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  • Vanderbilt University

    ISIS Director Sztipanovits delivers Nyquist Distinguished Lecture at Yale

    ISIS Director Janos Sztipanovits delivered the Harry T. Nyquist Distinguished Lecture at Yale University Oct. 23, 2009. The title of his lecture was Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems and Control Engineering. Sztipanovits is the E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Harry… Read More

    Nov. 1, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt computer science team places first in regional round of IBM’s Battle of the Brains

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Gold Team placed first in a regional round of the 34th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest Oct. 24, making it the fifth straight year a Vanderbilt computer science team has taken top honors in a regional round. The Gold… Read More

    Oct. 30, 2009

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    $100K Gates Foundation grant supports innovative global health project

    Vanderbilt University announced Oct. 21 that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Wright and Professor of Biomedical… Read More

    Oct. 21, 2009

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    MIT professor, scholar of engineering design Woodie Flowers to speak Oct. 28

      Training and education, says Professor Woodie Flowers, are very different. “I think it is time to shift gears – to shift away from the ‘sage on the stage,’” says Flowers. Universities, he says, need to get out of the business of training. Flowers, emeritus professor of mechanical… Read More

    Oct. 19, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering’s Distinguished Alumnus Award bestowed on business leaders, engineering dean

    Vanderbilt engineering alumni Carl E. Adams Jr., George E. Cook and Charles E. Fields Jr. each received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering during an Engineering Celebration Dinner held Oct. 15 at the university’s Student Life Center. The School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes… Read More

    Oct. 16, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    National security and counter-terrorism forum set for Oct. 16

    A forum on national security, “From Cyber-Warfare to Biological Attacks: Counter-Terrorism in the 21st Century,” will be held Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. in Room 4309 of the Stevenson Center at Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt community is invited to attend and participate in the open forum, which will allow for questions… Read More

    Oct. 12, 2009

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    Vanderbilt engineer to participate in NAE’s first Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium

      A Vanderbilt University engineering professor has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) first Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium Nov. 15-18 in Herndon, Va. Xenofon Koutsoukos, associate professor of computer science and computer engineering, is one of 49 engineering researchers and educators who… Read More

    Oct. 7, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt founding member of new online research news channel

    Concerned with the dramatic decline in the traditional media’s coverage of newsworthy scientific and academic activities, Vanderbilt has joined with 34 other top research universities to create Futurity.org, an online news channel designed to showcase the achievements of their scientists and engineers, medical researchers and scholars. “Futurity.org allows Vanderbilt… Read More

    Sep. 28, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering Career Day is Oct. 6

    Vanderbilt Career Center will host an Engineering & Information Technology Industry Career Day at the Student Life Center from 3-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Industry Career Days serve as one of many ways students may interact with potential employers, or seek internship opportunities. To date, participating employers are: U.S. Read More

    Sep. 14, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    School of Engineering recruits 7 new faculty members

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of seven new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Jon F. Edd, W. David Merryman, Hak-Joon Sung, Craig L. Duvall, Bennett A. Landman, Yaqiong Xu and Akos Ledeczi. Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Jon Edd focuses his… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2009