  We report on the potential for the discovery of a Standard Model Higgs boson
with the vector boson fusion mechanism in the mass range $115<M_H<500
\gev/$c$^2$ with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Feasibility studies at hadron
level followed by a fast detector simulation have been performed for $H\to
W^{(*)}W^{(*)}\to l^+l^-\sla{p_T}$, $H\to\gamma\gamma$ and $H\to ZZ\to
l^+l^-q\bar{q}$. The preliminary results obtained here show a large discovery
potential in the range $115<M_H<300 \gev/$c$^2$. Results obtained with
multivariate techniques are reported for a number of channels.
