February, 2017
Vanderbilt University lab to host Build2Last workshop for composites industries
Feb. 13, 2017—Vanderbilt University’s Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR) will host a two-day Build2Last workshop presented by Composites One and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) Feb. 23-24 in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt is an IACMI university partner. The industry event – Build2Last: Composites Durability Workshop – is designed for production workers to engineers...
New AAU energy research webpage features VU engineering research
Feb. 8, 2017—Cary Pint, right, Andrew Westover and Nitin Muralidharan, who is holding the prototype junkyard battery they created in his left hand. He and Westover are holding bottles of the common household chemicals used in the process. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt researchers who “MacGyvered” metal junkyard scraps and common household chemicals into high-performance batteries are featured in...
Merryman, Young among 2017 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Feb. 7, 2017—Two School of Engineering associate professors are among 12 faculty members selected Chancellor Faculty Fellows — highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the social sciences, life and physical sciences, clinical sciences and humanities, as well as law, mathematics and engineering. David Merryman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, associate professor of medicine, associate professor of pediatrics and...
California alum celebrates 100th birthday with fetes in Nashville
Feb. 6, 2017—Several hundred well-wishers at Vanderbilt University marked Ben Schulman’s 100th birthday during a celebration weekend – Jan. 20-22 – in Nashville. The university honored Schulman at venues across the campus, including a Friday evening Shabbat dinner with more than 300 guests at the Schulman Center for Jewish Life, which he helped endow. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos...
ASCE Industry Career Night draws 22 companies seeking ‘the best of the best’
Feb. 3, 2017—Twenty-two companies drew a crowd to the atrium in Featheringill Hall on Feb. 2, as engineering majors learned more about whether they might be a good fit for available jobs. It was the American Society of Civil Engineers Industry Career Night, the largest one yet, said Lori Troxel, associate professor of the practice of civil...
Guelcher named director of Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology
Feb. 3, 2017—Scott A. Guelcher, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named director of the Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology housed within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. VCBB investigates diseases of bone and mineral metabolism. Investigators associated with the center study the mechanisms regulating bone remodeling and repair, novel biomaterials for...
Distinguished alumnus McCleskey was engineering scholarship donor
Feb. 3, 2017—Samuel Warren McClesky died Jan. 10, 2017, at his home in Rome, Georgia. He was 87. McCleskey earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1951. He was a dedicated supporter of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. He created the McCleskey Honor Scholarship in 1998 for engineering students. He also served as...
Two civil engineering alums named to firms’ top spots
Feb. 2, 2017—Two civil engineering graduates have been appointed to leadership roles in their companies. Elizabeth “Ibba” Surface (B.E.’78) is the new president of Ross Bryan Associates Inc. and the first woman to lead the 67-year-old Nashville-based structural engineering firm. Bryan Tharpe (B.E.’94) has been named division vice president of Gresham, Smith and Partners’ building engineering division....