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In the International Disaster Reconnaissance course, students now use a platform built by alumnus Max Mahdi Roozbahani to capture immersive 360° media, photos, and video that transform real disaster sites in India and Nepal into living digital classrooms. 

Adair Garrett, a Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Systems Engineering at Tech, was recognized by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the National Center for Sustainable Transportation’s Outstanding Student of the Year at a special ceremony on January 10 in Washington D.C.

How we get around is changing as new options like autonomous vehicles arrive in earnest. Srinivas Peeta works to unravel what that means for our communities and how we plan for a more connected future.

Engineers are building computerized replicas of cities, and even Georgia Tech’s campus, to save lives and create a better, more efficient world for all of us.

Antonia Kopp knows that clean water is vital for cities, and she wants to use her degree to ensure that Atlanta’s water system flows as it should.

Seven civil and environmental engineering teams participated in the Fall 2025 Capstone Design Expo, showcasing their semester-long design projects in transportation, dam restoration, environmental remediation, structural design and more.

Civil engineering student Grace Jiang and mechanical engineering students Devasena Sitaram and Nishita Tonangi traveled to Nepal as part of the Georgia Tech chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-GT) Nepal Water Sanitation Project. While there, they gathered data, met with residents, and evaluated potential solutions for a long-term, sustainable water supply system for the village of Chisopani Bhirke.

Professor Rafael Bras—who honed his leadership skills as the former provost and executive vice president of academic affairs for Georgia Tech — is most passionate about sharing lessons on leadership to students of all ages these days.

Ph.D. Student Lara Rios won first place in the graduate oral presentation section at the national convention of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). 

As the Fall 2025 speaker for the Hyatt Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series, Kimberlie Staheli shared with students how she learned from her failures and found an unlikely path to becoming an internationally recognized expert in her field.

Five faculty members from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering are part of teams selected for funding in the 2025 round of Sustainability Next Research Seed Grants.

As global competitors pull ahead, Georgia Tech experts urge focus on safety and infrastructure for advanced air mobility.

Flooding can be an existential threat, affecting everything from infrastructure to health. Georgia Tech researchers are developing solutions to monitor and forecast flooding, as well as restore ecosystems to prevent future flooding. These efforts support communities’ resilience in the face of climate change and keep the U.S. secure.

Professor James Tsai and his team have created an app that uses AI and data from a phone’s camera and sensors to calculate safe driving speeds around curves in real time.

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.