Research Groups
Researchers in civil and environmental engineering focus attention on the infrastructure systems needed to support societies. Researchers in civil engineering conduct research in six disciplines of including structural engineering, mechanics and materials; geo-systems engineering; transportation systems engineering; environmental fluid mechanics and water resources, environmental engineering, and construction engineering. Researchers in environmental engineering focus on areas such as: water quality and treatment; wastewater reclamation and reuse; hazardous and solid waste engineering; ground water modeling and treatment; air quality monitoring, pollution control and modeling; environmental sciences; and industrial ecology. Researchers in engineering science and mechanics provide educational and research opportunities in the fields of continuum mechanics, stress analysis, dynamics, vibrations, controls, computational mechanics, fluid mechanics, biomechanics, acoustics, wave propagation, optimization, stochastic processes, materials science, and experimental techniques.
Graduate study in CEE-Savannah has a coastal focus and MS and PhD degrees can be pursued in areas like: tsunamis, hurricane storm surges, and non-linear and breaking waves; coastal and oceanographic engineering; near-shore hydrodynamics; reconstruction, visualization and characterization of 3-D geomaterial microstructure; concrete and steel structural analysis; computational solid & structural mechanics; advanced fiber-reinforced polymeric composite materials; and potable-water treatment unit operations & processes on coastlines.
Environmental Engineering (EnvE) at Georgia Tech provides comprehensive educational and research opportunities in air, land and water science & engineering. The principal focus areas include: environmental biotechnology; water quality and treatment; wastewater reclamation and reuse; hazardous and solid waste engineering; ground water modeling and treatment; air quality monitoring, pollution control and modeling; environmental sciences; and industrial ecology.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources
The focus of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Water Resources Program is on water, air, and land systems, with emphasis on the science and engineering applications of environmental transport processes and sustainable resource management. The program mission is to educate scientists and engineers through a stimulating and diverse educational experience; create new knowledge through innovative experimental, computational, and modeling research; and develop research products into new technologies that will benefit engineering practice in fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, hydroclimatology, and water resources.
Geosystems engineering merges geotechnics, geophysics, geomechanics, and geology and focuses on the behavior of natural materials in engineered systems. The Geosystems Engineering Program at Georgia Tech encompasses both traditional and emerging topics in the fi eld, including advanced techniques for site and material characterization; constitutive and micromechanical modeling; natural and man-made hazard mitigation; engineered soils; biotechnology; geotechnical aspects of resource recovery; and foundation design, slope stability, and excavation support.
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials offers graduate instruction and research in structural analysis and design, behavior of structural systems, earthquake engineering, engineering science and mechanics, high-performance materials, computer-aided engineering, and intelligent engineering learning environments.
Transportation Systems Engineering
Transportation systems form integral building blocks for a modern society. Efficient and safe movement of people and goods ensures a thriving economy and provides for an improved quality of life. However, transportation systems by their very nature also affect the environment through their integration with land use decisions and the travel behaviors they encourage, as well as their physical construction, operation, maintenance and renewal.