Mechanical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Task force aims to better integrate engineering school into local entrepreneurial community

    A newly formed Technology Entrepreneurship Task Force in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering aims to connect tech-savvy undergraduates who have entrepreneurial ambitions to local companies and business leaders to better integrate the school into the Nashville community and to help stimulate private-sector innovation and growth in the Middle Tennessee region. Read More

    Nov. 6, 2012

  • Vanderbilt engineers featured in Wired article on product failure

    Vanderbilt engineers featured in Wired article on product failure

    Today’s manufacturing companies face a significant challenge as they work to balance the demands of the marketplace for better performing products against the need to bring new products to market faster, cheaper and with greater reliability than ever before. This month’s issue of Wired magazine features an article addressing this… Read More

    Oct. 31, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineers' exoskeleton promises a new degree of independence for people with paraplegia

    The dream of regaining the ability to stand up and walk has come closer to reality for people paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step. A team of engineers at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has developed a powered exoskeleton that enables… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Online store VUSEgear offers engineering school merchandise

    VUSEgear, an online store for Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (VUSE) merchandise, launches today with a grand opening discount of 20 percent savings on all items through Nov. 1. The effort to offer an online store began months ago and is a response to alumni requests for more engineering… Read More

    Oct. 17, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Director of German nanosciences institute is NanoDay! keynote speaker

    Research seminars, poster presentations part of Oct. 24 event The director of a nanosciences institute in Dresden, Germany, is the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt University. The Forum and NanoDay! activities are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale… Read More

    Oct. 16, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Nanoscience and nanotechnology minor offered

    In an effort to respond to students’ rapidly growing interest in nanoscale technology, a new 15-hour interdisciplinary minor in nanoscience and nanotechnology is being offered by the School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Science. Directors are Paul E. Laibinis, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Sandra… Read More

    Oct. 15, 2012

  • Family Weekend features Dean’s Hour event

    Family Weekend features Dean’s Hour event

    The School of Engineering hosted a Dean’s Hour event for parents and families of undergraduate engineering students visiting for Family Weekend at Adams Atrium in Featheringill Hall 3-4 pm, Oct. 12.  About 150 guests socialized with engineering leaders, faculty and staff members while soaking up the School’s atmosphere. Families at… Read More

    Oct. 12, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Undergraduates manipulate model car prototype for fast design changes

    Cyber-physical lab project part of DARPA Advanced Vehicle Make program Using system-based architecture, undergraduate students created novel designs that can be fabricated quickly. The first full-featured prototype is a 1:5 scale radio-controlled car. A half dozen undergraduates gathered in the Featheringill Hall cyber-physical lab… Read More

    Oct. 3, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering Career Day hits record attendance for students and companies

    The number of job seekers and students searching for internships hit a record high at 540 during today’s Engineering and Information Technology Career Day in the Student Life Center ballrooms. Job seekers fill one of three ballrooms at the fall Industry Career Day. “This is the highest… Read More

    Sep. 27, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering School holds at No. 34 in U.S. News rankings

    Vanderbilt School of Engineering remained No. 34 on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering programs at doctoral institutions. U.S. News released online today its annual rankings of the United States’ best colleges and universities. For the fourth straight year, Vanderbilt… Read More

    Sep. 12, 2012