CEE Chair - Joe Hughes
Contact Information
Room: Mason 128
Phone: 404/894-2201
joseph.hughes@ce.gatech.edu
Note from the Chair
One of the most enjoyable parts of being chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech is the opportunity to share my passion for civil and environmental engineering. CEE at Georgia Tech has a long tradition of excellence in engineering education. Since our first student, Mayron McDonald Lawrence, graduated in 1902, we have been recognized as a school that provides a rigorous and comprehensive educational experience. In the latest rankings of undergraduate civil and environmental engineering programs, CEE's undergraduate program ranked third and its graduate program ranked 5th within U.S. engineering schools. We believe that our strong reputation is based on several factors, including our attention to engineering fundamentals, investments in state-of-the-art technology, and interaction with the world-class scholars that comprise CEE's faculty.
Civil and environmental engineering is a broad and diverse engineering discipline that works on many facets of improving the human condition. The construction of all things big and small are long-standing examples of civil engineering projects from clean drinking water, to designing and implementing efficient and safe transportation systems, to constructing buildings and bridges that survive seismic activity, to building dams for hydropower and flood control. Today our professors are working on problems that go far beyond these traditional areas to provide growing populations with innovative solutions needed to survive in a global society. Civil and environmental engineers focus on the needs of people.
The need for civil and environmental engineers will only increase in future decades as society tries to cope with expanding urbanization, decaying infrastructures, global climate change, and an increase in the human population. The civil and environmental engineering job market will yield opportunities both nationally and internationally. Earning a bachelors degree in civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech will help prepare you for a future career in an engineering discipline that is expanding and changing in concert with the world in which we live in. I urge you to strongly consider this long-standing dynamic and broad engineering discipline as your academic program of choice and join the school where we believe, "People are our priority and the world is our laboratory".
Joseph B. Hughes, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and School Chair