Georgia Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Among the nearly 200 teams at the spring 2015 Capstone Design Expo April 23 will be two groups from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering — the first time CEE is represented at the huge display of senior design projects from across Georgia Tech.

A dozen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students spent their Spring Break working in La Paz, Bolivia, and nearby rural communities. Traipsing around with strange apparatuses hanging around their necks or dipping graduated cylinders into lakes and under water spigots. Connecting their years of classroom study to the real world.

Second-year civil engineering student Laura O’Connell didn’t get to sit in McCamish Pavilion during President Obama’s visit to Georgia Tech last week. She had an arguably better experience.

Civil engineering undergraduate Corinna Slater has won this year’s Joe T. Laboon Award for co-op students, recognizing her academic and on-the-job excellence.