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The sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji in Japan in August 2016. Students in the International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class that semester hiked all night to reach the top of the mountain in time for this view. (Photo: Kieron McCarthy)

Spring Break travel gives students chance to make impact, see their subject come alive

15 March 2018

Donald Webster will be the new Karen and John Huff Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective May 1. Webster has been a professor in the School since 1997 and served as a member of the leadership team since 2007.

Donald Webster named new chair of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

14 March 2018

3-D printed models of the deep-pile foundations seventh-graders from Atlanta’s Drew Charter School designed as part of a STEM outreach program through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the NSF-funded Center for Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Drew 7th-graders design, 3-D print, test bio-inspired foundations

12 March 2018

James Clark, former president and CEO of Clark Construction and founder of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation. The foundation has given Georgia Tech $15 million to create a Clark Scholars Program for students who want to study engineering. (Photo Courtesy: A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation)

Clark Foundation gives Tech $15M to expand access to engineering education

09 March 2018

Fourth-year civil engineering student Lin Htet Kyaw, who has won a national scholarship from Chi Epsilon.

Kyaw wins Chi Epsilon national scholarship, a first for Georgia Tech

07 March 2018

Inclusivity in Engineering graphic with multicolored hands reaching up. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)

Missing or invisible? Inclusivity conference is first step in NSF project to make engineering field more welcoming to LGBTQ+ professionals, students

06 March 2018

Associate Professors Yong Cho and Jingfeng Wang, who have earned tenure at Georgia Tech.

Cho and Wang earn tenure, Hunter and Konstantinidis promoted

02 March 2018

Fizza Hassan, center, stands in front of the Sensoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood. Hassan, a civil engineering master's student, traveled to the city with her classmates from an origami engineering course she took at Georgia Tech in the fall taught by Glaucio Paulino. The class visited attractions around Japan and learned about origami principles from Paulino's collaborators in the country. (Photo Courtesy: Fizza Hassan)

Week in Japan takes origami engineering class to the roots and pioneers of their subject

26 February 2018

Ph.D. student Ajay Saini, one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' O.H. Ammann Research Fellows in Structural Engineering for this year. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

ASCE picks Saini for Ammann Research Fellowship

21 February 2018

Jacqueline Quinn, an environmental engineer with NASA and a 1989 graduate of Georgia Tech, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May. (Photo Courtesy of Jacqueline Quinn)

Environmental cleanup technology for the space program earns NASA’s Quinn a spot in Inventors Hall of Fame

19 February 2018