CEE faculty
This GW professor is the head advisor of the AISC Steel Bridge Team and the professor of CE 1010.
Who is Professor Roddis?
this bridge that connects San Francisco to Marin County CA, opened in 1937, is best known for its iconic warm color.
What is the Golden Gate bridge?
This tower suspension bridge is located on the Thames and is also the subject of a song by Fergie.
What is the London Tower Bridge?
This airport located right outside of DC was originally called the Washington National Airport, but the name was later changed in 1998 to honor a former president.
What is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport?
The Philadelphia Metro, the DC Metro, and the Boston Tea are all similar to this iconic New York City staple.
What is the Subway?
This GW professor has done thorough research on disaster management and traffic analysis and is also the head advisor of ASCE.
Who is Professor Hamdar?
This bridge is known for its impressively wide span and its tower of granite, limestone, and cement, and it connects Brooklyn to Chinatown.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
This bridge is located right next to the iconic opera house down under and is also referred to as the "Coathanger" bridge.
What is the Sydney Harbour bridge?
This byproduct of transportation engineering is an electronic toll system that allows drivers to pass through toll booths without paying; mostly used in the Eastern and midwest United States.
What is EZ-Pass?
This construction company is currently working on Amazon's new headquarters in Arlington VA and also provides select GW engineering students with a prestigious scholarship.
What is Clark Construction?
This GW professor has done research in the high bay using the mobile wall to test infrastructure design and risk management.
Who is Professor Silva?
This bridge in Florence, Italy is the only bridge in the city to have survived World War II and is best known for its restaurants and shops.
What is the Ponte Vecchio?
This US bridge at a span of 7,710 feet long, is best known for its appearance of "floating" on Lake Washington.
What is the Seattle/ Route 520 Floating Bridge?
This well-known railroad corporation's headquarters are in DC and its name is a combination of the words America and track.
what is AMTRAK?
This well-known highway consists of at least seven lanes over the Raritan River and is the bane of every New Jersey driver's existence.
What is the Garden State Parkway?
This GW professor has a research team that is working on cost effective water treatment at DC Water.
Who is Professor Riffat?
This bridge in the south of France is the tallest in the world at a height of 1,125 feet.
What is the Millau Viaduct?
This bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, was originally designed to lower traffic congestion to the 1998 World Fair.
What is the Vasco de Gama bridge?
This highway in Germany is best known for not having any sort of speed limit.
What is the Autobahn?
This non-GW engineering professor has a popular YouTube channel with lessons for the classes of statics and solids.
Who is Jeff Hanson?
This GW professor is new to SEAS and currently teaches Intro to Transportation Engineering.
Who is Professor Zhengtian Xu?
This bridge, located in Singapore, is best known for its resemblance to DNA.
What is the Helix Bridge?
This Chinese bridge is the longest transatlantic bridge in the world and took at least nine years to construct.
What is the Hangzhou Bay Bridge?
This type of train relies on magnets to reduce friction as it moves on the rails and was first introduced in the early 1900s in the USA and Germany.
What is a Maglev train?
This Scandinavian based construction company has worked on US projects such as DC Water headquarters, the Pensacola Bay Bridge, and LaGuardia Airport.
What is Skanska?