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Building and testing balsa wood towers with weights on equipment that shakes them and measures the failure frequency was so popular in Professor Lori Troxel’s Structural Engineering course that the activity is now part of the first-year civil engineering module she teaches. Nathan Miller, an engineering senior from Indianapolis, arrived at… Read More

  Winning moment: MarmotE team members celebrate their second-place finish in the DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge championship finals at Mobile World Congress 2019 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Left to right: Peter Volgyesi, Miklos Maroti, Peter Horvath and Sandor Szilvasi. Photo|DARPA In a final five-minute flurry, MarmotE watched its lead slip. Read More

An optical imaging technology developed by Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anita Mahadevan-Jansen and her group, in partnership with a medical device company, has won a 2019 R&D 100 Award. The R&D 100 Awards honor 100 top innovations of the prior year, as selected by a panel of… Read More

In a twist that turns hacking into art, VandyHacks VI will engage more than 550 students from Vanderbilt and Southern and Midwest schools in its hackathon—a 36-hour invention marathon—beginning Friday evening on Nov. 1 and ending Sunday, Nov. 3. Hacking in this context brings together creative thinkers, programmers, designers, builders… Read More

Nuclear power plants contain miles of pipes of different sizes. Shown is the turbine floor with new reheaters and secondary side piping at Unit 2, Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant, 2012. (Photo: Tennessee Valley Authority) A failing pipe can be tough to spot. It may cause a puddle, produce another… Read More

MarmotE team members (L-T) Peter Horvath, Peter Volgyesi, Sandor Szilvasi and Miklos Maroti. Top prize in round one in 2017, second place in round two in 2018, and a prediction to cinch one of the top three spots in the live championship round of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge,… Read More

The Vanderbilt Initiative for Smart City Operations and Research worked with Nashville officials to create prediction and planning tools for emergency services. Nashville is an ideal test bed for what a smart city can be, according to researchers. Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a vortex—and this one has nothing to do with icy,… Read More

Mary Ellen Ternes, chemical engineering alumna and member of the External Advisory Committee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, attended the fall EAC meeting on campus in September. Photo|Susan Urmy, Vanderbilt An American Institute of Chemical Engineers Fellow, one of only two attorney AIChE Fellows, is the president-elect… Read More

In almost half the cases the cause of preterm birth is unknown. A new optical device designed by Vanderbilt biomedical engineers has the potential to predict risks of preterm labor. (Photo: U.S. Air Force) Anita Mahadevan-Jansen and her team are working to help more babies arrive safely. A small optical… Read More

Soldiers from the 101st and Matthew Yandell, chief innovation officer of HeroWear and recent Vanderbilt engineering PhD graduate, carry howitzer rounds to simulate the physical demands of field artillery missions. Photo|Professor Karl Zelik, Vanderbilt University GPS, duct tape, microwaves and computers—these everyday items have one thing in common:  Each invented,… Read More