Dr. Adjo A. Amekudzi

Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transportation Systems Group
790 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0355 USA
Phone: (404) 894-0404/Fax: (404) 894-2278/Email: adjo.amekudzi@ce.gatech.edu

Research, Teaching and Professional Activities

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. Professor Amekudzi is involved in course development to address these areas in the undergraduate and graduate curricula. 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 and the Georgia Tech University Transportation Center (UTC). She is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and, Sustainability - The Journal of Record. Professor Amekudzi is a two time invitee to the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Program and served as Co-Chair of Infrastructure Engineering for the 2008 Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering Program. She serves as faculty advisor for Georgia Tech’s chapters of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and WTS.