2020

Drawing on real-world data to provide solutions to the challenges cities face has never been more important. Read More

Two federal grants, $2.1 million from the NSF and $1.8 million from the DOE, are enabling engineers to reimagine how regional transit systems operate, making them more accessible and efficient. Both projects, headed by Abhishek Dubey, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are with the Chattanooga Area Regional… Read More

Membrane desalination is an efficient way to desalinate water but maintaining uniformity of the pore size is a challenge. A single “large” hole can cause high leakage, compromise membrane performance and contaminate the water. How do you drill trillions of holes between the size of 0.3 and 0.6 nanometers over… Read More

A research team that includes Vanderbilt engineers is the first to successfully separate two ions with minute small size differences, a major advancement in separation science with widespread potential application. Their process is first to achieve solute-solute separation with sub-Angstrom precision. An Angstrom is one hundred-millionth of a centimeter, or… Read More

NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY An introduction to membrane nanoscience by Peifu Cheng, postdoctoral scholar, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Membrane research has significantly benefited from nanotechnology, and many sectors of the global ecosystem have benefited from membrane research. Water treatment or desalination is one example. Membranes with nanoscale pores also are… Read More

Vanderbilt University engineers have determined that their back-assist exosuit, a clothing-like device that supports human movement and posture, can reduce fatigue by an average of 29–47 percent in lower back muscles. The exosuit’s functionality presents a promising new development for individuals who work in physically demanding fields and are… Read More

The practitioner advisor to the School of Engineering’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is the recipient of the inaugural Richard H. Nettleton Outstanding Practitioner Advisor Award. Ashley Smith Ashley T. Smith is the first recipient of the Nettleton award for outstanding advisors throughout ASCE nationally and internationally. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator 2020 Cohort Phase 1 grant to create a standardized platform that will streamline the development, testing and dissemination of technology that can improve human health. The nine-month project, “Scalable, Traceable AI for Imaging Translation: Innovation to Implementation for… Read More

NSF Convergence grant involves data from global sensor network to predict pathogen outbreaks  Ethan Jackson, Ph.D.’07, adjusts monitoring equipment during an early test of the Premonition disease detection system. (Microsoft photo) Vanderbilt engineers are leading the academic component of a massive Microsoft project that combines robotics, genomics, big data collection—and… Read More

When first-year engineering student Riddhi Singhania starts her day at Vanderbilt, many of her peers are turning in for the night. And when she’s taking part in an event for Sutherland House on The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons or practicing with the Vanderbilt Lakshya dance troupe, other students… Read More