Mechanical Engineering

Montgomery Bell Academy students enjoy a demonstration of Vanderbilt Aerospace Club's 2014-2015 entry (far left) in NASA's Student Launch Competition. Vanderbilt students are (L-R) William Emfinger, Pranav Kumar, Conner Caldwell, Alex Goodman, Cameron Ridgewell, Fred Folz, Chris Lyne and Jacob Moore. A robotic arm moves directly over a Vanderbilt Aerospace… Read More

Fourth-year mechanical engineering student Teddy Russell, second from right, guides a tour through Featheringill Hall. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) It’s apparent to anyone who spends more than a few minutes on campus that tour season is here, bringing thousands of potential Vanderbilt… Read More

The School of Engineering’s graduate program is No. 35 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2016 graduate program rankings were released today. The school, which tied with Yale University, ranks ahead of Boston University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and just behind the University of Colorado-Boulder. MIT… Read More

Pietro Valdastri is convinced that the clever application of magnetic force can make minimally invasive surgery easier and more effective. “In 2007, a team of University of Texas researchers did some basic experiments using magnets in laparoscopic surgery,” said Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of Vanderbilt… Read More

R. Byron Pipes to deliver Hall Engineering Lecture March 30 A globally recognized polymer sciences researcher will deliver the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture March 30. R. Byron Pipes, Purdue University R. Byron Pipes, John Leighton Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Purdue University, will deliver a… Read More

Ph.D. student Andrew Ekelem, far left, and physical therapist Christina Durrough work with exoskeleton test subject Dustin Fleeman. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Andrew Ekelem sits in a wheelchair at the bottom of the fifth-floor stairwell at Olin Hall, laptop balanced on his thighs, quick keystrokes making tiny adjustments… Read More

Race car driver and engineering alumnus Brad Jaeger can be seen very briefly in a 90-second Nissan commercial during the 2015 Super Bowl on Feb. 1 featuring the relationship between a race car driver and his… Read More

Eric Honert and a model foot (Photo by John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Eric Honert ranked as Colorado’s best collegiate tennis player last year. He spent the summer climbing as many of the Colorado Fourteeners – mountains with peaks of 14,000 feet elevation or higher – as… Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering professor is a lead or co-inventor of six of the 10 “cool inventions” in 2014 highlighted by the university’s Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization in this video. The CTTC selected 10 from last year’s 200 inventions… Read More

Pietro Valdastri (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) Article courtesy of Vanderbilt CTTC Having spent the last decade researching and working on the development of medical capsule robots, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Pietro Valdastri is no stranger to innovation, nor to the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps. The corps… Read More