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The Vanderbilt Alumni Association announced April 1 that senior Leslie Labruto will serve as the 2011 Young Alumni Trustee, where alongside the current trustees, she will seek to provide both the current student and young alumni perspectives to the Board of Trust. Labruto is a Civil Engineering major with… Read More

A new interdisciplinary minor in scientific computing will be offered in fall 2011 to help students interested in pursuing careers as natural and social scientists and engineers acquire the computational skills that such careers demand. Bodenheim The minor was created by faculty from both the School of Engineering… Read More

Civil engineer Mickey Sullivan (BE’71, ME’79), P.E., regional vice president of Gresham, Smith and Partners, was named “Outstanding Engineer of the Year” by the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE) Nashville chapter. Sullivan was honored for his sustained contributions to the engineering industry, which have improved the public welfare and… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni William A. Davis Jr. and Joe M. Dorris each received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering during a Celebration Dinner held March 17 at the Huntsville (Ala.) Museum of Art. L-R, Bill Davis, Dean Kenneth F. Galloway, Joe Dorris The School of… Read More

The School of Engineering’s Ph.D. program tied for No. 37 with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ranking ahead of Virginia, Case Western Reserve and Washington University in St. Louis, and just behind Rice, Yale and University of Colorado-Boulder in U.S. News’s 2012 rankings of Best Engineering Schools, which were released today. MIT… Read More

Paul H. King , professor of biomedical engineering, emeritus, is the 2011 recipient of the highest award given by the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award is given to an educator for lifetime achievement in teaching, research… Read More

Northrop Grumman Corporation has named alumnus Kelley Zelickson, BE’79 vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for the Defense Technologies division in the company’s Information Systems sector on February 7. Zelickson will lead a team of professionals to provide integrated air, space and missile defense solutions to the… Read More

Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as a recipient of an Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The award will be presented at the first NIBIB Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Symposium on… Read More

Two junior engineering faculty members – Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Hak-Joon Sung and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert J. Webster III – have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development grants. According to the National Science Foundation, CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university… Read More

Engineering students at Vanderbilt University will showcase their ingenuity through a series of challenging – but fun – competitions and events celebrating the 60th anniversary of National Engineers Week Feb. 21-25. Two guest speakers are part of the week’s special events. Their presentations will be streamed live at http://news.vanderbilt.edu/ . Read More