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Sutherland Prize, Chancellor’s Research Award go to engineers
The Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research was presented to John Gore by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during the Fall Faculty Assembly Sept. 22. John Gore Gore holds the Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine and he is the director of the Vanderbilt… Read MoreAug. 22, 2013
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Eight engineering students receive NSF graduate fellowships
Eight current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. They are Meghan Bowler, Erica Curtis, Melanie Gault, Samantha Saratt and Chelsea Stowell, biomedical engineering; Kirsten Heikkinen and Richard Hendrick, mechanical engineering; and Thushara Gunda, civil and environmental engineering. Two engineering undergraduate students who also… Read MoreAug. 21, 2013
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Guided by engineering faculty, high school students publish in research journal
By Elizabeth Johnston Engineering faculty mentored nine of 22 high school students who published articles in the recently released third volume of Young Scientist, a research journal for students who have participated in research labs at Vanderbilt. Turner-Yovanovitch Zoe Turner-Yovanovitch explored a new method and device for… Read MoreAug. 20, 2013
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Grad’s startup goal is to become the Girl Scouts of technology
READ: NSBE award pleases founder of Black Girls CODE In the hopes that her daughter would take an interest in creating computer games rather than just playing them, Vanderbilt engineering alumna Kimberly Bryant found herself in April 2011 launching Black Girls CODE, a San Francisco nonprofit aimed at introducing… Read MoreAug. 16, 2013
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Professor designs safety device for stranded drivers
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 MoreAug. 13, 2013
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Robot uses steerable needles to treat brain clots
Professor Robert Webster and his team have developed a new image-guided surgical system that uses steerable needles to essentially suck out clots. Watch a video demo of the system in action and read the full story. Read MoreAug. 8, 2013
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Engineers, designers show off creativity at Make-a-Thon
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 MoreAug. 7, 2013
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Vanderbilt engineering grad student wins NASA fellowship
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 MoreAug. 5, 2013
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Nautilus: Team’s tiny robot called medical science ‘breakthrough’
Experimental setup of the IREP, a robotic surgical tool created by engineers and surgeons at Vanderbilt and Columbia. A miniscule robotic surgical tool created by engineers and surgeons at Vanderbilt University and Columbia University is singled out by Nautilus science magazine with four other remarkable developments as… Read MoreAug. 2, 2013
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Engineering’s Cummings receives Prausnitz Award
Peter T. Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2013 John M. Prausnitz Award by the Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design. Peter Cummings The award, which was presented May 30 in Argentina at an Iryapu jungle conference center near… Read MoreJun. 17, 2013