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Assistant Professor Iris Tien, who was one of 30 engineers from the United States invited to the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering and its Japanese counterpart. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

National Academy invites Tien to Japan-America Frontiers symposium

27 June 2018

Joe Brown, who is the new Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor in the School as of July 1. (Photo: Gary Meek)

Brown named new Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor

25 June 2018

Joe Manous, BCE 1980, the new director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources. (Photo Courtesy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Corps of Engineers appoints alumnus Manous to lead water resources institute

20 June 2018

Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Photo: Zonglin "Jack" Li)

ASCE elevates Amekudzi-Kennedy to fellow

18 June 2018

OceanVisions: Science and Engineering to enable solutions, an initiative of the Georgia Tech Ocean Science & Engineering program, the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. (Image: Emanuele Di Lorenzo)

OceanVisions initiative will foster design, research that ensures healthy oceans for future generations

13 June 2018

Georgia Tech, Scripps, Smithsonian and Stanford partner on four-pronged approach to focus ocean-related science and engineering

Georgia Smart Communities Challenge graphic with the state of Georgia and the four winning communities, Albany, Chamblee, Chatham County and Gwinnett County.

Guin helps lead connected vehicle master plan for Gwinnett, one of four inaugural Georgia Smart Communities

12 June 2018

Civil engineering undergrad Elie Cohen flexes his biceps while holding his mandolin in front of an American Ninja Warrior 2018 sign. (Photo Courtesy: NBC)

Tech undergrad competes for title of American Ninja Warrior

11 June 2018

Ph.D. student Scotty Smith, who will spend six months living in Paris next year as a Chateaubriand Fellow.

Smith Paris-bound next year as Chateaubriand Fellow

05 June 2018

Floodwaters cover Port Arthur, Texas, on August 31, 2017, following Hurricane Harvey. Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez took this photo from a South Carolina Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during rescue operations following the storm. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez, U.S. Air National Guard)

Silence to sound: Looking at Twitter posts from 2017’s Hurricane Harvey shows lack of activity can tell first responders where trouble’s brewing

24 May 2018

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's new Future Faculty Fellows: Aaron Bivins, Albert Liu, Neda Mohammadi and Saubhagya Singh Rathore.

CEE picks 4 for new class of Future Faculty Fellows

21 May 2018

Professor Spyros Pavlostathis, who has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Pavlostathis elected an ASCE fellow

17 May 2018

Claudio Martinez from the Dominican Republic’s Oficina Nacional de Meteorologia in Matancitas with local resident Patria, right, who took Martinez and Georgia Tech’s Hermann Fritz back to the site of a 1946 tsunami in the area. Patria remembered how high waters had reached at this palm tree, helping the team reconstruct the tsunami’s impacts more than seven decades after it happened. (Photo Courtesy: Hermann Fritz)

Eyewitness accounts fill in details of 1946 Dominican Republic tsunami

15 May 2018

Screenshot of Civil + Structural Engineer magazine's 2018 Rising Stars web page.

Alumna Weger makes Civil + Structural Engineer’s 2018 list of rising stars

14 May 2018

Rachel Brashear, a fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate, stands in front of the Van Leer Building and the under-construction Interdisciplinary Design Commons. Brashear has been working as the project's on-site engineer with Gilbane Building Company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

She started as an intern, now Rachel Brashear is helping Gilbane build Tech’s newest maker space

10 May 2018

Civil engineering students Yang Jiang, Emily Sanders and Heng Chi plus computation science and engineering student Yuyu Zhang with their first-place check after the Siemens FutureMakers Challlenge. Their concept for the hackathon at Georgia Tech combined machine learning and topology optimization to make computational design and digital manufacturing more efficient and effective. (Photo Courtesy: Glaucio Paulino)

Tech students win $140K from Siemens for machine learning, topology optimization project

08 May 2018

Sam Dennard, who graduates May 5 from Georgia Tech with a bachelor's in civil engineering and a job at Pond & Company waiting. (Photo: Rob Felt)

A dream fulfilled: Dennard got in and got out

04 May 2018

Andrew Pofahl explains to judges some of the design ideas his Delft Blauw Design team proposed for Ted Turner Drive in downtown Atlanta. Two teams of Georgia Tech students offered redesigns of the road for the Ted Turner Drive Resiliency Corridor Challenge. Delft Blauw Designs won second place in the competition. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Students offer Dutch-inspired ideas to turn Ted Turner Drive into a resilient gateway to downtown Atlanta

03 May 2018

Austin Sanders, who graduates from Georgia Tech with his bachelor's in civil engineering May 5. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Georgia-grown grads: Sanders celebrates two graduations, two degrees

02 May 2018

Amy Ingles, the Florida Bicycle Association's Professional of the Year for 2017. Ingles earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering at Georgia Tech. (Photo Courtesy: Amy Ingles)

Alumna’s work making Jacksonville more bike-friendly earns statewide honor from Florida Bicycle Association

01 May 2018

Atlanta Cypress Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the spring 2018 Capstone Design Expo. The team poses with the winning check. From right: Blane Solomon, Andrew Pofahl, Buzz, Alex Hare, and Ramiro Santana along with senior design professor John Koon. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Capstone Expo winners create a simple solution that saves drivers tons of time at I-20 and I-285 in west Atlanta

24 April 2018