Civil And Environmental Engineering

  • Three engineering faculty awarded Seeding Success Grants in inaugural funding round

    Three engineering faculty awarded Seeding Success Grants in inaugural funding round

    The Office of the Provost has announced the inaugural round of grant recipients for the Seeding Success Grant program established in March. Three engineering faculty members are among 15 faculty members across four Vanderbilt schools and colleges who will receive support for their work. They are: David Braun, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; “Catapult Legs: Enhancing Human... Read More

    Jul 14, 2021

  • Three engineering faculty awarded Seeding Success Grants in inaugural funding round

    Three engineering faculty awarded Seeding Success Grants in inaugural funding round

    The Office of the Provost has announced the inaugural round of grant recipients for the Seeding Success Grant program established in March. Three engineering faculty members are among 15 faculty members across four Vanderbilt schools and colleges who will receive support for their work. They are: David Braun, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; “Catapult Legs: Enhancing Human... Read More

    Jul 14, 2021

  • Grad student adds drone imagery to toolbox for post-disaster recovery

    Grad student adds drone imagery to toolbox for post-disaster recovery

      A new online gallery of photos taken in the days, weeks and months following the March 2020 regional tornados is the work of an engineering graduate student who wants to make disaster recovery more equitable. Daniel Perrucci, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, used bird’s eye imagery from drones as well as street-level photography... Read More

    Jun 24, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Work named 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. He is one of nine highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty in the 2021 Chancellor Faculty Fellow cohort, which will meet as a group during their two-year fellowships to exchange ideas on teaching and research and engage in academic leadership... Read More

    May 12, 2021

  • Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    By Jenna Somers During battle, many soldiers who become wounded find themselves at the mercy of another soldier’s medical training, hoping beyond hope that the soldier administering aid will remember their training well enough to save the wounded soldier’s life. Under such duress, recalling the details of medical training could be difficult, and the failure... Read More

    May 7, 2021

  • Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    Soldier-Inspired Innovation Incubator team advances to finals for $500,000 xTechBOLT prize

    By Jenna Somers During battle, many soldiers who become wounded find themselves at the mercy of another soldier’s medical training, hoping beyond hope that the soldier administering aid will remember their training well enough to save the wounded soldier’s life. Under such duress, recalling the details of medical training could be difficult, and the failure... Read More

    May 7, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read More

    May 5, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read More

    May 5, 2021

  • Dozens of engineering professors among world’s top 2% of working scientists

    Dozens of engineering professors among world’s top 2% of working scientists

    Nearly 40 School of Engineering faculty members have been named among the top 2 percent of 7 million working scientists in the world. More than 60 percent of the school’s full professors are in this elite group, based on a recent study by a Stanford University professor and his colleagues. The study combines several different... Read More

    Jan 25, 2021

  • Vanderbilt civil engineer partners with TDOT to seek ways to mitigate opioid epidemic

    Vanderbilt civil engineer partners with TDOT to seek ways to mitigate opioid epidemic

    One of the largest obstacles for patients seeking effective substance abuse treatment is a lack of transportation to the treatment facilities. Vanderbilt University researcher Janey Camp, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is working on a project to help clear those roadblocks. Janey Camp (Vanderbilt University) Camp is leading an 18-month, in-depth analysis of... Read More

    Jan 6, 2021

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    Vanderbilt civil engineer partners with TDOT to seek ways to mitigate opioid epidemic

    Janey Camp leads an analysis of rural transportation constraints that prevent people from receiving regular substance abuse treatment. Read More

    Jan 5, 2021

  • US military army

    Adams to lead TIPs-funded, soldier-inspired innovation hub

    A new innovation incubator will amplify existing collaborations among researchers and soldiers, building on Vanderbilt's partnership agreement with Army Futures Command. Read More

    Jun 30, 2020

  • Aerial view of many wind turbines in a row

    $3.3 million project aims to transform grid management with risk metrics for renewables

    The goal of the project—Risk-Aware Market Clearing—is a blueprint for an end-to-end, data-driven approach that balances cost and minimizes system-level risk. Market clearing is the process that keeps the supply level to the demand with no leftover of either. Read More

    Jun 17, 2020

  • layer of olive oil on top of water with small bubbles of oil filtering down

    Team makes breakthrough in separation science with sub-Angstrom precision

    An international research team that includes Vanderbilt engineers is the first to successfully separate two ions with very, very small size differences, a major advancement in separation science with widespread potential application. Read More

    Apr 24, 2020

  • portrait of hiba standing in creek

    Baroud receives NSF Early CAREER Award to predict and inform community hazard response

    Hiba Baroud has received a 2020 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development grant to boost community resilience and sustainability through a three-pronged project that starts with a better understanding of how people and infrastructures interact during hazards. Read More

    Mar 11, 2020

  • group portrait of winners holding award certificates

    Five graduate students named Eisenhower Fellows

    Five engineering Ph.D. students have received prestigious Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships and one of them was named the top Eisenhower Fellow in the U.S. Read More

    Jan 21, 2020

  • image of interior of nuclear power plant focused on a network of pipes and tanks

    Alert system for failing nuclear plant pipes uses thin films and sound vibrations

    A failing pipe can be tough to spot. It may cause a puddle, produce another sign of damage, or simply burst before detection. A flooded kitchen or laundry room is messy and inconvenient, but the stakes are much, much higher in nuclear power plants – which on average contain many miles of pipeline. As concern... Read More

    Oct 24, 2019

  • several ambulances lined up on a paved tarmac

    Smart City project gives Nashville data-based planning tools

    Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a vortex—and this one has nothing to do with icy, polar weather. Working with the Nashville Fire Department and Davidson County Information Technology Services, a team of Vanderbilt computer scientists and engineers analyzed more than three years of NFD incident data. The team looked at location, time and type of incidents... Read More

    Oct 17, 2019