Biomedical Engineering

  Nanotechnology expert comes from University of Rochester Philippe Fauchet will be the new dean of the school of engineering at Vanderbilt University. Philippe Fauchet to succeed Kenneth Galloway as dean of the School of Engineering. Fauchet, currently chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University… Read More

Four engineering professors received newly endowed chairs in late 2011, bringing the total of named chairs in the School of Engineering to 12. The recipients are Benoit Dawant and David Kosson, both named a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Read More

More than 100 faculty, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students engaged in nanoscience and nanotechnology research at Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities attended the 12th annual forum on Nov. 9 at Buttrick Hall. Each year the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering sponsors a full-day of presentations, poster sessions and… Read More

Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), knows the United States faces challenges to its technological lead and to energy security.  “In many cases our nation is lagging behind and needs to change course with fierce urgency,” says Majumdar, who will deliver the John R. Read More

  K. Arthur Overholser K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been selected to join ABET’s (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Academic Advisory Council. The AAC’s inaugural meeting was October 2010. The council provides a formal… Read More

Todd Giorgio, professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department at Vanderbilt University, is a member of the 2011 class of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Fellows. The six newly elected fellows were nominated by their peers and elected by the BMES Fellows Committee chaired by board member Nicholas A. Peppas… Read More

The Vanderbilt Career Center (VCC) hosted an Engineering Industry Career Day at the Student Life Center with 57 companies from across the nation in attendance on Sept. 27. Industry Career Days are invitation-only events which offer a smaller, more intimate atmosphere in order to facilitate connections between employers and… Read More

To mark the School of Engineering’s 125th anniversary in 2011-2012, its annual distinguished lecture — The John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture — becomes a special series bringing four notable engineering leaders to campus, one each in October, November, January and March. Davis Mark E. Davis,… Read More

  K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been appointed chair of the Diversity Task Force of the Undergraduate Experience Committee within the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society for Engineering Education. Founded in 1893,… Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Engineering moved up two places to No. 34 among engineering schools whose highest degree awarded is a doctorate in the 2012 Best Colleges rankings released by U.S. News & World Report Sept. 13. The School of Engineering tied with the University of California-Davis, the University of… Read More