Alumni

  • Vanderbilt University

    Chambers Lecture Oct. 7: How the Maker Movement is changing the world

    Mark Hatch says the Maker Movement is changing the world. He knows and he’ll tell you how. Mark Hatch Hatch is CEO and co-founder of TechShop, a fast-growing chain of co-working spaces where people come to build prototypes for the products they want to sell. What… Read More

    Sep. 9, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Innovation Center to support campus ‘makers’; search underway for director

      A rendering of the Engineering and Science Building, home to the newly announced Innovation Center. (Vanderbilt University) A new Innovation Center is being developed on the Vanderbilt University campus to support a “maker” culture that will encourage entrepreneurship and creativity and bolster implementation of the university’s… Read More

    Aug. 6, 2015

  • 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

  • Vanderbilt University

    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

  • 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

  • Vanderbilt University

    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

    Partnership with sustainable Sterling Ranch offers research from the ground up

    At the Sterling Ranch groundbreaking were, from left: Clark Murray (BS ’13), Scott Trench (BS ’13), Professor Lori Troxel, Carlton Jester (BE ’17), Alexander Macklis (BE ’16), and Brock Smethills (BE ‘13). A Vanderbilt University alumnus and his family broke ground this month on a 21st century… Read More

    Jun. 29, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Ten cross-disciplinary projects with engineering collaborators win TIPs funding

    Ten of 17 cross-disciplinary projects selected for the initial set of awards from Vanderbilt’s new Trans-Institutional Program (TIPs) initiative include 23 School of Engineering collaborators. Philippe Fauchet “These projects represent a broad range of research and teaching, and I’m happy so many engineers are working in such varied fields. Forging… Read More

    Jun. 23, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    New nanoparticle enhances success rate of coronary artery bypass grafts

      Illustration shows “nanopolyplex” delivery of a peptide into a surface leg vein prior to bypass grafting. The peptide inhibits a signaling pathway that drives proliferation of cells in the inner lining of the blood vessel, a process known as intimal hyperplasia (IH). As shown at… Read More

    Jun. 19, 2015