2011

  Rowe Christopher Rowe, interim director of the division of general engineering and director of engineering communications, and Carrie Little Stokes, a Vanderbilt civil engineering alumna and a project manager at engineering firm Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc., are finalists for the 2011 Nashville Emerging Leader Awards. Read More

Clare McCabe, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering has been awarded the 2011 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the 2011 Spring Faculty assembly. The Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching was established by the Board of Trust in 1964. Final selection… Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering W. David Merryman has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. According to the National Science Foundation, CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university junior faculty who are committed to the integration of research and education and are likely to become… Read More

James H. Clarke, civil and environmental engineering professor of the practice and professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization Division. His three-year term begins June 30, 2011. The mission of the DD&R… Read More

A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from drug delivery to solar cells. The technique was developed by Vanderbilt University engineers and described in the cover article of… Read More

David Merryman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will receive a 2011 University of Tennessee Alumni Promise award in September. Merryman is one of four 2011 recipients. The Alumni Promise Award recognizes UT alumni no older than 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement or both. This… Read More

Watch video of G. Kane Jennings, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, speaking at the Commencement 2011 Faculty Seminars. Read More

Awards and honors were presented by Dean Kenneth F. Galloway May 12 to 36 seniors at the School of Engineering’s annual Commencement Reception. Eppa Rixey V, Cincinnati, Ohio, is this year’s Founder’s Medalist and is graduating with a bachelor of engineering in mechanical engineering and a minor in human and… Read More

2011 Mechanical Engineering graduates Distinguished awards were presented May 12 to six seniors and three design teams at a reception hosted by the mechanical engineering department in honor of the department’s graduating seniors. More than 150 people, including seniors and their families, and the ME faculty attended the gala… Read More

Dean Kenneth F. Galloway announced May 10 the promotions of four engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2010-2011 academic year and presented four awards at a reception following the meeting. Sharon M. Weiss   One faculty member has been promoted to the rank of associate professor… Read More