civil and environmental engineering
Army Futures Command, Vanderbilt ink partnership to encourage innovation, education for both
Apr. 15, 2019—Army Futures Command and Vanderbilt University signed an agreement April 9 that links creative, innovative soldiers with top-tier Vanderbilt University experts so that ideas quickly can become useful products. Leaders from the two groups say this five-year education partnership agreement is a potential model for military-academic collaboration across the nation, not only on research and...
Duddu awarded NSF CAREER grant to better understand Antarctic ice sheet fracture
Apr. 4, 2019—Ravindra Duddu has been awarded a $555,000 NSF CAREER grant to analyze Antarctic ice sheet fracture, improve models for ice mass loss and reduce uncertainty in long-term projections of average sea level rise.
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center chief scientist to give Parker Lecture Feb. 5
Feb. 1, 2019—Dr. David Pittman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will discuss “Environmental Engineering and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center” on Tuesday, Feb. 5, as part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Frank Parker Lecture Series.
Faculty selected as Chancellor’s Public Voices Fellows for fall 2019
Jan. 30, 2019—Hiba Baroud, Jeffrey Bennett and Suzana Herculano-Houzel have been named to the first cohort of the Chancellor’s Public Voices Fellowship, a semester-long program designed to expand Vanderbilt’s global reach by amplifying the impact of faculty academic research.
New faculty: Jesus Gomez-Velez
Nov. 12, 2018—Jesus Gomez-Velez is assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Vanderbilt engineers to train neural networks and enhance Chattanooga transit system
Oct. 26, 2018—Vanderbilt's Abhishek Dubey and Yuche Chen are helping to build new tools to revolutionize the energy efficiency of transit providers in Chattanooga.
Rebuilding concrete: Sanchez to help lead $6.7 million Hong Kong research project
Aug. 15, 2018—Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Florence Sanchez is a co-P.I. on an international research team searching for more resilient building materials for marine infrastructure projects.
Political leaning influences city water policies as strongly as climate
Jun. 18, 2018—Vanderbilt environmental researchers developed an index of city water policies and gathered data on the climate, water sources, population, economy and political leanings.
Frank Parker Lecture to explore earthquakes coupled with fires’ effect on buildings
Mar. 23, 2018—Amr Elnashai, vice chancellor and vice president for research and technology transfer at the University of Houston, will discuss "Coupled Fire and Earthquake Loading Effects on Buildings" Thursday, March 29. The Frank Parker Lecture in Civil and Environmental Engineering will take place in Jacobs Believed In Me Auditorium at Featheringill Hall.
Vanderbilt School of Engineering offers new master of risk, reliability, and resilience engineering
Jan. 31, 2018—The RRR program will train practitioners with the skills they need to engineer solutions that are safer, more durable and more responsive to stress—whether that stress is malware or a hurricane.
Vanderbilt IRIS Initiative: Shaping the infrastructure of tomorrow
Jan. 18, 2018—Learn about recent developments for the Vanderbilt Initiative for Intelligent Resilient Infrastructure Systems, a 2016 TIPs project led by associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Caglar Oskay focused on improving the nation's flood infrastructure, in this VU BreakThru blog post.
Attention commuters: Participate in survey on HOV lane effectiveness
Nov. 29, 2017—Vanderbilt researchers are conducting a study for the Tennessee Department of Transportation on HOV lane use.