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Summer abroad
 Two groups of students traveled to London and the Netherlands this summer to explore in real life the concepts and ideas they studied in the classroom. The classes are affiliated with the School’s global engineering leadership minor, fulfilling the program’s goals of giving students a global perspective, teaching them about different cultures, and exposing them to the grand engineering challenges facing the world. |
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Slowing speeders Perhaps you’ve seen the signs around the city: “Drive like your kids live here” or “Slow Down! #ATLSlowDown.” Atlanta NPR station WABE wondered if they actually work, so they visited a particularly unusual sign in Kari Watkins’ neighborhood to ask her.
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ASCE awards The American Society of Civil Engineers Georgia Section honored three members of the CEE community this month. Master’s student Maya Goldman and Associate Professor David Scott received President’s Awards for their service to the Georgia group. Master’s student Annie Blissit received the Young Civil Engineer of the Year award.
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Global Shapers Three recent alumnae will travel to Malaysia in October as part of a group of promising young professionals at engineering firm Arcadis. They’re among 100 “Arcadians” invited to be part of the Global Shapers program to create connections, share knowledge, and improve the company.
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WELCOME
Xing Xie found his passion almost by accident, but he’s pursued that serendipity, turning it into a two-pronged approach to environmental engineering that combines environmental microbiology with materials science. Xie, the new Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor, is working to clean water by killing the bad microbes and harnessing the power of useful ones.
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Sam Coogan joins the Georgia Tech faculty this fall with one foot in electrical engineering and another in civil engineering. He’s working to make sure the transportation systems of the future can accommodate all the different demands they will face, from self-driving cars to technologies we haven’t even imagined yet.
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Eric Marks joined the School 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. He said he looks forward to bringing the construction site into the classroom for his students.
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Rising star Post-doctoral researcher Neda Mohammadi will join an exclusive group of civil and environmental engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Rising Stars workshop in October. MIT invites just a handful of early career women to the gathering each year to encourage networking and help them build their careers.
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Fall at Cambridge Ph.D. student Anna Skipper has won a fellowship to spend three months this fall working on research at the University of Cambridge in England. As one of just four David Crighton Fellows for 2017, Skipper will conduct experiments for a project that focuses on the spray that develops behind a spinning disk, like a bike tire, when it splashes through water.
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GSI Fellow The Geosynthetics Institute has named Ph.D. student Rodrigo Borela one of its 2017 fellows. He joins 10 other students from around the world as this year’s fellows. He’s also just the second Georgia Tech student to receive a GSI fellowship.
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First class Ten students begin studies this fall in Georgia Tech’s new ocean science and engineering Ph.D. program. The interdisciplinary program’s first class includes three students in civil and environmental engineering who are studying ocean energy, marine robotics, and hydrodynamics.
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UNTIL NEXT TIME...
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