News | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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