Vanderbilt University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Congratulations to the ASCE Steel Bridge Team! Nationals was held in El Paso, TX on May 22-23. They competed against 43 other teams to win 17th overall. In the lightness category they placed 3rd.

A group of Vanderbilt University students traveled to Sterling Ranch, a next-generation planned community being built just southwest of Denver, in May. The development serves as a teaching lab for students to learn about infrastructure, policy, and financing. Sterling Ranch has provided many senior design projects including bridge design, water desalination, and stream rehabilitation.

Events included overview and tour of Sterling Ranch, water treatment plant tours, meeting with County Commissioners, Lockheed Martin tour, meeting with Vail Fire Department, National Lab of the Rockies tours, and of course lots of eating and hiking!

Today we are hosting the 17th Annual Project Management Symposium. The theme is Nashville's "Projects, Places, & Perspectives".

We had the honor of hosting the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Verification Validation & Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) Symposium 2026 on campus this week. https://event.asme.org/VandV

Vanderbilt earns top honors at ASCE regional competitions, advance to nationals

https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2026/04/29/vanderbilt-earns-top-honors-at-asce-regional-competitions-advance-to-nationals/

As NASA eyes future missions to the Moon and Mars, two Vanderbilt University School of Engineering research teams have received federal grants to investigate some of the toughest engineering problems in space exploration.

The projects, led by faculty from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, are designed to make components more resilient and efficient when operating in space.

One team, led by researchers James Trippe, Robert Reed, and Sankaran Mahadevan, is part of a multi-university effort funded by more than $5.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to protect electronics against disruptions or damage caused by high-energy space radiation.

Another project, headed by Research Professor Steven Kosier, will receive more than $3.8 million from NASA to improve the stability of power delivery and distribution systems in outer space, where high levels of radiation may cause catastrophic electrical failures.

May the Fourth be with you!

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VUSE students toured National Lab of the Rockies today.

VUSE students, as part of the Sterling Ranch trip, are learning about drought and wild fires from the Vail Fire Department.

VUSE students were given the opportunity to meet Douglas County Commissioners in Castle Rock, CO this morning.