Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Effective January 1, 2012, Peter Cummings will assume the role of an associate editor of the AIChE Journal, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Cummings is the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University. 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

The nation’s premier chemical engineering group has inducted M. Douglas LeVan, the J. Lawrence Wilson Professor of Engineering, as a Fellow. M. Douglas LeVan LeVan was inducted as a Fellow within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the organization’s October annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn. Only a minute… Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineering seniors has been awarded $15,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to design a nature inspired large-scale solar cell.  The students, under the guidance of Kane Jennings, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, participating… 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

  K. Arthur Overholser K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been selected to join ABET’s (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Academic Advisory Council. The AAC’s inaugural meeting was October 2010. The council provides a formal… Read More

Clinical Application of Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Multiphoton Microscopy October 31st, 2011, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Michael J. Levene Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Fluctuation spectroscopy is a powerful technique for measuring diffusion, chemical kinetics and photophysics that has been used by the Biophysics… Read More

The Vanderbilt Career Center (VCC) hosted an Engineering Industry Career Day at the Student Life Center with 57 companies from across the nation in attendance on Sept. 27. Industry Career Days are invitation-only events which offer a smaller, more intimate atmosphere in order to facilitate connections between employers and… Read More

Manipulation of Energy and Mass Transport at Micro/Nanoscale for Engineering Applications October 10th, 2011, SC 5326 Deyu Li Department of Mechanical Engineering Vanderbilt University Micro/Nanoscale energy and mass transport attracts much attention over the past decade because it involves rich physics and has extensive applications. In this… Read More

The Materials Science and Applications of Smart Electronic Ceramics September 26, 2011, SC 5326 Richard E. Eitel Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Smart materials can be defined as materials which “respond to an external change in a useful manner without… Read More