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First-year student Alex Ip.

Freshman Alex Ip selected for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps

27 February 2019

Fourth-year civil engineering student Rana Suleman accepts a scholarship from the Georgia Engineering Foundation in December. The award was one of two scholarships Rana received at the end of the year to fund his final year of undergraduate studies. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Engineering Foundation)

Rana caps year with scholarships from concrete trade group, engineering foundation

26 February 2019

Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia graphic from Engineering Georgia magazine, including headshots of many of the women on the list.

Stewart, Watkins and a baker’s dozen alumnae make list of influential women in Georgia engineering

22 February 2019

Professor and Associate Dean Kimberly Kurtis (Photo: Christopher Moore)

Kurtis receives Concrete Institute’s Anderson Medal for excellence, creativity, leadership in concrete

15 February 2019

Professor of the Practice John Koon talks teaches his Senior Design class on a recent Thursday. Koon is one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors for the nation's engineers. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Koon elected to National Academy of Engineering

08 February 2019

Ph.D. student April Gadsby stands on a bridge over a canal in the Netherlands in 2017 with a few of the country's famed windmills in the background. (Photo Courtesy: April Gadsby)

Gadsby taking her cyclist safety research to the mecca of bicycling

05 February 2019

Rendering of a two-story air-mobility hub with a landing area for four-rotor aircraft and a lower level for vehicle traffic. If the new Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility has its way, "vertiports" like this may soon be as popular as bus stops for city commuters and package transport. (Illustration: Yongmin Kim)

Making the case for urban air mobility in Atlanta

01 February 2019

Ph.D. student Jackie Knee

Marshall Commission names Jackie Knee the 2019 Marshall Sherfield Fellow

31 January 2019

Downtown Atlanta skyline with traffic on the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)

Amekudzi-Kennedy on Georgia infrastructure report card: Progress made, more to be done

30 January 2019

Screenshot of Scientific American/Knowable Magazine story, "How Humans Get in the Way of Clean Water," which features an image of a silver tap with water flowing out.

Scientific American highlights Brown’s work understanding the behavioral obstacles to getting people clean water

29 January 2019

Michael and Jenny Messner. (Photo Courtesy: The Messners)

Messners launch $5M faculty endowment challenge

25 January 2019

Assistant Professer Iris Tien sits at her desk in her Georgia Tech office. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Building a better foundation: Iris Tien accepts the challenge

23 January 2019

Video screenshot of Rudy Bonaparte delivering the Karl Terzaghi Lecture on March 8, 2018. Split screen shows Bonaparte at a podium on the right and his title slide on the left, "Geotechnical Stability of Waste Fills – Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges."

VIDEO: Watch Bonaparte’s Terzaghi Lecture

18 January 2019

Cover design for the new National Academy of Engineering report, "Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Address Grand Challenges." It features the Earth in the center with photos around the circumference of a child drinking water from a spigot, a piece of glacier breaking off, a bulldozer atop piles of trash, a city skyline, and professional-looking people gathered around a laptop.

Clough, Crittenden co-author National Academy report on grand challenges in environmental engineering

16 January 2019

Frederick R. Dickerson Chair Srinivas Peeta (Photo: Luke Xinjing Xu)

India’s top engineering college honors Peeta as distinguished alumnus

10 January 2019

Assistant Professor Emily Grubert

New faces: Grubert blends engineering, social science to help us make decisions about our infrastructure systems

03 January 2019

Winners of 2018 Eisenhower Fellowships: Ph.D. student David Ederer, Ph.D student Atiyya Shaw and master's student Andreas Wolfe.

Newest Eisenhower fellows designing better models, improving rural transit, fixing unsafe roads

20 December 2018

Karen and John Huff School Chair Donald Webster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Webster elected a sustaining fellow of international aquatic sciences society

17 December 2018

Visitors consider the artwork created by students in Francesco Fedele's Visual Arts and Geometry course at the Kai Lin Gallery Dec. 11. The drawings hung for one night at the gallery to celebrate the students' work in the class, which connected advanced geometry with art through the lenses of Einstein and Picasso.

Art and geometry: Exhibition features student art inspired by Einstein and Picasso

12 December 2018

An autonomous Waymo Chrysler Pacifica drives around Los Altos, California. (Photo Courtesy: Dllu via Wikimedia Commons)

Op-Ed: Will driverless cars make our traffic problems worse?

12 December 2018