Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • A conversation with community entrepreneurs

    A conversation with community entrepreneurs

    Great ideas, or great businesses, aren’t developed in a vacuum. The Vanderbilt Center for Student Professional Development is hosting – Innovation, Imagination, Introductions: A Conversation with Community Entrepreneurs – Oct. 24, 3-5 p.m. in the Student Life Center. Students will have the opportunity to mingle with entrepreneurs in the… Read More

    Oct. 11, 2013

  • Study abroad programs added for Madrid and Tel Aviv

    Study abroad programs added for Madrid and Tel Aviv

    The School of Engineering and the Global Education Office recently added two new study abroad programs in Madrid and Tel Aviv. GEO provides educational opportunities abroad that are well integrated into the Vanderbilt curriculum. As a result, Vanderbilt sends undergraduate engineers abroad at a 20 percent rate well above… Read More

    Oct. 9, 2013

  • Career Day connects students with employers to increase job and internship placement

    Career Day connects students with employers to increase job and internship placement

    Select the image to view the Career Day photo album   Nearly 550 first-year through Ph.D. students attended the Engineering and Information Technology Industry Career Day in the Student Life Center ballrooms Sept. 25. Job seekers and students searching for internships networked with 61 companies from across… Read More

    Oct. 1, 2013

  • Mason Hickman

    CEE senior continues award-winning research in graduate school

    Two months before graduating with a degree in civil engineering Mason Hickman earned two awards at the 2013 Southeastern Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education for his research on portable structures capable of withstanding blasts from explosives. Mason Hickman Hickman, from Bountiful, Utah, participated in the annual… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2013

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    Lancers’ legend lives on for ‘60s hometown graduates

    By Vincent Troia For a brief moment half a century ago, four Vanderbilt University engineering students were band mates in ‘Nashville’s Most Popular Combo.’ How they managed to attain that title is a longer story – one that was recently recounted as if it happened yesterday. As the Lancers,… Read More

    Sep. 12, 2013

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    Engineering faculty on committees appointed to help with strategic planning

    Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has appointed faculty to four steering committees and accompanying academic planning groups that will contribute to the campuswide strategic planning effort. More than 140 faculty will participate in this effort along with the 25-person Executive Committee that was appointed earlier this summer. Nineteen engineering faculty are… Read More

    Aug. 23, 2013

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    Grad student wins first place in DOE fuel cycle research competition

    Lyndsey Morgan Fyffe, a doctoral student in environmental engineering, has been awarded a first place prize in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards competition. Fyffe Fyffe’s award is in the category of energy policy, and her award-winning research paper, “Developing Operational Safety Performance Measures for… Read More

    Jul. 15, 2013

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    Engineering shares Vanderbilt space at Nashville Entrepreneur Center

    Vanderbilt now has designated space at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s new downtown incubator at 41 Peabody Street in the city’s historic Rolling Mill Hill area. Dedicated Vanderbilt space at the EC. The VU@EC program was developed in conjunction with the School of Engineering and the Center for Technology Transfer &… Read More

    Jul. 10, 2013

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    Krahn receives U.S. academy’s environmental engineering certification

    Steven L. Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering, has been accepted by eminence into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member in the specialty practice of hazardous waste management. Krahn Krahn performs research in the technologies associated with the… Read More

    Jul. 9, 2013

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    School announces new department chairs, associate deans, five faculty appointments

    Adams The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of two department chairs, two associate deans, and five new faculty members. The appointments are effective July 1, 2013. Douglas Adams has been named Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Adams comes to Vanderbilt from… Read More

    Jul. 1, 2013