Smart Cities

Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, led a one-day symposium on Nov. 13 at Cornell Tech highlighting innovative research for sustainable cities. Read More

An upcoming free, one-day conference on emerging technologies will focus on smart home technologies and feature talks by top officials from Amazon, Google Nest and Peloton, among others. Emerge 2021: Home Smart Home is Saturday, March 20, on Zoom. The conference is hosted annually by the Vanderbilt University’s Women in… Read More

Janey Camp, research associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, far right, speaks to other participants in the April 16 VISOR Workshop on Data in Gentrification and Equitable Development. From left are: Jonathan Gilligan, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, Ken Steif of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kimberly… Read More

A new master’s degree from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering will prepare students to meet increasing workforce needs in risk, reliability and resilience engineering. The Risk, Reliability, and Resilience (RRR) Engineering professional master’s degree program is expected to be of great interest. Companies have been asking whether the School of… Read More

Autonomous vehicles are coming. That much is clear. Far less clear “is when, at what rate, and through what evolution path,” said Hani S. Mahmassani, the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University. Mahmassani, also director of the Northwestern University Transportation, was among three keynote speakers who… Read More

For well over a decade, Vanderbilt Engineering alumnus Brock Smethills (BE’13) and his family have been driving to a picturesque spot just south of Denver, envisioning the futuristic wonderland it would become. Houses where the residents pay mere pocket change for utilities thanks to solar power and a one-of-a-kind system… Read More