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  Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Constant innovation helped make one of the first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at Vanderbilt more like a “real class” and benefited faculty and students by improving on-campus teaching, according to Douglas… Read More

By Vincent Troia For a brief moment half a century ago, four Vanderbilt University engineering students were band mates in ‘Nashville’s Most Popular Combo.’ How they managed to attain that title is a longer story – one that was recently recounted as if it happened yesterday. As the Lancers,… Read More

Julie Sharp, professor of the practice of technical communications, and Christopher Rowe, director of the division of general engineering and director of engineering communications, won an APEX Award for Excellence in the category of Education and Training Writing for their American Society for Engineering Education 2013 Proceedings conference… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering tied seven other universities at No. 35 on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2014 list of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering programs at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. U.S. News released online today its annual… Read More

Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland have teamed up to introduce a new approach to massive open online courses, or MOOCs – a two-part, sequenced course offered through the digital learning platform… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has appointed faculty to four steering committees and accompanying academic planning groups that will contribute to the campuswide strategic planning effort. More than 140 faculty will participate in this effort along with the 25-person Executive Committee that was appointed earlier this summer. Nineteen engineering faculty are… Read More

The Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research was presented to John Gore by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during the Fall Faculty Assembly Sept. 22. John Gore Gore holds the Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine and he is the director of the Vanderbilt… Read More

Eight current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. They are Meghan Bowler, Erica Curtis, Melanie Gault, Samantha Saratt and Chelsea Stowell, biomedical engineering; Kirsten Heikkinen and Richard Hendrick, mechanical engineering; and Thushara Gunda, civil and environmental engineering. Two engineering undergraduate students who also… Read More

By Elizabeth Johnston Engineering faculty mentored nine of 22 high school students who published articles in the recently released third volume of Young Scientist, a research journal for students who have participated in research labs at Vanderbilt. Turner-Yovanovitch Zoe Turner-Yovanovitch explored a new method and device for… Read More

READ:  NSBE award pleases founder of Black Girls CODE In the hopes that her daughter would take an interest in creating computer games rather than just playing them, Vanderbilt engineering alumna Kimberly Bryant found herself in April 2011 launching Black Girls CODE, a San Francisco nonprofit aimed at introducing… Read More