Undergraduate Curriculum

  • Vanderbilt University

    Revamped civil engineering curriculum ignites students’ passions

    Building and testing balsa wood towers with weights on equipment that shakes them and measures the failure frequency was so popular in Professor Lori Troxel’s Structural Engineering course that the activity is now part of the first-year civil engineering module she teaches. Nathan Miller, an engineering senior from Indianapolis, arrived at… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    New undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum in place

    Building and testing balsa wood towers with weights on equipment that shakes them and measures the failure frequency was so popular in Professor Lori Troxel’s Structural Engineering course that the activity is now part of the first-year civil engineering module she teaches. Nathan Miller, an engineering senior from Indianapolis, arrived at… Read More

    Apr. 7, 2010