All the technology underpinning huge events like the World Cup is mostly invisible. Our electrical and computer engineering experts pull back the curtain on the tech that keeps fans connected, ensures safety, and helps athletes perform at their peak. b.gatech.edu/4oDdSAc

Dropping a new Helluva Engineer magazine in your timeline — with a peek into interesting research labs (a mini ocean & mini moon, among them) and ways we're partnering with industry on real-world challenges. Check it out: coe.gatech.edu/magazine

ICYMI: Four years of hard work paid off for the Georgia Tech EcoCAR team with a FIRST PLACE finish at their final competition! AND: they swept 1st in the technical, communications & vehicle demonstration categories. Great job! b.gatech.edu/3Q4yMeL

Pleased to share Steve Ruffin will be interim chair of aerospace engineering, guiding one of the nation's best AE programs during our search for a permanent school chair. A long-time faculty member, he was most recently associate dean in the College of Lifetime Learning. b.gatech.edu/4uNnR8p

From this year’s FAIR Tech competition: Engineering solutions to improve navigation and access across Georgia Tech’s campus & an event template to help students share their food and culture with each other. Meet the winners: b.gatech.edu/4dDcUQM

Mitchell Walker is the new dean of engineering at Georgia Tech, leading our College into the next era. A respected researcher in advanced propulsion, Walker has been a faculty member & leader in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering since 2005. b.gatech.edu/4u0m6Ds

A tour of some of Georgia Tech’s most advanced manufacturing machines on the 1st installment of our new YouTube series Engineered at Tech. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/dgfJFt_6Ils

Impactful research. Stellar teaching. Dedication to service. Passion for invention and entrepreneurship. We’re proud to recognize this year’s College of Engineering Faculty Award Winners, including @laurensteimle.bsky.social, @hollister-lab.bsky.social & others: b.gatech.edu/4v2eHES

For Tau Beta Pi Cup winner Michael Silas, community & connection have been a key part of his Georgia Tech experience. Meet the @georgiatechchbe.bsky.social major who won the College’s top honor for graduating students: b.gatech.edu/4wJz4Iy

Congratulations to Craig Forest & Hang Lu, who’ve been honored with the University System of Georgia’s highest faculty distinction. Forest has been appointed a Regents’ Entrepreneur & Lu a Regents’ Professor. b.gatech.edu/4nosmTS

This weekend, we sent another 3,000 engineers out to serve our world. Among them was someone who’s been at that work for 6 decades already, but service in the Army kept him from Commencement in ’60 & ’66. 🎓 Meet Ken Grundborg: b.gatech.edu/4tv7hZt 📸 More photos: bit.ly/4dCg5b5

In 2022, Lukas, Rivash, Priscilla, Antonia, Carson and Ghufran had big plans for their lives. And Georgia Tech was going to help them get there. Now it’s time for their exit interviews. b.gatech.edu/4uAKuMU

Defense against enemy drones. Systems to improve organ transplants. Methane-oxygen rocket designs. Swimming simulators. Help for nonprofits, drivers, drummers, golfers. It was all on display at our Capstone Design Expo. b.gatech.edu/4mVRUr8

Ultra low-power and still high-speed. Georgia Tech researchers are using special lenses to unlock unheard of data speeds for backscatter systems that could allow battery-free wireless sensors to be deployed at massive scale. b.gatech.edu/4sW43xR

Fabric from fungi? @gatechmse.bsky.social student Mya Love Griesbaum has created a sustainable fashion startup to help the planet and connect people to it more closely. They're using fungi to decompose synthetic textile waste and turn it into new fabrics. b.gatech.edu/494vf6i

Georgia Tech engineering and computing researchers have created battery-free smart home sensors from simple metal tags. They produce unique ultrasonic pulses that can signal door & window openings and other activities to a nearby wearable device. b.gatech.edu/3QwfYor

Researchers in @georgiatechchbe.bsky.social can use light to make a microscopic “muscle” contract on command. The ability to control those tiny forces could inform designs for new synthetic cells that deliver drugs. b.gatech.edu/4mgaSZv

