Research

Karen K. Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 2013 Tis Lahiri Memorial Seminar at Vanderbilt University. The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and will be held Monday, April 15, at… Read More

Mike Bogdanor, a second year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded a 2013 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to continue his doctoral research. The NDSEG fellowship is a highly competitive three-year award that pays full tuition… Read More

Engineering seniors have spent two semesters tackling design challenges from actual clients with real design needs. The results of their design projects will be featured at Senior Design Day 2013, an annual School of Engineering event, Friday, April 19, 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Corporate sponsors this year include Camgian… Read More

While the hackathon trend may be aging, Y Combinator – a well-known Silicon Valley incubator – freshened the concept by hosting a 12-hour “hardware” hackathon in late February at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Jack Minardi wears Tactilus, a haptic feedback glove. A series of cables applies pressure to… Read More

A mechanical engineering sophomore has received early acceptance notice to take part in the 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. The highly competitive SURF program is substantially supported by the National Science Foundation. It exposes outstanding undergraduates to… Read More

A Vanderbilt engineering graduate student has created a small-scale, efficient way to produce high energy density plasma using a tabletop device. Its features and capabilities are described in an article published in the April edition of Physical Review Letters. Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Marc Ramsey Marc Ramsey, a doctoral candidate… Read More

Cary Pint’s lab – Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall – is close to completion and it brings to Vanderbilt its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. The lab also houses a host… Read More

Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering graduate program is ranked No. 36 by U.S. News & World Report. The 2014 engineering graduate program rankings were released today. U.S. News surveyed 199 schools granting doctoral degrees in engineering. The school ranks ahead of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston University (both… Read More

Imagine suddenly being able to hear the words and tone of the person across the table from you in a crowded restaurant when once you only heard overwhelming noise. Or speaking on the telephone with confidence because what you hear is now crisp and clear. Longtime cochlear implant users are… Read More

NASA has selected a miniature satellite designed by a team led by electrical engineering professor Robert Reed to fly as an auxiliary payload aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The Vanderbilt project – RadFxSat (radiation effects satellite project) – is a partnership between the university’s Institute… Read More