Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student Kevin Corn has been selected to take part in the 2023-2024 cohort of SEC Emerging Scholars. This fellowship program is intended to serve as a pathway and source of mentorship… Read More

The Vanderbilt Alumni Association has welcomed two new engineering alumna to its board for three-year terms that started July 1, and two returning board leaders who are engineering alumni. The Alumni Association’s mission is to engage Vanderbilt alumni in the life of the university, encourage lifelong connections and support… Read More

Engineering professors Shihong Lin and Ethan Lippmann have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows along with 11 other outstanding faculty members from across the university. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. Read More

Somtochukwu “Somto” Dimobi Okoye, BE’19, will begin a two-year term as Vanderbilt Board of Trust young alumni leader on July 1. Okoye, of London, was confirmed as a young alumni leader after serving a three-year term on the Vanderbilt Alumni Association board. Somto Okoye (submitted photo) After her graduation from Vanderbilt… Read More

Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2023 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients at the school’s May 11 Commencement Reception. “It is among my favorite duties as dean to acknowledge our students’ accomplishments that we recognize by awards and honors they have earned at… Read More

Dean Philippe Fauchet announced May 9 the promotions of engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year and presented four school awards at a reception following the meeting. Dan Work has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental… Read More

Eleven Vanderbilt engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. “With a total of 17 Vanderbilt engineering students recognized with this prestigious fellowship this year, our… Read More

Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory. She is one of just 87 awardees selected by the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research program… Read More

A team of engineering seniors has designed an embedded thermoelectric generator to convert that wavy shimmer of heat that rises from hot asphalt—waste heat radiation—into electrical energy. To protect soldiers’ hands from heat burns while rappelling from helicopters, another team has created ‘fast rope’ insertion gloves. These design projects and… Read More

Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a nationally renowned researcher, will be the next Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver announced today. Read More