News
Fitzpatrick elected SPIE Fellow
May. 1, 2008—Professor J. Michael Fitzpatrick, EECS, is among this year’s 72 new Fellows of the Society honored by SPIE. Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community,...
Alumni Electrical Engineering and Computer Science News Research
ME student wins first place in ASME Old Guard regional contest
Apr. 28, 2008—Senior Nathan Grady, mechanical engineering, has won first place in the ASME Old Guard regional oral competition. The Old Guard competition held at the ASME student conference in Florida last weekend, allows students to make oral presentations on their undergraduate design projects or research. Grady’s presentation is entitled “Design of a UV Raman System for...
Experience counts for engineering seniors and their clients
Apr. 22, 2008—Engineering seniors have spent two semesters tackling design challenges from actual corporations with real design needs. The results of their design projects will be featured at Senior Design Day 2008, an annual event at the School of Engineering, set for Tuesday, April 22, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. Sponsors this year include Nissan, Square...
Alumni Biomedical Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Mechanical Engineering News
Faculty join group to research and fight climate change
Apr. 15, 2008—James Clarke, CE, and Douglas Fisher, EECS, are members of a diverse group of experts at Vanderbilt University who have created the Climate Change Research Network. The network combines researchers from areas of earth and environmental sciences, political science, law, engineering, business, management, economics and nursing to investigate one of the most important and most...
Alumni Civil and Environmental Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science News Research
VU engineering school names new chemical engineering department chair
Apr. 1, 2008—Peter N. Pintauro has been named chair of the chemical engineering department at Vanderbilt University. Pintauro, presently the Kent Hale Smith Professor of Engineering and chair of the chemical engineering department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, was selected after a yearlong national search. Pintauro, who has won numerous awards for teaching and...
Todd Giorgio named chair of biomedical engineering
Mar. 19, 2008—Todd D. Giorgio, professor of biomedical engineering, has been named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He succeeds Thomas R. Harris, Orrin Henry Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, who is retiring in May. “While conducting a national search for a successor to Harris, we became convinced that Todd Giorgio would be...
Sharon Weiss receives NSF CAREER Award
Mar. 3, 2008—Sharon M. Weiss, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award. She will receive $400,000 over five years to support her efforts to achieve faster and more accurate detection of biological and chemical materials by using portable porous silicon waveguides. Her work has impact...
Alumni Electrical Engineering and Computer Science News Research
Dean Galloway meets with Sen. Bob Corker to discuss governmental support for engineering education
Feb. 27, 2008—VUSE Dean Kenneth Galloway, joined by engineering students and deans from across the state, met with Senator Bob Corker in his Washington, D.C., office on February 27 to discuss the future of engineering education in Tennessee. Among the topics of discussion was government funding of university engineering programs. Front row, from left to right: Dr....