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Four teams of student innovators vied for two $5,000 prizes in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s fifth annual Entrepreneurial Impact Competition on April 9.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s graduate programs have climbed in national rankings. In U.S. News and World Report’s 2025 list of the nation’s best engineering graduate schools, Georgia Tech’s civil engineering program is ranked No. 2 and environmental engineering is listed at No. 4.

Four finalists have been selected to pitch their innovative ideas at the fifth annual Entrepreneurial Impact Competition on April 9.

Civil engineering alumnae were integral to bringing Georgia Tech’s newest art installation, Pathway of Progress: Celebrating Georgia Tech Women, to life. The structural engineering for the installation was provided by Shear Structural, a firm co-founded by Malory Atkinson, BC 08, Holly Jeffreys, CE 96, and Karen Jenkins, M Arch 92, MS CE 93.

The Georgia Tech chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was ranked No. 2 out of 19 teams  at the 2025 ASCE Student Symposium, held March 6-8 at the University of Georgia.

CEE students and alumni participated in a multi-disciplinary project to build a pedestrian bridge using decommissioned wind turbine blades in Atlanta's Beaverbrook Park.

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.