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A collaborative wind-solar alternative energy project between Vanderbilt University’s mechanical engineering department and Nashville Metro Water Services has picked up speed with the installation of a modest 3kW (kilowatt) wind turbine at the Love Circle site close to campus. A. V. Anilkumar Anilkumar said the small but efficient and quiet… Read More

Smaller, lighter electronic components are more vulnerable to pesky cosmic ray particles Vanderbilt researchers are launching a miniature satellite into space in a quest to help future space missions better combat the harsh conditions of space, particularly radiation that can cause glitches or breakdowns in electronic components. Electrical engineering senior… Read More

After a two-year gap, a Vanderbilt Motorsports student team returned to Michigan in mid-May for the 2012 Formula SAE competition. Team members were undaunted after an 88th place finish out of 105 university teams. “We competed in every event, and we were one of only 48 teams that competed in… Read More

Vanderbilt School of Engineering School Dean Kenneth F. Galloway was named Distinguished Professor of Engineering by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at a dinner celebrating his 16-year tenure as dean. The new title and an undergraduate engineering scholarship in his honor established by the Engineering Alumni Council and the school’s Committee… Read More

Future Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet Engineering alumni living in the Washington, D.C. area have an opportunity to meet Philippe Fauchet, the future dean of the School of Engineering. Fauchet will speak June 13, 6:45-8:45 p.m., at The Smithsonian where he will discuss the growing global energy use, how it’s currently… Read More

Chetan A. Patil A research assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the ability of an adapted mobile phone to diagnose jaundice in newborns in developing countries. The foundation announced May 9 the recipients… Read More

In the third year of the Early Career Research Program managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a Vanderbilt engineering assistant professor is on the list of 68 recipients from 47 institutions announced last week. The awards focus on areas of high priority for the nation and… Read More

Two computer science professors and a doctoral student in computer science in the School of Engineering are members of a technical team that has received a 2011 Associate Administrator Award from the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The work of the Vehicle Level Reasoning… Read More

Awards and honors were presented by Dean Kenneth F. Galloway May 10 to 36 seniors at the School of Engineering’s annual Commencement Reception. Kathryn Elizabeth Maxwell, from Saltillo, Mississippi, is the 2012 Founder’s Medalist for the School of Engineering. She is graduating with a bachelor of engineering in chemical and… Read More

An engineering alumna is one of 21 women featured in an article, “Top Black Women Techies,” appearing this week in The Root, an online news site founded in 2008 under the leadership of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Susan E. Chapman, B.S.’90, Engineering Science, is senior vice president,… Read More