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  • Vanderbilt University

    Student team develops mobile app for Legal Aid

    Written by Vanderbilt University junior Economics major Sasha Pines The introduction of project-based University Courses at The Wond’ry will completely revolutionize the way we learn at Vanderbilt, as experiential learning is simply the best model for job training. Technology projects are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring clear communication and… Read More

    Feb. 21, 2017

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    David Owens second guest on ‘The Zeppos Report’

    A leading thinker on innovation and creativity who was the first faculty member to teach at the Wond’ry sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on the second episode of The Zeppos… Read More

    Feb. 20, 2017

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    Council introduces the Engineering Cup for more E-Week participation, competition

    Medical kit building is one of the events on next week’s Engineers Week schedule. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Expect to see more students playing harder at this year’s E-Week festivities as the event takes on a new dimension: a race to the Engineering Cup. Engineering Council organizers said the idea came… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2017

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    Alien particles from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronic devices

    You may not realize it but alien subatomic particles raining down from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on your smartphones, computers and other personal electronic devices. When your computer crashes and you get the dreaded blue screen or your smartphone freezes and you have to go through the time-consuming… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2017

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    Engineering faculty co-lead three of six new University Courses

    Three new courses co-taught by engineering faculty are among the second set of six University Courses to be offered at Vanderbilt University. University Courses promote trans-institutional teaching and learning and meet degree requirements across undergraduate majors and many professional and graduate programs. All the… Read More

    Feb. 14, 2017

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    Vanderbilt University lab to host Build2Last workshop for composites industries

    Vanderbilt University’s Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR) will host a two-day Build2Last workshop presented by Composites One and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) Feb. 23-24 in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt is an IACMI university partner. The industry event – Build2Last: Composites Durability Workshop… Read More

    Feb. 13, 2017

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    New AAU energy research webpage features VU engineering research

    Cary Pint, right, Andrew Westover and Nitin Muralidharan, who is holding the prototype junkyard battery they created in his left hand. He and Westover are holding bottles of the common household chemicals used in the process. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt researchers who “MacGyvered” metal junkyard scraps and common household… Read More

    Feb. 8, 2017

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    Merryman, Young among 2017 Chancellor Faculty Fellows

    Young Merryman Two School of Engineering associate professors are among 12 faculty members selected Chancellor Faculty Fellows — highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the social sciences, life and physical sciences, clinical sciences and humanities, as well as law, mathematics and engineering. David Merryman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, associate professor… Read More

    Feb. 7, 2017

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    California alum celebrates 100th birthday with fetes in Nashville

    Nearly 100 guests attended a dinner party in Nashville hosted by Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos in honor of engineering alumnus Ben Schulman’s 100th birthday. Several hundred well-wishers at Vanderbilt University marked Ben Schulman’s 100th birthday during a celebration weekend – Jan. 20-22 – in Nashville. The university honored Schulman… Read More

    Feb. 6, 2017

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    ASCE Industry Career Night draws 22 companies seeking ‘the best of the best’

    Paloma Mendoza (CE’17) discusses job opportunities with Travis Todd (CE’03). (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Twenty-two companies drew a crowd to the atrium in Featheringill Hall on Feb. 2, as engineering majors learned more about whether they might be a good fit for available jobs. It was the American Society of Civil… Read More

    Feb. 3, 2017