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    Jeff Olmstead heeds call of the energy business

    Jeff Olmstead for a long time resisted the call of oil and gas that is in his blood. Last year, however, he took Dallas-based Mid-Con Energy public as its president and chief financial officer. Jeff Olmstead Olmstead, BE’99, majored in both electrical engineering and mathematics at Vanderbilt, and worked summers… Read More

    Dec. 4, 2012

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    Visits generate new ideas from stakeholders

    From alumni mentoring students to adding more videos on the school’s website, parents and alumni last week offered Dean Philippe Fauchet some ideas to ponder. Philippe Fauchet “I was in Boston to share my vision for the school, but the opportunity to hear what’s on their minds is invaluable. Many… Read More

    Dec. 3, 2012

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    Aerospace Club to participate in NASA rocketry challenge

    Organizers of the NASA University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) have announced the student teams whose inventive creations will soar skyward in April during the space agency’s 2013 rocketry challenge. This will be the seventh year the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has been selected for the… Read More

    Nov. 30, 2012

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    Wearable Robot Helps Man Walk Again

    Amazing Vanderbilt research has resulted in the designing of a “wearable robot” that can be used by paraplegics to walk again. Read More

    Nov. 29, 2012

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    Peters’ introductory image processing lecture notes an online hit

    For the last 13 years, Richard Alan Peters II, associate professor of electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has been polishing and refining the lecture notes for his introductory image processing course. Five years ago, he posted them online, making them freely available to everyone who… Read More

    Nov. 26, 2012

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    October winds offer students good view of turbine action

    Students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt trekked about three miles from campus to the School of Engineering’s wind-solar alternative energy site to see a wind turbine in action atop Love Circle hill in Nashville. Students from the School for Science and Math at… Read More

    Nov. 20, 2012

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    Posters accepted until Dec. 1 for Surgery and Engineering Symposium

    The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) and the Department of Surgery Research Collaborative will host the first Vanderbilt Surgery and Engineering Symposium from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, in Light Hall, Room 202. Reed Omary Reed Omary, professor and chair of… Read More

    Nov. 15, 2012

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    48 Hour Launch winners plan to take ideas to market

    It isn’t exactly Shark Tank, the ABC-TV reality show with a panel of entrepreneurs and business executives called “Sharks” who consider offers from other entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or product. It is 48 Hour Launch, the premier of a business plan competition at Vanderbilt staring 40 undergraduates who… Read More

    Nov. 14, 2012

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    21 Insights into Philippe Fauchet

    In today’s complex world, engineers are seen more and more as imaginative problem-solvers. Philippe Fauchet, the new dean of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, is a perfect example. Most of his career has been spent talking and working collaboratively. He’s enthusiastic, energetic and… Read More

    Nov. 12, 2012

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    Entrepreneur Studio will immerse students in startup culture

    A startup culture Select students will see firsthand how local entrepreneurs unleash their startups' potential. Read More

    Nov. 12, 2012