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Researchers Glaucio Paulino (left) and Ke Liu with origami structures that can be simulated in new software. (Photo: Rob Felt)

New software speeds origami structure designs

11 October 2017

"Mass Transit" Expo Daily edition for Oct. 9, 2017, featuring article by Simon Berrebi about his research with Kari Watkins and Jorge Laval on bus bunching.

‘Mass Transit’ features vehicle-dispatching research that fixed ‘bunching’ for Atlanta Streetcar, Tech’s Stinger

09 October 2017

Andy Phelps delivers the fall 2017 lecture for the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. (Photo by Zonglin "Jack" Li)

Ethics, trust, taking care of your people some of fall Hyatt speaker Andy Phelps’ key traits for leaders

03 October 2017

Fedele invited to present rogue wave research at the G7 maritime security meeting in Rome

02 October 2017

Air pollution hangs over a portion of Beijing, China. A new study by researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Minnesota, Yale University and partners in China finds that cities could cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third, significantly improving air quality and health, by adopting a series of strategies to reuse industrial waste. (Photo Courtesy: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota)

Waste reuse strategies could take a big bite out of greenhouse gas emissions in China’s cities

28 September 2017

Professor Emeritus Lawrence Kahn, who will accept the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute's Educator of the Year Award in early October. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Concrete industry group names Kahn educator of the year

28 September 2017

Associate Professor Michael Hunter explains his work with the North Avenue Smart Corridor at the ribbon-cutting event for the roadway. Hunter appeared on WABE-FM's Closer Look Sept. 26 to talk about his work on autonomous vehicles, one of the technologies that will be tested along North Avenue. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology)

On WABE, Hunter lays out challenges and research questions that will help define the autonomous-vehicle future

27 September 2017

Headphones in front of an audio mixer and laptop during a podcast recording. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Speed networking with CEE student clubs on the latest episode of Field Notes podcast

22 September 2017

The stern of the El Faro is shown on the ocean floor where it came to rest after sinking in Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. (Photo Courtesy: National Transportation Safety Board)

Fedele's rogue wave analysis supports investigation of the El Faro sinking

20 September 2017

Associate Professor Michael Hunter stands along North Avenue, the City of Atlanta's new "smart corridor." Along with the city, the Georgia Department of Transportation and other partners, Hunter will help cut the ribbon for the corridor Sept. 14. (Photo: Chris Moore)

Energy, emissions and a smarter North Ave: Hunter, Guensler crunch data from new smart corridor to improve traffic, safety

13 September 2017

CEEatGT's undergraduate civil and environmental engineering programs are No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2018 survey.

US News: Tech’s civil and environmental engineering bachelor’s programs No. 2 in US

12 September 2017

Calvin Clark, Xenia Wirth, Osvaldo Broesicke and Anna Skipper, who have each earned a scholarship from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation for 2017.

ARCS awards go to 4 grad students

07 September 2017

Alumnus C. David Moody Jr., who made the Atlanta Business Chronicle's list of the city’s most-admired chief executives.

Business Chronicle names Moody one of Atlanta’s most-admired CEOs

01 September 2017

Associate Professor David Scott, right, accepts a President's Award from American Society of Civil Engineers Georgia Section President Shaukat Syed. (Photo Courtesy: John Pierson)

Scott, Goldman, Blissit win statewide ASCE awards

31 August 2017

Ph.D. student Rodrigo Borela, who is a 2017 fellow of the Geosynthetics Institute.

PhD student Borela named a 2017 GSI fellow

29 August 2017

Post-doctoral researcher Neda Mohammadi is one of the few early career women invited to MIT's Rising Stars workshop in October. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Mohammadi to join select early career engineers at Rising Stars workshop

25 August 2017

WABE webpage for story featuring Kari Watkins, 'Do the "slow down" signs around Atlanta work?'

WABE asks Watkins, do those neighborhood ‘slow down’ signs work?

24 August 2017

Eric Marks joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Aug. 1 as a professor of the practice — a homecoming of sorts, since Marks earned his Ph.D. in the School a few years ago.

Marks joins faculty as construction engineering professor of the practice

22 August 2017

Sam Coogan joins the Georgia Tech faculty this fall as an assistant professor in both the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

New faculty member Sam Coogan connects civil and electrical engineering to run the transportation systems of tomorrow

21 August 2017

New faculty member Xing Xie stands in the lobby of the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

New faculty member Xing Xie works to clean water by killing bad microbes and harnessing the power of useful ones

18 August 2017