Since Fall, 1999, Dr. Jorge Vanegas is the Fred and Teresa Estrada Professor in the College of Engineering (CoE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). [Note: This is a five-year appointment.] In this capacity, he is currently developing a focused, multi-disciplinary, and self-sustaining institutional infrastructure for education, research, and outreach in sustainable affordable housing and related civil infrastructure systems, for the U.S. and the Americas; and mentoring and advising the Hispanic Student Community within the CoE, and other colleges as the Faculty Advisor for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Student Chapter at Georgia Tech.