2015

The School of Engineering will host a Dean’s Hour for all engineering students and families during Vanderbilt’s Family Weekend, Sept. 18-20. Philippe Fauchet This annual fall tradition invites families to Nashville for a weekend of catching up with their students, experiencing campus life, visiting with administrators and faculty, and learning… Read More

  (Vanderbilt University) VISE is keeping its acronym but changing its name. The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering will become the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering. The promotion from a three-year trial program to an established institute is the consequence of a Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Engineering landed in a five-way tie for No. 36 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs rankings, which were released Wednesday. The university overall earned its highest-ever spot — No. 15, tied with Cornell University and Washington University. The other schools of engineering… Read More

FEI Helios NanoLab G3 CX Dual Beam FIB/SEM (Submitted photo) A team of Vanderbilt researchers won a $928,786 National Science Foundation grant to purchase a piece of equipment that, for now, researchers must travel to Oak Ridge National Laboratories to use. It’s called an FEI Helios NanoLab… Read More

Mark Hatch says the Maker Movement is changing the world. He knows and he’ll tell you how. Mark Hatch Hatch is CEO and co-founder of TechShop, a fast-growing chain of co-working spaces where people come to build prototypes for the products they want to sell. What… Read More

John F. Mansfield, left, MSA President, congratulates Jake Benzing on his award. (Submitted photo) A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of… Read More

Austin Hardcastle's new malaria test, unveiled at the VUSE Summer Research Program poster event. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Austin Hardcastle stood pensively next to a giant poster explaining his research, the ultimate in “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” reports, holding the malaria test he designed. Soon, the… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of three new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Hiba Baroud, Maithilee Kunda and Ethan Lippmann. Baroud After completing a Ph.D. at Oklahoma University’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hiba Baroud has joined the civil and environmental… Read More

Janos Sztipanovits, director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Americans are well accustomed to the sight of Fitbit-adorned wrists, their wearers marching in place so that their smartphones can reward them with a celebratory message about hitting a step goal. That’s the Internet… Read More

  Britt Autry (BE’92), vice president, North American Production Promotion Center, DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee, presents a check to VUSE Associate Dean Cynthia Paschal. Back row, from left: Brian Crawford, DENSO senior specialist; Gary Walker, energetics lab manager; Dexter Watkins, mechanical engineering graduate teaching assistant; Chris… Read More