Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 

Florence Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University

e-mail: florence.sanchez@vanderbilt.edu

 

 
Current Group Members

Ph.D. Students
Catherine Gay  

Catie is a 2nd year graduate student. She received her B.S. degree in civil engineering from Western Kentucky University. Her research area is in the multiscale performance of nanofiber/cement composites.

e-mail: catherine.s.gay@vanderbilt.edu


Lesa Heintzman

Lesa is a 1st year graduate student. She received her B.S. degree in civil engineering from Oklahoma State University. Her research interest includes sustainable concrete/nano-concrete.

e-mail: lesa.r.heintzman@vanderbilt.edu

Lesa is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate fellowship.


 
Undergraduate Students
Marshall Ticer  

Marshall is a junior in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interest includes the application of carbon nanofibers as nano-reinforcements in mortars.

Marshall is the recipient of the Dyer memorial scholorship and the Hilton Turner Memorial scholorship.


 
Alumni

Post Doctoral Research Associates
Lu Zhang, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
 
Ph.D. Students
Vincent Chatain, PhD - INSA of Lyon (France), December 2004
Currently Assistant Professor at INSA of Lyon
 
Master's Students
Chantal Ince, M.S. December 2008 (B.S. Howard University)
Aniket Borwankar, M.S. December 2007 (M.S. University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Jennifer Miller, M.S. August 2006 (B.S. University of Florida)
Leean Williams, M.S. May 2005 (B.S. Tennessee Technology University)
Kate Langley-White, M.S. May 2005 (B.S. Mississipi State University)
Anh Thi Lan Hoan, M.S. August 2004 (B.S. Hanoi University, Vietnam)
Erin O’Brien, M.S. May 2004. Non-thesis
Janelle Temple, M.S. August 2003 (B.S. Vanderbilt University)
 
Undergraduate Students
Marcus C. Evans (B.S. Vanderbilt University, May 2009)
Whitney Dupree, REU Summer Research 2007 (B.S. Vanderbilt University, May 2008)
Kristina Elizabeth Kitko, REU/VUSE Summer Research 2007 (B.S. Vanderbilt University, May 2008)
George Huddleston III, REU Summer Research 2007 (B.S. Vanderbilt University, May 2008)
Kyle Hagan, REU Summer Research 2006 (B.S. Vanderbilt University, May 2007)
Ashley Quinn, VUSE Summer Research 2002
Natalie Taylor, Spring 2002
Lucille Shawn, Fall 2002
 
High School Teachers
Bridget Adkins, RET Summer 2006 (Williamson County Public Schools & Gwinnett County Public Schools)
James Woodbury, RET Summer 2006 (Martin Luther King Magnet High School)
 
Other Lab Visitors
Veda Laohom, Research Assistant Summer 05-Fall 05 (B.S. Vanderbilt University)