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Mahadevan Receives Wyatt
Distinguished University Professor Award (April 7, 2006)
Sankaran Mahadeven received Joe B. Wyatt
Distinguished University Professor Award during the Spring Faculty Assembly held
at Vanderbilt April 6.
The award, created in 2000 upon former Chancellor Wyatt’s retirement, recognizes
accomplishments that span multiple academic disciplines. Mahadevan, professor of
civil and environmental engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, has
director of the National Science Foundation-Funded Multidisciplinary Reliability
and Risk Engineering and Management program.
In presenting the award to Mahadevan, Chancellor Gordon Gee said, “The courses
on reliability and risk engineering which Professor Mahadevan has developed do
not only attract graduate students from engineering, but also from the Owen
School of Management and … from the School of Nursing. Sankaran’s contributions
in applied mathematics have been used to develop and improve the performance of
civil engineering structures, aerospace structures, the management of nuclear
waste, micro-electronics and human reliability.”
The Multidisciplinary Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management doctoral
program is the first in the world to study and develop integrated
multidisciplinary computational and experimental approaches to assessing and
managing risk and reliability. The program’s unique approach has yielded
techniques are broadly applicable across engineering and management disciplines.
The Vanderbilt award is conferred upon a full-time faculty member for the
development of significant new knowledge from research or exemplary innovations
in teaching. The recipient carries for one year the title Joe B. Watt
Distinguished University Professor and receives a $2,500 cash award and an
engraved silver tray.
Mahadevan came to Vanderbilt in 1988 as assistant professor, upon receiving his
Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Contact:
Vivian Cooper,
(615) 343-6314
vivi.cooper@vanderbilt.edu
or
David F. Salisbury,
(615) 343-6803
david.f.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu
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