Lucas Johnson

Vanderbilt’s excellence in nanoscale science and engineering research was recently featured in a special themed collection of Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances celebrating the university’s 150th anniversary. Cover art conceptualized and designed by research group led by Piran Kidambi. An editorial about the research was published in March in… Read More

Vanderbilt alumnus Ruoyu Wang has been selected to receive the prestigious 2024 Jacobs Engineering Group/AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ruoyu Wang The award recognizes an outstanding doctoral dissertation that contributes to the advancement of environmental science and engineering. Wang, Ph.D. ’23, is currently a postdoctoral associate in the… Read More

What if a manual wheelchair could be turned into a powered wheelchair by adding a bicycle-style wheel attachment with steering and braking control? A team of biomedical engineering seniors designed an accessory to an existing chair that currently limits steering to traditional hand rim turning. Their accessory streamlines both… Read More

Students in Vanderbilt’s Department of Computer Science will get a chance to show off their innovative thinking when they demonstrate more than 60 projects in the department’s spring Immersion Showcase on April 18. The event will take place in the Adams Atrium at Featheringill Hall from 5-7 p.m. The… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are part of a team supported by NASA to investigate measures that can be taken to safeguard high-density urban airspace against cyberattacks, as well as improve aircraft operations. Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science; Gautam Biswas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; and… Read More

Nisala Kalupahana knows firsthand the impact of career readiness programs and mentorship, which is why the Vanderbilt computer science major volunteered to help mentor a group of high schoolers who competed against some of the best robotics teams in the world April 17-20 in Houston, Texas. 2024 Pioneers team. Kalupahana,… Read More

  https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-content/uploads/sites/282/2024/04/12163235/Ancient-Engineering-Flood-Gates-Testing.mp4 by Lucas Johnson More than 20 Vanderbilt engineering students recently visited Italy during their spring break to not only see some iconic structures, but also learn the engineering behind the Pantheon and Venice’s sophisticated floodgates so they could apply that knowledge to future engineering projects of their… Read More

Principal Investigators from around the country recently attended the national Smart and Connected Communities PI meeting held at Vanderbilt that highlighted how the university is collaborating in the use of smart transportation technology to meet community needs. Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell addresses attendees. The PI meetings, which are held… Read More

Beginning in the fall of 2024, Vanderbilt will offer an environmental engineering major for undergraduates through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). The B.E. in environmental engineering – which is in addition to the department’s civil engineering major – will require a minimum of 122 hours and… Read More

Studies by Vanderbilt computer science professors and students that could impact productivity and growth in software engineering have received two prestigious awards from top scientific venues. The first paper – “A Longitudinal Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention” – received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished… Read More