Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

The new National Science Foundation-funded Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO) aims to bring together researchers, educators and students working in academics, industry and government agencies in a kind of virtual brain trust to foster progress, develop priorities and quickly distribute information in the rapidly emerging field of cyber-physical systems. Vanderbilt’s… Read More

A new interdisciplinary minor in scientific computing will be offered in fall 2011 to help students interested in pursuing careers as natural and social scientists and engineers acquire the computational skills that such careers demand. Bodenheim The minor was created by faculty from both the School of Engineering… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni William A. Davis Jr. and Joe M. Dorris each received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering during a Celebration Dinner held March 17 at the Huntsville (Ala.) Museum of Art. L-R, Bill Davis, Dean Kenneth F. Galloway, Joe Dorris The School of… Read More

The School of Engineering’s Ph.D. program tied for No. 37 with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ranking ahead of Virginia, Case Western Reserve and Washington University in St. Louis, and just behind Rice, Yale and University of Colorado-Boulder in U.S. News’s 2012 rankings of Best Engineering Schools, which were released today. MIT… Read More

Engineering students at Vanderbilt University will showcase their ingenuity through a series of challenging – but fun – competitions and events celebrating the 60th anniversary of National Engineers Week Feb. 21-25. Two guest speakers are part of the week’s special events. Their presentations will be streamed live at http://news.vanderbilt.edu/ . Read More

The Vanderbilt Career Center (VCC) hosted an inaugural spring Engineering Industry Career Day with 36 companies in attendance on February 3 from 10am-2pm. Industry Career Days serve as one of many ways to interact with potential employers. Nearly 90% of those in attendance were undergraduate and graduate School of… Read More

The School of Engineering entered agreements in January for academic collaboration with two Chinese universities. Dean Kenneth F. Galloway and Ronald Schrimpf, Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering and director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, visited Xidian University in Xi’an and Fudan University in Shanghai January 6. Read More

The founder of Verimag Laboratory in Grenoble, France, will deliver Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Thursday, Jan. 20, at 4 p.m. in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium, Featheringill Hall. A reception will follow the lecture. Joseph Sifakis is a researcher with the… Read More

Are you ready for robots in the ER? A group of computer engineers at Vanderbilt University is convinced that the basic technology is now available to create robot assistants that can perform effectively in the often-chaotic environment of the emergency room. The specialists in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical… Read More

  Junior Erin McManus, a computer science and mathematics major, has been named a finalist in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2011. “It was a definitely a nice surprise,” said McManus, who was nominated by Robert Bodenheimer, associate professor of computer science. The CRA… Read More