Biomedical Engineering

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering graduate program improved two positions to No. 37 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2011 graduate program rankings were released today. The School, which tied with the University of Rochester, ranks ahead of Yale, Virginia and Washington University in St. Louis and… Read More

Engineering seniors have spent up to two semesters tackling design challenges from actual corporations with real design needs. Senior design courses provide students with experience by working on projects that involve budgets, reviews and deadlines. Students learn about the principles of design, professionalism, licensing, how ethics affect engineering decisions, entrepreneurship… Read More

Ten biomedical students and their professor spent spring break on a service learning trip where they repaired medical equipment March 8-12. This was the second trip to Guatemala for Associate Professor Cynthia Paschal, who teaches the Service Learning and Leadership course in the biomedical engineering department. “In preparation, we researched… Read More

  Rajinder Khosla, program director, Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division, Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation, will visit the School of Engineering Friday, March 26, and host a one-hour seminar for faculty on emerging opportunities in engineering and the NSF. The program will be held in Stevenson Center,… Read More

Vanderbilt biomedical engineering professors Duco Jansen and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen are among this year’s 62 new Fellows of the International Photonic Science and Engineering Society (SPIE). SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical achievements and for their service to the optics and photonics community and to SPIE in particular. More… Read More

Ten biomedical engineering students and their professor will spend spring break (March 8-12) in Guatemala City. This is the second trip to Guatemala for Associate Professor Cynthia Paschal, who teaches a Service Learning and Leadership course in the biomedical engineering department. She and 12 BME students spent a week in… Read More

Robert Galloway, professor of biomedical engineering, is the 2010 Distinquished Alumnus of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. He is being honored for his pioneering work in image-guided surgery and other therapies. Galloway also is a professor of surgery and a professor of neurosurgery. He is the director… Read More

  On a cold, rainy Saturday at the Clairmont Apartments in East Nashville, a group of Spanish-speaking children from the area gathered inside one particularly colorful and lively unit, paying close attention to their teachers, Vanderbilt undergraduates Jillian Currie and Thomas Davis. In the day’s lesson, the children were… Read More

Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the School of Engineering’s John R. and Donna S. Hall Lecture Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. in Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema. A reception will follow the lecture. Vest’s lecture… Read More

Events and contests designed to increase awareness of contributions engineers make to society are set for the third week in February, a date celebrated as National Engineers Week in the United States. This year, to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Engineers Week ‘Discover E’ educational outreach program, the… Read More