Alumni

Senior engineering student Pauline Roteta has been selected for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil. Pauline Roteta Roteta will graduate in May with a major in civil engineering and a minor in Chinese. In August she will begin work at an asset management firm in New York. If she… Read More

Stacy Stansell Gardner, adjoint professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, has received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from Duke University’s Engineering Alumni Association. She was honored April 14 at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, N.C. Stacy Gardner Gardner is the the director of the Center for STEM Education… Read More

Robert Andrew Weeks, research professor emeritus of materials science and mechanical engineering, died April 10, in Maryville, Tenn. He was 87. Weeks was a distinguished research scientist in the field of solid state physics as well as a notable glass scientist. At the end of a 33-year career at… Read More

  Click to read catalog Senior engineering students are challenged to solve real-world design issues for university and corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. Students will share results with their clients and the Vanderbilt community at Senior Design Day, April 19, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill… Read More

Kenneth F. Galloway has been elected to serve as president-elect of the American Society for Engineering Education.  Galloway is dean of the School of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering. He will become president-elect at the 2012 Annual Conference June 10-13 in San Antonio, Texas, and will assume the presidency… Read More

  , professor of civil and environmental engineering, was surprised in the middle of a research group meeting April 2 with the presentation of the Vanderbilt University Alumni Association Alumni Education Award. The Alumni Education Award is given annually to a full-time Vanderbilt faculty member who has contributed substantially to… Read More

Curtis Northcutt, a member of the Class of 2013, has been named a 2012 Goldwater Scholar. Each year, Vanderbilt is given the opportunity to nominate up to four outstanding sophomore and junior students in the math, science and engineering fields. Competition for the award is fierce: 282 scholars were selected… Read More

Ten current engineering graduate students recently received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. “Ten awards in a single year is a new high water mark for the School of Engineering,” said George Cook, the School’s Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. “These are outstanding engineering students who… Read More

Two engineering faculty members were recognized for their achievements in and out of the classroom by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly March 29, 2012. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Janos Sztipanovits and David Weintraub at Faculty Spring Assembly in Langford Auditorium (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Janos Sztipanovits,… Read More

Robert F. Labadie, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is the recipient of the 2012 Department of Bioengineering Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. Labadie was the first Ph.D. recipient (’95) from the University of Pittsburgh’s bioengineering program. During his training, Labadie was a… Read More