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Civil and Environmental Engineering Programs Once Again Rank Among the Nation’s Best

09 September 2019

Top Companies on Campus for CEE Career Expo

04 September 2019

Chris Lai

New faculty: Lai’s work on turbulent flows helps us better understand coastal marshes, city microclimates

20 August 2019

Ryan Sherman

New faculty: Sherman studies steel to make old bridges safer and new ones last longer

19 August 2019

New Faculty: Leadership scholar Robert Simon joins faculty to infuse leadership theory, organizational behavior, change management into curriculum

19 August 2019

Lauren Stewart. Text: Uncommon Engineering Podcast Episode! Blast Engineering. Listen Now. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)

LISTEN: Simulating blasts in labs, Stewart leading the research

08 August 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

23 July 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

16 July 2019

Ph.D. student Shahrokh Shahi

Shahi produces best paper at fuzzy systems conference

10 July 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

08 July 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

02 July 2019

Frederick Law Olmstead John E. Taylor (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Taylor appointed associate chair of graduate programs

01 July 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

26 June 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

24 June 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

19 June 2019

Second round of Tech's Georgia Smart Communities Challenge also will work on projects in Macon and Woodstock

Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy.

Amekudzi-Kennedy elected to National Academy of Construction

18 June 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

14 June 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

11 June 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

07 June 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

27 May 2019