delivering the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Lecture. (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)
Hyatt Lecture: From co-op to CEO, Wick Moorman shares lessons from a life in railroading
 March 09, 2016
A concept of what the Charleston Lowcountry Lowline could look like once it's built. (Image: Friends of the Lowcountry Lowline)
The class project that could spark Charleston’s future
 March 08, 2016
Third-year environmental engineering major Hannah Greenwald
Georgia Board of Regents honors undergrad Hannah Greenwald
 March 07, 2016
Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor David Frost
Meet the new Higginbotham Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering: David Frost
 March 04, 2016
Aaron Bivins explains his Ph.D. research as part of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's new video series, "30 Second Thesis."
‘30 Second Thesis’ series shows how grad students are changing the world
 March 03, 2016

February 2016

Students examine construction plans in a tunnel. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Building for the future: Undergrad construction program completes transition to CEE
 February 29, 2016
Meg Pirkle, MSCE 1997
Georgia DOT’s chief engineer on making history, why she loves her work, and why engineers need communication skills
 February 25, 2016
Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov with models of their zippered tube origami configuration. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Paulino’s origami research wins award for scientific excellence, originality
 February 24, 2016
Hongyu Guo, Rodney Weber and Ted Russell on their research platform atop the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building.
Less sulfate in the air, but it’s still as acidic as ever
 February 22, 2016
A sea butterfly (Limacina helicina). Photo: EOL Learning and Education Group via Flickr.
‘Flying’ through the ocean: Researchers find the sea butterfly swims like insects fly
 February 18, 2016
Seung Ho Hong in the Donovan Hydraulics Laboratory with the flume used in his study.
Sturm, Hong win 2016 Hilgard Prize for their paper on predicting scour around bridges during floods
 February 16, 2016
Professor Donald Webster working with students on a problem.
Garrow, Mayne, Webster named some of Tech’s top teachers
 February 11, 2016
Diagram of the TruePani drinking cup invented by a team that includes CEE undergrads Samantha Becker and Shannon Evanchec.
InVenture Prize finalists include two CEE undergrads
 February 10, 2016
Professor David Frost
Frost returns to his alma mater to deliver lecture named for his mentor
 February 10, 2016
Screen shot of SFGate.com tunnel corrosion story featuring Professor Emeritus Larry Kahn.
San Francisco Chronicle: Kahn explains corrosion in Bay Bridge tunnel
 February 09, 2016
Charles "Wick" Moorman
Alumnus Wick Moorman among the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering
 February 08, 2016
Engineering Georgia magazine spread featuring alumnus Tom Gambino
Georgia’s economy in 2016: Engineering Georgia magazine features alumnus Tom Gambino on recent panel of industry leaders
 February 04, 2016
Kathrine Udell in a transportation research lab
Familiar ground: How a high school internship prepared Kathrine Udell to jump right into research as a freshman
 February 02, 2016

January 2016
‘Reprogramming’ structures: Paulino’s team creates another new origami design that can be reconfigured for multiple uses
 January 28, 2016
Andrew Melissas
SGH selects Melissas as its 2016 Buchberg Scholar
 January 25, 2016
Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham
Higginbotham family creates new professorship in CEE
 January 21, 2016
Chloe Arson and Phanish Suryanarayana, winners of CAREER awards from the NSF.
Arson, Suryanarayana win sought-after CAREER awards from NSF
 January 19, 2016
Cardelino wins ACI’s Kuhlman Scholarship
 January 15, 2016
I am CEEatGT video series, featuring five undergraduates and their experiences as civil and environmental engineering students.
Prospective students learn what it’s like to be a civil and environmental engineering student in new 5-part video series
 January 07, 2016
Karen and John Huff School Chair Reginald DesRoches (Photo: Gary Meek)
DesRoches joins select group of ASCE and SEI Fellows
 January 05, 2016

December 2015

The sidewalk along North Avenue in Atlanta. Photo: Jennifer Tyner
Grossman’s op-ed in AJC highlights Atlanta’s sidewalk problems
 December 29, 2015
Professor Aris Georgakakos explains his models of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system to CBS46's Sally Sears.
Georgakakos to CBS46: Plenty of water for Alabama, Florida and Georgia 85% of the time
 December 11, 2015
Glaucio Paulino, Raymond Allen Jones Chair and Professor
Paulino elected to Society of Engineering Science board
 December 08, 2015
Screen shot of CityLab story about parking in Los Angeles.
How much parking in LA? Try 18M spaces, or 3 for every car
 December 04, 2015
Cover of MRS Bulletin December 2015 special issue
Toward ‘greener’ concrete: Kurtis article in MRS Bulletin focuses on innovations in producing the ubiquitous material
 December 02, 2015
Screen shot of the San Francisco Chronicle article that includes Professor Emeritus Lawrence Kahn.
Kahn to Chronicle: Corrosion monitoring system for Bay Bridge a good idea
 December 01, 2015

November 2015

Stacie Sire on the flight deck of the 787 Dreamliner during a test flight in 2011.
Stacie Sire and the 787: Meet a civil engineer who helped build Boeing’s pride and joy
 November 24, 2015
CEE Award Plaque
Tradition of excellence: Awards honor CEE’s best in serving students and advancing science
 November 23, 2015
Emily Ferrando in the Somoto Canyon in Nicaragua.
Summer in Nicaragua distills Emily Ferrando’s career goals: protect the environment
 November 20, 2015
Cleaner-burning biomass fuel briquettes produced by Sanivation to replace firewood or charcoal for cooking.
Alumnus’ National Geographic blog: Using biomass to revolutionize cooking in East Africa
 November 20, 2015
AJC screen shot: Old landfill forced Atlanta United to flee DeKalb
AJC: Old landfill forced Atlanta United soccer team to flee DeKalb
 November 20, 2015
Associate Professor Baabak Ashuri
Ashuri wins leadership award for teaching about design-build practices
 November 19, 2015
Webster among researchers in oceanography group’s inaugural class of fellows
 November 18, 2015
New CEE External Advisory Board Members Montanye, Houlihan and Selman.
Listen, be patient, surround yourself with good people, always consider the human element — that advice and more from the newest members of CEE’s advisory board
 November 13, 2015
Assistant Professor Sheng Dai in his lab.
Yellow Jacket loyalty: 5 questions with student-turned-professor Sheng Dai
 November 10, 2015
Kim’s work on detecting carbonation in concrete named one of Materials and Structures top papers of 2015
 November 05, 2015
How much garbage is burned each day in India? Times of India highlights Russell study
 November 02, 2015
Stewart connects with Army Research Lab’s Open Campus initiative
 November 02, 2015

October 2015
‘Engineering found me’: Undergrad Rebecca Yoo and her passion for helping people in the developing world
 October 29, 2015
Montanye wins Women Who Mean Business Award
 October 27, 2015
Hyatt Lecture: Gen. Philip Breedlove says leadership is about empowering people
 October 26, 2015
Georgia Tech’s Golden Girl: Annabel McAtee
 October 23, 2015
Driverless cars? They’re coming, but big data is already shaping traffic
 October 23, 2015
Dykstra joins other ‘rising stars’ at selective MIT workshop
 October 21, 2015
Mast named a 2015 EREF Scholar for her work on recovering heavy metals from coal ash
 October 21, 2015
Fritz leads survey team to examine dam breaks after South Carolina flooding
 October 16, 2015
Arson among select educators invited to Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
 October 07, 2015
Sustainability and creating wealth: Amekudzi-Kennedy speaks at first EPA youth symposium
 October 07, 2015
Fundamentals of Engineering exam prep goes online in new CEE-developed MOOC
 October 05, 2015
Brown joins world leaders in science and technology at STS forum
 October 02, 2015
Tien invited to Arab-American Frontiers Symposium on sensing technology and applications
 October 01, 2015

