FACULTY ACCOLADES
Amekudzi-Kennedy Honored for Curriculum Innovation
Professor Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy has been named the 2020 winner of Georgia Tech’s Curriculum Innovation Award. This award is given annually to one faculty member for improving the quality of education at Georgia Tech through pedagogical and curricular innovation. Amekudzi-Kennedy is the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s associate chair for global engineering leadership and entrepreneurship. She was selected for the Curriculum Innovation Award in recognition of her work leading the development and implementation of the Global Engineering Leadership Minor (GELM). The program, which is administered through CEE, is one of three tracks in the Institute’s Minor in Leadership Studies, alongside business management and public policy tracks.
New Research Center Will Study Mine Tailings and Industrial Waste
Assistant Professor Jorge Macedo established The Tailings and Industrial Waste Engineering (TAILENG) research center, a consortium of faculty at four universities: Georgia Tech, Colorado State University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Illinois. The center will be dedicated to studying mine tailings and industrial waste in an effort to build safer waste storage systems and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic failures. Through fundamental and applied research, TAILENG will work to: improve the resilience, safety, and sustainability of infrastructure in the mining and power industries, with a focus on innovative and economical technologies; advance the state of the art and practice in the design, operation, and closure of tailings and industrial waste storage facilities; and improve the understanding of anthropogenic geomaterials.
Paulino’s Research Recognized with Medals from Three Organizations
Professor Glaucio Paulino has been selected as the winner of three medals in 2020 that recognize his pioneering origami and tensegrity engineering research and contributions to the field of mechanics. He received the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Daniel C. Drucker Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and The J.N. Reddy Medal from the Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures journal. He is the first professor from Georgia Tech to receive each of the three medals. Paulino, who holds the Raymond Allen Jones Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has more than 240 scholarly publications and has attracted international attention for his work on computational mechanics, topology optimization and origami engineering.
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