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  • Janos Sztipanovits

    Sztipanovits named Keck Institute visiting scholar

    Janos Sztipanovits Janos Sztipanovits, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Engineering, has been selected as a 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar by the W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology. The honor was granted in association with the institute’s study “Engineering Resilient Space… Read More

    Jul. 16, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Eight engineering faculty on committee to assess commercial value of Vanderbilt research

    Eight engineering faculty members are part of a newly formed 20-member Faculty Advisory Committee in the Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC). Eric J. Barth The Faculty Advisory Committee is comprised of leading Vanderbilt researchers who were brought together to help maximize the effectiveness of CTTC… Read More

    Jul. 13, 2012

  • Sharp receives Apex writing award for ASEE article

    Sharp receives Apex writing award for ASEE article

    Julie E. Sharp, professor of the practice of technical communications in the School of Engineering, has received a 2012 Apex Award for excellence in the category of education and training writing from Communication Concepts, Inc., which publishes Writer’s Web Watch, WritingThatWorks.com, and the Writing That Works Archives. Her winning entry… Read More

    Jul. 5, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering doctoral student wins first prize in DOE fuel cycle research competition

    Bethany Smith Bethany Smith, a Ph.D. 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. Smith’s award is in the open competition in the category of Systems Analysis and Energy Policy. Her award-winning research… Read More

    Jul. 3, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Valdastri receives best paper award at international computer aided surgery conference in Italy

    Pietro Valdastri Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE), was awarded with the OLYMPUS ISCAS Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) June 30 in… Read More

    Jul. 3, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Merryman selected to attend U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium

    David Merryman David Merryman, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is among 78 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work… Read More

    Jul. 2, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Research team invited to present at NIH institute’s 10th anniversary technology showcase

    Vanderbilt University researchers were one of nine teams invited to participate in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering’s (NIBIB) tenth anniversary technology showcase June 22 in Bethesda, Maryland. NIBIB is an institute within the National Institutes of Health The showcase was an interactive, hands-on demonstration of promising, cutting-edge… Read More

    Jun. 28, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Aerospace Club takes third place in 2012 NASA rocket launch competition

    After a school-years’ worth of work, culminating in dozens of rocket launches into the skies over Alabama, NASA has declared Utah State University in Logan the winner of the 2011-2012 University Student Launch Project rocketry challenge – a program designed to inspire the next generation of engineers, scientists and explorers. Read More

    Jun. 25, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Patrick and Charlotte Fischer Computer Science Scholarship to be awarded in August

    June 13, 2012   Dean Kenneth F. Galloway has announced that a Patrick and Charlotte Fischer Computer Science Scholarship will be awarded at the beginning of the 2012 fall semester. The scholarship has been established with gifts from both Patrick and Charlotte Fischer to provide need-based support for undergraduate study… Read More

    Jun. 13, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    Faculty invited to submit collaborative research proposals in engineering and medicine

    Featheringill Hall Vanderbilt University announces a first call for proposals for interdisciplinary research programs to be based in a new engineering and medicine building.  Competitive programs may be either existing or new ones. Proposals are due Aug. 31. Click here for more details. Two town hall meetings on campus… Read More

    Jun. 8, 2012