September 2015
AUDIO: Grad students start MARTA Army to improve Atlanta mass transit
 September 30, 2015
Summer travel to India leads to culture shock — just not the one Shannon Evanchec expected
 September 29, 2015
How software, sensors and mobile alerts could make one of the nation’s most dangerous industries safer
 September 25, 2015
The real deal: Bill Daniel and Jon Drysdale bring their day jobs into the classroom
 September 23, 2015
VIDEO: Fritz details impacts of Chile earthquake on CNN Chile
 September 21, 2015
Tien wins NSF funding to improve reliability of our interdependent infrastructure
 September 17, 2015
The engineer’s voice in the ‘age of humans’
 September 14, 2015
AUDIO: Arson talks fracking in Georgia on WABE
 September 10, 2015
Civil, environmental undergraduate programs remain among nation’s strongest
 September 09, 2015
Researchers develop new 'zippered' origami tubes that fold flat, deploy easily, and still hold considerable weight
 September 08, 2015

August 2015
10 years after Katrina: Lessons learned, lessons to learn
 August 26, 2015
Brodie named a Curie Fellow at the University of Nottingham for post-doctoral work
 August 26, 2015
DesRoches joins NSF’s engineering advisory committee
 August 25, 2015
Las Bambas megaproject takes two alumni high in the Andes, reshaping a remote Peruvian area
 August 20, 2015
Bates, Nadelman, Skipper win ARCS scholarships for their doctoral studies
 August 19, 2015
Four grad students win coveted Eisenhower transportation fellowships
 August 18, 2015
New approach could reduce human health impacts of electric power generation
 August 17, 2015
Atlanta’s BeltLine reshapes the city — and it started as a graduate thesis
 August 17, 2015
A new beginning: Students return for fall classes
 August 14, 2015
NSF funds $12M research network to build the healthy, sustainable, livable cities of the future
 August 11, 2015
Using nature’s roadmap: Frost helps lead new NSF center that could change the face of geotechnical engineering
 August 10, 2015
Huang’s Gwinnett County water reuse project could be a ‘game changer’ for water utilities
 August 07, 2015
10 years after Katrina, are American cities prepared for disasters?
 August 05, 2015

July 2015
Nation’s No. 2 transportation official gets up-close view of Tech researchers’ innovations
 July 27, 2015
Concrete that can clean itself or purify the air? Christian Science Monitor story highlights Kurtis’ research
 July 27, 2015
Crittenden wins Clarke Prize for contributions to water sustainability and water treatment technology
 July 20, 2015
Adriel Hsu learns to bridge cultural divides during a semester in Istanbul
 July 17, 2015
Martinez wins Golder Foundation scholarship for his work on site characterization tools
 July 16, 2015
PhD student Bradley Dolphyn studying the concrete cracks that shut down Crystal River nuclear power plant
 July 14, 2015
DesRoches honored as one of his alma mater’s most distinguished alumni
 July 09, 2015

June 2015
Experimental research writ large: Tim Wright built a whole building just to shake it apart
 June 30, 2015
Alumnus’ new book follows a Civil War surgeon on the run from Sherman’s army
 June 29, 2015
Scott, Johansen give Atlanta-area teachers concrete ways to make science, engineering exciting for their students
 June 24, 2015
Amoaning-Yankson wins AAUW fellowship
 June 16, 2015
LiveScience features DesRoches’ study about making older concrete buildings safer in earthquakes
 June 15, 2015
Cycle Atlanta wins Research of the Year award from Young Professionals in Transportation
 June 04, 2015
When Target comes to town: How a big-box retailer changed Davis, Calif.
 June 02, 2015
Pendyala expands his leadership in transportation research with two new roles
 June 02, 2015

May 2015
AUDIO: High-speed rail in Georgia? Watkins helps outline the issues on GPB Radio
 May 27, 2015
Tech researchers’ work leads to long-awaited water plan for Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin
 May 15, 2015
Webster offers advice on ‘flipping’ classes
 May 12, 2015
D.C. panel with DesRoches, May focuses on the challenges for African-American men in STEM fields
 May 11, 2015
Does better sanitation mean healthier children? A first-of-its-kind test case in Mozambique will tell us
 May 06, 2015
Unseen machines: Wang’s tiny strain sensors remotely monitor infrastructure
 May 04, 2015
Breedlove, Clough headline spring commencement ceremonies
 May 01, 2015
Georgia Tech, China partnership wins $1M to improve sustainability of China’s steel industry
 May 01, 2015

April 2015
FIRST PERSON: Life-changing letter leads Tzegaegbe to London – eventually
 April 30, 2015
Hernandez wins Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher award for his interval calculator
 April 27, 2015
Capstone Expo teams show off designs for pedestrian bridge, dining hall
 April 23, 2015
DesRoches wins ASCE award for his work on earthquake impacts on vital infrastructure
 April 16, 2015
Amekudzi-Kennedy delivers keynote speech at social sustainability conference
 April 16, 2015
Tech’s ASCE chapter hosts regional conference, shines in concrete beam competition
 April 13, 2015
13 CEE students win Women in Engineering scholarships
 April 10, 2015
2015 NSF fellowships go to Atiyya Shaw and Brittany Suttner
 April 07, 2015
Goodno, Bras among the new distinguished members of ASCE
 April 06, 2015
Engineer and artist: Glaucio Paulino plans to take risks and blur boundaries as the new Jones Chair
 April 02, 2015
Teleport or commute? Mokhtarian looks at why the answer isn’t always so clear
 April 02, 2015

March 2015
In their own words: A research trip to Bolivia changes travelers’ perspectives
 March 31, 2015
DesRoches joins National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology
 March 31, 2015
Engineering Dean Gary May wins mentoring award from President Obama
 March 31, 2015
Alumna aims to bring better planning to a busier world
 March 27, 2015
Building for earthquakes: DesRoches talks to Boss Magazine about what we’ve learned in recent decades
 March 26, 2015
Douglas County hires alumnus Teal as new administrator
 March 26, 2015
Clough tackles climate change in first Hyatt Distinguished lecture
 March 24, 2015
ICYMI: Melat Hagos’ drawing one of the best in Clough Art Crawl
 March 20, 2015
Faculty members earn Institute-wide recognition for teaching excellence, interdisciplinary research, technology use
 March 19, 2015
Civil undergrad Laura O’Connell talks with President Obama about paying for college
 March 18, 2015
Spending Spring Break among the alpacas
 March 16, 2015
Engineers and climate change: Inaugural Hyatt lecturer Wayne Clough says we must design and build for a new paradigm
 March 13, 2015
Eno Center names Grossman to its 2015 fellowship class
 March 12, 2015
US News ranks graduate environmental engineering program No. 4 in the nation, civil engineering No. 5
 March 10, 2015
Aral’s lab wins top research prize for work on Camp Lejeune contamination
 March 09, 2015
CityLab features Brakewood’s study showing real-time bus info leads to more riders
 March 09, 2015
Brandie Banner is Georgia Society of Professional Engineers’ student of the year; CEE alumni take top awards
 March 05, 2015
Slater receives Laboon award for academic, co-op excellence
 March 04, 2015
3 grad students win 2015 Sigma Xi Research Awards
 March 02, 2015

