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  • Vanderbilt University

    Marty Nord, former professor and faculty adviser, dies

    Marty Nord Martha Andrews “Marty” Nord, a longtime communications professor at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management and former director of the Vanderbilt Women in Engineering Program, died July 28 in Nashville. She was 73. Nord joined the management school’s faculty in 1978 after receiving her Ph.D. Read More

    Jul. 30, 2015

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    Valdastri and team want to put tiny robots into science classrooms

      Undergraduates and Jianing Liu (CE’16) and Ashley Peck (ME'17) are helping design the robot kits. A visit by Adventure Science Center campers helped them see how young students would interact with the kits. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Pietro Valdastri’s STORM lab is a cacophony of whirring motors… Read More

    Jul. 27, 2015

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    Experts address promises and problems of 3D printing large structures

    (iStock) Every month or so an article comes out reporting that some new object has been made using 3D printing: Everything from jewelry to prosthetic devices to electronic circuit boards to assault rifles to automobiles has now been created in this fashion. The prospect that this revolutionary… Read More

    Jul. 24, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Tiny mechanical wrist gives new dexterity to needlescopic surgery

    With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University’s Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory hope to give needlescopic surgery a whole new degree of dexterity. Needlescopic surgery, which uses surgical instruments shrunk to the diameter of a sewing… Read More

    Jul. 23, 2015

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    Electric Power Research Institute wraps up fourth annual workshop at Vanderbilt

    Workshop participants use an online decision-making tool during a session led by Steve Krahn. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Thirty government, academic and industry experts in nuclear fuel cycle technology just wrapped up the fourth annual EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Assessment Workshop, held Tuesday and… Read More

    Jul. 22, 2015

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    The end for Moore’s Law? Not really, electrical engineering prof says

    Recent headlines trumpeted the end of Moore’s Law, a 50-year-old prediction that transistors per square inch on integrated circuits would double every two years into the foreseeable future. And yes, that pattern of exponentially growing computer power has lagged a bit – noticeably, with Intel’s six-month delay last year in releasing… Read More

    Jul. 20, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    9 engineering student-athletes on Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll

    Nine engineering student-athletes were named to the 2015 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll. A total of 89 Commodores were named to the list. The 2015 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2014 summer, 2014 fall and 2015 spring terms. Any student-athlete who participates in a… Read More

    Jul. 16, 2015

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    Zelik, team discover hip, foot muscles more important to walking than previously thought

    Karl Zelik (Vanderbilt University) In his effort to develop better prosthetic limbs, Karl Zelik had to start with deciphering more clearly how muscles function in walking. His path not only led to a better way of quantifying human locomotion, but also to the discovery that muscles around… Read More

    Jul. 9, 2015

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    Vanderbilt engineering professor is U.S. Army Brigadier General

    Eugene J. LeBoeuf’s Vanderbilt colleagues, his friends, neighbors and family witnessed a moving promotion recognition ceremony June 27 at the School of Engineering when the professor was honored as the Brigadier General of the 416th Theater Engineer Command, U.S. Army Reserve. Maj. Gen. Lewis G. Irwin administers the reaffirmation of… Read More

    Jul. 7, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nashville bus app under development earns kudos, $200K NSF grant

    T-HUB, designed by engineers at Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems, is designed to attract and retain bus riders by taking out the guesswork. Nashville’s mass transit leaders are banking on a Vanderbilt University-produced app to get people out of their cars and onto city buses. It… Read More

    Jul. 2, 2015