| School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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