Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Professors serve on Trans-institutional Programs review council, panels

    Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) Four engineering professors will serve on review boards of the formally launched new $50 million Trans-institutional Programs initiative outlined in the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. Doug Adams, Daniel F. Flowers Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Civil and… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt team examines human factors in nuclear power plant operations

    The team studying ways to help nuclear power plant operators improve work performance and safety includes, from left, Julie Adams, Ph.D., Shilo Anders, Ph.D., Sankaran Mahadevan, Ph.D., and Matthew Weinger, M.D. Not pictured is Dan France, Ph.D., MPH. (photo by Anne Rayner) A multidisciplinary Vanderbilt… Read More

    Nov. 10, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Entrepreneurship lecture series launches; Jumpstart Foundry CEO is inaugural speaker

    Venture capitalist Vic Gatto to speak about entrepreneurs as today’s heroes The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the creation of the Chambers Family Entrepreneurial Lectureship. The semi-annual lecture series is endowed by the Chambers Medical Foundation. The intent of the lectureship is to encourage and invigorate entrepreneurial activity among… Read More

    Nov. 6, 2014

  • Researchers at Vanderbilt exploring safety of nuclear power plant concrete

    Researchers at Vanderbilt exploring safety of nuclear power plant concrete

    Researchers who want to ensure America’s nuclear power plants are safe for another generation are meeting at Vanderbilt University today and Thursday, focusing their attention on the aging concrete that encases reactors. The nation’s 100 nuclear power reactors represent a $600 billion investment and provide 65 percent of America’s non-carbon-emitting… Read More

    Nov. 5, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt students travel to Washington, D.C., for science policy event

    The event’s panels addressed policy and advocacy processes, as well as career-oriented topics. Twenty-six Vanderbilt students explored the opportunities and challenges of setting policy on federal issues and advocacy related to science, technology, engineering and math during a two-day immersion event in Washington, D.C. The Oct. 16-17… Read More

    Oct. 27, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt professor, Army Reserve colonel to JROTC: ‘We’re going to depend on you’

    Jonathan Marrufo, senior and Engineering 2 student at the Chicago Military Academy - Bronzeville, shows a robot he programmed for class to Col. Eugene J. LeBoeuf. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michel Sauret) An engineering professor who serves in the Army Reserve told Chicago teens… Read More

    Oct. 16, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Fluid power industry, academic leaders pack panel discussion on advances

    An afternoon panel at LASIR for the Fluid Power Innovation & Research Conference. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) If America wants to keep its edge in fluid power, its engineers must find ways to add even more value to manufacturing components, work across disciplines and make everything smaller. Fortunately, engineering… Read More

    Oct. 14, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering undergrads, biomedical tour wow Board of Visitors crowd

    Biomedical engineering graduate student Kristin Poole demonstrates her work for a Board of Visitors tour. A packed agenda for a panel of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering advisers included several presentations from professors, small-group strategy sessions and a tour of biomedical engineering labs. But perhaps… Read More

    Oct. 10, 2014

  • PayScale 2014-2015 survey

    Survey says Vanderbilt ranks No. 8 in highest-earning engineering graduates

    Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering ranks No. 8 on a list of schools that produce the highest-earning engineering graduates, according to a new report from the salary website PayScale.com. Vanderbilt engineering graduates’ early career salary is listed as $64,400, while graduates typically go on to… Read More

    Oct. 8, 2014

  • MuMS building

    New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row

    Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups. An Open House and inaugural MuMS Seminar Oct. 9 will celebrate the recent creation of the space located… Read More

    Sep. 26, 2014