Civil And Environmental Engineering

From 11 to noon Wednesday, April 7, engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet will match gifts from donors to the school that reach a total of $2,500 during a ‘Power Hour’ challenge on Vanderbilt Giving Day. Philippe Fauchet “Giving Day is an opportunity to help advance the school’s mission of education,… Read More

Vanderbilt civil engineering undergraduates reimagined infrastructure of a future megacity to support vertical gardens as an answer to food shortages. They devised ways to make in-person conferences more sustainable. In a timed transportation engineering challenge, they tasks such as documenting traffic light signal timing and redesigning an existing street for… Read More

Janey Camp (Vanderbilt University) Craig Philip (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt engineers Janey Camp and Craig Philip are co-hosting the “Innovation to Implementation Forum,” an innovation fair and research symposium focused on improving the practical implementation of TDOT’s State Planning and Research-funded research. SPR funding originates from the Federal Highway… Read More

Gbandi Nikabou is a structural engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Civil Design Branch’s Structural Section and a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at Vanderbilt University. (Courtesy Asset) Structural engineer and Vanderbilt civil engineering Ph.D. student Gbandi Nikabou received a Modern-Day Technology Leader award in February during the… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center have entered an educational partnership agreement that will link top-tier experts from Vanderbilt and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The purpose of the ERDC’s Educational Partnership Agreement is to encourage education in science, mathematics,… Read More

Since the inception of the Vanderbilt I-Corps Site Program just three years ago, more than 20 teams of VU innovators have been accepted into the National Science Foundation’s prestigious National I-Corps Program, turning their STEM ideas and research into novel inventions that improve health care, strengthen cybersecurity,… Read More

The 2021 ASCE Southeast Student Conference starts Thursday. The virtual format will include some live online events. Vanderbilt and Lipscomb are the hosts for 20+schools and more than 400 students. The 2021 American Society for Civil Engineering Southeast student conference still will feature classics such as the concrete canoe… Read More

A virtual discussion, “Trustworthy AI for Wildlife Conservation: AI and Humans Combating Extinction Together,” will take place on March 19 at 2 p.m. CT. Registration is required. The discussion is hosted by the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute. Artificial intelligence is increasingly the foundation of decisions big and… Read More

Claire Tomlin is a pioneer in hybrid control systems research, particularly aeronautical applications to address problems in aircraft flight control and collision avoidance. She has developed algorithms to help determine when unsafe conditions may arise as variables and interactions become increasingly complex. Her work includes issues of autonomous control of… Read More

Left, Civil engineering alumnus Sean Ticknor (Marc Olivier LeBlanc). Right, Sean Ticknor and members of his Big Skills Tiny Home team work on structures that help the high school-aged team members learn many aspects of homebuilding. (Courtesy of Big Skills Tiny Homes) For Sean Ticknor, BE’99, the light-bulb moment came… Read More