Mechanical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Music helps put mechanical engineering student’s brain ‘in balance’

    Marince Near the end of his freshman year in 2011, mechanical engineering student Christopher Marince was feeling the stress of working on a dual major in Vanderbilt University’s Accelerated Graduate Program. Now he’d expected the strain of an academic workload, but there was something else bothering him. “I felt frustrated… Read More

    Apr. 26, 2013

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    Engineering claims 6 of 10 best-paying master’s degrees

    Six of 10 best-paying master’s degrees are in engineering, according to an article published today on monster.com. A master’s in electrical engineering is no. 1, edging out a master’s in finance. In the article, Katie Bardaro, lead analyst at PayScale.com, says many of the top-paying master’s degrees are in technical… Read More

    Apr. 22, 2013

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    Team’s payload design tops fourth consecutive year at NASA rocket contest

    L-R, A. Voss, B. Dimmig, J. Langford, J. Lee, D. Watkins, B. Smethills, F. Corradetti, R. Thompson, F. Folz, and M. Mitchell with the Vanderbilt Rocket ‘Hello Good Bio’ that flew the bio-hybrid fueled ramjet engine today at the NASA competition. A biohybrid fueled ramjet engine design paid off as… Read More

    Apr. 21, 2013

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    Prosthetic limb advances could help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings

    Vanderbilt lower-leg prosthesis is the first artificial leg with powered knee and ankle joints. (Center for Intelligent Mechatronics) The tragic April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon took the lives of three people and has left dozens of people with serious injuries, many of whom have lost limbs. Vanderbilt mechanical… Read More

    Apr. 19, 2013

  • Students win ‘TechVenture Challenge’ with faculty idea

    Students win ‘TechVenture Challenge’ with faculty idea

    A strategy for commercializing a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) has won top honors at this year’s TechVenture Challenge. Now in its third year, the Vanderbilt University initiative teaches students how to turn patented ideas developed by Vanderbilt faculty members into marketable products. The winning presentation pitched InvisionHeart, a smart health care… Read More

    Apr. 18, 2013

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    Seniors earn Aeronautics Institute win before Design Day debut

    A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks by four mechanical engineering seniors that could result in 12% energy savings for their corporate sponsor has earned the student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week. (L-R)… Read More

    Apr. 17, 2013

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    Autism Robot Helps Children

    An interdisciplinary team of autism experts and mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University has created an interactive robot that can help children with autism learn. Read More

    Apr. 16, 2013

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    Design experience counts for engineering seniors and their clients

    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 Senior Design Day 2013, an annual School of Engineering event, Friday, April 19, 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Corporate sponsors this year include Camgian… Read More

    Apr. 9, 2013

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    ME student selected for 2013 NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program

    A mechanical engineering sophomore has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. The highly competitive SURF program is substantially supported by the National Science Foundation. It exposes outstanding undergraduates to… Read More

    Apr. 8, 2013

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    Tabletop plasma generator brings Jupiter’s core to the lab

    A Vanderbilt engineering graduate student has created a small-scale, efficient way to produce high energy density plasma using a tabletop device. Its features and capabilities are described in an article published in the April edition of Physical Review Letters. Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Marc Ramsey Marc Ramsey, a doctoral candidate… Read More

    Apr. 5, 2013