VCU College of Engineering News

Congratulations to the newly promoted and tenured faculty at the VCU College of Engineering! Join us in celebrating their remarkable achievements and dedication to academic excellence this Fall 2026.

The VCU College of Engineering’s REU programs provide undergraduates with hands-on research, professional mentorship, and skill-building workshops across cutting-edge fields like pharmaceutical engineering and digital forensics.

A Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) cybersecurity research team is earning national recognition for tackling one of the biggest challenges facing critical infrastructure: protecting the industrial computers that keep essential systems running.

Leah Spangler, Ph.D., seeks to use light for controlling protein synthesis in real time to make nanomaterials and optoelectronics.

With expertise ranging from artificial intelligence to automation to nuclear energy systems, ten new faculty members will start at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) College of Engineering this fall.

Ravi Hadimani, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and director of the Biomagnetics Laboratory, recently received the Young Investigator Award at the 2026 International Symposium on Integrated Magnetics. 

A partnership between VCU TechTransfer and Ventures and Central Virginia’s Activation Capital is pairing faculty researchers with business leaders.

These competitive internal grants empower faculty to launch pilot studies, restart research programs and drive transdisciplinary discoveries.

The program will introduce artificial intelligence to students 13 and older through hands-on labs, collaborative challenges and real-world applications.

Six initiatives are selected in the Commercialization Fund’s latest round of funding that helps bring campus innovation to the marketplace.