CEE Faculty Profile

Biography

Professor Amekudzi studies systems problems on the integrated built and natural environment to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote sustainable development. Her current research focuses on the development and application of sustainability planning and evaluation methods to built systems. She has developed undergraduate and graduate courses in these fields, has published extensively on these subjects, and serves on several professional boards and panels contributing expert knowledge to issues related to civil infrastructure investment and management for sustainable development. Professor Amekudzi is also involved in the development of educational materials to address these areas in the undergraduate and graduate curricula. She teaches an undergraduate required 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 former deputy director of the Georgia Transportation Institute and the Georgia Tech University Transportation Center (UTC). A two time invitee of the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Program, Amekudzi is also on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and Sustainability - The Journal of Record; and Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems and the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering.  Professor Amekudzi is the founding chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Sustainability and Environment of the Transportation and Development Institute, and a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.  She is the founding director of the Network for Sustainable Solutions, a knowledge network with footprints in the U.S., Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe focused on developing research and education capacity to create the infrastructure for sustainable development.  Amekudzi is a member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).