[2] The school has an exceptionally high percentage of female engineers, 41.6%, compared to a national average of 22.5%.

The U.S. News & World Report ranks Vanderbilt as the 31st best undergraduate engineering school in the country.

Spanning biomedical, civil, chemical, environmental, electrical, mechanical engineering and computer science fields, Vanderbilt also has special expertise in key research areas.

[6] 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.

Freshmen and sophomores are invited to attend meetings, while juniors and seniors are urged to join the appropriate professional society.