Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Megan Woodruff (CE’17) and Phil Hawkins (CS’17) present Pocket Docket to the Human-Computer Interaction class. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Future engineers and others who excel in an increasingly popular computer science course must start by thinking past the coding challenges, past the array of possible devices, and all… Read More

  Padma Raghavan Following an extensive national search, Padma Raghavan, a distinguished researcher in high-performance computing and computational science and engineering and a proven academic research enterprise leader, has been named as Vanderbilt University’s next vice provost for research, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic… Read More

Zachary Diggins with the website he's designing for Companions Journeying Together. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Zachary Diggins’ research revolves around the effects of gamma radiation on robots — vital work so that one day machines, not people, can be used to address disasters such as… Read More

Simply put, building a makerspace requires a community, some tools, and education. How it’s accomplished varies, and that’s what the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering will explore Friday, Dec. 11, in a daylong Design, Build and Test (DEBUT) Makerspace Planning Workshop. The workshop is open to the public but attendance… Read More

  (iStock) A new $3.5 million award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will support Vanderbilt University School of Engineering researchers’ efforts to create software that can control the Smart Grid – a decentralized power system that is more efficient, sustainable and… Read More

Students and teachers from Whites Creek’s Academy of Alternative Energy, Sustainability and Logistics visited the School of Engineering's wind-solar energy demonstration site on Love Circle for a day of 'hands-on learning.'     When Whites Creek High School students and teachers looked for a ground-mount solar cell installation to visit,… Read More

Can Envarli Avid social media users might not know Can Envarli (BS’05), but they almost certainly know his work. Twitter created a stir in January when it announced the launch of its native video platform, allowing users to both upload video in multiple formats and shoot and… Read More

Dance Central kept users moving at Vandy_LAN. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) It’s important to realize that Dance Central rates users based on how accurately a motion-sensing camera believes they’re mimicking what they see on the screen, not on their finesse. So the first sight that visitors to Friday… Read More

Instead of looking at space atmosphere as a toxic vacuum, look at it as an asset, said Les Johnson, who handed a silver 4-inch square of solar sail material as light as small bird’s feather to an audience member. As the piece of sail traveled through a standing-room-only crowd in… Read More

James Hill, an associate professor of computer and information science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has become one of the youngest African Americans to become a tenured professor in computer science at a research university in the United States. Hill gained that distinction in August, when his tenure appointment in… Read More