Florence Sanchez

  • VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration

    VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration

    Join in welcoming new members of our community, recognizing the accomplishments of our community, and celebrating faculty promotions. WELCOME Michael J. Valenti & Christina L. McGahan FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall – named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair… Read More

    Sep. 15, 2021

  • VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration

    VINSE recognizes faculty accomplishments in annual fall faculty celebration

    Please congratulate the following members of the VINSE faculty on recent accomplishments and promotions. FFC 2020 program. FACULTY PROMOTIONS We celebrate the recent promotions of the following faculty: Endowed Chairs Craig L. Duvall named Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Joshua D. Caldwell named Flowers… Read More

    Oct. 4, 2020

  • Spotlight Podcast Episode 13: Michael Kosson – 3D print cement

    Spotlight Podcast Episode 13: Michael Kosson – 3D print cement

    Episode 13 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Alice Leach talks with Michael Kosson about how to print 3D cement. Michael’s paper ” Early-Age Performance of 3D Printed Carbon Nanofiber and Carbon Microfiber Cement Composites” was published in Journal of the Transportation Research Record.  Michael is a graduate student in… Read More

    Jul. 29, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Florence Sanchez and Jason Valentine awarded VU Discovery Grants

    Two VINSE faculty received 2020 Discovery Grants, which are two-year awards of up to $25,000 each year for pilot or feasibility studies in areas with the potential to make significant breakthroughs. Florence Sanchez, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for Storing energy in 3D printed functionally graded concrete structures; Jason Valentine,… Read More

    Jul. 14, 2020

  • Rebuilding concrete – Sanchez to help lead $6.7 million Hong Kong research project

    Rebuilding concrete – Sanchez to help lead $6.7 million Hong Kong research project

    The Hong Kong Research Grants Council, which is equivalent to the U.S. National Science Foundation, has awarded a $6.7 million, five-year grant to a multi-university team of experts in materials science, chemistry, civil engineering, material deterioration, complex modeling, and other specialties. Florence Sanchez, associate professor of civil and environmental… Read More

    Aug. 15, 2018

  • Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures

    Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures

    Every month or so an article comes out reporting that some new object has been made using 3D printing: Everything from jewelry to prosthetic devices to electronic circuit boards to assault rifles to automobiles has now been created in this fashion. The prospect that this revolutionary manufacturing method will have… Read More

    Jul. 24, 2015