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  (Vanderbilt University)   Provost Susan R. Wente (Vanderbilt University) Three engineering faculty members join 15 faculty from colleges and schools named to the inaugural Vanderbilt University Research Council by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente. The engineering faculty… Read More

An emeritus professor who early in his career was one of three faculty members to lay the foundation for the biomedical engineering department at Vanderbilt University died Nov. 3, 2016, in Nashville. L. Ensign Johnson L. Ensign Johnson, Jr., 85, was a professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from… Read More

Thanks to the Cross-College Teaching Initiative that began this semester, Douglas C. Schmidt, professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Jules White, assistant professor of computer science, launched the University Course Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing. An integral part of Vanderbilt’s Academic… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s new cross-disciplinary innovation space, the Wond’ry, will host an open house as part of its grand opening celebration between 3 and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Student ambassadors, Vanderbilt faculty and Wond’ry staff will lead tours of the new 13,000-square-foot space, located… Read More

by David Salisbury | Nov. 2, 2016, 9:00 AM | Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter » SHARELINES Tweet// “MacGyver-ing” high-performance batteries out of scrap metal, laundry soap and a glass jar… Read More

A critical goal in modern surgery is to make procedures as safe and minimally invasive as possible, which often means using robotic tools. Vanderbilt University bioengineer Nabil Simaan says a negative side effect of doing surgery with tiny entry points into the body is that the surgeon… Read More

Miles Barr (Photo courtesy MIT Technology Review) Anyone who’s stared helplessly at a dead smartphone, its charger sitting at home on a bedside table, can appreciate the mind of Miles Barr. The Vanderbilt engineering alum and founder of Redwood City-based Ubiquitous Energy developed a transparent film that… Read More

Kenneth F. Galloway received the 2016 Yuri Gagarin Award at the 2016 RADECS conference in Bremen, Germany. Galloway is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and former dean of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering. Kenneth F. Galloway The Radiation Effects in Components and… Read More

Vanderbilt alumni working at Camgian Microsystems: founder and CEO Gary Butler, Seth Patton, Micheal Fullan and Gilbert Rodriguez. (Photo courtesy of Camgian Microsystems) Gary Butler spent less than two years at Vanderbilt – earning a master’s in mechanical engineering in 1994 before setting off for the University… Read More

From left: Ethan Look (CS'18), Xavier Williams (EE'18), Trevor Hanken (ME'17) and Jacqueline Machesky (CEE'17). (Vanderbilt University/Heidi Hall) Four students provided a highlight of the Oct. 21 Board of Visitors meeting, telling the group of advisers to the School of Engineering about their lives before Vanderbilt and… Read More