Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    LASIR is key part of new manufacturing hub announced by Obama

    Vanderbilt research will help shape the future of American manufacturing A cutting-edge Vanderbilt lab that studies how materials, structures and machines operate under real-world conditions will play a key part in the new multistate, $259 million Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) to be announced today by President Obama. Read More

    Jan. 9, 2015

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    Q&A: Vanderbilt alumna is GDOT’s first female chief engineer

    A Vanderbilt University School of Engineering alumna is the first female chief engineer for Georgia’s transportation department. Meg Pirkle, CE'89 Meg Bryson Pirkle earned her Vanderbilt bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1989 and went to work for Georgia Department of Transportation’s planning department the same year,… Read More

    Dec. 31, 2014

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    Discovery Canada show features Professor Doug Adams and intelligent materials

    A screen grab of Professor Doug Adams from this week's "Daily Planet" show. (Courtesy of Discovery Canada) The Discovery Canada show “Daily Planet” featured a segment this week on Professor Doug Adams, who took a camera crew on a tour of his intelligent materials research at … Read More

    Nov. 20, 2014

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    NEE students gain hands-on experience at plants, national recognition for work

    Ph.D. students Bethany (Smith) Burkhardt, left, and Lyndsey Fyffe are aiding with decommissioning in the Hanford nuclear site in the state of Washington. (Photo: U.S. Department of Energy) Across the country, schools of engineering devote their researchers to building a better nuclear power plant. Vanderbilt University’s engineers… Read More

    Nov. 18, 2014

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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