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"The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues." Joe Brown and a student test environmental samples in his lab. (Photo: Gary Meek, Design: Sarah Collins)

The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues through the microscope

11 December 2017

Team J2AD Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the fall 2017 Capston Design Expo. From left, Jessie Lei, Jiyoon Oh, Austin Foo and Donald Smith accept their winnings from Buzz (yellow jacket, center). (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Project balancing economics, historic preservation, community needs wins over Capstone Design Expo judges

05 December 2017

Oloo, Uganda, community members stand with the water pump that Engineers Without Borders has helped them construct.

Engineering a better world: Students apply their knowledge through philanthropic groups

05 December 2017

Screeen capture of Governing op-ed by Kari Watkins and Cathering Nagel, "Urban Parks' Emerging Role as Transportation Infrastructure"

Watkins extols virtues of parks as transportation infrastructure in 'Governing' op-ed

28 November 2017

Ph.D. student Anirban Chatterjee, a 2018 International Road Federation Fellow.

Road Federation names Chatterjee a 2018 fellow

27 November 2017

A split-screen shot shows the very beginning and the aftermath of the Georgia Dome implosion Nov. 20, with nothing but a dust cloud remaining. (Photos: Zonglin "Jack" Li)

REPLAY: Watch the Georgia Dome implosion with structural engineer Lauren Stewart

20 November 2017

Five School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students have won Wayne Shackelford Scholarships from the Intelligent Transportation Society Georgia chapter. From left, Haobing Liu, Cibi Pranav, Lauren Gardner, Anirban Chatterjee and Zoe Turner-Yovanovitch each had to suggest smart technologies governments could use to improve urban mobility. (Photo Courtesy: ITS Georgia)

Smart mobility ideas earn Shackelford scholarships for 5 students

15 November 2017

Master's student Alana Wilson is the Student of the Year for the Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy and Health, a U.S. Department of Transportation-funded research center.

Transportation research center picks Wilson as its unanimous student of the year

13 November 2017

Five alumni joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering External Advisory Board in October: Richard Hummel, Orlando Mendez, Donald Paul, Meg Pirkle and I.J. Scott III. Each will serve six-year terms as outside counselors to the School’s leadership on everything from curriculum and student preparedness to fundraising and alumni outreach.

Desire to give back to Tech, next generation unite newest members of School’s advisory board

10 November 2017

Georgia Tech and Georgia Department of Transportation researchers have earned an award for their work to automatically detect cracks, ruts and other pavement issues on the state's highways. Their system uses lasers and artificial intelligence to also detect and catalog roadside signs. This image shows an automatically detected pavement rut modeled in 3-D. (Image: James Tsai)

National group honors research using lasers and AI to automatically assess health of highway pavement and catalog road signs

08 November 2017