Civil And Environmental Engineering

Attendance at the Engineering and Information Technology Industry Career Day increased 11% over last year, a new high of 390 students at a Feb. 9 spring fair. The fair is hosted by the Center for Student Professional Development and offers a smaller, more intimate atmosphere in order to facilitate… Read More

Lori Troxel, associate professor of the practice, center, poses with a demonstration Tesla and some of her Cities of the Future seminar students. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) A chance meeting between a Vanderbilt University civil engineering professor and a Tesla product specialist resulted in students getting a closer… Read More

Robert Grajewski A startup veteran whose ventures range from retail to manufacturing will be joining Vanderbilt University this spring as the inaugural executive director of the newly created Innovation Center. Robert Grajewski, president of Edison Nation Medical and co-founder of Heritage Handcrafted, both in Charlotte,… Read More

Leslie Gillespie-Marthaler touring a site adjoining Sterling Ranch in Colorado. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Leslie Gillespie-Marthaler spent almost two decades as a U.S. Army officer, defense contractor and Pentagon and EPA employee, promoting sustainability across installations and federal agencies. She helped break barriers in two areas dominated by… Read More

A team of 30 Vanderbilt University students and professors from across the disciplines spent a series of information-packed, 14-hour days in suburban Denver to understand better how their work will lead to smart, sustainable cities. They returned from that winter break trip with the context of research already underway –… Read More

Three engineering professors have been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises 14 highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. “This class of fellows represents… Read More

Vanderbilt University is part of a new public-private partnership that has been awarded up to $40 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore, develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear reactor technologies to help America meet its goals for carbon emission reduction. The current award to Southern Company Services, a… Read More

  Padma Raghavan Following an extensive national search, Padma Raghavan, a distinguished researcher in high-performance computing and computational science and engineering and a proven academic research enterprise leader, has been named as Vanderbilt University’s next vice provost for research, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic… Read More

Simply put, building a makerspace requires a community, some tools, and education. How it’s accomplished varies, and that’s what the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering will explore Friday, Dec. 11, in a daylong Design, Build and Test (DEBUT) Makerspace Planning Workshop. The workshop is open to the public but attendance… Read More

Students and teachers from Whites Creek’s Academy of Alternative Energy, Sustainability and Logistics visited the School of Engineering's wind-solar energy demonstration site on Love Circle for a day of 'hands-on learning.'     When Whites Creek High School students and teachers looked for a ground-mount solar cell installation to visit,… Read More