Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Taha receives NSF Early CAREER Award to identify network vulnerabilities and failures

    Ahmad F. Taha, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for fundamental research in new approaches to network sensors and controllers scheduling. His CAREER project, “Scheduling Driving Sensing and Control Nodes in Nonlinear Networks with Applications to Fuel-Free Energy Systems,” offers a novel… Read More

    Apr. 15, 2022

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    Engineering emeritus professor honored with Women’s Center Mentoring Award

    The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center has named George M. Hornberger as a recipient of one of its five annual awards for 2022. George Hornberger Hornberger, University Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, Emeritus, is one of three individuals this year to receive a Mentoring… Read More

    Mar. 30, 2022

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    Civil engineering alumna is 92 with no plans to retire from MoDOT

    Shirley Norris in her office in Missouri Department of Transportation’s St. Louis headquarters in Chesterfield. Kayla Drake/St. Louis Public Radio Editor’s note: This article is a compilation of an interview with Vanderbilt Engineering Communications and an NPR story by Kayla Drake, parts of which are republished with permission, that aired March… Read More

    Mar. 18, 2022

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    Vanderbilt-Metro partnership created to advance collaboration on connected, data-driven services

    Vanderbilt University and the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County have expanded their working relationship by creating a framework to increase collaboration on projects focused on intelligent and connected urban infrastructure and services. As partners in the new Intelligent Ecosystem Collaborative, Metro Government will identify potential projects that… Read More

    Mar. 14, 2022

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    Andrea George is assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety

    Andrea George, MS’94, PhD’07, has been promoted to assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety for Vanderbilt University. Andrea George George will oversee all chemical safety, biological safety, radiation safety and hazardous waste in the university’s research enterprise. She will continue directing a laser… Read More

    Mar. 10, 2022

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    Engineering alumna and venture philanthropy specialist to lead new Marshall Impact Accelerator at London School of Economics

    The Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics has announced that venture philanthropy and investment specialist Leslie Labruto will be director of its newly launched Marshall Impact Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind new launching ground for innovative social ventures. The new director’s immediate focus is on building the Accelerator’s strategy before… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2022

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    Two faculty members honored at inaugural endowed chair investiture ceremony

    Two faculty members were among 26 Vanderbilt faculty who were honored by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during… Read More

    Mar. 2, 2022

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    Three PhD engineering students win prestigious Eisenhower transportation fellowships

    Eisenhower Fellows, L-R, Matthew Nice, Madeline Allen and Yanbing Wang were honored at the recent Transportation Research Board of the National Academies at its 2022 annual meeting in Washington D.C. Three civil engineering Ph.D. students have received prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships, an honor that highlights Vanderbilt’s thriving position as… Read More

    Feb. 19, 2022

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    Engineering grad students attend COP26, present their work on NSF-supported project

    Two engineering graduate students and 14 undergraduate students represented Vanderbilt University 3,923 miles away in Glasgow, Scotland, as official delegates to the United Nations international climate change negotiations—dubbed COP26. Leah Dundon The extraordinary opportunity was facilitated by Leah Dundon, director of the Vanderbilt Climate Change Initiative and research assistant professor… Read More

    Feb. 8, 2022

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    Oskay named chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Çağlar Oskay has been named chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and holds a secondary appointment as professor of mechanical engineering. His primary research focus is on multiscale computational modeling and simulation of material and structure systems… Read More

    Feb. 5, 2022