For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast and always needing a recharge. That’s where “SlothBot” comes in.
Strictly Ballroom: Chase Warner Lights Up the Dance Floor
This industrial engineering major and his dance partner Cameron Russ — a biomedical engineering major — spend several hours a day practicing to perfect their ballroom technique.
Shatakshee Dhongde, associate professor in the School of Economics, is working with the Georgia Department of Transportation on on the first-ever project to measure the economic impact of bicycling in Georgia.
“When you hear about medicine and engineering, you think biomedical engineering,” said this electrical and computer engineering assistant professor. “I have always liked medicine, and I liked making things.”
By partnering with five schools in the Atlanta Public School district, the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing provided 150 students access to rigorous computer science coursework during its first year.
Today marks the official opening of Coda, the newest addition to Tech Square, which is now home for many Georgia Tech faculty and staff members and their industry partners.
Four Georgia Tech students and recent graduates were selected to study or do research abroad through the Fulbright program, which covers travel and living expenses.
Academic Forgiveness Expands Beyond First-Year Students
Recent policy changes now allow any undergraduate student, during any year of study, to repeat a course in which they received a D or an F and have their new grade substituted in the calculation of academic GPA.