Alumni

Prominent environmental attorney and advocate Mary Ellen Ternes, BE’84, will deliver the inaugural Mary Ellen Ternes Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate (VSEC), on October 22. The lectureship was endowed last spring in honor of Ternes, who will be speaking on… Read More

During his five years as a special agent with the FBI, Ryan Castle, BE’03, MS’05, was exposed to the inner workings of criminal organizations, particularly the victimization of companies by computer intrusions. Since Castle left law enforcement, the problem has only gotten worse. In 2023, the FBI received a record… Read More

Vanderbilt alumnus Ruoyu Wang has been selected to receive the prestigious 2024 Jacobs Engineering Group/AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ruoyu Wang The award recognizes an outstanding doctoral dissertation that contributes to the advancement of environmental science and engineering. Wang, Ph.D. ’23, is currently a postdoctoral associate in the… Read More

Barge Design Solutions, an engineering and architecture firm, is collaborating with Vanderbilt University’s Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative to educate executives on how to embrace and harness this groundbreaking technology in business leadership. Jules White To kick off the collaboration, Jules White, senior advisor to Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier… Read More

The industry association, Healthcare Leadership Council, has named School of Engineering alumnus and Board of Visitors member Calvin W. Schmidt, BE’90, as Chairman of the Board for 2024-2025. Schmidt is currently a Senior Vice President at Johnson & Johnson. Over the course of his tenure… Read More

by Lucas Johnson In the fall of 2017, a pair of curious Vanderbilt students approached Steve Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering and a former Department of Energy official, to discuss novel ways of using nuclear energy to power aerospace vehicles. Their hypothesis… Read More

With more than 40 engineering-specific funds and three School of Engineering alumni challenges, students, alumni, faculty, staff and parents have a multitude of ways to support the school during Giving Day 2023: Dare to Grow, a 24-hour event Thursday, April 27. The tradition of Giving Day is… Read More

Richard Shiavi, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Emeritus and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, has died at the age of 80. Shiavi passed away on Friday, March 31, surrounded by his family. Professor Emeritus Richard Shiavi Shiavi joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1972. For 20 years, he was active in biomedical… Read More

Engineering school’s Chambers Lecture is April 4 at the Wond’ry Vanderbilt engineering alumna, designer, author and entrepreneur Krista Donaldson has addressed global health inequities through the design and scaling of disruptive medical devices that treated more 1.8M patients, mostly children and young people, in 80 countries. Now, she directs Innovation… Read More

To watch video footage from one of Blue Origin’s crewed space launches—six have taken place so far, carrying passengers ranging from Alan Shepard’s daughter, Laura Shepard Churchley, to a member of the YouTube sensation Dude Perfect—is like seeing science fiction unfold in real-time. One of the people responsible for… Read More