Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Vanderbilt University seeks to be on the leading edge of the field with the opening of its Institute for Digital Learning. The institute will focus on developing massive open online courses as well as other digital learning platforms, which includes a partnership with Coursera. Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer… Read More

A low-tech safety device for drivers stranded on roadsides at night has been designed by a Vanderbilt engineering professor. DefCone is a series of five inflatable, illuminated cylinders vertically aligned to form a 2-foot-high barrier roughly the width of a car. The cylinders’ LED lights blink at intervals. Bharat Bhuva… Read More

A velcro-clad Motorola van full of the latest prototyping tools was parked outside of Featheringill Hall for the Make-a-Thon Aug. 2-4. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt’s Featheringill Hall was the site of a three-day Make-a-Thon sponsored by Motorola and hosted by the Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt graduate student Electa Baker is one 65 individuals that NASA has selected for its 2013 class of Space Technology Research Fellows.   Electa Baker (John Russell / Vanderbilt) The fellowship will enable Baker to create new visualization methods that allow robot operators to assess the large… Read More

A velcro-clad Motorola van full of the latest prototyping tools will help Nashville-area students create the smartphone of the future during the Make-a-Thon Aug. 2-4. (image courtesy of Motorola) Area high school and college students, including a group from Nashville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet School, will convene on… Read More

Vanderbilt University engineers are part of a multi-university project funded by a five-year $9 million National Science Foundation grant to help determine the most efficient approach to designing and operating cyber-physical systems that support national health, energy and transportation priorities. FORCES is a key component of the NSF’s CPS technologies… Read More

Program coordinator, Brandon Knight, left, poses with interns Michael Eden, Sydney Bailes, Asha Elsberry and Lucas Cauthen with Jonas Aberle in front. (Steve Green / Vanderbilt) If you are a frustrated amateur inventor, you might want to thank seven Nashville high school students. They spent their summer working on introductory… Read More

Vanderbilt now has designated space at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s new downtown incubator at 41 Peabody Street in the city’s historic Rolling Mill Hill area. Dedicated Vanderbilt space at the EC. The VU@EC program was developed in conjunction with the School of Engineering and the Center for Technology Transfer &… Read More

Kenneth F. Galloway accepts the ASEE gavel from Walter Buchanan, immediate past president of the ASEE. Kenneth F. Galloway assumed the presidency of the American Society for Engineering Education at a gala event June 26 at the conclusion of the ASEE’s 2013 annual conference. “The work of… Read More

Adams The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of two department chairs, two associate deans, and five new faculty members. The appointments are effective July 1, 2013. Douglas Adams has been named Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Adams comes to Vanderbilt from… Read More