Electrical Engineering And Computer Science
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VUSE volunteers encourage career goals at pair of Society of Women Engineers events
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering volunteers take middle school girls through an experiment about the environment on Saturday at the Society of Women Engineers national conference. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Hundreds of middle school girls learned how a mini car runs off solar power, how to ionize water… Read MoreOct. 25, 2015
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Vanderbilt engineering MOOC leads talented Indian student to Nashville
A student’s round trip of 16,716 miles began with an invitation to spend a summer in Nashville, Tennessee, as a computer science intern at Vanderbilt University. Chinmaya Samal In January, Chinmaya Samal, 22, of Rourkela, Odisha, in India, won a Google prize of a Nexus 7 tablet for an Android… Read MoreOct. 16, 2015
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Penn Engineering’s Kumar says FAA grounding won’t halt growing drone interest
Vijay Kumar delivers the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture in Jacobs Believed In Me Auditorium. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt University) Aerial robot superstar Vijay Kumar gets that there are good reasons for the Federal Aviation Administration to look askance at drone use. There are… Read MoreOct. 14, 2015
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Alum Q&A: OptioLabs’ director of research talks software, Vandy life, fun office space
Hamilton Turner, BE'10, right, speaks with potential interns and employees at September's Engineering & IT Industry Career Day. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Hamilton Turner didn’t require much assistance while recruiting at the fall Engineering & IT Industry Career Day – the 2010 computer engineering alumnus knows his way… Read MoreOct. 8, 2015
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VandyHacks draws from across Southeast for fun, sleep-deprived weekend of invention
First-place Vandy Hacks winners, from left, were Vanderbilt computer science seniors Jason Mayer and Jonathan Clinton and computer engineering senior Zeke Tan. Not pictured is computer science senior Mark Schott. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Three sleep-rumpled hackers had an entire room of Rand Dining Hall… Read MoreOct. 4, 2015
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VenoStent, PinPtr edge closer to market with boost from $200K AIR-TT grants
Akos Ledeczi and Will Hedgecock, who developed PinPtr. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Two innovative but very different products designed by Vanderbilt University engineers are getting a financial push onto the market, thanks to National Science Foundation Accelerating Innovation Research–Technology Translation (AIR-TT) grants of about $200,000 each. VenoStent is… Read MoreSep. 30, 2015
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Corvettes rev hands-on approach to automotive engineering at GM Ride & Drive
By the end of the five-hour GM Ride & Drive event, 220 registered drivers had taken 693 total test drives. Three gleaming, new Corvette convertibles – Torch Red, Arctic White and Laguna Blue – are in a nose-to-tail line at 10 a.m. on a sunny Friday waiting for Vanderbilt… Read MoreSep. 28, 2015
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Vanderbilt software institute celebrates big week for grants
Researchers at the Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems are celebrating this week after the announcements of three major National Science Foundation grants in three days. Gokhale First, the NSF announced on Monday the institute’s Aniruddha Gokhale, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, would share… Read MoreSep. 17, 2015
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Tiny flying robots form teams, cooperate—Engineering’s Hall Lecture Oct. 12
Vijay Kumar and his students at the University of Pennsylvania build small, agile flying robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams that could be used for search and rescue in large-scale disasters. Penn Engineering Dean Kumar Kumar, recognized around the world for his groundbreaking work on… Read MoreSep. 16, 2015
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Two professors to serve on Vanderbilt’s new diversity and inclusion committee
Two engineering professors have been selected to serve on a newly created university committee to promote diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced 15-person committee to work on issues of inclusion, diversity and community during his bi-annual address in August to the Faculty Assembly. It… Read MoreSep. 11, 2015