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Experimental setup of the IREP, a robotic surgical tool created by engineers and surgeons at Vanderbilt and Columbia. A miniscule robotic surgical tool created by engineers and surgeons at Vanderbilt University and Columbia University is singled out by Nautilus science magazine with four other remarkable developments as… Read More

A velcro-clad Motorola van full of the latest prototyping tools will help Nashville-area students create the smartphone of the future during the Make-a-Thon Aug. 2-4. (image courtesy of Motorola) Area high school and college students, including a group from Nashville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet School, will convene on… Read More

Engineer Tracie Prater stands next to the nose cone for the Delta IV heavy rocket that will launch NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule on its first test flight in 2014. Tracie J. Prater has been selected to participate at the 2013 Emerging Space Leaders Grant Program during the 64th International Astronautical… Read More

Vanderbilt University engineers are part of a multi-university project funded by a five-year $9 million National Science Foundation grant to help determine the most efficient approach to designing and operating cyber-physical systems that support national health, energy and transportation priorities. FORCES is a key component of the NSF’s CPS technologies… Read More

At just 20 years old, Vanderbilt engineering student Ben Whittle has become the first candidate accepted into the VU@EC program. Whittle and a business partner are developing a new online collaboration platform that will enable groups to brainstorm and share ideas via instant messaging or group video… Read More

Program coordinator, Brandon Knight, left, poses with interns Michael Eden, Sydney Bailes, Asha Elsberry and Lucas Cauthen with Jonas Aberle in front. (Steve Green / Vanderbilt) If you are a frustrated amateur inventor, you might want to thank seven Nashville high school students. They spent their summer working on introductory… Read More

Two engineering professors have been named to an executive committee charged with developing a framework of ideas that will set the course for Vanderbilt’s future. Michael Goldfarb Michael Goldfarb, H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical… Read More

Lyndsey Morgan Fyffe, a doctoral student in environmental engineering, has been awarded a first place prize in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards competition. Fyffe Fyffe’s award is in the category of energy policy, and her award-winning research paper, “Developing Operational Safety Performance Measures for… Read More

Vanderbilt now has designated space at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s new downtown incubator at 41 Peabody Street in the city’s historic Rolling Mill Hill area. Dedicated Vanderbilt space at the EC. The VU@EC program was developed in conjunction with the School of Engineering and the Center for Technology Transfer &… Read More

Steven L. Krahn, professor of the practice of nuclear environmental engineering, has been accepted by eminence into the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists as a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member in the specialty practice of hazardous waste management. Krahn Krahn performs research in the technologies associated with the… Read More