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Virginia Tech: The Why - Tripp Shealy Trains Engineers to Challenge the Status Quo
August 25, 2026
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 25 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:

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The why: Tripp Shealy trains engineers to challenge the status quo

By Melody Warnick

A few months after Tripp Shealy arrived at Virginia Tech as a new assistant professor in the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, he told his department head that he wanted a $125,000 brain imaging machine.

In certain corners of the uni . . .

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