TWO top-ranked programs – industrial and biomedical engineering – and a jump to No. 3 for mechanical engineering in the new @usnews.com graduate engineering rankings. Every program is 9th or better with engineering overall at No. 4. Get the full rundown: b.gatech.edu/4tRXYDF

Engineered cell lines can take years and millions of dollars to develop. So there’s real potential for theft and industrial espionage. @georgiatechchbe.bsky.social engineers now can protect valuable genetic material with a new “lock” that works at the DNA level. b.gatech.edu/4v82QFN

Humans are about to circle the moon for the first time in 50+ years aboard Artemis II. Georgia Tech engineers reflect on why we go to the moon … and why it matters. b.gatech.edu/3NOclcH

Congratulations Georgia Tech engineers @rbeyah.bsky.social & Gabriel Rincón-Mora for their election to #AAASFellow by @aaas.org! It’s a lifetime honor (and one that has celebrated Tech researchers for more than 100 years). b.gatech.edu/3PuvlgQ

With new generative models, Georgia Tech materials scientists can use AI to design polymers based on the properties they need. The models are like an LLM that speaks chemical language instead of words. b.gatech.edu/4t5YKfx

Such a special weekend gathering to celebrate our Alumni Awards. Some highlights: Dean’s Impact Award for Hex & 10 Hall of Fame inductees. Plus new mid-career distinguished engineers & outstanding young alumni. See all the winners: b.gatech.edu/3PAPMZl

Mosquitos may seem like they’re swarming you all together in the summer. But actually, they’re each following their own cues. New insights from Georgia Tech mechanical engineers on mosquitos' flight behavior could improve how we control the pests: b.gatech.edu/4uC6esq

Beyond the immediate devastation of the war in Iran, the conflict has also illuminated a rapidly growing danger: the vulnerability of ships to disruption of navigation systems. @gatechengineers.bsky.social researcher explains in @us.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/when-gps-lie...

Moving beyond symptom management toward real treatment for lymphatic disease, thanks to a $21.8M investment from @arpa-h.bsky.social. What Susan Thomas & Brandon Dixon have in mind: b.gatech.edu/40vbVdR

Researchers at @gatechengineers.bsky.social and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have developed a new, flexible, sensor-filled fabric to monitor areas at risk of pressure injuries and alert hospital staff when a patient needs to be turned. b.gatech.edu/47rCvbE www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wus...

From medical and exoskeleton robots to new materials and civil engineering data collection, our 4 new National Academy of Inventors senior members are turning research into real-world impact. b.gatech.edu/46scw3o

We’re dreaming of a new home for our aerospace engineering school, and The Delta Air Lines Foundation is helping us move it closer to reality! The facility will elevate one of the nation’s top aerospace programs & fuel Georgia's economy. b.gatech.edu/4aPZNZP

Excited to welcome the Geosynthetic Institute to its new home at Georgia Tech and to Atlanta later this year! b.gatech.edu/4b8HC2A

Aerospace engineer Yashwanth Nakka can’t get to the moon to test his rover designs and control algorithms. So he’s bringing the moon to Atlanta. youtu.be/6mfijEE-9Gc

Congratulations to David McDowell for his election to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors for engineers! He spent his entire career as a Georgia Tech engineer, building computer algorithms & models to predict how materials deform and fail. b.gatech.edu/4kDvJ8g

Yao Xie is joining the @nationalacademies.org New Voices initiative for 2026-28, helping expand the expertise engaged in the Academies’ work. The Georgia Tech industrial engineer will bring perspectives in data science, operations research & machine learning to the program. b.gatech.edu/4tol6Ke

With "epidermal virtual reality," Georgia Tech engineer Matt Flavin is using haptics to create a realistic sense of physical touch that could help blind people navigate their environments or stroke patients stabilize their gait. b.gatech.edu/4qdego9

