Civil And Environmental Engineering

Vanderbilt School of Engineering remained No. 34 on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering programs at doctoral institutions. U.S. News released online today its annual rankings of the United States’ best colleges and universities. For the fourth straight year, Vanderbilt… Read More

A representative from Wolfram Research, the maker of Mathematica, will give a free tech talk about Mathematica 8 on Thursday, Sept. 13. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Troy Schaudt will speak from 4 to 5 p.m. Read More

The small island nation of Sri Lanka exemplifies some of the worst conditions and best responses to the world’s environmental challenges. Located in Southern Asia off the coast of India, Sri Lanka is about the size of West Virginia. The country’s climate, terrain, natural resources and socio-political conditions combine to… Read More

Daphne Koller Daphne Koller will present her ground-breaking work in free, universally accessible college education as the first guest speaker in the 2012 -2013 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. The lecture – The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone – is Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 4:10 p.m. Read More

Ten engineering faculty members were recognized today for 25 years of service by Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos at the Fall Faculty Assembly: Mark D. Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS) Bharat L. Bhuva, professor of electrical engineering… Read More

The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of a new department chair and three new faculty members. George Hornberger George M. Hornberger, Craig E. Philip Professor of Engineering, has been named chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering. He succeeds David S. Kosson who served 12 years… Read More

David Kosson Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has assembled a group of independent technical experts to assess certain aspects of the design of a new, state-of-the art waste treatment plant that the Department of Energy is planning to construct on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington… Read More

Stephen Lane, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Smith Seckman Reid, Inc., has been inducted into the College of Fellows for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). The honor recognizes an ACEC member who through their career has elevated the standards of the engineering profession. Read More

Sankaran Mahadevan Sankaran Mahadevan, John R. Murray Professor of Engineering, has received a 2012 best paper award from the Military Operations Research Journal, a publication of the Military Operations Research Society, for the 2011 submission, “A System of Systems Approach for Effects-Based Operational Planning Under Uncertainty.”… Read More

Bethany Smith Bethany Smith, a Ph.D. 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. Smith’s award is in the open competition in the category of Systems Analysis and Energy Policy. Her award-winning research… Read More