April, 2014
Engineering seniors, clients to review projects at Design Day 2014
Apr. 11, 2014—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 Design Day 2014, an annual School of Engineering event, Monday, April 21, 4-6 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Corporate sponsors this year include The Hershey Company, Camgian Microsystems, DENSO, General...
Alumni’s son helps set world record with giant Hot Wheels loop
Apr. 9, 2014—When the 11-year-old son of two 1996 mechanical engineering graduates – Jeb and Meg Hunter – asked if he could go for the record of the largest Hot Wheels loop, his parents didn’t say ‘no,’ according to his mother. Meg told the Sun News, “Later it was, ‘What have we gotten ourselves into?'” Fifth-grader Everett...
Two engineering students qualify for ‘flash pitch’ to investors
Apr. 7, 2014—Two entrepreneurial engineering students will deliver ‘flash pitches’ at an invitation-only qualifying event April 9 where judges – entrepreneurs and investors – will choose the top three to receive support to move their ideas through planning phases to launch. Tate Travaglini and John Boyd are among nine students selected through Flash Pitch ’14, a student...
U.S. tech giants, Vanderbilt engineers form group to create engineering standards for ‘Internet of Things’
Apr. 7, 2014—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 standards for the “Internet of Things.” IoT refers to the connection of...
Twelve engineering students receive NSF graduate fellowships
Apr. 4, 2014—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 Seibold and Joshua Stephen Fain,...
Significant progress toward creating “benchtop human” reported
Apr. 3, 2014— (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- was described in a presentation by...
Vanderbilt technologies offer real world experience to engineering students
Apr. 1, 2014—“When I started teaching, it was very important for me to connect students to what we do in the real world and get them out of the classroom,” said John Bers, associate professor of the practice of engineering management. Suffice it to say Bers has accomplished that and more with his series of client project...