Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering offers the resources of a major technological university and a location in the heart of cosmopolitan Atlanta. The College is the largest of the Institute’s six colleges, enrolling more than 60 percent of the students at Georgia Tech and about half of all tenured and tenure track faculty at the Institute. U.S. News and World Report ranks the College in the top four of engineering programs in the country. The College offers more than 50 different degree programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels through its main Atlanta campus and satellite campuses around the world. As a leader in engineering education, the College graduates the largest number of women and minority engineers in the country. Visit www.coe.gatech.edu to learn more. 

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Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellow

Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Undergraduate Scholar

Ballistic Performance of Cross-laminated Timber (CLT)

High-g Shock Acceleration Measurement Using Martlet Wireless Sensing System

Analysis methods for CFRP blast retrofitted reinforced concrete wall systems

Dynamic Response of a Full-scale Reinforced Concrete Building Frame Retrofitted With FRP Column Jackets

Demonstration of tailored impact to achieve blast-like loading

Dr. Lauren K. Stewart, a renowned expert in blast research, comes to Georgia Tech from the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in structural engineering and was a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer. She is also a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow and holds a P.E. license.

Stewart has been involved with many blast and earthquake experimental projects, including blast testing of steel structural columns, steel stud wall systems, and high performance concrete panels using the UCSD blast simulator. She has also conducted advanced finite element analysis for the World Trade Center 7, AFRL Munitions Directorate small munitions program and programs supported by the Technical Support Working Group. She is considered by many to be among the top blast researchers in the US, and has served as a senior blast engineering consultant to a number of organizations since 2007.

Stewart also serves as the director of the School's 18,000-square-foot Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory.

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Associate Professor, Director of Structural Engineering/Materials Laboratory, Civil Engineering

Assistant Professor Lauren Stewart, a blast expert, recaps the November 20 implosion of the Georgia Dome.

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Dr. Lauren Stewart is an assistant professor in the School of Civil, Environmental Engineering and director of the Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory and one of the leading experts on blast engineering in the country.

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The Georgia Tech College of Engineering is creating tomorrow's leaders in engineering, science and technology. It offers internationally renowned programs in the heart of Atlanta, giving students opportunities for research and real-world experience, and its focus on innovation gives graduates an edge. The College awards more engineering degrees to women and underrepresented minorities than any other institution in the United States, and as part of a public university, it remains an excellent value for an elite engineering education.

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