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Best-paying college majors are mostly in engineering: NACE
Six engineering majors were among the 10 highest-paid at the bachelor’s-degree level in 2012, according to the January 2013 Salary Survey recently released by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. As a group, engineering majors saw a healthy increase of 3.9 percent to their average starting salaries. This is… Read MoreFeb. 4, 2013
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Grissom selected as Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigator
William Grissom Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Grissom has been selected as one of the 2013 Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop Young Investigators and will participate in the event Feb. 25-26 at Georgia Tech’s Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Frontiers is a two-day,… Read MoreJan. 31, 2013
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Vanderbilt student team competes in amphibious vehicle race
It’s black. It’s a bit bigger than a breadbox. It has four knobby wheels, a water nozzle sticking out the back and it can really scoot. It’s the one-fifth-scale model amphibious vehicle that a team of Vanderbilt engineering students designed and built for a national competition,… Read MoreJan. 31, 2013
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Watch Students Work on Virtual Military Design Project
See how Vanderbilt University engineering students are driving the next big idea for the U.S. military. Read MoreJan. 24, 2013
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Hays recognized by national institute with lifetime achievement award
Steve M. Hays (BE’73), chairman of Nashville-based architectural, environmental, health and safety consulting firm Gobbell Hays Partners, Inc., received the 2012 Mortimer M. Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award Jan. 9 from the National Institute of Building Sciences at a banquet during the organization’s annual conference Jan. 7-11 in Washington, D.C. Hays,… Read MoreJan. 22, 2013
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Preview of professor’s ‘software architectures’ Coursera class
View this preview video of Doug Schmidt’s spring 2013 Coursera course, Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software. Douglas C. Schmidt is a Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for… Read MoreJan. 21, 2013
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ISIS plays key role in efforts to revolutionize military manufacturing
An infantry fighting vehicle is an armored vehicle used to carry infantry into battle. (DARPA) Inventors from across the country can enter a national competition to design a new amphibious infantry fighting vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps and Vanderbilt University’s I… Read MoreJan. 18, 2013
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National Research Council members convene to chart future of U.S. research universities
L-r: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Sen. Lamar Alexander, former Senate Majority Leader William Frist, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Chad Holliday, chairman of the board of Bank of America, attended a meeting of the National Research Council held Jan. 16 at Vanderbilt. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) For the last… Read MoreJan. 17, 2013
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Camp receives Citizen Engineer Award from ASCE
Janey Camp, research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was named the 2012 Citizen Engineer by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award is bestowed to civil engineers based on their contributions to their community through public involvement, public awareness or public service. These individuals will have… Read MoreJan. 16, 2013
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Medical robotics expert to discuss pediatric surgery advances
Kevin Cleary Kevin Cleary, Ph.D., an expert in medical robotics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., will describe advances in pediatric surgery on Friday, Jan. 18, at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. His talk, entitled “Robotics, Navigation and Image Guidance for Minimally Invasive Pediatric Interventions,” will begin… Read MoreJan. 14, 2013