Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

  • Vanderbilt University

    Senior creates app for orangutans with guidance from CS professor

    Ben Scheer jumps imagination-first into big projects, and he’s not afraid of a lot of trial and error. The Vanderbilt human and organizational development and economics double major has worked on dozens of entrepreneurial endeavors ranging from coding to music to virtual reality to photography, with his biggest focus being on connecting… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2019

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    Annual dinner honors student athletes, ROTC members for double duty

    Marc Panu, BE’14, addresses engineering student athletes and ROTC members. Citing the Beatles, former Vanderbilt Football Coach James Franklin and Confucius, two School of Engineering alumni told student athletes and ROTC members that their undergraduate experiences have put them ahead of their peers – they already know how to manage… Read More

    Feb. 1, 2019

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    Spring career fair draws record student attendance and 17 new companies

    A record number of engineering undergraduates attended the career fair held Jan. 28, an event that also attracted 17 new companies.  In all, 363 students attended, up from 343 last year. The spring semester fair is an engineering-only event and 47 companies participated, an increase of more than 25… Read More

    Jan. 31, 2019

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    Vanderbilt team wins $750K with AI to manage RF spectrum

    MarmotE team members (L-R) Peter Horvath, Peter Volgyesi, Sandor Szilvasi and Miklos Maroti. Vanderbilt team MarmotE cleared Phase 2 of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge held in December at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. With no real estate left to expand the… Read More

    Jan. 29, 2019

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    Vanderbilt Boot Camp addresses workplace shortage as Nashville emerges as new tech hub

    A session of a Coding Boot Camp offered by the Vanderbilt Data Sciences Institute. The following is an excerpt from a Jan. 23, 2019, article – Why Build a Boot Camp? –  in Campus Technology by Dian Schafhauser.  When Doug Schmidt persuaded his institution to sign on with… Read More

    Jan. 29, 2019

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    Four PhD students win prestigious Eisenhower transportation fellowships

    Ph.D. students (l-r) Will Barbour, Yue Hu, Yanbing Wang, Charles Doktycz and Derek Gloudemans with Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in January 2019. Four of the students received 2018 Eisenhower Fellowships.   Four engineering Ph.D. students have received… Read More

    Jan. 24, 2019

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    Vanderbilt makeathon helps Hawaii youngster create custom guitar pick holder

    Tikkun Olam Makers complete 14 design projects in 48 hours Linden strummed a guitar in the lobby of the Engineering and Science Building. The prototype of a custom guitar pick holder for his finger worked great. Zion whirled his wheelchair and kicked a round rugby ball to his TOM teammates… Read More

    Jan. 23, 2019

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    CS professor co-teaches course on ethics of artificial intelligence

    Written by Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering Doug Fisher and Assistant Professor of English Haerin Shin Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has progressed in leaps and bounds, becoming a key fabric of our everyday lives and oft-mentioned in our popular discourse. Even… Read More

    Jan. 16, 2019

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    Global standards organization awards scholarship to materials science doctoral student

    Interdisciplinary materials science doctoral student Andrew Tonigan has been awarded a $10,000 ASTM International scholarship for his graduate studies in a field where technical standards play a crucial role. He is one of four scholarship winners. The other recipients are from the University of Alabama, McGill University and Indiana University… Read More

    Jan. 14, 2019

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    Risk modeling, data integration drive NASA next-gen air travel safety project

    Low visibility, bird strikes, incorrect landing approach speed, runway debris, airframe icing, engine fires, unexpected weather and sensor malfunction are but a handful of potential causes of airplane accidents. They also are among more than 60 incident scenarios identified by an ambitious NASA effort to develop the next generation National… Read More

    Jan. 4, 2019