Research Makes A Better World

Research is the lifeblood of our educational mission — part of how we bring the real world to the classroom. It’s how we solve the real, complicated problems people face every day.

The College of Engineering proudly conducts $297 million 
in research each year.

Here’s what that really means and how it changes lives.

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Prasad Dasi heart valve simulation

Ai for Heart Surgery

Saving Lives With 3D Heart Simulations

Biomedical engineers are creating 3D simulations of heart-valve replacements that show doctors exactly what will happen before they operate. The tool allows surgeons to refine their plan and save the lives of people with the most complicated or highest-risk cases.

Learn how they do it

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Faster First Response

Preventing Drowning

Civil engineers have created a system that watches a dangerous stretch of river in Columbus, Georgia. With a computer model, cameras, and AI, it alerts first-responders before people are swept away by the current.

See how it works

firemen testing gather around columbus river to test first alert system
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Solar Panel Prototype

A Cleaner World

Keeping Solar Panel Production in America

Materials scientists have created a new kind of solar panel without silicon. The material they use is cheaper to produce and plentiful in the U.S. That will make it easier to build the panels here at home and get more people using renewable energy.

Check out the material

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Wearable Robots to Help People Move

In Aaron Young’s lab, researchers are designing robotic limbs and futuristic exoskeletons to help people get around more easily in their everyday lives.

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flooding cars during Hurrican Iris

Safer Neighborhoods

Taming Coastal Flooding

With sea levels rising and land sinking, the risk of flooding is only getting worse for many coastal communities. Civil engineers are helping cities and counties keep the waters at bay by picking the right kinds of flood-control strategies and putting them in the right places. And they’ve started in Georgia’s oldest city.

Learn how they’re helping

demonstration on how the thermograhic breast cancer detection device works

Student Innovation

Better Cancer Screening – at Home

Ph.D. student Gianna Slusher has patented a unique wall-mounted device and companion smartphone app to make it easier for women to check themselves for breast cancer. It’s noninvasive, radiation-free, and much more comfortable than traditional mammograms.

See the device

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3d printed heart valve

Personalized Medicine

3D Printed Heart Valves

The only treatment for millions of people with heart valve disease is surgery to repair or replace the faulty valve. It’s often only a temporary fix. Biomedical engineers are taking a new approach that regenerates rather than replaces. They can 3D-print a heart valve that — once implanted — is eventually absorbed by the body and replaced with new, functioning tissue.

Explore their work

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