Research

Professors and an alumnus of Vanderbilt School of Engineering’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) will receive a Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) in Munich in March 2008. Kai Chen, a former ISIS graduate student currently with Motorola Research, and Vanderbilt Professors Janos… Read More

An article examining the factors used by public service personnel and their contractors to reach the decision to terminate a project won the second-place award for best paper at the Academy of Management meeting in Philadelphia recently. Awards are given annually for the top three articles published in the prestigious… Read More

Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt, will receive the 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers [AIChE] Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award at the Institute’s annual meeting in November. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of nanoscale science and engineering in… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professor Robert J. Roselli received the American Society for Engineering Education’s 2007 William Elgin Wickenden Award at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition held in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 27. The award, sponsored by the Journal of Engineering Education, is given to the authors of the paper judged… Read More

Young Vanderbilt engineering faculty have netted prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation for their innovations. Computer Scientist Julie A. Adams won a 2007 CAREER award for her human-robot teaming project, while mechanical engineer Deyu Li won the award for his research in nanochannels used in drug discovery and… Read More

A plan to use nanotechnology to produce a new type of cancer detector won the third-place award at the NanoNexus2007 conference held last month at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The detector has been under development for two years by Vanderbilt graduate student Chinmay Soman working under the supervision of Todd… Read More

Colin Roper adjusts the six-legged crawling rescue robot he and a team of fellow engineering seniors developed for the Vanderbilt Center for Intelligent Mechatronics as their senior design project. The team joined hundreds of Vanderbilt engineering seniors soon to graduate, who demonstrated their readiness to tackle real-world engineering problems by… Read More

Vanderbilt engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations… Read More

Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition – and funding – for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for its money. The Vanderbilt assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research into peer-to-peer networking to enable… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Engineering is ranked in the top ten universities nationally as measured by the impact that their publications have had on the field. The rankings were published in the January/February issue of Thomson Scientific’s newsletter Science Watch and are based on a survey of research publications in… Read More