CEE Doctoral Student Eun Cha Earns CERRA Recognition Award
Ms. Eun Jeong Cha was named an inaugural recipient of the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA) Student Recognition Award at the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP 11) held in Zurich, Switzerland on August 15, 2011. (Read More)
NY Times Highlights Engineers Without Borders' Solar Latrine Project
The Georgia Tech chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is currently involved in several projects, one of which continues to receive national attention. In this project, EWB is working with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) on the development of a solar latrine. Their work was recently highlighted in the New York Times. (Read More)
Collaborative Research Initiative Receives $14.4M to Study Gulf Oil Spills
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Thorsten Stoesser is part of a project team that was recently awarded a $14.4 million grant, Gulf Integrated Spill Response, to investigate the transport and eventual fate of petroleum fluids that have erupted at depth. (Read More)
President Obama Names CEE Alumnae Gayle Hagler Outstanding Early-Career Scientist
President Obama today named 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Among the recipients is Georgia Tech graduate, Dr. Gayle S.W. Hagler. (Read More)
Professor Reginald DesRoches Named Dean's Professor
Dr. Reginald DesRoches, associate chair and professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), has been named Dean's Professor of the College of Engineering (CoE) at Georgia Tech. According to Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering, "The designation of Dean's Professor is rare and is intended to honor young, up and coming full professors who are rising stars. Reggie's outstanding work in earthquake engineering and seismic design; his humanitarian efforts following the earthquake in Haiti and other regions; and his exceptional level of teaching and research make him extremely worthy of this honor. (Read More)
Georgia Tech Dedicates G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
The Georgia Institute of Technology will dedicate the new undergraduate learning commons to former Institute president and alumnus G. Wayne Clough at 9 a.m. on Sept. 24. The G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons is a 220,000-square-foot, sustainably designed academic facility intended to enrich undergraduates' academic environment and present innovative learning opportunities. The new facility, which adjoins to the Price Gilbert Library in the crossroads of Tech's campus, opened at the start of the fall semester. (Read More)
Donald Katz Receives $10,000 Research Stipend from Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues
Transporatation engineering graduate student Donald Katz was recognized by the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2011-12. Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation and administered by the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) of the Transportation Research Board/National Academies, this award is presented for successful completion during the upcoming academic year of Katz's research paper entitled "Continuous Scheduling: Beneficial for Airports and Airlines". For this honor, Katz will receive a research stipend in the amount of $10,000. (Read More)
Roger Mock awarded AISC/Southern Association of Steel Fabricators fellowship
Congratulations to School of Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Roger Mock. Roger is currently pursuing a master's in structural engineering in CEE and recently earned a BS in civil engineering from Georgia Tech. The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) jury has selected Roger as a recipient of an AISC/Southern Association of Steel Fabricators fellowship in the amount of $2,500. (Read More)
CEE Student receives Deep Foundations Institute Education Trust 2011 Student Paper Competition
Congratulations to Fawad Niazi who was recently selected as the winner of the nationally contested Deep Foundations Institute Education Trust 2011 Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled "Axial Pile Displacement Evaluations from Seismic Piezocone Data and Back-analysis of Load Tests." Fawad is a native of Pakistan and is studying geosystems engineering under the advisement of Professor Paul Mayne in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). (Read More)
CEE's undergrad programs ranked #3 in the nation with EnvE moving up 2 spots from 2011
Georgia Institute of Technology sustained its top-10 ranking among public universities, according to the recently released U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges for undergraduate rankings. Tech, ranked 7th among public universities, and has ranked in the top 10 of public universities for more than a decade. (Read More)
Digital Building Lab is More than a Technology Think Tank
Written by Nadine M. Post for ERN.com. Republished with permission. Georgia Institute of Technology professor Charles M. Eastman, long considered a research guru for computer-based building design and construction, displays parental pride in his latest brainchild: Georgia Tech's Digital Building Laboratory. Unlike Eastman's past efforts, starting some 40 years ago, the fledgling DBL, created in 2009 to help improve building design and construction through the aid of digital tools, is a collaboration among academics and players in the buildings-sector food chain. (Read More)
