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Founder’s Medal recipient chooses MIT over Microsoft

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…

Posted May 10, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, , , ,

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School bestows honors on 2013 graduating seniors

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…

Posted May 10, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, ,

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School of Engineering rewards exemplary faculty, staff service

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…

Posted May 7, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, , , , , , , , , ,

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

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…

Posted May 3, 2013 in Alumni, General Engineering, News, Research, , , , ,

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Second doctoral student secures NDSEG fellowship

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…

Posted May 1, 2013 in Alumni, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, News, Research, , ,

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

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…

Posted April 30, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , , , , , ,

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Three junior faculty to be recognized at Celebration of Teaching event

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…

Posted April 29, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, News, , , , , ,

Software engineer Jay Cowan with the new computer, called a data warehouse appliance, that is helping Vanderbilt scientists more quickly search, filter, analyze and annotate the de-identified medical records of approximately 2 million patients. (photo by Joe Howell)

New computer speeds clinical data collection

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…

Posted April 26, 2013 in Alumni, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , ,

Marince at an early DJ gig.

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

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…

Posted April 26, 2013 in Alumni, Mechanical Engineering, News, ,

Vanderbilt computer scientists have developed a smartphone-based system for identifying the location where gunshots are fired. (Courtesy of ISIS)

Tracking gunfire with a smartphone

You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired. The two of you duck behind the nearest cover and you pull out your smartphone. A map of the neighborhood pops up on its screen with a large red arrow pointing in the direction the shot came from. A team of computer…

Posted April 25, 2013 in Alumni, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, News, Research, , , , , ,

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