2014

  Boston University Chair of Mechanical Engineering Alice White (left) and Vanderbilt University Dean of the School of Engineering Philippe Fauchet paused for a photo after the lecture. White and Fauchet met while she was working at Bell Labs. (Photo courtesy Boston University) Editor’s note:… Read More

Ph.D. students Bethany (Smith) Burkhardt, left, and Lyndsey Fyffe are aiding with decommissioning in the Hanford nuclear site in the state of Washington. (Photo: U.S. Department of Energy) Across the country, schools of engineering devote their researchers to building a better nuclear power plant. Vanderbilt University’s engineers… Read More

Xavier Ryan (BME'17), right, listens to other students' 3 Day Startup pitches after pitching his own. (Photo: Heidi Hall) On Friday afternoon, the five teams of students had a lot of amorphous ideas. By Sunday night, they had potential companies. That’s the idea behind 3 Day Startup,… Read More

  Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope image showing the interlaced crystalline structure. (Wu Zhou/ORNL) Since the 1850s scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into 14 different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now reports that it… Read More

  Vic Gatto, founder and CEO of Jumpstart Foundry in Nashville, addresses the crowd Tuesday at Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium. (Photo: Steve Green/Vanderbilt University) If entrepreneurs want to convince anyone that their product is worthwhile, they have to tell a story, the inaugural Chambers Family… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) Four engineering professors will serve on review boards of the formally launched new $50 million Trans-institutional Programs initiative outlined in the university’s Academic Strategic Plan. Doug Adams, Daniel F. Flowers Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Civil and… Read More

Ten years ago Vanderbilt researchers published a paper that has passed the test of time. This year, the Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)  introduced a new Test of Time Award at its 12th annual  event held in Nov. 3-6 in Memphis, Tenn. SenSys is… Read More

  Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, left, and Vanderbilt's Jules White, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, demonstrate the app. (Photos: Dipti Vaidya) You’re attending your first conference at the 1.2 million-square-foot, 16-acre Music City Center. You’ve got to walk from… Read More

The team studying ways to help nuclear power plant operators improve work performance and safety includes, from left, Julie Adams, Ph.D., Shilo Anders, Ph.D., Sankaran Mahadevan, Ph.D., and Matthew Weinger, M.D. Not pictured is Dan France, Ph.D., MPH. (photo by Anne Rayner) A multidisciplinary Vanderbilt… Read More

Building an edible car is easy. Getting it to actually roll is tough. It’s just one lesson learned from Thursday’s E-Day, a celebration of engineering that incorporated more carbohydrate-fueled energy than brain power. The… Read More