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Engineering Georgia January/February 2018 issue featuring 100 influential women to know.

Watkins, 18 other alumnae make Engineering Georgia’s 100 Influential Women list

07 February 2018

Magazine includes two other Tech faculty in inaugural look at women making a difference in state’s engineering industry

K.P. Reddy, BCE 1994, published his first book Feb. 5. "What You Know About Startups Is Wrong" aims to set the record straight on entrepreneurship and startup culture. (Photo Courtesy: The Combine)

Reddy’s new book says what we know about startups is wrong

05 February 2018

Four photos: Spices in Istanbul, Turkey; a silhouetted figure takes in the water and mountains in Interlaken, Switzerland; a young woman stands in front of Stonehenge in England; and a dive swims near colorful coral at the Great Barrier Reef.

New Feldman endowment offers students $1K to do something extra when they study abroad

31 January 2018

Glaucio Paulino, Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Susan Burns and Donald Webster have been named four of the most-effective teachers at Georgia Tech, according to end-of-course surveys of their students.

Students say 4 of the top teachers at Tech are civil and environmental engineering professors

22 January 2018

Professor Arash Yavari stands in front of his packed bookcase in his Mason Building office. Yavari has embarked upon a four-year research project to lay the mathematical foundations for cloaking structures from earthquakes and other stress waves. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Yavari’s new project will lay a mathematical foundation for cloaking structures

18 January 2018

Alejandro Martinez collects data in Mexico after a major earthquake in September 2017. Martinez, MSCE 2012, Ph.D. 2015, was part of a team from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association that traveled to the impact zone to gather “perishable” data about the earthquake to help scientists and engineers prepare for future events. (Photo Courtesy of Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association via the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine)

Documenting disaster: Group led by Tech experts gathers key data after major catastrophes to prepare for the next one

09 January 2018

Ph.D. student Bill Jin, this year's winner of the Robert H. Kuhlman Student Scholarship from the Georgia chapter of the American Concrete Institute.

Jin wins ACI scholarship for his work on concrete sustainability

04 January 2018

Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20, 2017, based on MODIS/Terra satellite image and processed by Antti Lipponen. (Photo Courtesy Antti Lipponen via Wikimedia Commons)

In the wake of Maria, two Tech alumni lead effort to restore water and sewer services in Puerto Rico

02 January 2018

Calvin Clark, David Boyer, Chelsea Dyess, Daniel Walls, David Ederer and Lauren Gardner have won Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration.

Six grad students win competitive, coveted Eisenhower transportation fellowships

21 December 2017

Ph.D. students Emily Sanders and Aaron Bivins, who have been invited to ComSciCon Atlanta, a new conference in the southeast that aims to help graduate students improve their skills at communicating their scientific work to the general public.

Science communication workshop expands to southeast, invites 2 CEE grad students

20 December 2017

Google Earth view of Lake Lanier from Buford Dam. Gwinnett County is to the right of the dam. (Image Courtesy: Google, Landsat/Copernicus)

Georgia Water Resources Institute leads effort to understand how residential septic systems impact Lake Lanier water quality

18 December 2017

Sharani White poses in her cap and gown with Midtown Atlanta in the background. White struggled in her first year, to the point that she almost had to transfer. But now she's finished her civil engineering degree and has been accepted to graduate school. (Photo: Titilayo Funso)

Struggling at Tech, Sharani White almost transferred; instead, she graduates this fall with a job and grad school waiting

14 December 2017

The Yoshi Group used a single Miura-ori based Yoshimura origami pattern to design four unique structures. From left, Phoebe Edalatpour, Jared Williams, Maria Yagnye and Emanuel Ferro hold models of their designs. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Students showcase final projects using origami engineering for social good

14 December 2017

A row of awards plaques presented to students, faculty and staff at the 2017 CEE Awards Ceremony Dec. 11. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

CEE honors teaching, scientific, staff excellence

11 December 2017

"The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues." Joe Brown and a student test environmental samples in his lab. (Photo: Gary Meek, Design: Sarah Collins)

The next frontier in environmental engineering: Brown tackles public health issues through the microscope

11 December 2017

Team J2AD Engineering won the civil and environmental engineering award at the fall 2017 Capston Design Expo. From left, Jessie Lei, Jiyoon Oh, Austin Foo and Donald Smith accept their winnings from Buzz (yellow jacket, center). (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Project balancing economics, historic preservation, community needs wins over Capstone Design Expo judges

05 December 2017

Oloo, Uganda, community members stand with the water pump that Engineers Without Borders has helped them construct.

Engineering a better world: Students apply their knowledge through philanthropic groups

05 December 2017

Screeen capture of Governing op-ed by Kari Watkins and Cathering Nagel, "Urban Parks' Emerging Role as Transportation Infrastructure"

Watkins extols virtues of parks as transportation infrastructure in 'Governing' op-ed

28 November 2017

Ph.D. student Anirban Chatterjee, a 2018 International Road Federation Fellow.

Road Federation names Chatterjee a 2018 fellow

27 November 2017

A split-screen shot shows the very beginning and the aftermath of the Georgia Dome implosion Nov. 20, with nothing but a dust cloud remaining. (Photos: Zonglin "Jack" Li)

REPLAY: Watch the Georgia Dome implosion with structural engineer Lauren Stewart

20 November 2017

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