News | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

U.S. News and World Report ranks Georgia Tech's civil engineering program No. 2 in the nation and the environmental engineering program No. 4.

Undergrad civil and environmental programs rise in 2017 U.S. News rankings

13 September 2016

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Patricia Mokhtarian, the new Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor

Mokhtarian appointed to new Pappas Professorship

08 September 2016

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Donald Webster

Webster among leading engineering educators invited to National Academy of Engineering symposium

07 September 2016

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Record five civil and environmental grad students receive ARCS awards

06 September 2016

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Pointivo co-founder Habib Fathi, Ph.D. 2013.

How civil grad's Pointivo went from idea to disruptive startup

02 September 2016

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Screenshot of Line//Shape//Space story on coastal engineering and sea level rise.

Saving coastal cities from rising seas: Clough shares his New Orleans experience

01 September 2016

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Screen capture of the new leadership video.

New video showcases perspectives on leadership

31 August 2016

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Iris Tien, left, with Gwinnett County middle school teacher Kathylee McElroy and Jamila Cola after Tien and McElroy won awards for their collaboration on engineering lesson plans for McElroy's science classes. They've been working together for two years through a program made possible by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Research, Innovation, and Multi-Scale Engineering. Cola is the director of that program. (Photo Courtesy: Iris Tien)

Tien wins award for helping bring engineering concepts to middle school science lessons

29 August 2016

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The International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class on the Great Wall of China, one of their first stops during their two-week trip to China and Japan.

Two weeks in China and Japan teaches students about disaster engineering, Asian culture — and themselves

26 August 2016

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Civil engineering undergrad Andrew Melissas diving during his semester studying abroad in Australia. (Photo Courtesy: Andrew Melissas)

Rethinking career and competition: Australian culture, respect for native tribes make an impression on Andrew Melissas

24 August 2016

A Mundy scholar essay

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Rudy Bonparte and John Taylor, two of the new faces in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering this fall.

New year brings new faces to CEE classrooms

22 August 2016

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Charles "Wick" Moorman

Railroad veteran Moorman tapped to lead Amtrak

22 August 2016

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Ph.D. student Christine Dykstra in her lab.

Dykstra wins highly competitive Canham Scholarship from Water Environment Federation

16 August 2016

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Assistant Professor Kari Watkins added the title of Frederick L. Olmsted Junior Faculty Professor this summer, becoming the first faculty member to occupy the newly created position. Watkins studies multi-modal and sustainable transportation as well as using technology to improve transportation systems. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Watkins appointed the first Olmsted Junior Professor

11 August 2016

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Reginald DesRoches stands with the ruptured cinder block wall one of his Ph.D. students destroyed while testing different kinds of masonry infill designed to strengthen similar structures in the Caribbean. DesRoches will draw on decades of earthquake research like this for the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering distinguished lecture he'll deliver in September. (Photo: Rob Felt)

‘From Haiti to California’: DesRoches to deliver UC Davis distinguished lecture

10 August 2016

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Researchers Liz Robertson from the University of Southern Denmark and Josh Manger from the University of California, San Diego, ready a sample collector off Mexico's Pacific coast. They’re part of a research team that discovered bacteria making oxygen minimum zones in the ocean even deader by sucking up all life-giving nitrogen molecules. (Photo: Heather Olins)

Global warming, a dead zone and mysterious bacteria

08 August 2016

Climate change focuses research on ocean areas depleted of oxygen, leading to discovery that topples tough doubts

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Col. Tom Rickard, BSCE 1990, assumed command of the U.S. Army’s Fort George G. Meade August 4. During the change of command ceremony, Rickard passes the garrison colors to Command Sergeant Major Rodwell L. Forbes.

Civil engineering grad takes command of Army’s Fort Meade

08 August 2016

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A neighborhood on the Westside of Atlanta, an example of the premise that has been stuck in Iris Tien's mind recently: how the infrastructure civil and environmental engineers build — or the lack thereof in areas like this — influences the surrounding community. (Photo: Iris Tien)

Tien: What we build builds communities

28 July 2016

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Screen shot of Perimeter Center traffic solutions story featuring Michael Hunter.

Hunter: No ‘magic bullet’ for traffic tangles in Atlanta’s Perimeter area

26 July 2016

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Water Resources Research editors say Bras’ work some of the year’s most significant

26 July 2016

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