PhD in Environmental Engineering - Smart Cities in Atlanta United States | Georgia Institute of Technology

The volume of data produced globally has skyrocketed, reaching levels of quantity and quality never before seen. This is merely the start: our digital world is expanding at a staggering pace.

Our civil and environmental engineering teams are developing innovative methods to capture data—from wireless sensors to drones—while also pioneering techniques to interpret, study, present, and apply this information.

Consider our urban infrastructure, one of the planet's most intricate networks. It blends engineered systems (like transit, utilities, and communications) with ecological elements (such as waterways, atmosphere, and woodlands) alongside societal frameworks that sustain communities (encompassing education, commerce, legal institutions, and medicine). Simulating these interconnected systems will demand handling data on a monumental scale.