February 2015
Will the new set of global development goals make sanitation a priority? World expert and alumnus Eddy Perez makes his case
 February 27, 2015
Creative Loafing: Will synced signals improve Atlanta traffic?
 February 26, 2015
A place to learn: Alumna helps build a new future for Peruvian children
 February 25, 2015
Tellepsen wins alumni association award for service to Houston area and Georgia Tech
 February 23, 2015
Watkins weighs in on the terrible tweets of transit riders
 February 20, 2015
The bacterial influence on clouds and weather: New York Times Magazine and BBC talk airborne microbes with Konstantinidis
 February 19, 2015
Studying how one beach’s microbes broke down the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill could help speed up the process next time
 February 18, 2015
New minor teaches engineers how to be global leaders and problem solvers
 February 10, 2015
Fox 5: Do those interstate ramp meters in Atlanta work?
 February 05, 2015
IRF fellows vote Wang their 2015 class president
 February 04, 2015
Muhanna to deliver invited lecture at gathering of world’s experts on uncertainty modeling
 February 03, 2015

January 2015
Ugandan village has a new well and clean water, thanks to Georgia Tech students
 January 28, 2015
NSF Science Nation features DesRoches and his research finding new ways to strengthen buildings in earthquakes
 January 26, 2015
Do no harm: Andy Phelps' approach to civil engineering earns him ASCE fellowship, lifetime achievement award
 January 22, 2015
Master’s student Matthias Uhrig has one year to make his mark as a Tech triple-jumper
 January 22, 2015
Jeon makes ENR Southeast’s Top 20 under 40 list
 January 21, 2015
Paulino joins ranks of American Academy of Mechanics fellows
 January 14, 2015
After 3 decades as an engineer, entrepreneurial alumna tries a new path
 January 13, 2015
5 years, 2 degrees: Students earn BS from China’s Tongji University, MS from CEE through new hybrid program
 January 12, 2015
2 alums among Georgia’s most influential people
 January 08, 2015
Chinese Academy names Crittenden a Distinguished Scientist
 January 06, 2015

December 2014
For Aaron Bivins, Maputo trip turns sanitation data into harsh reality
 December 30, 2014
What we've learned, 10 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 250,000 people
 December 19, 2014
Shaw named an International Road Federation fellow
 December 17, 2014
Just what’s in that swimming pool water?
 December 16, 2014
Burns named one of Tech’s most effective teachers in 2014
 December 15, 2014
Hooding ceremony celebrates our newest batch of leaders and experts
 December 12, 2014
Georgia DOT names first woman as chief engineer — and she’s a Ramblin’ Wreck from CEE
 December 12, 2014
Fritz co-edits tsunami special issue of Pure and Applied Geophysics
 December 12, 2014
Canadian Geotechnical Journal says Niazi and Mayne's paper one of year's most important
 December 11, 2014
What’s discoloring the Taj Mahal? Georgia Tech scientists have figured it out
 December 10, 2014
PART 4: One piece of advice
 December 10, 2014
PART 3: To CEE or not to CEE?
 December 08, 2014
Could Florida draw power from the ocean? Christian Science Monitor highlights research by Haas, Fritz
 December 05, 2014
PART 2: Building companies versus building stuff - entrepreneurship and leadership
 December 04, 2014
PART 1: New advisory board members talk entrepreneurship, leadership and getting the most out of your degree
 December 02, 2014
Computational tools will help identify microbes in complex environmental samples
 December 02, 2014

November 2014
A summer in Europe changes Alex Zickar’s perspective
 November 26, 2014
FLASHBACK: From civil engineering to shrimp farming
 November 25, 2014
Frost elected to board of the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
 November 24, 2014
Wayne Clough to deliver first Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Lecture
 November 21, 2014
Four Tech grads from four different countries reunite in Atlanta for the first time in 50 years
 November 19, 2014
Scholarship sends Tindall to Austria this spring to continue his dissertation research
 November 18, 2014
CEE awards honor top teachers, researchers, staff
 November 14, 2014
Ga. senator outlines state's transportation funding challenges, possible solutions
 November 13, 2014
PhD student Berrebi collects another award for his work to improve bus transit
 November 10, 2014
TR News profiles Mokhtarian
 November 10, 2014
Huang wins 2014 North American Chemist Award
 November 07, 2014
Emeritus professor Samuel Martin wins ASME paper award
 November 05, 2014
Michigan CEE honors Crittenden with merit award
 November 04, 2014
Brown delivers keynote on water infrastructure and public health
 November 03, 2014

October 2014
How a combo of vinegar and citrus fruit oil could help Georgia Tech reduce herbicide use
 October 30, 2014
Duke Energy taps Burns for national coal-ash advisory panel
 October 28, 2014
Bras, Baker talk technology and higher ed at New York media roundtable
 October 24, 2014
National Academies picks Brown for prestigious Arab-American Frontiers program
 October 22, 2014
Akofio-Sowah wins WTS-Atlanta Leadership Legacy Scholarship
 October 21, 2014
VIDEO: Retrofitting old buildings to make them earthquake safe
 October 21, 2014
Airline operational research society elects Garrow as its first female president
October 20, 2014
Russell co-authors paper on sustainable infrastructure curriculum in NAE Bridge
 October 17, 2014
Mokhtarian ‘resurrects joy of travel’ in UCLA’s Wachs Lecture
 October 16, 2014
Bruder, Golin win at Women in Clean Energy Symposium
 October 13, 2014
Tsunami expert Fritz appears on CNN Chile to talk prediction, recovery
 October 13, 2014
Tampa science museum honors Bras as Hispanic Scientist of the Year
 October 10, 2014
AJC: Hunter says driverless cars present opportunity, challenges
 October 07, 2014
EERI students shake up Roswell North third graders – and teach them a little something about structural engineering
 October 03, 2014
Awesome Atlanta helps Berrebi improve bus schedules
 October 01, 2014
Koon wins Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to water quality
 October 01, 2014

September 2014
New mass spectrometer will help Bergin, Russell figure out what’s in the air
 September 30, 2014
10(ish) questions with new faculty member Iris Tien
 September 30, 2014
Rethinking what (and how) we teach geotechnical engineers
 September 26, 2014
Poet? Engineer? In conversation with students, Richard Blanco says he's both
 September 25, 2014
Girl Scouts' camp a test bed for turning tides into electricity
 September 24, 2014
Pendyala brings big ideas as new Dickerson Chair
 September 22, 2014
VIDEO: Driverless cars in Georgia? Hunter tells lawmakers about sticky issues that lie ahead
 September 22, 2014
Crowdsourcing could lead to better water in rural India
 September 19, 2014
Tammy Hebeler wins Prakash Prize for Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering
 September 17, 2014
How Do Microbes Respond to More Acidic Oceans? NSF Funds Konstantinidis Study to Find Out
 September 15, 2014
Alumni Offer Parents Perspective, Advice at Family Weekend
 September 12, 2014
Nelsons' Gulf Terminal Project Wins Excellence Award
 September 12, 2014
Civil Program No. 2, Environmental No. 3 in U.S. News Annual Rankings
 September 09, 2014
Garrow, Kurtis Join Other Up-and-Comers at Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
 September 09, 2014
Railway Interiors Magazine Features Mokhtarian Wi-Fi Study
 September 03, 2014
Smith-Colin: Planning Better Transportation, Harvesting the Next Generation of Engineers
 September 02, 2014

