Research

A new group called the Industrial Internet Consortium that includes Vanderbilt engineers and researchers in the university’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), American technology giants AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel and 11 other companies announced its plans March 27 to create engineering… Read More

Twelve current engineering graduate students have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, which announced April 1 the 2014 class of fellows. They are Thomas Werfel, Joseph Thomas Sharick and Abigail M. Searfoss, biomedical engineering; Joseph Weinstein-Webb and William Robert Erwin, chemical engineering; Addisu Zerihun Taddese, Michael Allen… Read More

  (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Significant progress toward creating “homo minutus”–a benchtop human–was reported at the Society of Toxicology meeting on Mar. 26 in Phoenix. The advance–successful development and analysis of a liver human organ construct that responds to exposure to a toxic chemical much like a real liver-… Read More

Move-in day was a spectacle that attracted local media and others to the School of Engineering’s new Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability in Metro Center, located along the Cumberland River near downtown Nashville. The 20,000 square-foot high-bay facility – measuring 27 feet from floor to ceiling – now houses… Read More

The Vanderbilt student team – with Cynthia Paschal (left, foreground) and Matthew Walker (center, background), biomedical engineering professors – huddles with the Juan Pablo II hospital administrators to deliver final equipment report summaries. Two engineering professors and 12 undergraduates spent their spring break repairing medical equipment at hospitals in Guatemala… Read More

Graduate students Drew Harmata, left, and Jon Page with Professor Scott Guelcher, right. (Anne Rayner / Vanderbilt) Drew Harmata and Jon Page, graduate students working in the laboratory of Scott Guelcher, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, will pitch their product – a synthetic wound healing foam – to… Read More

The School of Engineering’s graduate program improved two positions to No. 34 in annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The 2015 graduate program rankings were released today. The school, which tied with Yale University and the University of Colorado-Boulder, ranks ahead of Rensselaer Polytechnic University and the University… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering professors Jules White and Doug Schmidt, and University of Illinois professor Mani Golparvar-Fard, are guest editors of the February issue of Proceedings of the IEEE, the… Read More

InvisionHeart, LLC, a startup based on a wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) system developed at Vanderbilt, has been selected as one of 10 startups nationwide to participate in Google’s inaugural Demo Day April 2. CEO Josh Nickols will pitch the company to a roomful of investors at the spring Silicon Valley event. Read More

School of Engineering graduate student Alex Walsh has been selected to attend the 64th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, this summer. The Lindau Meeting brings together graduate students and junior researchers with Nobel laureates in physics,… Read More