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Civil engineering senior Arjun Bir and his Oasis team, center, won the $15,000 grand prize in the MIT Water Innovation Prize competition April 4. The team created a simple, inexpensive test for detecting E. coli in drinking water in India. (Photo: Andi Sutton/Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab at MIT)

Simple, low-cost E. coli test wins MIT Water Innovation Prize

09 April 2018

Nine student teams pitched solutions to global water issues at annual event

Ph.D. student David Ederer, who has been selected for the 2018 class of the Eno Center for Transportation Future Leaders Development Conference.

Ederer invited to DC for inside look at transportation policymaking as Eno fellow

03 April 2018

Georgia Tech researchers Glaucio Paulino, left, and Jerry Qi hold 3-D printed objects that use tensegrity, a structural system of floating rods in compression and cables in continuous tension. They’ve developed a new way to create structures with “memory” that can expand dramatically when heated. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Paulino, Qi win Sigma Xi faculty award for 4-D printing research

28 March 2018

Students collect samples along the Choqueyapu River in La Paz, Bolivia, over spring break. They were one of three classes that traveled to three different continents this year. (Photo Courtesy: Joe Brown)

40 students, 3 continents, 9 days. Experience engineering classes' spring break abroad in the travelers' own words and pictures

26 March 2018

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Facilities Manager Andy Udell holds a his Building Manager of the Year plaque March 19 at Georgia Tech's Building Manager Symposium. (Photo: Allison Carter)

Udell is Tech’s Building Manager of the Year

23 March 2018

Associate Professor Baabak Ashuri, who was named Outstanding Early Career Researcher for 2018 by the Construction Industry Institute.

Construction industry group honors Ashuri as outstanding researcher

22 March 2018

CEE's graduate civil engineering program is No. 2 in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2019 survey. Graduate environmental engineering ranked No. 5. #WeCanDoThat

U.S. News ranks CEE among top 5 grad programs in the nation

20 March 2018

The sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji in Japan in August 2016. Students in the International Disaster Reconnaissance Studies class that semester hiked all night to reach the top of the mountain in time for this view. (Photo: Kieron McCarthy)

Spring Break travel gives students chance to make impact, see their subject come alive

15 March 2018

Donald Webster will be the new Karen and John Huff Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective May 1. Webster has been a professor in the School since 1997 and served as a member of the leadership team since 2007.

Donald Webster named new chair of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

14 March 2018

3-D printed models of the deep-pile foundations seventh-graders from Atlanta’s Drew Charter School designed as part of a STEM outreach program through the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the NSF-funded Center for Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Drew 7th-graders design, 3-D print, test bio-inspired foundations

12 March 2018

James Clark, former president and CEO of Clark Construction and founder of the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation. The foundation has given Georgia Tech $15 million to create a Clark Scholars Program for students who want to study engineering. (Photo Courtesy: A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation)

Clark Foundation gives Tech $15M to expand access to engineering education

09 March 2018

Fourth-year civil engineering student Lin Htet Kyaw, who has won a national scholarship from Chi Epsilon.

Kyaw wins Chi Epsilon national scholarship, a first for Georgia Tech

07 March 2018

Inclusivity in Engineering graphic with multicolored hands reaching up. (Graphic: Sarah Collins)

Missing or invisible? Inclusivity conference is first step in NSF project to make engineering field more welcoming to LGBTQ+ professionals, students

06 March 2018

Associate Professors Yong Cho and Jingfeng Wang, who have earned tenure at Georgia Tech.

Cho and Wang earn tenure, Hunter and Konstantinidis promoted

02 March 2018

Fizza Hassan, center, stands in front of the Sensoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa neighborhood. Hassan, a civil engineering master's student, traveled to the city with her classmates from an origami engineering course she took at Georgia Tech in the fall taught by Glaucio Paulino. The class visited attractions around Japan and learned about origami principles from Paulino's collaborators in the country. (Photo Courtesy: Fizza Hassan)

Week in Japan takes origami engineering class to the roots and pioneers of their subject

26 February 2018

Ph.D. student Ajay Saini, one of the American Society of Civil Engineers' O.H. Ammann Research Fellows in Structural Engineering for this year. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

ASCE picks Saini for Ammann Research Fellowship

21 February 2018

Jacqueline Quinn, an environmental engineer with NASA and a 1989 graduate of Georgia Tech, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May. (Photo Courtesy of Jacqueline Quinn)

Environmental cleanup technology for the space program earns NASA’s Quinn a spot in Inventors Hall of Fame

19 February 2018

Bill Calhoun talks with students after his spring 2018 presentation for the Hyatt Distinguished Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. Calhoun, vice chairman and executive vice president of Clark Construction, talked about the five principles that guide how he leads people and his company. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Calhoun outlines his 5 guiding principles of leadership in spring Hyatt lecture, starting with doing the right thing and being accountable

15 February 2018

Pensacola Beach in the Florida Panhandle, one of the areas where oil washed ashore after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. (Photo Courtesy: Smruthi Karthikeyan)

Karthikeyan’s research uncovering a new oil-eating microbe wins top student award at Gulf oil spill conference

14 February 2018

Cars speed along the Interstate 75/Interstate 85 Downtown Connector in Atlanta. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Coogan wins CAREER grant to build mathematical foundation for modeling and predicting traffic flow

13 February 2018