Mechanical Engineering

  • Vanderbilt University

    Traffic accident claims life of engineering graduate

    Justin David Langford, 23, a 2013 mechanical engineering graduate, died May 17 as the result of a May 14 traffic accident in Flagstaff, Arizona. Justin Langford Langford, of Zionsville, Indiana, was driving a flat-bed utility truck during performance calibration activities when the accident occurred. While at Vanderbilt Langford was involved… Read More

    May. 19, 2014

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    Aerospace Club perfects novel liquid fuel tank design for rocket flight

    Mechanical engineering design students preparing for the NASA Student Launch competition May 17 recently ground tested their microgravity liquid fuel tank design in preparation for the 2014 national event in Utah. L-R, Kevin Bush, Jordan Salik, Shiva Bernath, Chris Twedell and Patrick Foran assemble the ramjet and fuel delivery system… Read More

    Apr. 21, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Camgian CEO named vice chair of Board of Visitors

    Camgian chairman and CEO Gary Butler has been named Vice Chair of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s Board of Visitors. The appointment was announced at the April 11 BOV meeting. The Board of Visitors was established in March 2013. It is the successor organization… Read More

    Apr. 11, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineer proud to be part of sophisticated robot, test chamber project

    The IPEMS robot is fully dressed in a standard individual protection ensemble protective gear. For the first time, the military can conduct high-quality and reproducible tests of protective equipment without using a human subject. Photo courtesy of MRIGlobal. The completion of a human-like robot designed to provide data on the… Read More

    Feb. 27, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mechanical engineering professor emeritus Barry Lichter died Feb. 1

    Barry D. Lichter, 82, professor of mechanical engineering and professor of materials science and engineering emeritus, died Feb. 1 in Nashville. Barry D. Lichter Lichter, a native of Chelsea, Mass., received his bachelor’s degree in 1953 and his doctorate in 1958, both in metallurgy from MIT. Following research positions at… Read More

    Feb. 18, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Valentine receives NSF Early Career award

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Valentine has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. Valentine The four-year, $400,000 grant – All-Dielectric Optical Metasurfaces For Controlling Wave Fronts – will allow Valentine to continue research that will lead to a new class of ultra-compact optical elements that… Read More

    Feb. 17, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt rocket camjet to capture landing hazards during NASA contest

    Vanderbilt NASA Student Launch Team: (Front, L-R ) William Emfinger, Andrew Voss, Brandon Dimmig, Shivaprem Bernath, Chris Twedell, Fred Folz, Dexter Watkins, Mitchell Masia, (Back, L-R) Patrick Foran, Jordan Salik and Kevin Bush. Organizers of the NASA Student Launch Program (SLP) have announced a final field of 27 collegiate… Read More

    Jan. 16, 2014

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    Two engineering alumni named to ‘Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list

    Two Vanderbilt School of Engineering graduates — the co-founder of an alternative energy company and the co-inventor of a portable exoskeleton that helps paraplegics to walk — are among five Vanderbilt alumni who have been named to Forbes magazine’s  30 Under 30. The… Read More

    Jan. 10, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student wins grand prize in 2013 international travel video contest

    Mechanical engineering senior Khairul Kamarulzaman's video - Postcard - won InternationalStudent.com’s grand prize and a viewer’s choice award in the website’s 2013 Travel Video Contest. Khairul Kamarulzaman has taken advantage semester and holiday breaks at Vanderbilt to travel west and east, north and south across United States. A… Read More

    Dec. 20, 2013

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    Fun experiments fan middle schoolers’ interest in engineering

      Brandon Dimmig steadies a fan cart for a cluster of eager fifth graders. The fan cart looks like a toy and students are instantly attracted to the straight grey track and the small black cart with a movable fan. Brandon Dimmig, Vanderbilt Aerospace Club president, readies… Read More

    Nov. 22, 2013