Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
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| Motto | Insight. Innovation. Impact |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1879 |
| Endowment | $552.3 million[A] |
| Dean | Philippe Fauchet |
Academic staff | 144 |
| Undergraduates | 1,305[1] |
| Location | , , U.S. |
| Website | engineering |
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The School of Engineering provides undergraduate and graduate education in engineering and the engineering sciences at Vanderbilt University, a major research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1879, the Vanderbilt School of Engineering is the oldest private school of engineering in the American South.[2] The school has an exceptionally high percentage of female engineers, 41.6%, compared to a national average of 22.5%.[3]
The School of Engineering ranks as one of the top engineering schools in the United States. The U.S. News & World Report ranks Vanderbilt as the 31st best undergraduate engineering school in the country. The Graduate School of Engineering ranks at 34th.[4]
| Field | Ranks |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate School of Engineering | 31 |
| Graduate School of Engineering | 34 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 20 |
| Chemical Engineering | 36 |
| Civil Engineering | 49 |
| Electrical/Electronics/Communications Engineering | 38 |
| Environmental Engineering | 51 |
| Material Sciences | 55 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 43 |
Research
Vanderbilt is classified as a "Research University (very high research activity)," by the Carnegie Foundation[5] and is engaged in some of the most important engineering research and cross-disciplinary research conducted in the nation. Spanning biomedical, civil, chemical, environmental, electrical, mechanical engineering and computer science fields, Vanderbilt also has special expertise in key research areas.[6] In November 2014, the federal Office of Research Integrity announced that a scientist who worked for Vanderbilt's Department of Biomedical Engineering fraudulently falsified many biomedical research articles from 2000 to 2005 in high-profile scientific journals.[7]
Research institutes
Vanderbilt University houses many specialized research centers. They are as follows:
- Center for Intelligent Mechatronics
- Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)
- Center for Technology-Guided Therapy
- Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP)
- Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)
- Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, the largest such academic facility in the world.
- Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies (VCEMS)
- Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research (VECTOR)
- Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education
- Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science
- Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)
- Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE)[8][9]
- The Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt[10][11]
