Civil And Environmental Engineering

Debra Perrone, a Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment fellow, has been selected to participate in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Young Scientists Summer Program. The IIASA, located in Laxenburg, Austria, is an international research organization that conducts policy-oriented research. IIASA’s annual Young Scientists Summer Program offers research… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering graduate program improved two positions to No. 35 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2013 graduate program rankings were released today. The School, which tied with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Florida, ranks ahead of Virginia and Washington University… Read More

James H. Littlejohn The Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE), Middle Tennessee Chapter, announced March 1 that James H. Littlejohn, PE, president of Nashville-based Littlejohn Engineering Associates, has been selected as the 2012 Engineer of the Year at TSPEs recent annual awards banquet. Littlejohn is a graduate of Vanderbilt University’s… Read More

Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, and Sankaran Mahadevan, the John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, have been elected associate fellows in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). L-R: Amrutur Anilkumar, Alan Lowrey, Lockheed Martin, and Region II Director of AIAA; and… Read More

Eugene J. LeBoeuf, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This is the second highest honor given by the ASCE. LeBoeuf’s research focuses on the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, including engineered nanomaterials… Read More

About two million pounds of mercury dating back to the early days of the Cold War is still trapped inside old process buildings at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. nuclear facility and saturating the ground around them, according to a Dec. 18 article in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Process Building The Department… Read More

  Nanotechnology expert comes from University of Rochester Philippe Fauchet will be the new dean of the school of engineering at Vanderbilt University. Philippe Fauchet to succeed Kenneth Galloway as dean of the School of Engineering. Fauchet, currently chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University… Read More

Four engineering professors received newly endowed chairs in late 2011, bringing the total of named chairs in the School of Engineering to 12. The recipients are Benoit Dawant and David Kosson, both named a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Read More

Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), knows the United States faces challenges to its technological lead and to energy security.  “In many cases our nation is lagging behind and needs to change course with fierce urgency,” says Majumdar, who will deliver the John R. Read More

Three accomplished graduates were inducted into the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni during an Engineering Celebration Dinner held Oct. 20 at the university’s Student Life Center. The 2011 dinner also was a major event in the School’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration. More than 300 alumni, faculty… Read More