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Three CEE alumni were among 30 graduates honored by the College of Engineering at the 2025 Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony in Atlanta. They were celebrated for their contributions to the engineering profession, career accomplishments, and the ways they’ve enhanced the lives of others both personally and professionally.

At the Spring 2025 Hyatt Lecture on Feb. 13, Tzegaegbe shared his decision-making framework along with stories from his life to help students as they begin their own career journeys.

Five CEE alumni and faculty were among the fifteen engineers selected to receive the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers’ annual Engineer of the Year Awards. 

CEE researchers’ analysis outlines a path to a U.S. construction market for hemp-based fibers, which are already used for clothing and biodegradable plastics.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been named the Public Sector Employer of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE). The recognition is one of the organization’s 2025 Engineer of the Year Awards.

Erin Robinson, CE 22, is one of 10 exceptional civil engineers from around the world under age 30 selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers for its 2025 class of New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional.

Someday, your drinking water could be completely free of toxic “forever chemicals.” Georgia Tech researchers, armed with a cutting-edge machine learning (ML) model, are spearheading a multi-university initiative. Their goal? To design a better membrane that efficiently removes PFAS from drinking water, a significant source of human exposure. 

Four graduate students in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been awarded this year’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships, a prestigious fellowship program under the Federal Highway Administration.  

During his time at Tech, environmental engineering student Harrison Baro has actively participated across campus in a variety of organizations.

PhD graduate Xinyi Wang has received an award for the best dissertation worldwide in the field of travel behavior. The Eric Pas Dissertation Prize is given by the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research for the best dissertation in travel behavior research each calendar year.

The Atlanta chapter of WTS awarded the Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship to Ph.D. student Caroline Muhith.

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction. Using a novel bioinformatic method for detecting gene transfer, researchers tested their hypothesis for how species emerge and are maintained. They found that bacteria evolve and form species more “sexually” than previously thought. 

Williams Family Associate Professor Iris Tien is helping coastal communities improve their resilience with the right flood-control infrastructure in the right places.

A team from Georgia Tech, including civil and environmental engineering faculty members Joe Bozeman and Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, traveled to the Penn Center on St. Helena Island in South Carolina to work towards developing targeted resilience strategies to cope with environmental disaster events.

Professor Yongsheng Chen and his team are among the Georgia Tech engineers working to reduce the environmental impact of farming while creating technologies to help farmers feed a growing world and adapt to a changing climate.

Professor Emeritus Gerald Wempner has passed away at the age of 96 following a long career in academia that included groundbreaking research and published works in theoretical and applied mechanics. 

Civil engineering student and ROTC cadet Mason Ladd will graduate from Georgia Tech this week with more than his diploma and a pair of U.S. Army second lieutenant’s bars. Ladd will also end a stellar career at Georgia Tech with the distinction of being ranked one of the top cadets among the approximately 5,000 new officers joining the branch this year. 

The U.S. Army Cadet Command ranked Ladd No. 2 among cadets being commissioned in the Fall 2024 cycle, according to Lt. Col. Bradford Morgan, commander of Georgia Tech’s Army ROTC. 

Transportation engineering graduate student Gabriel Cedraz Diniz was recognized by the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2024-25.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering celebrated its top work of the year Nov. 14 at an awards ceremony for students, faculty and staff.

Awards honored the best undergraduate and graduate student work, the most effective teachers, and remarkable research for 2024. They also recognized staff excellence and impactful service to the School.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s motto,: “People are our priority, the world is our responsibility,” was put into play close to home recently when a member of the CEE family was in need of assistance.

LaShone Simmons’ husband Earnest suffered a stroke on Labor Day, and the couple learned he would be wheelchair-bound post-rehabilitation. That meant their house would need a ramp built to be made wheelchair accessible.