Categories: Profiles
      Date: Mar 12, 2008
     Title: Adjo Amekudzi : Asset Management & Sustainability Planning

Professor Amekudzi studies systems problems related to the integrated built and natural environment to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote sustainable development.  Her current research focus is on the development and application of sustainability evaluation methods for built systems in substantially different environments.

Professor Amekudzi studies systems problems related to the integrated built and natural environment to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote sustainable development. Her current research focus is on the development and application of sustainability evaluation methods for built systems in substantially different environments.

Professor Amekudzi is involved in course development to address these areas in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. She teaches an undergraduate course: Civil Engineering Systems, and two graduate electives Infrastructure Systems (Asset Management) and Infrastructure, Megacities and Sustainable Development, all of which address the proper stewardship of infrastructure for sustainable development. Professor Amekudzi is the associate director of the Georgia Transportation Institute (GTI) and the GTI University Transportation Center (UTC), which focuses on infrastructure investments for economic growth, system productivity and finance. She chairs the ASCE Infrastructure Systems Committee and is on the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Professor Amekudzi is a two time invitee to the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Program (2005, 2007) and a Co-Chair of Infrastructure Engineering for the 2008 Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering Program. She serves as faculty advisor for Georgia Tech’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB).

More information about Dr. Amekudzi can be found on her CEE faculty web page.