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  • Vanderbilt University

    Oak Ridge National Lab leader to deliver Hall Lecture Jan. 14

    The Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will deliver the School of Engineering’s Hall Lecture Thursday, Jan. 14, at 4 p.m. in Jacobs Believed in Me auditorium located in Featheringill Hall. A reception will follow the lecture. Thomas Zacharia Thomas Zacharia’s lecture title is… Read More

    Dec. 14, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineering professor named IEEE Fellow

      Benoit Dawant Benoit Dawant, Vanderbilt University professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at its November meeting. The IEEE Board conferred the honor – effective Jan. 1, 2010 – on… Read More

    Dec. 7, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sumner was founder of one of southeast’s leading engineering firms

    Billy Taylor Sumner, one of the founders of Barge Waggoner and Sumner, which later became Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc., now one of the southeast’s leading engineering and architectural firms, died Dec. 1. He was 86. Billy Sumner   Sumner was a noted environmental engineer specializing in the design… Read More

    Dec. 7, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    CEE student wins ASHE scholarship

      A junior engineering student has received a scholarship from the Middle Tennessee chapter of the American Society of Highway Engineers. Leslie Labruto, a civil and environmental engineering major, was awarded a $1,000 ASHE scholarship for spring semester. Greg Duncan, ASHE chapter president and Tennessee Department of Transportation Director… Read More

    Dec. 4, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Alumnus Hardaway BE’57 honored with prestigious AGC SIR Award

    L. Hall Hardaway Jr., BE’57 was honored at the Build Tennessee Awards banquet of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Associated General Contractors (AGC) for his lifetime service, commitment and dedication to the local construction industry and community November 12, 2009. The prestigious AGC SIR Award is the highest honor an… Read More

    Dec. 1, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Princeton Professor Peter R. Jaffe delivers a lecture in the Frank L. Parker Distinguished Lecture Series Nov. 2

    Peter R. Jaffe, civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University, gave a lecture as part of the Frank L. Parker Distinguished Professor Lecture Series today at 138 Featheringill Hall. His address was titled “Microbial and Geochemical Responses to Biostimulation of U(VI) Reduction in Soils and U(IV) Post-stimulation Stability” and… Read More

    Nov. 2, 2009

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    ISIS Director Sztipanovits delivers Nyquist Distinguished Lecture at Yale

    ISIS Director Janos Sztipanovits delivered the Harry T. Nyquist Distinguished Lecture at Yale University Oct. 23, 2009. The title of his lecture was Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems and Control Engineering. Sztipanovits is the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Harry… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt computer science team places first in regional round of IBM’s Battle of the Brains

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Gold Team placed first in a regional round of the 34th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest Oct. 24, making it the fifth straight year a Vanderbilt computer science team has taken top honors in a regional round. The Gold… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    $100K Gates Foundation grant supports innovative global health project

    Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical… Read More

    Oct. 21, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    MIT professor, scholar of engineering design Woodie Flowers to speak Oct. 28

      Training and education, says Professor Woodie Flowers, are very different. “I think it is time to shift gears – to shift away from the ‘sage on the stage,’” says Flowers. Universities, he says, need to get out of the business of training. Flowers, emeritus professor of mechanical… Read More

    Oct. 19, 2009