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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

Readers of a certain age will remember the late Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) and the infamous Golden Fleece Award that he issued regularly from 1975 to 1988. The advertised purpose of the award was to identify what he considered to be wasteful government spending. Basic scientific projects were among his… Read More

  Michael Goldfarb, the H. Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt, was among three finalists for the first Governor’s Award for Innovation Excellence for his development of a bionic leg. The award recognizes Tennesseans “whose dedication to enhancing our world through innovation has made a major impact… Read More

  Jim Clarke, professor of the practice of civil and environmental engineering, has been approved for membership in American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) and for Certification by Eminence as a Board Certified Environmental Scientist (BCES) in the April 2012 inaugural class. In December 2011, the American… Read More