August 2014
Researchers Win Top Honors for Transportation Policy Paper
 August 29, 2014
NSF Awards $2.5M to Multidisciplinary Infrastructure Research Led by CEE's Crittenden
 August 27, 2014
Survey Says: Civil, Environmental Engineers Least Likely to be Underemployed
 August 27, 2014
Lee's Paper Wins First Place at EMI Conference
 August 25, 2014
US DOT Webinar Features Mokhtarian's Commuter Multitasking Research
 August 22, 2014
Yiacoumi, Tsouris Win Energy Dept. Funding to Improve Uranium Extraction from Seawater
 August 21, 2014
CEE 'Drafts' Four from Cristo Rey Atlanta High School
 August 21, 2014
CEE Seeks Nominations for New Speaker Series
 August 18, 2014
CEE Welcomes New Grad Students
 August 15, 2014
New CEE Leadership Minor Focuses on Global Issues, Ethics, Problem-Solving
 August 11, 2014
Vargas Attends Veolia Summer School in Paris
 August 11, 2014
EERI Student Chapter Jumps into Top 10 at Seismic Design Competition
 August 08, 2014
Bates, Nadelman Win ARCS Scholarships
 August 06, 2014

July 2014
Villa Wins Inaugural Wysockey Scholarship from Deep Foundations Institute
 July 30, 2014
How Small, Cheap, Solar-Powered Sensors Could Change the Game for Bridge Inspections
 July 28, 2014
Cho, Walker Studying Smart Structures at Taiwan Summer School
 July 21, 2014
Inaugural Buchberg Scholar a Tribute to a Well-Rounded Life
 July 17, 2014
Paul, Rashidi Win American Ceramics Society Poster Award
 July 16, 2014
Fall Course will be Vanguard of Sustainable Transportation Curriculum
 July 15, 2014
'Earthquake' Rattles CEE Research Structure
 July 11, 2014
Researchers Travel to the Bottom of the World to Find the Bottom of the Food Chain
 July 10, 2014
Salt Rock and Underground Storage: Studying Damage, Healing in a ‘Magic’ Rock
 July 08, 2014
VIDEO: Watch Santamarina’s Terzaghi Lecture
 July 07, 2014

June 2014
ACI Foundation Awards Baker Student Fellowship to CEE's Remolina
 June 30, 2014
Clark Family’s Tampa Steel Erecting Helping ‘Fix the Mix’ in Dallas
 June 24, 2014
Engineering Education Group Recognizes CEE Researchers
 June 24, 2014
Amekudzi Kennedy, Mulholland Named CEE Associate Chairs
 June 20, 2014
Rising Grad Student Pierre Receives Hearst Fellowship
 June 20, 2014
Georgakakos Speaks on Water and Conflict in Sudan
 June 19, 2014
CEE Alumna Joins Georgia Tech’s Women in Engineering Roundtable in DC
 June 17, 2014
Fraternity Brothers in Arms: Sandy Winnefeld and Phil Breedlove Reminisce About Their Days at Tech
 June 16, 2014
AJC: Plans Grow for Atlanta’s Ga. 400-Interstate 285 Interchange
 June 16, 2014
Transportation, Clean Water Films Among 1st Round Contest Winners
 June 12, 2014
Ethics Laboratory Pilot Case Study Will Focus on Hydraulic Fracturing
 June 10, 2014
FHWA Picks 5 CEE Students for Selective Eisenhower Fellowships
 June 09, 2014
Southworth Lectures at China's Oldest University
 June 09, 2014
Crittenden Among Few Nonnatives to Join Chinese Engineering Academy
 June 05, 2014
Commute Warrior: How Your Commute Can Shape Atlanta's Transportation Future
 June 04, 2014
Olmsted Symposium Focuses on Making Our Cities More Sustainable
 June 02, 2014

May 2014
French Students Study With CEE This Summer
 May 30, 2014
AJC: How Do Young People Move Around Atlanta? CEE Grad Student Shares His Answer
 May 29, 2014
Friberg Wins Air & Waste Management Assoc. Scholarship
 May 27, 2014
Governor Appoints CEE Alumnus to Board of Regents
 May 22, 2014
16 CEEatGT Students Receive Women In Engineering Corporate Scholarships
 May 22, 2014
Fritz Receives Plinius Medal for Natural Hazards Research
 May 20, 2014
CEEatGT first-year PhD student Mohammad Rashidi receives Sam Nunn Security Program Fellowship
 May 15, 2014
Associate Professor Francesco Fedele asks: Rogue waves: fantascience or reality?
 May 09, 2014
Karen and John Huff School Chair and Professor Reginald DesRoches named Georgia Tech Faculty Athletics Representative
 May 08, 2014
Professor John Koon receives 2014 Women in Engineering Faculty Award
 May 07, 2014
Professor Kari Watkins featured in CoE Cares Spotlight
 May 07, 2014

April 2014
Professor and Associate Chair Kimberly Kurtis named CoE Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship
 April 24, 2014
The "flipped" classroom - drawing of an upside down school desk on a piece of notebook paper.
Flip this class: Tech professors pioneer new learning models
 April 24, 2014
CEE graduate students Miller, Moutinho, Walker selected as NSF Graduate Research Fellows
 April 22, 2014
Aliaksandr Malokin receives 2014 Gordon W. Schultz Graduate Fellowship
 April 14, 2014
Jamie M. Fischer selected for Eno Leadership Development Conference, Rodney E. Slater Award
 April 14, 2014
Reminder: 31st annual GT Alumni Career Fair, May 13, 2014
 April 10, 2014
CEE doctoral candidate Alejandro Martinez to receive International Student Leadership Award
 April 07, 2014
CEE student Lauren Dermody receives 2014 Helen Grenga Outstanding Engineer Award
 April 07, 2014
Konstantinidis to participate in nineteenth German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium
 April 03, 2014
Alumna Lanelle Ezzard named in ASCE's 2014 New Faces of Civil Engineering
 April 03, 2014

March 2014
School Chair DesRoches Testifies at Oversight Hearing on Advances in Earthquake Science
 March 27, 2014
Team Sanivation Wins 2014 InVenture Prize
 March 27, 2014
Professor Francesco Fedele: Linking ocean breaking waves to nonlinear dispersive behavior
 March 24, 2014
Georgia Tech Team Shines at ASCE Regional Conference
 March 18, 2014
CEEatGT undergraduate Jamie Clark: Women in engineering at Georgia Tech
 March 18, 2014
OneBusAway App Now Tracks MARTA Trains in Real Time
 March 18, 2014
11 CEEatGT faculty and students receive major Institute and industry awards, promotions
 March 14, 2014
USNWR nationally ranks CEEatGT Graduate Civil Engineering No. 5, Environmental No. 4
 March 14, 2014
Where can a degree from CEEatGT take you? 10 questions with Michael Wong
 March 13, 2014
CEEatGT graduate students present at the Second Annual STEM Expo
 March 06, 2014

February 2014
Professor Lawrence F. Kahn to speak at CoA symposium on London's Crystal Palace
 February 25, 2014
Santamarina to give Terzaghi Lecture, students to compete at ASCE Geo-Congress
 February 14, 2014
Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems appoints three new professors
 February 14, 2014
Intergraph® Acquires GT STRUDL® from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation
 February 10, 2014
CoE Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor Laurence Jacobs named ASME Fellow
 February 07, 2014
CEE doctoral student Peizhe Sun receives ACS Graduate Student Award
 February 07, 2014
CEE alumni, faculty collaborate on self-healing concrete measurement research featured in NDT&E International
 February 05, 2014
School Chair Reginald DesRoches appointed to newly-formed National Academies Roundtable on risk, resilient, and extreme events
 February 05, 2014

