Alumni

(L to r) Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente, Bunmi O. Olatunji, Craig L. Duvall, Rick W. Wright, Seth R. Bordenstein, Cathy Eng, David Lubinski, Nilanjan Sarkar, Mark R. Denison and Duane Watson. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Two engineering faculty members named to endowed chairs were honored for their academic achievements… Read More

A research team of Vanderbilt engineers that includes a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated a new ultrathin filter, based on metamaterials, that allows for analog optical image processing. Their work, Flat Optics for Image Differentiation, appears today in the scientific journal, Nature Photonics. While digital… Read More

Vanderbilt professor Joshua D. Caldwell has been selected as a 2020 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the society’s spring meeting in Phoenix in April. Joshua Caldwell The fellowship recognizes Caldwell for pioneering contributions to the understanding and utilization of polar semiconductors for power electronics… Read More

Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given annually to the brightest researchers early in their careers. Kelsey Hatzell She is among 126 recipients across the United States and Canada who were announced Feb. 12 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read More

Left, Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, meets with Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) in Washington, D.C., during the annual American Society of Engineering Education’s Public Policy Colloquium in February. United States competitiveness, workforce development and university partnerships were topics of interest for Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt… Read More

Online training modules created to keep pace with evolving space electronics research will help advance the verification and validation skills of L3Harris Technologies’ radiation effects engineers. In a five-year partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, the advanced training program will leverage the expertise of ISDE engineers… Read More

Athletes and ROTC members honored at annual Dean’s dinner. Student athletes and ROTC cadets honored at annual dinner Sarah Goodale is a competitor. As a biomedical engineering undergraduate, she was an important member of the Vanderbilt Women’s Track and Field team, a force in the pentathlon and heptathlon. She still… Read More

Karl Reid has had great success: two degrees in engineering from MIT, a doctorate in education from Harvard and a fruitful career—first in the software industry, then in higher education, and now as executive director of a professional engineering society. “But it didn’t come easily,” Reid said. Karl Reid In… Read More

Three engineering graduate students whose research focus is biomechanics and assistive technologies will attend the world’s largest sports medicine conference thanks to spring 2020 travel grants from the Vanderbilt Graduate School’s  Russell G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute. Maura Eveld Maura Eveld, Emily Matijevich and Rachel Teater are mechanical engineering… Read More

An engineering undergraduate who leads a team developing a next-generation radioisotope power system to provide non-stop power for months to years at a time has been named to the Forbes‘30 Under 30 List. Tyler Bernstein, Class of 2020, is CEO and co-founder of Zeno Power, which recently finished in… Read More