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Alesa Stallman accepts a scholarship from the International Concrete Repair Institute Georgia Chapter Dec. 6. (Photo Courtesy: Alesa Stallman)

Stallman wins concrete repair group scholarship

22 December 2016

K.P. Reddy, co-founder of The Combine and a 1994 civil engineering graduate. (Photo: The Combine)

Alumnus KP Reddy tapped to help engineering firm commercialize 5 in-house startups

20 December 2016

Master's students Himanshu Wad and Helen Heindl. (Photo: Rob Felt)

With Gratitude: 2 graduates on how they got to and through Georgia Tech

16 December 2016

A screencapture from civil engineering senior Raunac Khandaker's "Tech Reflections" audio slideshow.

Tech Reflections: Graduating senior Raunac Khandaker sees her future in academics, research

15 December 2016

John E. Taylor, the new Frederick L. Olmsted Profession in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Change agent: Many resist change, but John Taylor has made a career studying it

12 December 2016

Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, seated left, signed an agreement in a ceremony in Shenzhen, China, Dec. 2 to create a new collaboration with the City of Shenzhen and Tianjin University. Co-signers with Peterson are Vice Mayor Yihuan Wu of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, center, and Tianjin University President Denghua Zhong, right.

Expanding to China: Tech’s new Shenzhen Institute will offer environmental engineering MS

09 December 2016

A group of Georgia Tech and Georgia Department of Transportation researchers after they received an AASHTO Sweet Sixteen award from DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry Dec. 8. Their work on corrosion-resistant concrete piles for marine environments has been used on bridges in Georgia and is being tested for use in nearby states.

New corrosion-resistant concrete reinforcement wins AASHTO Sweet 16 award for extending life of coastal bridges

09 December 2016

U.S. Department of Transportation map showing all of the newly funded University Transportation Centers and the affiliated universities.

Sustainability, emissions, travel behavior among challenges researchers will tackle in 6 new University Transportation Centers

07 December 2016

Aaron Bivins and Rebecca Yoo (Photo: StoryCorps Atlanta)

StoryCorps: Bivins and Yoo learn from each other and build a friendship on class trips to Bolivia

02 December 2016

Microbiologists use next-generation sequencing technology to identify a bacterial DNA fingerprint. (Photo: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Genomics technique could revolutionize how we detect bacteria in food poisoning outbreaks

01 December 2016

Professor Emeritus Wilton W. King

Colleagues pay tribute to mentor, friend Wilton King (1937-2016)

30 November 2016

Georgia Tech senior Maya Goldman at Machu Picchu in Peru. The structure behind her shows how Inca engineers used terraces as retaining walls. "Being in Machu Picchu inspired me like no other place on Earth to continue my study of civil engineering," Goldman said, "to follow in the footsteps of those before me, and to build a future based on sharing knowledge and closely observing environmental processes, just like Incan engineers." (Photo Courtesy: Maya Goldman)

Visit to Machu Picchu inspires Maya Goldman to walk in the footsteps of Incan engineers

22 November 2016

A Mundy scholar essay

Students from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering learn OSHA guidelines for worksite safety in early November. The Atlanta office of JE Dunn provided the training — and lunch — to the group of nearly two dozen undergraduate and graduate students. (Photo: Yong Cho)

JE Dunn teaches students about worksite safety

16 November 2016

CEE Awards Plaques (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Awards recognize CEE’s top scientists, researchers, teachers and staff members

14 November 2016

Veterans John Temple and Mike Anderson in one of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering server rooms. The pair now provide information technology support to the School's students, faculty and staff. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)

Staff who served share thoughts on Veterans Day

11 November 2016

New External Advisory Board members Jim Anderson, John Kelley, Edward Metzger, Stephen Mulva, Frank Rucker and Deborah Staudinger.

Leaders in construction, law, social media among newest members of School’s External Advisory Board

08 November 2016

Yang Wang and students in his research group install sensors on a bridge in Bartow County, Georgia, in July 2016. Wang, Francesco Fedele and Rafi Muhanna in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering will use data from instruments like these to feed a new interval-based optimization approach to assess structural systems and detect damage. (Photo Courtesy: Yang Wang)

Dealing with uncertainty: New NSF project will create more accurate, faster interval-based approach to assessing structures for damage

04 November 2016

Sierra Magazine story about the explosion at a gas pipeline in Alabama.

Tien: Pipeline blast reminds us of our dependence on a few key infrastructure systems

03 November 2016

Screen shot of Ph.D. student Simon Berrebi's interview with WSB-TV in Atlanta about his group's effort to crowdfund trash cans for East Point bus stops.

WATCH: MARTA Army crowdfunding trash cans at East Point bus stops

02 November 2016

WTA Atlanta scholarship winners Xiaodan Xu, Stephanie Amoaning-Yankson and Cindy Bledsoe.

Georgia Tech students sweep WTS Atlanta scholarships

02 November 2016