Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering design students preparing for the NASA Student Launch competition May 17 recently ground tested their microgravity liquid fuel tank design in preparation for the 2014 national event in Utah. L-R, Kevin Bush, Jordan Salik, Shiva Bernath, Chris Twedell and Patrick Foran assemble the ramjet and fuel delivery system… Read More

Camgian chairman and CEO Gary Butler has been named Vice Chair of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Board of Visitors. The appointment was announced at the April 11 BOV meeting. The Board of Visitors was established in March 2013. It is the successor organization… Read More

Engineering seniors have spent two semesters tackling design challenges from actual clients with real design needs. The results of their design projects will be featured at Design Day 2014, an annual School of Engineering event, Monday, April 21, 4-6 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Corporate sponsors… Read More

Everett Hunter led a team of "fifth grade engineers" to set a Hot Wheel's "highest loop" world record. (Robert Nozar, Sun News) When the 11-year-old son of two 1996 mechanical engineering graduates – Jeb and Meg Hunter  – asked if he could go for the record of the largest Hot… Read More

Twelve current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, which announced April 1 the 2014 class of fellows. They are Thomas Werfel, Joseph Thomas Sharick and Abigail M. Searfoss, biomedical engineering; Joseph Weinstein-Webb and William Robert Erwin, chemical engineering; Addisu Zerihun Taddese, Michael Allen… Read More

March 26, 2014 CNN.com: Ten visionary women School of Engineering alumna Kimberly Bryant used her experience at Vanderbilt to develop a computer science curriculum specifically aimed at girls of color. March 20, 2014 History Today: The new drones club A Vanderbilt University team has developed mapping… Read More

The School of Engineering’s graduate program improved two positions to No. 34 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2015 graduate program rankings were released today. The school, which tied with Yale University and the University of Colorado-Boulder, ranks ahead of Rensselaer Polytechnic University and the University… Read More

Michael Goldfarb, named by Popular Mechanics as one of the “10 Innovators Who Changed the World in 2013,” will deliver the March 25 Chancellor’s Lecture at Vanderbilt University. Goldfarb, holder of the H. Fort Flowers Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, is renowned for his work… Read More

The IPEMS robot is fully dressed in a standard individual protection ensemble protective gear. For the first time, the military can conduct high-quality and reproducible tests of protective equipment without using a human subject. Photo courtesy of MRIGlobal. The completion of a human-like robot designed to provide data on the… Read More

Barry D. Lichter, 82, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of materials science and engineering emeritus, died Feb. 1 in Nashville. Barry D. Lichter Lichter, a native of Chelsea, Mass., received his bachelor’s degree in 1953 and his doctorate in 1958, both in metallurgy from MIT. Following research positions at… Read More