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Principal Investigators from around the country recently attended the national Smart and Connected Communities PI meeting held at Vanderbilt that highlighted how the university is collaborating in the use of smart transportation technology to meet community needs. Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell addresses attendees. The PI meetings, which are held… Read More

Beginning in the fall of 2024, Vanderbilt will offer an environmental engineering major for undergraduates through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). The B.E. in environmental engineering – which is in addition to the department’s civil engineering major – will require a minimum of 122 hours and… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has renamed its Division of General Engineering to the Division of Engineering Science and Management. This becomes effective immediately, following recent approval by the Office of the Provost and the Dean of the School of Engineering. The name change more accurately reflects the… Read More

Visitors to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR) anatomy that creates the illusion of an X-ray view of the body’s muscles and bones. Read More

Vanderbilt has begun work to establish a transformative college dedicated to computer science, AI, data science and related fields, university leaders announced today. In addition to meeting the growing demand for degrees in technological fields and advancing research in rapidly evolving, computing-related disciplines, the new, interdisciplinary college will collaborate with all of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges to advance breakthrough discoveries and strengthen computing education through a “computing for all” approach. Read More

Four Vanderbilt University engineering faculty members have been elected to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Read More

Mohammad Aziz Medhioub Mohammad Aziz Medhioub was just 16 years old the first time he left his North African home of Tunis, Tunisia. He packed an optimistic attitude and a dream to turn his and his parent’s sacrifices into success. Now the mechanical engineering major is part of… Read More

Studies by Vanderbilt computer science professors and students that could impact productivity and growth in software engineering have received two prestigious awards from top scientific venues. The first paper – “A Longitudinal Study of Student Contributions to OSS vs. OSS4SG with a Lightweight Intervention” – received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished… Read More

As part of the Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative launched last summer by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Vanderbilt recently announced the six recipients of its Generative AI Seed Grants. The… Read More

Ben Whittle, a serial entrepreneur, a full-stack software engineer, and 2015 mechanical engineering graduate of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, will deliver the 2024 Chambers Lecture Thursday, March 28, at 4:15 p.m. in the Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium (Room 134), Featheringill Hall. A reception will follow in Adams Atrium. Read More