September, 2012
Google Research Award goes to engineering team for pinpoint location accuracy using smartphones
Sep. 28, 2012—A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. The approach being developed by computer engineering associate professor Akos Ledeczi, graduate student Will Hedgecock, research scientist Peter Volgyesi, and visiting scholar, professor Miklos Maroti, uses...
Higgins, BE ‘97 appointed to Engineering Alumni Council
Sep. 28, 2012—Bob Higgins, president and CEO of Nashville-based architectural and engineering firm Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Cannon, Inc., has been appointed to the Vanderbilt University Engineering Alumni Council (EAC). Higgins will work on the EAC to serve as an ambassador, promote Vanderbilt engineering education and serve as an alumni representative to the faculty and staff. He...
Engineering Career Day hits record attendance for students and companies
Sep. 27, 2012—The number of job seekers and students searching for internships hit a record high at 540 during today’s Engineering and Information Technology Career Day in the Student Life Center ballrooms. “This is the highest student attendance of any of our Industry Career Days (ICDs) since we switched to industry-specific events from a single university job...
Vanderbilt engineers play role in Tennessee climate change report
Sep. 25, 2012—The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Memphis and the Tennessee Department of Health in a new...
ISIS software project receives $17.2M contract from DARPA
Sep. 24, 2012—The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems has been awarded a $17.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate the Android Mobile Middleware Objects (AMMO2) project. The contract was announced Sept. 19. Sandeep Neema, research associate professor of electrical engineering, is the principal investigator. The AMMO project team is developing...
Schmidt to offer online computer science class through Coursera
Sep. 20, 2012—Douglas C. Schmidt, professor of computer science and associate chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Program, will teach “Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software” in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. Vanderbilt University announced yesterday it will make an institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of...
Vanderbilt University to offer free courses online through Coursera
Sep. 19, 2012—Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. “Partnering with Coursera will allow Vanderbilt to move forward with our digital learning strategy while leveraging the university’s existing strengths—our unique on-campus experience; our culture...
Memorial service for Tomlinson Fort is Sept. 23
Sep. 18, 2012—A memorial service for Tomlinson Fort Jr., Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus, will be held at Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. Visitation with the family will follow at 3 p.m. Fort, 80, died Sept. 13 in Franklin, Tenn. Tomlinson Fort Fort joined the Vanderbilt School of Engineering in 1989 as...