Research

Solar Jackets Team Leader Nathan Melanson works on solar powered car

Georgia Tech has 21 Endowed Chairs and 23 Research Centers that include significant sustainability components or a sustainability focus. Interdisciplinary Research Centers, Corporate Partnerships, NSF and SEED funding all support major sustainability research at Georgia Tech. We have many highly referenced (h-index), green chemistry award winning (including Presidential Green Chemistry Award winning) researchers as well as many accomplished graduate and undergraduate researchers in the area of environmental sustainability. The collaborative research culture at Georgia Tech invites all members of the campus community to take part in the innovation.

Office of Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Georgia Tech undergraduate students have many opportunities to participate in research with faculty across campus.

President's Undergraduate Research Award

Competitively funds individual requests by a student/faculty teams to support undergraduate student involvement in faculty research.

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Energy and Environment Research

Georgia Tech Ireland: Sustainable Energy

Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC)

The Office of Policy Analysis and Research (OPAR)

Environmental Radiation Center (ERC)

Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Center (ESOH)

Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

Air Resources Engineering Center

Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID)

Center for Geographic Information Systems

Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies (FC/BT)

Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)

Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD)

Center for Urban and Regional Ecology (CURE)

Construction Research Center

Expanding Closed-loops in Production Systems (ECLIPS)

Georgia Tech Research Institute: Energy and Environment Research

Georgia Water Resources Institute

Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship

Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST)

Manufacturing Research Center (MaRC)

National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center (NEETRAC)

Reverse Production Systems

Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC)

Specialty Separations Center (Green Chemistry)

Strategic Energy Institute (SEI)

Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM)

Sustainable Industrial Systems for Urban Regions (SISFUR)

Systems Realization Laboratory (SRL)

University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics (UCEP)

Milton H. Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering

Smart Trash: Finding ways for products to begin to manage their own recycling

Energy from plants: effective ways to utilize croplands and timberlands to produce energy

The future of air transport: reducing emissions and dependence on petroleum

Eliminating E-waste

Natural Systems: Finding ways to mimic nature to create more sustainable and efficient systems.

Sustainability Metrics: Developing measures of sustainability so change can be evaluated over time.

Market-based pricing models for energy (such as crude oil, natural gas and electricity) production, transportation and storage assets

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education (UCEP)

COPE: Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics

LED Technology

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols & Clouds

Geophysics

Geochemistry

Land Surface Processes & Hydrology

Oceanography

Remote Sensing

Applications & Decision Support

Dynamics of Weather & Climate

Public Policy

Technology Policy and Assessment Center

Sustainability and environmental policy

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Water Resources Institute

Hazardous Substances Research Center

Institute for Sustainable Technology and Development

College of Architecture

Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development

College of Management

Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE)

ECLIPS : sustainable closed-loop systems

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Studies

The Dwelling Studies Group: how humans comport themselves on earth so as to fashion a world and world view. Co-extensive with building a world, we develop a way of thinking and being. In short, we learn to dwell. The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture offers annual invited lectures on Dwelling Studies. These lectures are archived and online via the GT library archive site.