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  • Vanderbilt University

    Students use rocket flight to test thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jul. 9, 2010

  • Former BP executive alumnus Cynthia Warner left Big Oil for Big Algae

    Former BP executive alumnus Cynthia Warner left Big Oil for Big Algae

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jul. 2, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Peter Cummings to receive AIChE Founders Award

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jul. 1, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineer to participate in NAE’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 25, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering proposals receive $1M in NASA funding

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 21, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Sztipanovits elected External Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 18, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering faculty receive one-time-only IDEAS funds to support ‘breakthrough-level’ research

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 11, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    New magnet to sharpen imaging capabilities at Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 10, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineers, medical researchers play major role in new national center established to secure the privacy of electronic health information

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 1, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    A conversation with Steve Hays, BE’73

    Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize. It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

    Jun. 1, 2010