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Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge

May 20, 2013—National championship is six years in the making Vanderbilt engineering students won their first national rocket competition after April launch results were combined with technical design reviews and evaluations of written reports and outreach projects, including a website documenting the experience. NASA today announced that the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club captured first prize in the 2013...

Alumni, Mechanical Engineering, News, Amrutur Anilkumar, NASA, NASA Student Launch Initiative, USLI, Vanderbilt Aerospace Club

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Founder’s Medal recipient chooses MIT over Microsoft

May 10, 2013—The number of graduating college seniors who get lucrative offers to work for Microsoft and turn them down has to be small, but Curtis Northcutt is part of that select group. The Vanderbilt senior has decided to take his computer science degree to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall and follow a path...

Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, computer science, Curtis Northcutt, Founder's Medal, internship

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School bestows honors on 2013 graduating seniors

May 10, 2013—Awards and honors were presented by Dean Philippe Fauchet May 9 to 36 seniors at the School of Engineering’s annual Commencement Reception. Curtis George Northcutt, from Lexington, Ky., is the recipient of the 2013 Founder’s Medal for the School of Engineering. He is graduating with a bachelor of science in computer science and mathematics. He...

Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, Commencement Reception, senior awards

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School of Engineering rewards exemplary faculty, staff service

May 7, 2013—The School of Engineering recognized faculty and staff members for their exemplary research, teaching, and professional service during the 2013 academic year. Dean Philippe Fauchet presented the annual awards during a reception May 7 in Featheringill Hall. The Edward J. White Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Service was presented to Joel Barnett, associate professor...

Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, Caglar Oskay, Faculty awards, faculty promotions, Jean Miller, Joel Barnett, Lori Troxel, Mark Does, Mike Miga, staff awards, Yuan Xue

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Graduate’s path to traumatic brain injury research was littered with roadside bombs

May 3, 2013—U.S. Army Capt. David M. Barry has found himself at the forefront of cutting-edge research for improving methods for assessing and treating traumatic brain injury [TBI], delivering research findings that contain both professional and personal components at symposiums and forums. The distinguished engineering graduate (summa cum laude, Engineering Science)  from Vanderbilt’s Army ROTC program in...

Alumni, General Engineering, News, Research, concussion, David M. Barry, neurocognitive research, traumatic brain injury, U.S. Army

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Second doctoral student secures NDSEG fellowship

May 1, 2013—Courtney Mitchell, a graduate student in chemical engineering, is the second Vanderbilt engineering student in in three weeks to be awarded a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Awarded annually to only about 200 students who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of...

Alumni, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, News, Research, ChBE, Courtney Mitchell, NDSEG Fellowship

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Vanderbilt wins $9.3M DARPA contract to evolve tools for military vehicle design

April 30, 2013—Vanderbilt University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. AVM is a portfolio of programs focused on dramatically reducing the...

Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, AVM, DARPA, ISIS, Janos Sztipanovits, META, Ted Bapty, VehicleFORGE

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Three junior faculty to be recognized at Celebration of Teaching event

April 29, 2013—Three engineering faculty members will be honored for their achievements as 2012-2013 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows May 3 at the annual Celebration of Teaching event sponsored by the Center for Teaching and the Graduate School. The 2013 event has been expanded to include a variety of panels and presentations throughout the day featuring successes, innovations...

Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, Bennett Landman, Celebration of Teaching, Center for Teaching, Jason Valentine, Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows, Yaqiong Xu

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New computer speeds clinical data collection

April 26, 2013—Tucked in a data center in the basement of Vanderbilt University Hospital, a new computer the size of a large armoire, called a data warehouse appliance, is delivering a new order of speed to Vanderbilt clinical scientists as they search, filter, analyze and annotate the de-identified medical records of approximately 2 million patients. That’s how...

Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, biomedical informatics, Brad Malin, Paul Harris

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Music helps put mechanical engineering student’s brain ‘in balance’

April 26, 2013—Near the end of his freshman year in 2011, mechanical engineering student Christopher Marince was feeling the stress of working on a dual major in Vanderbilt University’s Accelerated Graduate Program. Now he’d expected the strain of an academic workload, but there was something else bothering him. “I felt frustrated only using the analytical side of...

Alumni, Mechanical Engineering, News, Christopher Marince, mechanical engineering

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