Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineers extend popular online MATLAB course into a new series

    Building on the exceptional success of their 2015 massive open online course (MOOC), “Introduction to Programming with MATLAB,” Mike Fitzpatrick, professor emeritus of computer science, and Akos Ledeczi, professor of computer engineering, are adding new courses to create an extended series. Fitzpatrick and Ledeczi have teamed… Read More

    Sep. 15, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering School is No. 37 in 2021 U.S. News undergraduate program rankings

    The Vanderbilt School of Engineering is No. 37 in the U.S. News & World Report’s  2021 Best Colleges rankings released today. The school is tied with Brown University, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Santa Barbara, and the University of Virginia. MIT is ranked No. 1. The U.S. News rankings of the 206 … Read More

    Sep. 14, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt leads $5 million project to revolutionize neurodiverse employment through AI

    NSF grant aligns with school’s Inclusion Engineering focus The National Science Foundation has awarded a highly competitive $5 million grant to Vanderbilt University that greatly expands a School of Engineering-led project for creating novel AI technology and tools and platforms that train and support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in… Read More

    Sep. 10, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Grissom awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to develop smaller, quieter MRI system

    Vanderbilt engineers have received a $1.4 million NIH grant to work toward a compact, silent, less expensive and potentially portable MRI device. The team, led by William Grissom, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will develop new hardware, including low-field radio frequency transmission coils and amplifiers, and software that will together… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineer develops tiny tweezers to trap nanoscale molecules as small as proteins

    An assistant professor of electrical engineering has developed the first-ever opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers, optical nanotweezers that can trap and manipulate objects as small as proteins and viruses. The technique, developed by Justus Ndukaife and two graduate students in his group, gives researchers a powerful new tool for the study and perhaps… Read More

    Aug. 31, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    School of Engineering announces two faculty appointments, EECS chair

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of two new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff and the appointment of a chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Tyler Derr joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor and… Read More

    Aug. 25, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    $8.8 million grant to overhaul evolution of complex software systems

    All software is not created equal. At one end are apps on a smartphone and consumer-facing programs for which periodic updates to fix bugs and security issues are routine, like replacing an air conditioning filter or getting an annual flu shot. At the other end are large, complex software systems… Read More

    Aug. 20, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Does named Fellow of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 

    Mark Does, professor of biomedical engineering has been selected as a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. His research program focuses on developing and applying MRI methods to quantitatively characterize various properties and/or compositions of tissue. It includes developing models of nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation and… Read More

    Aug. 11, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Alumni brothers take on cybersecurity’s moving target

    Brad and Tim Potteiger with Deanna Meador (left), associate director of the Wond’ry, at the Southeastern Entrepreneurship Conference in Chattanooga on March 1, 2020. Without warning, freezing-cold air blasts from the vents, the stereo screams heavy metal music at deafening decibels, your transmission dies and the doors won’t unlock. The… Read More

    Aug. 7, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt launches high-tech module in national partnership to meet critical engineering workforce needs

    Above, a recent Zoom session with of some of the 26 undergraduates from 12 universities and five Vanderbilt engineering faculty members who are participating in a virtual internship designed to expose undergraduates to specialized engineering fields—in this case, radiation effects on space electronics—typically gained at the graduate school level and… Read More

    Aug. 4, 2020