Ph.D. Student Lara Rios won first place in the graduate oral presentation section at the national convention of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). 

As the Fall 2025 speaker for the Hyatt Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series, Kimberlie Staheli shared with students how she learned from her failures and found an unlikely path to becoming an internationally recognized expert in her field.

Five faculty members from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are part of teams selected for funding in the 2025 round of Sustainability Next Research Seed Grants.

As global competitors pull ahead, Georgia Tech experts urge focus on safety and infrastructure for advanced air mobility.

Flooding can be an existential threat, affecting everything from infrastructure to health. Georgia Tech researchers are developing solutions to monitor and forecast flooding, as well as restore ecosystems to prevent future flooding. These efforts support communities’ resilience in the face of climate change and keep the U.S. secure.

Professor James Tsai and his team have created an app that uses AI and data from a phone’s camera and sensors to calculate safe driving speeds around curves in real time.

Georgia Tech is now home to the No. 1 environmental engineering program in the nation. U.S. News and World Report has released its 2026 Best Colleges rankings, featuring Georgia Tech’s undergraduate environmental engineering at No. 1 and civil engineering at No. 2.

Professor Hermann Fritz and other experts from Georgia Tech discuss Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic landfall and how its legacy of destruction and displacement continues to challenge disaster preparedness across the U.S. 

The Center of Excellence will feature bio-environmental research to facilitate advancements in environmental health and safety.

Marking a major step forward in campus transportation, the highly anticipated campus cycle track was based on a 2019 civil engineering capstone design project.

New research just published in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows rogue waves once thought to defy ocean physics can be explained by ordinary wave patterns. Associate Professor Francesco Fedele said, “They’re just a bad day at sea."

In the latest episode of Generating Buzz, Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor Srinivas Peeta shares his expertise on how the robotaxis operated by Waymo differ from other vehicle manufacturers, how social media influences adoption of the new technology, and what comes next.

Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to begin his PhD studies in 2021. Farshid Khan followed in 2024, beginning his first semester assisting a doctoral student in the very same lab as his older brother.

Three Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni — Allison Bernard, CE 09, Shannon Evanchec, EnvE 16, and Samuel Harris, CE 12, MS CE 14 — were selected for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 2025 class of 40 under 40. 

Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system. Researchers at Georgia Tech offer solutions for not only surviving — but also benefiting from — fire.

A century-long analysis of publication data, led by CEE's Director of Collaborative Innovation Chris C. Martin, looks at the gender dynamics in a field that combines male- and female-dominated focus areas.

A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.

 For the third consecutive year, a Georgia Tech team placed first at the ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships.

When 9-year-old Trey Turnipseed III donated $3 to Roll Call, it wasn’t just a nice gesture—it was the continuation of a family legacy started by his grandfather, George Ben Turnipseed, CE 69.

Tackling civil engineering's oldest skills with 21st-century tools.