Graduate Student

Chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student Kevin Corn has been selected to take part in the 2023-2024 cohort of SEC Emerging Scholars. This fellowship program is intended to serve as a pathway and source of mentorship… Read More

How does a Vanderbilt chemical engineering graduate student navigate her world during a global pandemic? She keeps regular meetings, sets mini-deadlines for herself, and she cooks. Kazi Tasneem Kazi Tasneem, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is featured in a Society of Women Engineers short-form… Read More

Ibrahim Ahmed presents his 3-Minute Thesis on March 29. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt University) An electrical engineering graduate student took the top prize is this year’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition with a presentation on designing fault-tolerant control systems using data-driven methods. Without really saying it that way. Ibrahim Ahmed presented “Comfort… Read More

Ghina Nakad, a doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recognized for her leadership and contributions to the advancement of women during the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center’s annual Cuninggim Lecture and awards ceremony March 23 at the Student Life Center. Women’s Center Director Rory Dicker (left) and… Read More

Eight current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. They are Meghan Bowler, Erica Curtis, Melanie Gault, Samantha Saratt and Chelsea Stowell, biomedical engineering; Kirsten Heikkinen and Richard Hendrick, mechanical engineering; and Thushara Gunda, civil and environmental engineering. Two engineering undergraduate students who also… Read More

Doctoral candidate Chetan S. Kulkarni, electrical engineering and computer science department, received the “Best Student Paper Award” at an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) conference June 19-21 in Garden Grove, Calif. The paper – “Physics-based Modeling and Prognostics of Electrolytic Capacitors” – is co-authored with his adviser, Professor… Read More

Ask Nehal Mehta if he’s learned more inside the classroom over the last four years or outside of it, and his answer is characteristically diplomatic. “I think it’s a synthesis of the two,” said the senior engineering science and economics double major. Mehta will graduate summa cum laude on May… Read More