Categories Engineering

July 11, 2025

Space: The Current Frontier

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Georgia Tech engineers have the solar system covered, with projects hundreds — or millions — of miles from home.

Ahmed Yunus and Yongsheng Chen working with a wastewater reactor system in the lab.

July 10, 2025

‘Biochar’ Can Naturally Clean the Pollution that Rain Washes Off Georgia’s Roads

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A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.

Photo of Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer

July 9, 2025

Lighting the Way to Faster Data Transfer

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DARPA is backing Professor Ali Adibi’s work to use light, not electricity, to move data faster and more efficiently in next-generation electronics.

July 3, 2025

How Agentic AI is Rethinking the Origins of Life on Earth

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Georgia Tech researchers Amirali Aghazadeh and Daniel Saeedi discuss AstroAgents, an agentic AI system that analyzes space chemistry to generate new ideas for life’s beginnings.

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

June 24, 2025

Fan Zhang Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

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Fan Zhang, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has received the 2025 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

July 1, 2025

Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

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By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.

the planet mars with a satellite flying in front of it

June 25, 2025

Mars Rising as the New Frontier of Science and Strategy

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As the White House accelerates plans for a 2026 crewed mission to Mars, Georgia Tech experts highlight the engineering, scientific, and diplomatic challenges that will shape the success—and sustainability—of humanity’s next giant leap.

June 17, 2025

Dematic's Sowmya Ananthachary Joins the SCL Industry Advisory Board

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Ms. Ananthachary brings a wealth of experience in enterprise software and cloud technologies to the SCL Advisory Board.

Jud Ready holds a sample of a perovskite solar cell, along with other samples similar to those launched to the International Space Station. (Photo: Branden Camp)

May 19, 2025

10 Questions with Jud Ready

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Ready had hoped earning his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech would lead him to a spot in NASA’s Astronaut Corps. Instead, it’s led him to GTRI, where his passion for space is alive and well.

Members of the Georgia Center of Innovation – Logistics Advisory Board gathered at the 2025 Georgia Logistics Summit, where each received a personal note of recognition from Governor Brian Kemp for three years of dedicated service. Their collective efforts have advanced freight and logistics across Georgia—strengthening collaboration between industry, government, and academia to drive the state’s economic growth.

April 24, 2025

Georgia Center of Innovation Hosts 2025 Logistics Summit

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Center of Innovation’s 15th Logistics Summit delivers insights on digital transformation, workforce, transportation

Sarah Roney oversees nursery troughs in the UGA Shellfish Research Lab filled with young oysters growing on shells recycled from restaurants all over Georgia.

April 25, 2025

Restoring and Protecting Georgia’s Coast — With Oysters

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How a Georgia Tech grad student is building living shorelines that resist erosion and predators.

April 2, 2025

Two Undergraduate Students Win IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship

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The award will provide real-world experience to the undergraduate students in power and energy engineering careers.

March 6, 2025

School Presents Research in Weather Prediction, Carbon Storage, Nuclear Fusion, and More at Computing Conference

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Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) o

March 20, 2025

Bridging the Gap: Reusing Wind Turbine Blades to Build Bridges

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Georgia Tech researchers and alumni have installed a new kind of footbridge in an Atlanta park.

March 14, 2025

Machine Learning Encoder Improves Weather Forecasting and Tsunami Prediction

4 min read

Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Assistant Professor Peng Chen developed Latent-EnSF, a technique that improves how ML models assimilate data to make predictions.

February 18, 2025

Devesh Ranjan Named Engineering Dean at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Ranjan has established numerous fundraising, outreach, and community-building initiatives as chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

March 6, 2025

School Presents Research in Weather Prediction, Carbon Storage, Nuclear Fusion, and More at Computing Conference

5 min read

Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) o

Four researchers standing in a lab with a large roll of fiberglass insulation and a wooden rack holding small bags of hemp fiber-based insulation materials. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

February 27, 2025

Using Hemp in Building Insulation Could Make Structures Greener, Create Jobs, and Be a Profitable Industry

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CEE researchers’ analysis outlines path to a U.S. construction market for hemp-based fibers, which are already used for clothing and biodegradable plastics.