January 2014
Assistant professor Kari Watkins' OneBusAway app featured in The Atlantic Cities post
 January 23, 2014
CEE alumnus Ken Whisenhunt named Tennessee Titans head football coach
 January 22, 2014
Konstantinidis studies how soil microbes alter DNA in response to warming
 January 22, 2014
Crittenden to host lecture on "Gigaton Problems" January 16 in Klaus Building
 January 15, 2014
CEE welcomes new faculty member Joe Brown
 January 13, 2014
NCTSPM releases annual report; will present at TRB meeting, host UTC conference
 January 10, 2014
Alumnus' global vision for clean water featured on CNN Money/Fortune, in Georgia Tech Engineers magazine
 January 09, 2014
CEE launches foreCAST student video initiative
 January 06, 2014
Emeritus EAB member Douglas Hooker, Institute President named to Georgia Trend’s "100 Most Influential Georgians"
 January 06, 2014

December 2013
Pat Mokhtarian: Taking a closer look at travel behavior
 December 11, 2013
Ulysses Grady: Reaping the rewards of hard work
 December 11, 2013
Tabitha Turner: From hoops to highways — and beyond
 December 10, 2013
Celebrating excellence at CEE
 December 07, 2013
World renowned civil engineer Santiago Calatrava to visit Georgia Tech on Dec. 13
 December 06, 2013

November 2013
Three CEE graduate students receive ARCS scholarships
 November 21, 2013
Bill Higginbotham: Grinding out a polished career
 November 21, 2013
CEE adds new endowed chair to faculty
 November 18, 2013
Reaching out to the next generation of earthquake engineers
 November 16, 2013
Water Wars in the Southeast is the topic of AEES discussion, Nov. 20
 November 14, 2013
CEE's Dr. Phil Roberts gives keynote at KAUST workshop
 November 14, 2013
CEE and NEES researchers: Retrofitting buildings to survive earthquakes
 November 11, 2013
CEE's Dr. Lawrence Kahn recognized by the American Concrete Institute
 November 08, 2013
CEE 2013 EAB meeting celebrates the Mason Building -- and a Jackets win
 November 08, 2013
CEE's sidewalk inventory team recognized by local group
 November 06, 2013
Dr. Susan E. Burns nominated to fill Georgia Power Company Distinguished Professorship
 November 01, 2013
Kim Sanders: Civil engineering just felt right
 November 01, 2013

October 2013
Yong K. Cho: Threre's a robot for that
 October 31, 2013
Dr. John Koon inducted into Academy of Distinguished Alumni
 October 29, 2013
CEE welcomes five alumni to External Advisory Board
 October 29, 2013
AEESP Lecture to be given at Georgia Tech, October 30
 October 24, 2013
Heather Hill: Civil engineering education for a high-tech career
 October 24, 2013
Sam Gil MSCE '13: Finding the answers as a forensic engineer
 October 21, 2013
Lauren Stewart: Blast expert joins CEE faculty
 October 20, 2013
CEE's Dr. Ted Russell contributes expertise to International Agency for Research on Cancer
 October 18, 2013
Dr. Hermann Fritz to receive the Plinius Medal from the European Geosciences Union
 October 15, 2013
AEES-GT goes to Chicago WEF conference
 October 11, 2013
Fuel journal to publish paper co-authored by CEE's Nortey Yeboah
 October 11, 2013
Swimming pattern of tiny marine mollusk holds promise for researchers
 October 08, 2013
CEE alumnus John Huff elected to the National Academy of Engineering
 October 06, 2013
Georgia Tech's EWB chapter hosts Southeast Conference
 October 06, 2013
Fangzhou Liu chosen to study at elite LARAM school
 October 05, 2013

September 2013
GT graduate students recognized by national organization
 September 27, 2013
Jackets fans flock to the Mason Building
 September 27, 2013
Diesel or electric? GT researchers review the data
 September 25, 2013
CEE researchers to join National Center for Sustainable Transportation
 September 24, 2013
Harvesting the ocean's energy
 September 24, 2013
Mike Bergin: No excuses
 September 20, 2013
David Friedman gives EERI members a closer look at the Berkeley Stadium
 September 20, 2013
Laura Redmond: Making buildings stronger
 September 20, 2013
Georgia Tech Chapter of ASCE hosts Regional and National Leaders
 September 13, 2013
CEE's Dr. Kari E. Watkins recognized by Mass Transit Magazine
 September 12, 2013
Georgia Board of Regents appoints CEE's Armistead Russell to Regents Professorship
 September 11, 2013
Andrew Loo: Engineering a better world
 September 11, 2013
Civil and environmental engineering programs at Georgia Tech ranked #3 nationally
 September 10, 2013
Dr. DesRoches speaks at international conference on resiliency
 September 05, 2013
CEE emeritus professor is honored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers
 September 05, 2013
Heidi Vreeland: In search of the next challenge
 September 05, 2013
CEE to host AISC's 2013 TR Higgins Lecturer, William F. Baker
 September 02, 2013

August 2013
Mundy Scholar Graham Belton will continue his world travels as an engineer
 August 25, 2013
CEE welcomes Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian
 August 23, 2013
CEE welcomes Dr. Lauren Stewart
 August 21, 2013
Welcome back to Yong-Kwon Cho, MSCE '97
 August 21, 2013
Dr. James K. Mitchell gives geotechnical engineering students some things to ponder
 August 15, 2013
CEE doctoral student Fawad S. Niazi recognized by ASCE, DFI
 August 08, 2013

July 2013
Dr. Kimberly E. Kurtis to give keynote at EMI conference
 July 29, 2013
Research collaboration with ENPC producing results
 July 29, 2013
NCTSPM summer camp sparks curiosity of future engineers
 July 25, 2013
Dr. Laurie Garrow: Using big data to analyze a big issue
 July 16, 2013
Jamie Clark: CEE ambassador and more
 July 11, 2013
CEE doctoral student Elizabeth Nadelman recognized for scholarship
 July 11, 2013
Tackling the state of our aging sidewalks
 July 01, 2013

June 2013
Dr. James Tsai gives featured talk at China's ChangAn University
 June 28, 2013
Victor Miller: Environmental engineering is just the ticket
 June 26, 2013
Dr. Kimberly E. Kurtis is named to associate chair for graduate programs position
 June 25, 2013
Dr. Susan Burns named to associate chair for undergraduate programs
 June 25, 2013
Six CEE students receive $131,500 from the Eisenhower Fellowship program
 June 19, 2013
SERES announces June 30 abstract deadline for Regional Energy Symposium
 June 18, 2013
CEE doctoral student Josie Kressner receives top award from GMU
 June 18, 2013
Dr. Larry Jacobs to deliver a keynote at QNDE Conference
June 14, 2013
Don Webster named Associate Chair for Finance and Administration
 June 14, 2013
Dr. Reginald DesRoches featured in UCLA's Distinguished Lecture Series
June 06, 2013
CEE's Dr. Chloe Arson collaborating with colleagues in Alaska
 June 06, 2013
CEE welcomes Fulbright Scholar from Uzbekistan
 June 06, 2013
Environmental Leadership Award goes to a CEE researcher
 June 06, 2013
Smart skin technology pioneered by Georgia Tech
 June 04, 2013

