‘civil engineering’
Professor Shihong Lin, two engineering graduate students honored at inaugural Graduate School Honors Banquet
Apr. 28, 2023—Shihong Lin, civil and environmental associate professor, and two biomedical engineering doctoral students were honored recently at the inaugural Graduate School Honors Banquet. Vice Provost for Graduate Education André Christie-Mizell presented the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award to Lin and a new award—Outstanding Doctoral Student Award—to Carlisle DeJulius. Deanna Meador, deputy director of the...
Vanderbilt engineering’s Koutsoukos and Oskay honored with endowed chairs
Apr. 19, 2023—Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have been honored by Vanderbilt University with endowed chairs. Koutsoukos has received the inaugural Thomas R. Walters Chair. This chair will be celebrated at the Investiture event in Spring 2024. Oskay has received the...
Engineering group goes to Israel to study water recycling leader’s operations, research
Mar. 9, 2023— Engineering professors and students will spend their 2023 spring break in Israel to learn about the country’s water recycling programs and bring those lessons back to share with Sterling Ranch, a 21st century sustainable city south of Denver, Colorado, that has doubled as a training site and test bed for Vanderbilt students and professors...
Engineering Professor Hiba Baroud selected for Global Young Academy
Mar. 7, 2023—Hiba Baroud, A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Faculty Fellow and associate chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected for membership in the Global Young Academy. She joins the world’s top 200 young researchers and professionals to contribute innovative and creative solutions that address critical global challenges. The GYA’s...
Vanderbilt student engineering team’s steel-timber beam machine wins DOE national challenge
Jan. 31, 2023—An all-women team from Vanderbilt won a U.S. Department of Energy competition that offers the winner an internship at a DOE national laboratory. Engineering science students Arielle Kopp and Alexandra Filipova and civil engineering students Maggie Chudik and Jacqueline Quirke created a composite beam machine that makes steel-timber beams. Steel and cross-laminated timber beams provide...
Benjamin Dysart was a leader in the nation’s conservation community
Jul. 13, 2022—Scientific adviser to federal and international agencies and former president of the National Wildlife Federation, Benjamin C. Dysart III, BE ‘61, MS ’64 in civil engineering, died July 9 in Nashville, Tennessee. Dysart, 82, was a professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University from 1968 to 1990, when he...
Taha receives NSF Early CAREER Award to identify network vulnerabilities and failures
Apr. 15, 2022—Ahmad F. Taha, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for fundamental research in new approaches to network sensors and controllers scheduling. His CAREER project, “Scheduling Driving Sensing and Control Nodes in Nonlinear Networks with Applications to Fuel-Free Energy Systems,” offers a novel framework for the exploration of...
Civil engineering alumna is 92 with no plans to retire from MoDOT
Mar. 18, 2022—Editor’s note: This article is a compilation of an interview with Vanderbilt Engineering Communications and an NPR story by Kayla Drake, parts of which are republished with permission, that aired March 4, 2022, on St. Louis on the Air, KWMU St. Louis Public Radio. The Missouri Department of Transportation took a chance on Shirley Norris 45 years...