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Vanderbilt University

Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Mechanical Engineering Structural Engineering Acoustic Engineering Mechanics Aerospace Engineering Automotive Engineering Energy Technology Transportation Engineering

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5.04/23/2026

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Douglas E. Adams is the Daniel F. Flowers Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vice Dean of the School of Engineering, and Executive Director of the Institute of National Security at Vanderbilt University. He holds appointments as Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Adams earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2000, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1994. Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2013 as Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, he served at Purdue University as Kenninger Professor of Renewable Energy and Power Systems, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Founding Director of the Purdue Center for Systems Integrity. He founded and co-directs the Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR) at Vanderbilt, which employs multi-modal sensing and analytics to assess material and machine degradation in infrastructure critical to energy, security, and transportation.