May 2013
Packing up the Steel Bridge: CE to compete in Seattle
 May 23, 2013
Jimmy Mitchell, '05: What a viola can teach an engineer
 May 23, 2013
Mundy Global Learning Endowment is ready to send more students packing
 May 22, 2013
Dr. Lawrence Kahn completes work on crucial repair code
 May 16, 2013
Four careers and counting: Wilson 'Lee' Presley, CE '79
 May 15, 2013
Three students benefit from ConeTec Education Foundation scholarships
 May 13, 2013
CEE bids adieu to 2013 graduates
 May 06, 2013
General Philip Breedlove, CE '77, inducted into CoE Academy
 May 06, 2013
Planes, trains, and job interviews: one student's story
 May 03, 2013
16th Annual Sowers Symposium looks at issues in geotechnical engineering, May 7
 May 02, 2013
Charles Nelson, CE '70, receives top engineering management award
 May 02, 2013

April 2013
Like Disneyland for engineers: CEE alums visit the Bay Bridge
 April 30, 2013
CEE celebrates the best, the brightest, the graduates
 April 30, 2013
Two CEE graduate students chosen for leadership conference
 April 23, 2013
CEE doctoral student Lakshmi Peesapati receives prestigous award from TRB
 April 18, 2013
NCTSPM asks: Why take the summer off when science is this fun?
 April 18, 2013
Five CEE students recognized at Student Honors Luncheon
 April 18, 2013
AEES Symposium competes with Final Four - and wins
 April 11, 2013
Bryan Landry: CEE Development Director
 April 11, 2013
Nicaragua is the classroom for Dr. Jaehong Kim's environmental engineers
 April 10, 2013
Georgia Tech's Steel Bridge is going to Nationals
 April 09, 2013
Georgia Tech Steel Bridge is ready to compete
 April 03, 2013
More than 20 EnvE students to showcase their research, Friday, April 5 at AEES Symposium
 April 02, 2013

March 2013
CEE alumnus Philip Breedlove nominated to NATO post
 March 29, 2013
Four CEE faculty promoted to associate and full professor ranks
 March 27, 2013
Birdel Jackson: civil engineering is all relative
 March 25, 2013
GT/ASCE chapter gets ready to launch concrete canoe
 March 24, 2013
Dr. Bruce Ellingwood named Alumnus of the Year by University of Illinois
 March 22, 2013
Dr. James McCalpin to speak about slope stability at ski areas, March 26
 March 13, 2013
Dr. Terry W. Sturm tapped for the prestigious hydraulic engineering award
 March 12, 2013

February 2013
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Journal highlights Dr. Donald Webster's work
 February 27, 2013
Dr. John Abraham to speak about PECAS land use and transportation modeling, March 7
 February 27, 2013
Sustainability guides the newest addition to the Mason Building Renovation Project
 February 27, 2013
Dr. Susan Burns is now a Fellow
 February 20, 2013
Jim Case named Engineer of the Year by Georgia Engineering Alliance
 February 20, 2013
Building that Georgia Tech students built is auctioned off, endures earthquake
 February 14, 2013
Dr. Carlos Santamarina continues research on gas hydrates in Japan
 February 13, 2013
Dr. Alexandre Bayen to speak about smart phones, Nash-Stackelberg games, and traffic management
 February 13, 2013
Georgia Tech sends engineering team to earthquake competition
 February 12, 2013
ASCE students reach out to the Atlanta Community
 February 08, 2013
Abe Adewale, CE '88, named Engineer of the Year
 February 07, 2013
Nicole Caruso receives Hazardous Materials Professional scholarship
 February 06, 2013
Alejandro Martinez recognized by Anchor QEA
 February 06, 2013
February 9 Transportation Camp to look at region's transit issues
 February 05, 2013
Sustainable Water Purification is the topic of special seminar, Feb. 8
 February 04, 2013

January 2013
International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management recognizes CEE doctoral student
 January 30, 2013
Speed Networking event still has openings
 January 28, 2013
FEMA and CEE collaborate on week-long conference
 January 28, 2013
Dr. Paul Mayne elected as vice president of ISSMGE
 January 23, 2013
Dr. Susan E. Burns recognized by Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
 January 23, 2013
Transportation Research Board taps CEE students for Honorable Mention
 January 23, 2013
Dr. Frank Southworth to serve on ATRI Research Advisory Committee
 January 15, 2013
From the Motor City to CycleAtlanta: Dr. Kari (Edison) Watkins' journey
 January 10, 2013
Dr. Jaehong Kim publishes critical research in JACS
 January 07, 2013
John H. Koon named Water Environment Federation Fellow
 January 03, 2013

December 2012
EWB sets off for Uganda, sets agenda for 2013
 December 18, 2012
EWB sets off for Uganda, sets agenda for 2013
 December 18, 2012
Aaron Costin using NSF grant to track buildings
 December 14, 2012
Putting concrete to the test: Mitchell McKay
 December 11, 2012

November 2012
CEE's Konstantinidis to head up $1.8 million NSF research grant
 November 26, 2012
CEE's Jacob Tzegaegbe is named a Marshall Scholar
 November 21, 2012
CEE and Engineers Without Borders Present 2012 Showcase on Nov. 26
 November 18, 2012
Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Seminar
November 16, 2012
Amanda Wall recognized for transportation policy work
 November 13, 2012
Former GT President Wayne Clough (CE '64) elevated to Chi Epsilon’s National Honor status
November 09, 2012
Faculty-Student Social: Shooting pool, shooting the breeze
 November 08, 2012
CE major Michael Kuku recognized for worksite safety poster
 November 08, 2012
Dr. Francesco Fedele receives ASME Best Paper Award for wave research
 November 02, 2012

October 2012
Dr. Kimberly E. Kurtis recognized with ACI award
 October 29, 2012
Real-world advice from John Huff, CE '68
 October 16, 2012

September 2012
John C. Crittenden, Ph.D. to Serve on EPA Science Advisory Board
 September 26, 2012
CEE Welcomes Alumni Panelists & Guests to Family Weekend
 September 21, 2012
School Chair Reginald DesRoches Meets with CEE Grads & Undergrads
 September 10, 2012

August 2012
Assistant Professor Kostas Konstantinidisis awarded The Carlton S. Wilder Junior Faculty Professorship
August 25, 2012

July 2012
Kurtis Named ADVANCE Professor in the College of Engineering
 July 04, 2012

June 2012
Assimaki Earns 2012 Shamsher Prakash Research Award
June 28, 2012
The Cold, Hard Facts About Brandon Strellis
 June 05, 2012
Georgia Section Welcomes Dr. Reginald DesRoches
 June 04, 2012
Mayne Earns 2011 Top Downloaded Paper in Geomechanics and Geoengineering International Journal
 June 04, 2012
Breedlove, CE 1977, tapped to replace Welsh as USAFE commander
 June 04, 2012

May 2012
Most Cited Ocean Engineering Article since 2007
 May 14, 2012
CEE Celebrates its 2012 Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony Winners
May 14, 2012
Jaehong Kim Appointed to the Georgia Power Distinguished Professorship*
 May 14, 2012
CEE Announces Glenn Rix as Associate Chair for Finance and Administration
 May 14, 2012

