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Vanderbilt engineering alumnus Tyler Bernstein, BE’20, (left), chief executive officer, and Jonathan Segal, BS’19, chief operations officer, of Zeno Power (Submitted photo) Zeno Power, a startup initiated through the Wond’ry, Vanderbilt’s Innovation Center, is one of 11 American companies to receive funding from NASA to develop technologies that could support long-term… Read More

Screenshot of the GeoPACHA web platform. Red triangles denote archaeological features on the landscape. (Wernke/GeoPACHA) A $350,000 grant to develop next-generation archaeological mapping technology will let a Vanderbilt-led research team reveal information about vast settlement systems and human-modified landscapes in the Andes. Steven Wernke Steven Wernke, associate professor and… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a way to more quickly, and precisely, trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using a cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezer. Novel plasmonic nanotweezer for high throughput parallelized trapping (within seconds) and analysis of nanoscale objects. The practice by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering,… Read More

The School of Engineering is pleased to announce that the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust has approved the promotion of Jason G. Valentine to professor of mechanical engineering, Jules White to professor of computer science, and Yuankai (Kenny) Tau to associate professor of biomedical engineering, all with tenure, and effective fall… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering welcomed students back to school on August 23. Preceding the first day of classes, Vanderbilt Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, spoke to students at the Vanderbilt Engineering Convocation on August 21. During the event, students and faculty members took a… Read More

The Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt celebrated its 25th anniversary on Sept. 7 in a daylong event that showcased the institute’s national and international impact on cyber-physical systems, security, education, model-integrated computing and distributed large-scale system integration. The event was held in the Student Life Center ballroom… Read More

Nature Conferences has selected Vanderbilt University to host a conference Nov. 13–15, 2023, focused on developing innovative diagnostic, treatment and disease-monitoring platforms to improve human health around the world. Audrey Bowden (Vanderbilt University) The conference planning team was led by Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering and… Read More

Biomedical engineering graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are recipients of highly competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awards from the National Institutes of Health and NIH Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Awards. A majority of the students are in the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program (… Read More

Lana Hefner is an academic and educational support program coordinator in the School of Engineering’s Office of Academic Services. In this role she oversees student success programming and undergraduate engineering events. Here’s what Lana has to say about that position, and more. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES “Some of the programs I coordinate include… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded the 2023 Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize for his commitment to teaching, mentoring, and community service. Justus Ndukaife At Vanderbilt, Ndukaife’s research includes the study of optically-resonant nanostructures, with an aim to confine and manipulate… Read More