Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists… Read More

    May. 5, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Senior design project envisions VU-owned land as container development

    A senior design team reimagined 11-plus Vanderbilt-owned acres in Wedgewood-Houston as a mixed use container development. A team of civil and mechanical engineering students has a new vision for land Vanderbilt owns in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville – apartments for graduate students, restaurants and offices made from 648 used… Read More

    Apr. 20, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering marvel may save Venice; Parker Lecture is April 23

    Venice is a city made up of about 100 islands within a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. The Italian floating city is sinking. Between 1950 and 1970, Venice sank almost 5 inches and continues to sink by about one-fifth of an inch each year. In 2019, Venice suffered severe flooding… Read More

    Apr. 19, 2021

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    Design Day on April 30 will be an interactive, virtual environment

    Students work on a prototype of a robotic elephant calf for the Nashville Zoo. Senior Design Day 2021 will highlight dozens of problem-solving projects developed over the 2020-21 academic year by teams of students, though the format is a bit different this year. The annual celebration and showcase of ingenuity… Read More

    Apr. 11, 2021

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    NREL internship shapes student’s interest in building sciences

    Before the start of her sophomore year, Kristi Maisha joined other Vanderbilt students and faculty on a trip to Sterling Ranch, a mixed-use development south of Denver. The trip included a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in nearby Golden, Co., hosted by a civil engineering alumna who is… Read More

    Apr. 8, 2021

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    Vanderbilt civil engineer to design tech-driven decision-making and disaster response tools for Houston-area food banks

    Hiba Baroud, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is a co-principal investigator on a project that will develop and deploy tools to intelligently aid in disaster preparation, response and recovery. The project is centered in Harris County, Texas—a region that suffered through this year’s winter storms and… Read More

    Apr. 2, 2021

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dean Fauchet issues Power Hour match challenge for Vanderbilt Giving Day, April 7

    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

    Apr. 1, 2021

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    ASCE chapter wins nine awards in 2021 regional conference

    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

    Mar. 31, 2021

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    Vanderbilt engineers co-host TDOT ‘Innovation to Implementation Forum’ March 31

    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

    Mar. 31, 2021

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    U.S. Army Corps structural engineer and grad student honored as 2021 technology leader

    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

    Mar. 31, 2021