2014

Seth Friedman met the world’s most innovative software developers this summer at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. For five days in June, 1,000 Apple engineers and 5,000 developers gathered to reveal Apple’s latest technological innovations. A notoriously secretive company, Apple had promised… Read More

Michael Cochrane (BE’79) has joined TTL as the Nashville Branch Manager. He will be responsible for all services in TTL’s Nashville region. Cochrane Cochrane earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering science from Lipscomb University. Cochrane has more than 35 years of… Read More

Anilkumar Amrutur V. Anilkumar will serve as a 2014-2016 guest professor in an advisory capacity at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGn). Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering and adviser and director of the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club, has been associated with IITGn as a member of the… Read More

A rendering of the planned Engineering and Science Building. (Vanderbilt University)   Signs and fencing have gone up at the corner of Highland and 25th avenues, the construction site for the new Engineering and Science Building. In addition, work has begun on underground utilities and drainage for… Read More

In celebration of 25 years in business, Littlejohn Engineering Associates has changed its name to Littlejohn to reflect the firm’s growth and expanded services. Jim Littlejohn (BE’76) maintains active engineering licenses in 38 states. He is a member of the School of Engineering’s Board of Visitors. Read More

  Tamara Brown (Courtesy: Praxair, Inc.) Vanderbilt engineering alumna Tamara Brown, BE’93, has been named one of 50 of Fortune Magazine’s Heroes of the Fortune 500. Brown, who completed a double major in biomedical engineering and chemical engineering at Vanderbilt,… Read More

Three Vanderbilt students traveled this week to Russia to compete for the prestigious title of world computer programming champions. ”] Weichen Wang, Mungo Sammons and Xujie Si are at Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, for the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Competition, June 22-26. Led by coach… Read More

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools has joined with the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies and Peabody College to create a platform to provide detailed, reliable and recurring information about the commitment of major employers to the public school system. This is the latest installment in a… Read More

Vanderbilt University was honored with six awards from the Tennessee College Public Relations Association at its spring meeting June 12-13. Two School of Engineering publications received recognition in the category of Special Publications. Solutions was awarded a silver award and Designing… Read More

Last year, the White House launched its “SmartAmerica” challenge. The basic idea was to identify research projects that illustrate how the increasing integration of computers with physical systems – sometimes called the ‘internet of things’ – can improve US competitiveness by creating new jobs and business opportunities that in… Read More