Mechanical Engineering
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Professor helps students conquer their fear of public speaking
Beyond explaining numbers and calculations, engineers are now expected to make formal oral presentations, run meetings and quickly pitch ideas to clients or colleagues. Many engineering students lack the communication skills they will need to succeed professionally and Julie Sharp, professor of the practice of technical communications, is working to… Read MoreJan. 4, 2013
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Goldfarb among 10 electronics visionaries to watch: EE Times
Michael Goldfarb Michael Goldfarb is one of 10 visionaries profiled by EE Times magazine in its December 2012 edition, Envisioning 2013. Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, is among a group of eight humans, an avatar and a wireless networks center at MIT (with two human… Read MoreDec. 21, 2012
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Bottle rockets pique middle schoolers interest in engineering
Students from Wright Middle School showing the soda bottle rockets that they have made. (Susan Urmy / Vanderbilt) Frankie Corradetti stood in front of a class of enthusiastic but wriggly seventh graders. She was flanked on the right by an elaborate stand holding an upside-down… Read MoreDec. 21, 2012
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Mechanical engineering alum is rising business leader in Ohio
Jed Hunter Mechanical Engineering alumnus Jed Hunter (BE’96) has been recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business Magazine as one of 40 under 40 rising business leaders. Hunter, 38, is the area vice president and dealer principal for Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Penske Automotive Group. He oversees eight local car dealers selling vehicles… Read MoreDec. 14, 2012
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NSF grant to help engineers accelerate development of medical capsule robots
Four Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty members have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create new tools, including a web-based modeling and simulation infrastructure, intended to help speed up the development of miniature medical capsule robots. The four-year project – Cyber-Physical Systems: Integrated Modeling,… Read MoreDec. 6, 2012
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Surgery and engineering initiative offers funds to develop interventional medical devices
The treatment of many diseases and serious health conditions has changed dramatically over the past two decades due to the availability of new interventional medical devices designed to improve health or alter the course of disease. The explosive growth of coronary intervention procedures has been fueled by new devices such… Read MoreDec. 5, 2012
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Wearable Robot Helps Man Walk Again
Amazing Vanderbilt research has resulted in the designing of a “wearable robot” that can be used by paraplegics to walk again. Read MoreNov. 29, 2012
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October winds offer students good view of turbine action
Students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt trekked about three miles from campus to the School of Engineering’s wind-solar alternative energy site to see a wind turbine in action atop Love Circle hill in Nashville. Students from the School for Science and Math at… Read MoreNov. 20, 2012
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Posters accepted until Dec. 1 for Surgery and Engineering Symposium
The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) and the Department of Surgery Research Collaborative will host the first Vanderbilt Surgery and Engineering Symposium from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, in Light Hall, Room 202. Reed Omary Reed Omary, professor and chair of… Read MoreNov. 15, 2012
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Engineer uses Vanderbilt bionic leg to climb Chicago skyscraper
A 31-year old software engineer climbed 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower Sunday, Nov. 4, wearing a prosthetic leg designed by Vanderbilt University engineering professor Michael Goldfarb and adapted by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to become the world’s first neural-controlled bionic leg. The climb… Read MoreNov. 7, 2012