Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

William Robinson, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, has been selected as one of 40 honorees for Florida A&M University’s inaugural Young Alumni Awards. He will attend the 40/40 Celebration, a special event that will take place Oct. 29 during the university’s homecoming weekend. This new award goes… Read More

Engineering faculty, students to benefit from solar research grant Five years from now, high school and college students throughout Tennessee should have more and better opportunities to learn about and pursue careers in alternative energy science and technology. That is one of the key objectives of a $20 million… Read More

Dean Kenneth F. Galloway has been unanimously accepted as a member of the Global Engineering Deans Council. The GEDC was created in May 2008 at a meeting in Paris. The organization was encouraged by the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies and modeled after the Engineering Deans Council of… Read More

Mark D. Abkowitz, director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering, gave a presentation on disaster risk management at the Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 26. Jeremy Spinrad, associate professor of computer science, was among 28 faculty members recognized for 25 years of… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering undergraduate program improved four positions to No. 36 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2011 annual rankings were released today. The School of Engineering tied with Lehigh University, University of California-Santa Barbara. MIT was ranked No. 1. “It is always gratifying to… Read More

The Division of Sponsored Research received notification in June that the following grants in excess of $25,000 had been awarded to engineering faculty members: Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $77,000 by the Department of Energy for “Lattice QCD SCIDAC: … Read More

  Sharon Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is one of 86 young American engineers selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 16th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of… Read More

Janos Sztipanovits Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering, has been elected an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Sciences Section. He will deliver an inaugural lecture Sept. 9, 2010. Eminent Hungarian scholars with outstanding achievements in… Read More

Vanderbilt University will provide more than $3 million to 43 of its faculty researchers – 11 from the School of Engineering – over the next three years to support “breakthrough-level” research with the potential to “advance society’s greater good and collective wisdom.” The program, called Innovation and Discovery in Engineering… Read More

Slowly but steadily the U.S. health care community is moving into the digital age: shifting their medical records from paper to electronic information systems. This movement raises serious concerns about security and privacy of patients’ medical information. In an attempt to put these concerns to rest, the U.S. Department of… Read More