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ShanghaiRankings Academic Program Ranking: Civil Engineering No. 7

Civil engineering program 7th in the world, 3rd in U.S. in new global rankings

21 June 2016

Professor Paul Mayne

GEOSTRATA magazine profiles ‘GeoLegend’ Paul Mayne

20 June 2016

John Kelley, BSCE 1992, at the Avalon development in Alpharetta, Georgia

Kelley finds his passion in creating places that build community

16 June 2016

The Atlanta Streetcar near the original Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a way to improve the timing of the streetcar, eliminating the need for schedules and reducing passenger wait time. (Photo: Spmarshall42 / Wikimedia Commons)

Tracking the Atlanta Streetcar in real time

15 June 2016

Rendering of SunTrust Park, scheduled to open in spring 2017. (Image: Atlanta Braves)

Braves’ New World

10 June 2016

IndustryWeek website screen shot

Reddy and his sewing robots are IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing Leader of the Week

10 June 2016

Yannis Dialynas, a hydrology Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Georgia Tech Provost Rafael L. Bras, discuss a model of soil erosion. This research is studying the role of erosion on carbon cycling. (Photo: Rob Felt)

New model explains how soil erosion affects the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere

09 June 2016

Senior Maggie Lindsey in Costa Rica with one of the young students who will attend a primary school she helped design and build.

Lindsey’s thoughts on engineers and ethics win her ASCE’s Daniel Mead Prize

09 June 2016

Prescribed burn near Griffin, Georgia

Odman’s new project will help us understand how prescribed burns impact health, air quality across the Southeast

07 June 2016

The Sustainable Transportation Abroad class outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Class bikes through the Netherlands to study sustainable transportation

03 June 2016

Hurricane Isabel, the strongest storm of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. (Photo: NASA)

As hurricane season begins, how a Georgia Tech civil engineer created the five categories we use to classify storms

01 June 2016

Cover of Science special issue on urban issues.

How do we build sustainable cities? Russell co-authors Science piece that offers a prescription

27 May 2016

Ph.D. student Yannis Dialynas

Dialynas wins NASA support for his work on soil erosion and atmospheric carbon dioxide

26 May 2016

Professor Aris Georgakakos with Philip Sarris, BSCE 1952.

64 years later, Philip Sarris gets the diploma he earned

24 May 2016

A screenshot of the Poets&Quants website naming master's student Trevor Clark on the nation's best MBA students.

Website says dual master’s student Trevor Clark is one of nation’s brightest MBAs

23 May 2016

Alumnus and former faculty member James R. Wallace (1938-2016)

Remembering alumnus, former faculty member James Wallace (1938-2016)

20 May 2016

The Haitian Roundtable's 2016 1804 List of Changemakers and Ones to Watch.

Haitian Roundtable recognizes DesRoches as one of 2016's change-making Haitian-Americans

18 May 2016

Associate Professor Yong Cho and Dimitri Seneca Snowden with the robot Snowden has donated to Cho's research lab.

Self-taught roboticist Dimitri Seneca Snowden donates his creation to Cho’s construction engineering research lab

13 May 2016

Coral reef off Kiritimati Island. (Photo: Pamela Grothe)

Shellby Miller’s trip to Kiritimati Island illustrates stark realities of climate change

09 May 2016

A Mundy scholar essay

Research Horizons illustration for Rolling Robots story

A roadmap to robotic vehicles

29 April 2016