One way to boost computing performance and lower cost is to rethink how chips are packaged. Instead of building one massive chip, engineers in Georgia Tech researchers produce small chiplets. When assembled, they can outperform traditional monolithic designs. b.gatech.edu/4a5gmAD

Atlanta's notoriously bad traffic can have life-threatening consequences for patients in ambulances. Georgia Tech engineers are using a digital twin of North Ave to predict when and how to clear the path in emergencies — saving critical minutes that can save lives. b.gatech.edu/3Z5EQob

Omer Inan's lab is working on a wristband to short-circuit debilitating responses for people with PTSD or other stress-related disorders. The device would sense the rising stress response & deliver precise electrical stimulation to blunt the overreaction. b.gatech.edu/4qDCXv8

Georgia Tech's Shimeng Yu is changing how processors and memory chips are physically connected — stacking them vertically to move data across the chips’ full surfaces not just a narrow edge. That means moving data faster to handle the huge demand of AI models. b.gatech.edu/3NFxk0J

Georgia Tech engineers are using AI & brain-machine interfaces to help patients with ALS or stroke damage reconnect with the world. Looking at both hand movements & speech in the brain, they're trying to recreate the ability to seamlessly switch between different kinds of tasks. b.gatech.edu/45fHWcN

Getting water is a daily challenge for the 1,000 residents of Chisopani Bhirkhe, a small rural village in Nepal. Georgia Tech engineering students are working to help, designing and deploying a system to stabilize water supply and improve access. b.gatech.edu/49A7T8i

Apple Vision Pro headsets are making the invisible (or hard to visualize) tangible for our electrical and computer engineering students. They're able to interact with tough abstract concepts & turn budding ideas for spatial computing into real-world startups. b.gatech.edu/4qce6y8

Imagine wearable health devices, smartwatches & body implants working together to deliver therapies quickly and at precisely the right spot. That's the future Alex Abramson is creating, including implants small enough to be placed by syringe instead of surgery. b.gatech.edu/49iYr8U

We're far from done fitting more transistors onto computer chips. But only a few places are skilled enough to keep pushing the limits. At Georgia Tech, Suman Datta is working in 3D, stacking more transistors in the same footprint — without damaging the lower layers. b.gatech.edu/4ppgOzj

Georgia Tech civil engineers are helping Charleston, SC, officials predict when floodwaters will limit access to a key hospital and pre-position emergency responders. Their digital twin of the city uses real-time data to make smart, hyper-local decisions in critical moments. b.gatech.edu/450Q5lc

Sleep disturbances are tough to detect. Studies in a special lab just don't replicate a good night's sleep in patients' own beds. Mechanical engineer Hong Yeo has a better way: a trio of soft wireless devices able to capture gold-standard sleep data in the comfort of home: b.gatech.edu/4pWVOkm

How we get around is changing as new options like self-driving rideshares arrive in earnest. Civil engineer Srinivas Peeta is unraveling what that means for communities and how we plan for a more connected transportation future. Hop in: b.gatech.edu/4aE5tYj

Power amplifier chips are in all our modern wireless devices, boosting signals in cell phones, satellites & more. They take lots of energy & produce lots of heat. Georgia Tech ECE alumnus Edgar Garay has designed a chip that's 2x as efficient, 2x as powerful, and 1/2 the size. b.gatech.edu/4pbHIdH

The challenge for modern computing isn't just putting more transistors on a chip; it’s engineering progress across “the stack,” from materials & devices at the bottom to software at the top. We're working on $1B+ in projects to meet that challenge. b.gatech.edu/4j9Mo2p

Data centers are resource hogs. We see it in headlines — and our energy bills. But what can we do about it? Georgia Tech engineers are creating new approaches to data centers and cooling materials to help. And thinking about the energy picture, too. b.gatech.edu/4oZl209

Excited to partner with @rivianofficial.bsky.social to support talented electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students! The first Rivian Scholars program will offer students tuition support plus internship opportunities at the electric vehicle company. rivian.com/newsroom/art...