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Georgia Tech is now home to the No. 1 environmental engineering program in the nation.

U.S. News and World Report has released its 2026 Best Colleges rankings, featuring Georgia Tech’s undergraduate environmental engineering at No. 1 and civil engineering at No. 2.

Professor Hermann Fritz and other experts from Georgia Tech discuss Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic landfall and how its legacy of destruction and displacement continues to challenge disaster preparedness across the U.S. 

The Center of Excellence will feature bio-environmental research to facilitate advancements in environmental health and safety.

Marking a major step forward in campus transportation, the highly anticipated campus cycle track was based on a 2019 civil engineering capstone design project.

New research just published in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows rogue waves once thought to defy ocean physics can be explained by ordinary wave patterns. Associate Professor Francesco Fedele said, “They’re just a bad day at sea."

In the latest episode of Generating Buzz, Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor Srinivas Peeta shares his expertise on how the robotaxis operated by Waymo differ from other vehicle manufacturers, how social media influences adoption of the new technology, and what comes next.

Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to begin his PhD studies in 2021. Farshid Khan followed in 2024, beginning his first semester assisting a doctoral student in the very same lab as his older brother.

Three Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni — Allison Bernard, CE 09, Shannon Evanchec, EnvE 16, and Samuel Harris, CE 12, MS CE 14 — were selected for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 2025 class of 40 under 40. 

Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system. Researchers at Georgia Tech offer solutions for not only surviving — but also benefiting from — fire.

A century-long analysis of publication data, led by CEE's Director of Collaborative Innovation Chris C. Martin, looks at the gender dynamics in a field that combines male- and female-dominated focus areas.

A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.

 For the third consecutive year, a Georgia Tech team placed first at the ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships.

When 9-year-old Trey Turnipseed III donated $3 to Roll Call, it wasn’t just a nice gesture—it was the continuation of a family legacy started by his grandfather, George Ben Turnipseed, CE 69.

Tackling civil engineering's oldest skills with 21st-century tools.

CEE’s Angshuman Guin learned to drive on the narrow suburban roads of Durgapur, India, where double-digit speeds could induce panic. He still can’t escape gridlock — because he's made it his life’s work.

Georgia Tech researchers are innovating ways to study air quality — beginning with prehistoric insights and zooming all the way to satellites in our orbit.

Gabriel Ackall is the recipient of the 2025 Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Award, the most prestigious award for undergraduate engineering students at Georgia Tech. 

“Art and Generative AI” is one of the electives in Georgia Tech’s new minor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, offered in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

A Stamps President’s Scholar, Brown served as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and captain of the Timber-Strong Design Build team. Through Engineers Without Borders, she participated in international aid projects and was a sub-team lead on the Building for Equity and Sustainability Vertically Integrated Project.  

Two student teams from CEE will represent Georgia in an international competition after taking top billing at the annual Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP) Student Design Competition.