Abdollah Shafieezadeh Named 2011-12 Sam Nunn Post-doctoral Fellow
Congratulations to CEE doctoral student Abdollah Shafieezadeh who has been awarded a Sam Nunn Post-doctoral Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation's Science, Technology, and Security Initiative, the Sam Nunn Security Program at Georgia Institute of Technology is committed to educating scientists and engineers about national security issues and providing the analytical tools they need to interact with the policy community. (Read More)
In Memoriam: Laura Bunte Tucker
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology is deeply saddened by the loss of Laurie Bunte Tucker, wife of alumnus and friend Richard C. Tucker, chairman of the School's External Advisory Board. The announcement below was prepared by the Tucker family and published by the Washington Post. (Read More)
Provost Initiates Transition at Georgia Tech-Savannah
Georgia Tech-Savannah (GTS) is transitioning into its next phase of operation. Last week, Provost Rafael L. Bras formally charged Nelson Baker, vice provost of Distance Learning and Professional Education, with leading the transition and implementation process outlined in the task force report, Defining a Path Forward for Georgia Tech-Savannah, adopted this summer by President Peterson following an eight-month review of the coastal campus. (Read More)
Tekla participates in BIM class, awarding students for classroom research
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Jochen Teizer hosted Tekla, Inc. as part of this year's Building Information Modeling (BIM) undergraduate and graduate student presentations. During the semester class, students were asked to address problems within the construction industry that are not being addressed by current technology. The students solved these challenges using Tekla Structures BIM software. (Read More)
National Science Foundation funds interdisciplinary research in geosciences and computer vision
An interdisciplinary Georgia Tech team is leading an effort to formulate an innovative class of computational models for a wide range of inverse problems in geosciences with a focus on subsurface characterization via surface wave testing. The synergistic research team includes: Principal Investigator (PI) Francesco Fedele, assistant professor in the School of Civil and ENvironmental Engineering, and co-PIs Glenn Rix, professor and group leader of Geosystems Engineering and Anthony Yezzi, professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). (Read More)
Fluor supports Women in Engineering through college outreach
Over the past several months, some outstanding women in college engineering programs have come to know Fluor in a very personal way. Three women at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) received Fluor-sponsored scholarships, and several women at Louisiana State University (LSU) participated in a mentoring event held in conjunction with the Society of Women Engineers. (Read More)
Georgia Tech Receives Top Recognition from Princeton Review
The Princeton Review ranked the Georgia Institute of Technology's athletic facilities tops in the nation, according to their annual Best Colleges survey. Georgia Tech edged out the University of Maryland, the United States Military Academy, Wabash College and Ohio State University for the No. 1 distinction. For the fourth consecutive year, Georgia Tech was also one of 16 schools included on the Princeton Review's Green Rating Honor Roll, a measure of how environmentally friendly institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99. The Institute, the only Georgia college included on the list, received the highest possible score (99). (Read More)
Nortek Vectors Used to Study Turbulent Flow Effects on Odor-Mediated Interactions
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology employed six Nortek Vector velocimeters to gain an understanding of how turbulent water flow in intertidal salt marsh and oyster reef systems impacts foraging by odor-mediated predators, and the subsequent community-level effects on population abundances and distributions. The overarching goal of the (Marc Weissburg) and (Donald Webster) lab groups at the Georgia Institute of Technology is to understand how physical processes influence odor-mediated interactions in natural environments. (Read More)
"Red Fields to Green Fields" Plans Revealed for Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Hilton Head Island
With thousands of commercial buildings in foreclosure and many others in disrepair, cities around the country are looking for ways to rescue the properties and eliminate community blight. A program called "Red Fields to Green Fields" proposes acquiring abandoned and underutilized properties, demolishing or repositioning them, and replacing them with conservation land, parks, infrastructure improvements or other green space, which will attract economic development when the economy recovers. (Read More)