April 2012
Videogrammetric Roof Surveying: As-Built Dimensions of Roof Planes for Rapid, On-site Digital Fabrication of Sheet Metal Roof Panels
April 16, 2012
Fiatech Honors Significant Advancements in Engineering and Technology
 April 16, 2012
Why Indian Ocean Earthquake Did Not Trigger A Tsunami: GT Expert Hermann Fritz Weighs In
 April 12, 2012
Dean May Announces New School Chair for Civil and Environmental Engineering
 April 06, 2012
New School Chair Named for Civil and Environmental Engineering
 April 06, 2012
Seismic Resistance: Model Analyzes Shape-Memory Alloys for Use in Earthquake-Resistant Structures
 April 03, 2012

March 2012
WORLD WATER DAY @ GT -- FRIDAY MARCH 30th (10am - 2pm)
 March 29, 2012
Konstantinidis Receives 2012 Georgia Tech Sigma XI Young Faculty Award
March 23, 2012
Civil Engineering Alum Keith Golden Named GDOT Commissioner
 March 23, 2012
Goodno Named Inaugural Fellow of ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute
 March 04, 2012

February 2012
Georgia Engineering Alliance Recognizes Its 2012 Engineers of the Year
 February 27, 2012
NSF CAREER Award to Dr. Yang Wang
 February 27, 2012
In Memoriam: Dr. Ivan Viest
February 15, 2012
Jazalyn Dukes named winner of EERI's Graduate Student Paper Competition
February 15, 2012
Caribbean Hazard Assessment Mitigation and Preparedness (CHAMP) center initiates research in Puerto Rico
 February 15, 2012
Engineering Dean Gary May Speaks at White House Ceremony
 February 14, 2012
Harvesting Photons To Kill Microbes: ES&T’s Top Environmental Technology Article 2011
 February 10, 2012

January 2012
Caribbean Hazard Assessment, Mitigation, and Preparedness (CHAMP)
 January 24, 2012
GT STRUDL
 January 24, 2012
Amekudzi Co-authors Systems Engineering Textbook
 January 24, 2012
Engineers Without Borders-GT: Water Distribution Project
January 24, 2012
Georgia Tech Selected as Location for National University Transportation Center
 January 20, 2012
40th Annual Dean Griffin Pi Mile 5k Road Race (and T-Shrit Design Contest)
 January 18, 2012
Amekudzi Named 2012 Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow
 January 17, 2012
Coming Home: CEE returns to the Mason Building
 January 14, 2012
From Videogrammetry to Real-Time Roof Dimensions
 January 11, 2012
AEES Symposium Poster Competition--Abstract Deadline March 5, 2012
 January 11, 2012
GTSTRUDL helps make the season bright in São Paulo, Brazil
 January 10, 2012
GTI UTC Luncheon Seminar: "Network Structure and Travel Behavior" with Dr. David Levinson
 January 10, 2012
GT first lady Val Peterson lauds the efforts of Red Fields to Green Fields initiative
 January 10, 2012
CEE to host 2011 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer Richard G. Luthy on January 17
 January 10, 2012
CEE Assistant Professor Kari Watkins invited to NAE Frontiers of Engineering program
 January 10, 2012
CEE's CASE Center recognized at GTRC 75th Anniversary Celebration
 January 01, 2012
New Transit Option on Campus is Catching On
 January 01, 2012

December 2011
Garrow Elected Vice President of AGIFORS
 December 31, 2011
Happy Holidays from CEE
 December 15, 2011
Professor Michael Meyer considers per-mile road tax on CNN
 December 12, 2011
Watkins receives Council of University Transportation Centers' Wootan Award
 December 12, 2011
CEE alumnus and Clemson Professor Jennifer Ogle recognized by President Obama
 December 12, 2011

November 2011
Update on Georgia Tech's Sanivation Team via Andrew Foote
 November 30, 2011
CEE graduate student Feng Li selected as International Road Federation (IRF) Executive Fellow
 November 30, 2011
CEE student Fawad Niazi wins SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Award
 November 30, 2011
Drexel University Names Joeseph B. Hughes as its New Dean of Engineering
 November 29, 2011
CEE Website wins Institute's Gold Tower Award
 November 18, 2011
J. David Frost Named Fellow by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
 November 15, 2011
Regents Approve College Completion Plan
 November 09, 2011

October 2011
CEE professors and former PhD student receive American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) paper award
 October 31, 2011
American Ceramic Society names Professor Kimberly Kurtis among its 2011 Class of Fellows
 October 18, 2011
Capital Projects Industry Celebrates Engineering & Technology Innovations – 2011 Recipients
 October 13, 2011
Georgia Tech Clean Energy Speaker Series Hydraulic Fracturing's Role in Natural Gas Development
 October 13, 2011

September 2011
CEE Doctoral Student Eun Cha Earns CERRA Recognition Award
 September 29, 2011
Collaborative Research Initiative Receives $14.4M to Study Gulf Oil Spills
September 27, 2011
President Obama Names CEE Alumnae Gayle Hagler Outstanding Early-Career Scientist
 September 26, 2011
Georgia Tech Dedicates G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
 September 26, 2011
Donald Katz Receives $10,000 Research Stipend from Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues
 September 26, 2011
Roger Mock awarded AISC/Southern Association of Steel Fabricators fellowship
 September 26, 2011
CEE Student receives Deep Foundations Institute Education Trust 2011 Student Paper Competition
 September 26, 2011
Laboratory for Smart Structural Systems Recognized at IWSHM
 September 26, 2011
CEE's undergrad programs ranked #3 in the nation with EnvE moving up 2 spots from 2011
 September 13, 2011
Digital Building Lab is More than a Technology Think Tank
 September 13, 2011
Abdollah Shafieezadeh Named 2011-12 Sam Nunn Post-doctoral Fellow
 September 01, 2011

August 2011
In Memoriam: Laura Bunte Tucker
 August 29, 2011
Provost Initiates Transition at Georgia Tech-Savannah
August 24, 2011
Georgia Tech Freshman Class Continues Diversity Trend
 August 24, 2011
Karthik Ramanathan awarded Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning's "Thank a Teacher" award
 August 23, 2011
ISC Consulting Engineering A/S contributes to CASE Center GTSTRUDL
 August 22, 2011
Tekla participates in BIM class, awarding students for classroom research
 August 22, 2011
Wireless, Battery-free Strain/Crack Sensors
 August 22, 2011
Pile Foundations on Soft Soils
 August 22, 2011
Huge Potential in Earth’s Smallest Organisms
 August 22, 2011
The Deepwater Horizon Blowout
 August 22, 2011
National Science Foundation funds interdisciplinary research in geosciences and computer vision
 August 08, 2011
Fluor supports Women in Engineering through college outreach
 August 08, 2011
Interdisciplinary research in oceanography and computer vision awarded international scholarship
 August 08, 2011
Georgia Tech Receives Top Recognition from Princeton Review
 August 03, 2011
National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium Names DesRoches 2011 Alumnus of the Year
 August 02, 2011

July 2011
Professor Reginald DesRoches Named Dean’s Professor
 July 30, 2011
Nortek Vectors Used to Study Turbulent Flow Effects on Odor-Mediated Interactions
July 27, 2011
"Red Fields to Green Fields" Plans Revealed for Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Hilton Head Island
 July 27, 2011
Solar Sanitation System Awarded $40,000 in Startup Chile Funding
 July 27, 2011
Pavlostathis Named 2011 Fellow, Water Environment Federation
 July 15, 2011
Student Honors Program Recognizes CEE Students
 July 08, 2011
CEE Professor Kimberly Kurtis Named ACerS Fellow
 July 08, 2011

