Five faculty members from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are part of teams selected for funding in the 2025 round of Sustainability Next Research Seed Grants.
The grants were awarded to 17 transdisciplinary research teams representing more than 50 collaborators from across Georgia Tech. The seed grant program is administered by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS). The program aims to nurture promising research areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research and to broaden and strengthen the Georgia Tech sustainability community.
The Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty on teams selected for the grants are: Assistant Professor Joe Bozeman, Assistant Professor Edvard Bruun, Assistant Professor Katherine Graham, Assistant Professor Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, and Regents' Professor Ted Russell.
Seven projects with civil and environmental engineering faculty were selected for Sustainability Next Research Seed Grants:
- Developing a Sustainable and Ethical Electric Vehicle Ecosystem Workforce for the Future Through Cross-Sector Partnerships. Principal Investigators (PI): Joe Bozeman. Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI): Jennifer Hirsch.
- Guiding Transportation With Community Action Through Research, Education, and Service (GT-CARES). PI: Rounaq Basu. Co-PIs: Ruthie Yow, Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, Rebecca Watts Hull.
- Co-optimizing Design and Coordination for Sustainable Multi-Robot Construction. PI: Edvard Bruun. Co-PI: Harish Ravichanda.
- Building a Georgia Tech Research Partnership for Community-Based Food System Resilience. PI: Johannes Milz. Co-PIs: Xin Chen, Inge Rocker, Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, Nicole Kennard.
- Are Data Centers the New Landfills? Social, Economic, and Environmental Tradeoffs. PI: Allen Hyde. Co-PIs: Josiah Hester, Cindy Lin, Nicole Kennard, Joe Bozeman, Elora Raymond, Tony Harding, Jung-Ho Lewe.
- Advancing Water Reuse Through Research, Education, and Community Partnerships in Atlanta, Georgia. PI: Katherine Graham. Co-PIs: Amanda Nolen, Yeqing Kong.
- Assessing the Accuracy and Reliability of Low-Cost Particulate Matter (PM) Sensors Across Diverse Ambient Environments. PI: Nga Lee (Sally) Ng. Co-PI: Ted Russell.