2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Students receive national award to help commercialize wound-healing foam

      Graduate students Drew Harmata, left, and Jon Page with Professor Scott Guelcher, right. (Anne Rayner / Vanderbilt) A pair of Vanderbilt graduate students has received a national award of $15,000 to pursue the development of an unique synthetic foam as a new treatment for deep skin wounds such… Read More

    Oct. 2, 2013

  • Career Day connects students with employers to increase job and internship placement

    Career Day connects students with employers to increase job and internship placement

    Select the image to view the Career Day photo album   Nearly 550 first-year through Ph.D. students attended the Engineering and Information Technology Industry Career Day in the Student Life Center ballrooms Sept. 25. Job seekers and students searching for internships networked with 61 companies from across… Read More

    Oct. 1, 2013

  • Social sorority for female engineers colonized at Vanderbilt

    Social sorority for female engineers colonized at Vanderbilt

    Phi Sigma Rho National Council Visit   Phi Sigma Rho, a social sorority for women in engineering and engineering technologies, was recently colonized at Vanderbilt University. The sorority was approved as a student organization and provides female students with a network of academic support and encouragement. Phi… Read More

    Sep. 26, 2013

  • Watch: Coursera-in-TN

    Watch: Coursera-in-TN

    Coursera-in-TN is a collaborative conversation between the Vanderbilt University Coursera team and the Tennessee State System schools which recently joined with Coursera. At an event on June 24, 2013, Vanderbilt administrators, faculty and staff shared lessons learned from the early days of Coursera production, and gave brief show-and-tell remarks… Read More

    Sep. 26, 2013

  • NSF grant helps develop next generation of STEM instructors

    NSF grant helps develop next generation of STEM instructors

    A national experiment to develop a new generation of college science and engineering faculty, one equipped to excel in the classroom as well as the lab, is about to shift into high gear. The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, of which Vanderbilt University is a… Read More

    Sep. 25, 2013

  • Mason Hickman

    CEE senior continues award-winning research in graduate school

    Two months before graduating with a degree in civil engineering Mason Hickman earned two awards at the 2013 Southeastern Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education for his research on portable structures capable of withstanding blasts from explosives. Mason Hickman Hickman, from Bountiful, Utah, participated in the annual… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Constant innovation helped early MOOC course succeed

      Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Constant innovation helped make one of the first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at Vanderbilt more like a “real class” and benefited faculty and students by improving on-campus teaching, according to Douglas… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Lancers’ legend lives on for ‘60s hometown graduates

    By Vincent Troia For a brief moment half a century ago, four Vanderbilt University engineering students were band mates in ‘Nashville’s Most Popular Combo.’ How they managed to attain that title is a longer story – one that was recently recounted as if it happened yesterday. As the Lancers,… Read More

    Sep. 12, 2013

  • Sharp and Rowe receive 2013 APEX Award for Excellence in Education and Training Writing

    Sharp and Rowe receive 2013 APEX Award for Excellence in Education and Training Writing

    Julie Sharp, professor of the practice of technical communications, and Christopher Rowe, director of the division of general engineering and director of engineering communications, won an APEX Award for Excellence in the category of Education and Training Writing for their American Society for Engineering Education 2013 Proceedings conference… Read More

    Sep. 11, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering School in 8-way tie at No. 35 in U.S. News rankings

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering tied seven other universities at No. 35 on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2014 list of the nation’s top undergraduate engineering programs at schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. U.S. News released online today its annual… Read More

    Sep. 10, 2013