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Civil engineer Mickey Sullivan (BE’71, ME’79), P.E., regional vice president of Gresham, Smith and Partners, was named “Outstanding Engineer of the Year” by the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE) Nashville chapter. Sullivan was honored for his sustained contributions to the engineering industry, which have improved the public welfare and… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni William A. Davis Jr. and Joe M. Dorris each received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering during a Celebration Dinner held March 17 at the Huntsville (Ala.) Museum of Art. L-R, Bill Davis, Dean Kenneth F. Galloway, Joe Dorris The School of… Read More

The School of Engineering’s Ph.D. program tied for No. 37 with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ranking ahead of Virginia, Case Western Reserve and Washington University in St. Louis, and just behind Rice, Yale and University of Colorado-Boulder in U.S. News’s 2012 rankings of Best Engineering Schools, which were released today. MIT… Read More

Paul H. King , professor of biomedical engineering, emeritus, is the 2011 recipient of the highest award given by the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award is given to an educator for lifetime achievement in teaching, research… Read More

Northrop Grumman Corporation has named alumnus Kelley Zelickson, BE’79 vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for the Defense Technologies division in the company’s Information Systems sector on February 7. Zelickson will lead a team of professionals to provide integrated air, space and missile defense solutions to the… Read More

Graduate student Zhou Xu from the Laibinis group will defend his Ph.D thesis on March 18th 2011 at 11.10 am in 107 Olin Hall. Engineered Microarrayed Surfaces for the Detection of Biomolecules DNA microarrays have become an increasingly important tool for genomic investigations. This work is directed toward establishing methods… Read More

Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of an Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The award will be presented at the first NIBIB Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Symposium on… Read More

Watch video of speech by Vanderbilt engineering alumnus Chikai Ohazama, Google Inc. product manager and co-founder of Google Earth. Read More

Watch video of talk by Edwin McAlister, director of Air and Missile Defense Programs for Northrop Grumman. Read More

Two junior engineering faculty members – Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Hak-Joon Sung and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert J. Webster III – have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development grants. According to the National Science Foundation, CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university… Read More