Vanderbilt University School of Engineering

Description

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. The school has an exceptionally high percentage of female engineers, 32%, compared to a national average of 17%.RankingThe 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.ResearchVanderbilt is classified as a "Research University," by the Carnegie Foundation 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. 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.Research institutesVanderbilt 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 Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE)