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Former Ph.D. students Shelly Zhang and Eric Johnston, who have won the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis award for 2019.

Johnston, Zhang produce two of Georgia Tech’s best Ph.D. dissertations this year

20 March 2019

Natual gas storage tanks with excess methane burning off. (Photo Courtesy: Jeffrey Phillips via Flickr)

Your carbon footprint is probably higher than you thought, thanks to methane leaking from natural gas systems

18 March 2019

Professor and Associate Dean Laurence Jacobs, left, accepts a lifetime achievement award in nondestructive evaluation from Tribikram Kundu at the SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Symposium in early March. (Photo Courtesy: Laurence Jacobs and SPIE)

Jacobs’ nondestructive evaluation work earns lifetime achievement honor

15 March 2019

Lauren Stewart and Nelson Baker, who both have earned promotions.

Stewart earns tenure, Baker promoted to full professor

14 March 2019

CEE's graduate programs in civil engineering and environmental engineering are No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2020 survey. (Graphic: Amelia Neumeister)

Tech’s civil and environmental engineering graduate degrees again ranked among America’s best

12 March 2019

Water pouring from a faucet. (Photo Courtesy: Steve Johnson via Flickr)

Better water purification without the byproducts of using chlorine

07 March 2019

Ph.D. student April Gadsby. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Gadsby to tackle policy side of transportation at Eno Future Leaders Development Conference

06 March 2019

Cargo ship loaded with freight containers at sea with a muted, gray sky. (Photo Courtesy: Mike Baird via Flickr)

Maritime journal editor: Paper on shippers’ reluctance to use Northern Sea Route the year’s top research

04 March 2019

First-year student Alex Ip.

Freshman Alex Ip selected for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps

27 February 2019

Fourth-year civil engineering student Rana Suleman accepts a scholarship from the Georgia Engineering Foundation in December. The award was one of two scholarships Rana received at the end of the year to fund his final year of undergraduate studies. (Photo Courtesy: Georgia Engineering Foundation)

Rana caps year with scholarships from concrete trade group, engineering foundation

26 February 2019

Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia graphic from Engineering Georgia magazine, including headshots of many of the women on the list.

Stewart, Watkins and a baker’s dozen alumnae make list of influential women in Georgia engineering

22 February 2019

Professor and Associate Dean Kimberly Kurtis (Photo: Christopher Moore)

Kurtis receives Concrete Institute’s Anderson Medal for excellence, creativity, leadership in concrete

15 February 2019

Professor of the Practice John Koon talks teaches his Senior Design class on a recent Thursday. Koon is one of the newest members of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors for the nation's engineers. (Photo: Amelia Neumeister)

Koon elected to National Academy of Engineering

08 February 2019

Ph.D. student April Gadsby stands on a bridge over a canal in the Netherlands in 2017 with a few of the country's famed windmills in the background. (Photo Courtesy: April Gadsby)

Gadsby taking her cyclist safety research to the mecca of bicycling

05 February 2019

Rendering of a two-story air-mobility hub with a landing area for four-rotor aircraft and a lower level for vehicle traffic. If the new Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility has its way, "vertiports" like this may soon be as popular as bus stops for city commuters and package transport. (Illustration: Yongmin Kim)

Making the case for urban air mobility in Atlanta

01 February 2019

Ph.D. student Jackie Knee

Marshall Commission names Jackie Knee the 2019 Marshall Sherfield Fellow

31 January 2019

Downtown Atlanta skyline with traffic on the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector. (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)

Amekudzi-Kennedy on Georgia infrastructure report card: Progress made, more to be done

30 January 2019

Screenshot of Scientific American/Knowable Magazine story, "How Humans Get in the Way of Clean Water," which features an image of a silver tap with water flowing out.

Scientific American highlights Brown’s work understanding the behavioral obstacles to getting people clean water

29 January 2019

Michael and Jenny Messner. (Photo Courtesy: The Messners)

Messners launch $5M faculty endowment challenge

25 January 2019

Assistant Professer Iris Tien sits at her desk in her Georgia Tech office. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Building a better foundation: Iris Tien accepts the challenge

23 January 2019