June 2011
Aral, Guan Earn 2011 J. James R. Croes Medal
 June 16, 2011
Ilker Telci receives Hydro Research Foundation Fellowship
 June 14, 2011
GT's ASCE Student Chapter Completes an Impressive 2011 Season
 June 08, 2011
Laval Earns NSF CAREER Award
 June 07, 2011

May 2011
Ph.D. student Chris Shearer receives 2011 World of Coal Ash Conference Student Presentation Award
 May 17, 2011
Georgakakos Appointed to National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee (NCADAC)
 May 02, 2011
How Physical Processes Influence Odor-mediated Interactions in Natural Environments
 May 02, 2011
Andrea Be Recognized at 2011 Faculty/Staff Honors
 May 02, 2011
Record Eight Students in CEE Earn Eisenhower Awards
 May 02, 2011

April 2011
Robert Moser Wins 2nd Place at NACE's CORROSION 2011 Poster Competition
 April 27, 2011
Ph.D. student Chris Shearer Invited to NSF 2011 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute in Australia
 April 26, 2011
CEE Remembers Richard S. Fountain, BSCE 1950
 April 26, 2011
Five Civil Engineering Graduate Students Earn Prestigious NSF Scholarships, Three Earn Honorable Mentions
 April 26, 2011
Engineers Without Borders Earns Accolades, Fundraises for Cameroon
April 25, 2011
New Director of Women in Engineering Named
 April 25, 2011

March 2011
Moving Up the Food Chain
 March 24, 2011
CEE alumnae Jamie Padgett wins 2011 NSF CAREER award
 March 23, 2011
Georgia Tech maintains excellent graduate programs in 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings
 March 23, 2011
Authors of 'Black Faces in White Places' speak to GT campus
 March 23, 2011
CEE graduate Bassem Andrawes earns NSF CAREER award
March 23, 2011
2011 Open Minds competition-CEE student team project: Sustainable Solar Sanitation System
 March 23, 2011
Ph.D. student Wen Zhang earns 2011 Simon Karecki award
 March 23, 2011
CEE graduate student Josie Kressner wins national WTS scholarship
 March 08, 2011
RITA Administrator Peter H. Appel to present in CEE on Driver Safety Behavior
 March 08, 2011
Graduate students Katz and Luken named 2011 Eno Fellows
 March 08, 2011
EPA Awards Clean Air Research Center Grant to Emory and Georgia Tech
 March 08, 2011
CEE Professor Roberto Leon in Christchurch when earthquake struck
 March 07, 2011
Andrea Be selected to receive 2011 GT Outstanding Staff Award
 March 04, 2011
NSF-sponsored GEER team documents impacts of M=6.3 New Zealand Earthquake
 March 03, 2011
Oxer Appointed to Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
 March 02, 2011
Huang wins 2011 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
 March 02, 2011
Hughes named 2011 Engineer of the Year in Education
 March 01, 2011

February 2011
GT researchers develop new technique to recycle rubble in Haiti
 February 09, 2011

January 2011
Structural engineering student Ben Cohen awarded Simpson Strong-Tie Scholarship
 January 29, 2011
IN THE NEWS: "Sometimes money does grow on trees" by Michael G. Messner for the Washington Post
 January 29, 2011
Govenor Appoints Huling to Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
 January 27, 2011

December 2010
Pavlostathis Named Fellow, International Water Association
 December 13, 2010
AISC Honors Dr. Roberto Leon with 2011 Special Achievement Award
 December 10, 2010
DesRoches Honored as Subaru Professor of Excellence
December 10, 2010
Brilakis Appointed to the Governing Board of the Atlanta Chapter of the ACE Mentor Program
 December 10, 2010

November 2010
In Memoriam: Robert Bernstein
 November 10, 2010
DesRoches Testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Lessons Learned from Recent Earthquakes
 November 01, 2010

October 2010
Plan to convert Atlanta's 'Redfields to Green Fields', gaining momentum
 October 22, 2010
IN THE NEWS: In Studying Haiti, a New Angle on an Earthquake’s Intensity
 October 21, 2010
Willis Research Network expands with 10 new American universities and science institutions
 October 21, 2010
CEE grad students present renewable energy research at 2010 AIA Georgia conference
 October 20, 2010
Roger Mock awarded 2010-11 AISC scholarship
 October 19, 2010
Brilakis Earns ASCE Associate Editor Award
 October 19, 2010

September 2010
Professor Mustafa Aral named Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
 September 28, 2010
IN THE NEWS: Modeling traffic flows - Making headway in understanding traffic congestion
 September 27, 2010
IN THE NEWS: Nanoparticles Disrupt Human Cell Line
 September 27, 2010
CEE Grad Student Completes Summer Program in Earth System Science offered by NASA
 September 27, 2010
Italy's Tallest Tower Uses GT STRUDL for Critical Structural Analysis and Simulations
 September 21, 2010
CEE Graduate Justin Ocel Receives 2010 Robert J. Dexter Memorial Lecture
 September 20, 2010
Karademir Receives Geosynthetic Institute Fellowship
 September 16, 2010
UTC/GTI Announces 2010 Fall Seminar Luncheon Series
 September 16, 2010
Designing New Materials to Kill Germs
 September 16, 2010
Two Georgia Tech Students Named Department of Energy Graduate Fellows
 September 16, 2010
Tracking Construction Site Resources with Machine Vision
 September 03, 2010

July 2010
IN THE NEWS: Haiti's Eternal Weight
 July 14, 2010
IN THE NEWS: Startup's Oil-Hungry Bugs
 July 14, 2010
Dr. Rafael Bras Named Georgia Tech Provost
 July 14, 2010
Lu and Frost Receive Geo-Shanghai International Conference Best Paper Award
 July 14, 2010
Professor Tsai Named Chinese Chang Jiang Scholar
 July 14, 2010
GTRI Reinitiates Fellows Program
 July 14, 2010
Jankovsky Named 2010 Outstanding Sophomore at Georgia Tech
 July 14, 2010
Water Quality, Exposure and Health
 July 13, 2010
Brandon Strellis' Research Internship in Norway
 July 12, 2010
Modeling Consumer Searching/Purchasing Behaviors Within the Airline Industry
 July 12, 2010
Productive Reuse of Byproducts from Biofuel Energy Generation
 July 12, 2010
Geotechnical Failures in Chile
 July 12, 2010
Tidal Streams: A Renewable Energy Source
 July 12, 2010
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 July 12, 2010

June 2010
Konstantinidis To Receive Skerman Award for Microbial Taxonomy from the WFCC
 June 07, 2010
CEE PhD Student Shearer Twice Awarded
 June 07, 2010
Teizer, Cheng, and Allread Win ASCE Construction Research Congress Best Paper
 June 07, 2010
Machine Vision-Based Damage Assessment
 June 07, 2010
Ph.D. Student Ramanathan Awarded 2010/2011 Sam Nunn Fellowship
 June 07, 2010
GT Student Chapter of ITE Earns 2 Awards
 June 07, 2010
SESARM Awards $1M Grant for Emissions and Air Quality Modeling
 June 07, 2010

May 2010
Ioannis Brilakis Wins NSF CAREER Award
 May 04, 2010

January 2010
Researchers Find Method for Recycling Rubble, Rebuilding Haiti
 January 20, 2010
Map of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mason Building, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0355
Phone: 404-894-2201
Fax: 404-894-2278