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  K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been appointed chair of the Diversity Task Force of the Undergraduate Experience Committee within the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society for Engineering Education. Founded in 1893,… Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Engineering moved up two places to No. 34 among engineering schools whose highest degree awarded is a doctorate in the 2012 Best Colleges rankings released by U.S. News & World Report Sept. 13. The School of Engineering tied with the University of California-Davis, the University of… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of three new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff.  They are William Grissom, Matthew Walker and Pietro Valdastri. William Grissom Assistant professor of biomedical engineering William Grissom’s research interests include applications of signal processing and numerical optimization in magnetic resonance… Read More

A team led by Vanderbilt University biomedical engineer Michael Miga, Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to enhance image-guided surgery techniques for safely removing liver tumors. While aggressive surgery is a highly effective treatment, it risks injury to the liver, which can… Read More

Patrick Fischer, who helped build the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, and  whose theoretical work helped make Internet searches possible, died Aug. 26 in hospice care in Montgomery County, Md. He was 75. An expert in informational systems for education institutions, computational complexity and interactive database systems, Fischer… Read More

  Geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial technologies (GT) have moved into math and science courses at multiple levels, and teachers are learning how to integrate these tools into curriculums. Helping them is Janey Camp, research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University. Camp has received… Read More

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering and chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, and Ronald D. Schrimpf, Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering and director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt University, each have been named an Honored Professor of… Read More

August 04, 2011   This scanning electron microscope close-up shows how the components of a nanodiamond device are cantilevered above a surface of the electrical insulator silicon dioxide. (Davidson Lab) There is a new way to design computer chips and electronic circuitry for extreme environments: make them out… Read More

Gary Butler Camgian Microsystems Corporation, provider of advanced machine-to-machine networking technologies and solutions, announced that Gary Butler (M.S.’94), Camgian’s President and CEO, has been named by Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos to the School of Engineering’s Committee of Visitors. Composed of a distinguished list of leaders in the… Read More

Sandra B. Cochran has been named president and chief executive officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., effective Sept. 12, 2011, at which time she is also slated to become a member of the Board of Directors. Sandra B. Cochran Cochran holds a chemical engineering degree from Vanderbilt University. Read More