Mechanical Engineering
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Outstanding 2023 engineering graduates recognized at Engineering Commencement Reception
Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2023 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients at the school’s May 11 Commencement Reception. “It is among my favorite duties as dean to acknowledge our students’ accomplishments that we recognize by awards and honors they have earned at… Read MoreMay. 11, 2023
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Dean Fauchet announces annual awards and faculty promotions
Dean Philippe Fauchet announced May 9 the promotions of engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year and presented four school awards at a reception following the meeting. Dan Work has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental… Read MoreMay. 9, 2023
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A.V. Anilkumar is named Mark Dalton Faculty Director of Experiential Learning in Aerospace Engineering
Former chair of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and Vanderbilt Law School alumnus Mark F. Dalton, JD’75, has established a faculty director position to bolster innovative hands-on learning in aerospace design. The inaugural Mark Dalton Faculty Director of Experiential Learning in Aerospace Engineering is Amrutur “A.V.”… Read MoreMay. 2, 2023
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Seventeen Vanderbilt engineering students awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eleven Vanderbilt engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. “With a total of 17 Vanderbilt engineering students recognized with this prestigious fellowship this year, our… Read MoreMay. 2, 2023
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Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant
Joshua Caldwell (Vanderbilt University) Josh Caldwell, director of the Interdisciplinary Material Sciences program and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The five-year grant, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding annually, will be shared… Read MoreApr. 20, 2023
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Engineering seniors present capstone projects at annual Design Day event, April 24
A team of engineering seniors has designed an embedded thermoelectric generator to convert that wavy shimmer of heat that rises from hot asphalt—waste heat radiation—into electrical energy. To protect soldiers’ hands from heat burns while rappelling from helicopters, another team has created ‘fast rope’ insertion gloves. These design projects and… Read MoreApr. 18, 2023
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Herowear exosuit technology launches with on-campus departments
An innovative exosuit developed by a team of Vanderbilt engineers comes full circle this… Read MoreApr. 17, 2023
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Engineering school announces 2023 alumni honorees, distinguished friends
Two business leaders and a retired Navy Vice Admiral will join the School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and two business professionals associated with the school have been named a Distinguished Friend of the school. They will be recognized in an induction ceremony at an April 20 Engineering Celebration… Read MoreApr. 7, 2023
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Vanderbilt engineer and medtech global leader Krista Donaldson to discuss public health inequities, better products and solutions
Engineering school’s Chambers Lecture is April 4 at the Wond’ry Vanderbilt engineering alumna, designer, author and entrepreneur Krista Donaldson has addressed global health inequities through the design and scaling of disruptive medical devices that treated more 1.8M patients, mostly children and young people, in 80 countries. Now, she directs Innovation… Read MoreMar. 6, 2023
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How a graduate school “midlife crisis” inspired a breakthrough surgical device
By Lucas Johnson When Robert J. Webster III was working on an engineering project for his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, he was struck with an unnerving thought: The technology he was helping create seemed interesting, but it wouldn’t reach patients for at least 20 years. “And that’s only… Read MoreFeb. 28, 2023