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Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Pavlostathis elected an ASCE fellow

17 May 2018

Claudio Martinez from the Dominican Republic’s Oficina Nacional de Meteorologia in Matancitas with local resident Patria, right, who took Martinez and Georgia Tech’s Hermann Fritz back to the site of a 1946 tsunami in the area. Patria remembered how high waters had reached at this palm tree, helping the team reconstruct the tsunami’s impacts more than seven decades after it happened. (Photo Courtesy: Hermann Fritz)

Eyewitness accounts fill in details of 1946 Dominican Republic tsunami

15 May 2018

Screenshot of Civil + Structural Engineer magazine's 2018 Rising Stars web page.

Alumna Weger makes Civil + Structural Engineer’s 2018 list of rising stars

14 May 2018

Rachel Brashear, a fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate, stands in front of the Van Leer Building and the under-construction Interdisciplinary Design Commons. Brashear has been working as the project's on-site engineer with Gilbane Building Company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

She started as an intern, now Rachel Brashear is helping Gilbane build Tech’s newest maker space

10 May 2018

Civil engineering students Yang Jiang, Emily Sanders and Heng Chi plus computation science and engineering student Yuyu Zhang with their first-place check after the Siemens FutureMakers Challlenge. Their concept for the hackathon at Georgia Tech combined machine learning and topology optimization to make computational design and digital manufacturing more efficient and effective. (Photo Courtesy: Glaucio Paulino)

Tech students win $140K from Siemens for machine learning, topology optimization project

08 May 2018

Sam Dennard, who graduates May 5 from Georgia Tech with a bachelor's in civil engineering and a job at Pond & Company waiting. (Photo: Rob Felt)

A dream fulfilled: Dennard got in and got out

04 May 2018

Andrew Pofahl explains to judges some of the design ideas his Delft Blauw Design team proposed for Ted Turner Drive in downtown Atlanta. Two teams of Georgia Tech students offered redesigns of the road for the Ted Turner Drive Resiliency Corridor Challenge. Delft Blauw Designs won second place in the competition. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Students offer Dutch-inspired ideas to turn Ted Turner Drive into a resilient gateway to downtown Atlanta

03 May 2018

Austin Sanders, who graduates from Georgia Tech with his bachelor's in civil engineering May 5. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Georgia-grown grads: Sanders celebrates two graduations, two degrees

02 May 2018

Amy Ingles, the Florida Bicycle Association's Professional of the Year for 2017. Ingles earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering at Georgia Tech. (Photo Courtesy: Amy Ingles)

Alumna’s work making Jacksonville more bike-friendly earns statewide honor from Florida Bicycle Association

01 May 2018

Atlanta Cypress Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the spring 2018 Capstone Design Expo. The team poses with the winning check. From right: Blane Solomon, Andrew Pofahl, Buzz, Alex Hare, and Ramiro Santana along with senior design professor John Koon. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Capstone Expo winners create a simple solution that saves drivers tons of time at I-20 and I-285 in west Atlanta

24 April 2018

Alumnus Leo Vecellio speaks after his induction into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Hall of Fame April 21. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Vecellio inducted into College of Engineering Hall of Fame, Sanivation wins inaugural Impact Award

23 April 2018

Ph.D. student Abby Francisco, who has received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

NSF awards graduate fellowship to Francisco for work helping people understand their energy use and act more sustainably

20 April 2018

Power plant smoke stacks. A new study led by Tellepsen Chair Armistead "Ted" Russell found that power plant and motor vehicle pollution regulations resulted in better air quality and fewer emergency hospital visits for Atlanta area residents for respiratory problems. (Photo Courtesy: Nick Humphries via Flickr.)

Study shows air quality and health improved in metro Atlanta after power plant and motor vehicle pollution controls

19 April 2018

Pollution regulations result in cleaner air, fewer emergency room visits for asthma and other lung diseases

Professor Paul Mayne, who will be the 2018-2019 Cross-USA Lecturer for the American Society of Civil Engineers' Geo-Institute.

Mayne to take expertise on the road as ASCE Geo-Institute Cross-USA lecturer

17 April 2018

Professor Don White, who has received a lifetime achievement award from the American Institute of Steel Construction.

Steel construction group honors White with lifetime achievement award

12 April 2018

The ASCE concrete canoe team launches their vessel for the women’s sprint race, where chapter president Caroline Stanton and conference chair Alesa Stallman placed second after winning their heat. (Photo: Vy Le)

ASCE chapter wins first place at regional conference

10 April 2018

The Living Building from the northwest, showing the building's "porch" opening to the Eco-Commons to the west. (Image Courtesy: The Miller Hull Partnership and Lord Aeck Sargent)

Teams of industry mentors, students compete in Tech Blitz to 'radically' boost Living Building construction productivity

09 April 2018

Civil engineering senior Arjun Bir and his Oasis team, center, won the $15,000 grand prize in the MIT Water Innovation Prize competition April 4. The team created a simple, inexpensive test for detecting E. coli in drinking water in India. (Photo: Andi Sutton/Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab at MIT)

Simple, low-cost E. coli test wins MIT Water Innovation Prize