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In the wake of Maria
![]() It’s mostly fallen off the front page, but Puerto Rico continues to rebuild and restore essential services after Hurricane Maria. Two of the people helping put Puerto Rico’s water infrastructure back together are Georgia Tech civil engineers. Eli Diaz and Ryan Arrieta have been working as long as 20 hours a day at the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to restore water to their more than 3 million customers. |
Documenting disaster Just days after a major earthquake shook Mexico City last year, Alejandro Martinez found himself at the site collecting important data about the disaster’s impact. Martinez, Ph.D. 2015, was part of a hand-selected team of experts who went to Mexico representing the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association.
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Cloaking Can you hide a building from a stress wave, like an earthquake or even some kind of blast or explosion? If that kind of “cloaking” were possible, it could shape how we design critical structures like nuclear power plants. Arash Yavari has started a new four-year, half-million dollar federally funded project to lay the mathematical foundations for that kind of technology.
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Feldmans' gift Amy and Jim Feldman have created a new study abroad fund for civil and environmental engineering students to help pay for non-academic experiences that enhance the students’ trips. The James Feldman Study Abroad Endowment will give one student a year $1,000 to stay longer in their destination country or maybe take extra weekend excursions.
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