Category Engineering | Research News Center

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February 21, 2024

Energy Materials: Driving the Clean Energy Transition

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Energy materials facilitate the conversion or transmission of energy. They also play an essential role in how we store energy, reduce power consumption, and develop cleaner, efficient energy solutions.

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

February 8, 2024

Athena Receives Prestigious Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship

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The ECE Ph.D. candidate will research emerging materials and devices for energy-efficient sustainable computing.

February 6, 2024

Mokhtarian, Sholl Elected to National Academy of Engineering

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CEE, ChBE professors are the 47th and 48th members of the Academy from Georgia Tech.

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Director of Design and Innovation Amit Jariwala, Professor Julie Linsey, Associate Chair for Administration Bert Bras, and Professor Yan Wang.

January 29, 2024

Innovation and Education: The Woodruff School's Unique Approach to Design for Mechanical Engineers

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The intersection of design and innovation drives engineering, shaping the future of products and manufacturing processes. At the forefront of this intersection is the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Overhead view of the Re-Wind crew doing structural testing on a decommissioned wind turbine blade bridge on an industrial lot.

January 26, 2024

Re-Wind USA Wins First Phase of DOE Prize

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A pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA in the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize.

Aerial shot showing members of the Re-Wind Network stand in front of a pedestrian bridge made using decommissioned wind turbine blades

January 26, 2024

Pioneering Process Leads to Big Win for Tech Research Team

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Pioneering a new recycling approach led to a big win for Re-Wind USA, a Georgia Tech research team led by Russell Gentry. The team has won the first phase of the Department of Energy's Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, receiving $75,000 and an invit

January 19, 2024

Marta Hatzell Wins ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award

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The award recognizes leading contributions of scientists and engineers active in the general fields of green chemistry, green engineering, and sustainability in the broadest sense of the chemical enterprise.

3D illustration of diamond-shaped perovskite structure in longs rows stacked in two layers.

December 19, 2023

Researchers Find They Can Stop Degradation of Promising Solar Cell Materials

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Engineers uncover the chemical interactions that make perovskites unstable and can prevent them.

December 11, 2023

Divan Selected as IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Recipient

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The globally recognized researcher in advanced power conversion technologies is the first Georgia Tech faculty member to receive the distinction.

November 9, 2023

Utilizing Photoelasticity in the Quest for Dendrite-Resistant Solid Electrolytes

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Professor Christos Athanasiou advances sustainable innovations through creative mechanics.

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October 20, 2023

IDEaS Awards 2023 Seed Grants to Seven Interdisciplinary Research Teams

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The goals of the funded proposals include identifying prominent emerging research directions on the topic of AI, shaping IDEaS future strategy in the initiative area, building an inclusive and active community of Georgia Tech researchers.

October 20, 2023

IDEaS Awards Grants and Cyberinfrastructure Resources for Thematic Programs and Research in AI

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Grants will support AI themed workshops and seminars, and data heavy interdisciplinary research in new directions in Artificial Intelligence.

Josiah Hester sits at a desk in an electronics lab at Georgia Tech with an array of prototype projects and test equipment in front of him.

October 18, 2023

NSF Grant to Develop Carbon ‘Nutrition Labels’ for a Sustainable Internet of Things

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Josiah Hester, along with researchers from Cornell and Harvard Universities, has received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation.

September 20, 2023

Daan Rutten, Finalist for Nicholson Student Paper Competition

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ISyE Student is one of six finalists.

September 18, 2023

Lieuwen to Give National Academy of Engineering Keynote on Net Zero Pathways

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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) chose Adjunct Professor and alumnus Tim Lieuwen, M.S. ME 1997, Ph.D. ME 1999, to give a keynote address about net zero pathways in the U.S. energy system as part of the 2023 Global Grand Challenges Summit.

This image shows Sean Madhavaraman, one of the leaders at GaMEP examining work product at Silon in Peachtree City, Georgia.

September 6, 2023

Georgia Tech’s GaMEP is Driving Innovation Across Georgia

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Georgia Tech faculty members are working with manufacturers in Georgia to solve problems and introduce innovations that help ensure manufacturing stays strong and advances in the state.

The sparkling shoreline along Deception Pass State Park in Oak Harbor, Washington

July 18, 2023

Turning the Tide on Climate Change

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Solar and wind power have been used as renewable energy for years, but what about waves, tides, and currents? Georgia Tech researchers are turning to our waterways to build a better planet.

April 25, 2023

Micro-Grants Community-Based Research Teams Present their Work

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The 2022-23 Micro-Grants Community-Based Research awardees presented their findings at the second annual symposium, held on April 18, 2023, in the auditorium of the Kendeda Building.

Aerial view of Tybee Island marina in Chatham County, Georgia.

April 13, 2023

Tool Helps Coastal Areas Find Ideal Spots for Water Level Sensors

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Iris Tien’s method reduces the possible locations for sensors by nearly 99% and accounts for flood risk, population vulnerability, and more.