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Gregory Mayback (BE'86) demonstrated his Nervana device and spoke to engineering management classes in April. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) It only takes a few seconds to understand Nervana is not your regular earbuds. You feel the slightest tingling in your ear as tiny jolts of electricity, synchronized with… Read More

Philippe Fauchet (John Russell/Vanderbilt University) An anonymous donor has pledged $5,000,000 to establish the Dean’s Chair in Engineering at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, Chancellor Nicholas S.  Zeppos announced at the school’s annual distinguished alumni celebration dinner April 14. Deans’ chairs represent the highest faculty honor in… Read More

UT-Arlington’s Siemens says professors will track student engagement, students will take ‘learner profiles’ with them From left, retired Navy Capt. Raymond P. Schmidt, Roberta R. Schmidt, Associate Chair for Computer Science Doug Schmidt and Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab Executive Director George Siemens. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt… Read More

Amanda Stubblefield (ES’97) never believed women couldn’t do any job they wanted — a value she learned from her grandmother, a real-life “Rosie the Riveter.” After double-majoring in Engineering Science and Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University, Stubblefield went to work for NASA. Her current job is… Read More

Sankaran Mahadevan (Vanderbilt University) Engineering professor Sankaran Mahadevan was named the Vanderbilt recipient of a 2016 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award, the SEC announced March 30. Mahadevan, John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, was recognized for his outstanding record in teaching,… Read More

When operational, this device uses lasers to detect mistakes in the placement of a magnetic stripe on credit cards. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Place the magnetic stripe on a new credit card a single millimeter too high or too low, and it’s worthless. Multiply that mistake by thousands… Read More

Business magnate, famed investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett, center, joins Vanderbilt University students in making the school's hand sign. (Submitted) Her trip to meet investment genius Warren Buffett was a whirlwind, but Vanderbilt engineering science major Katherine Ferraro learned a lot from him. Her main takeaway: Pick a… Read More

From left, Nikita Thomas, Alvin Mukalel and Deanna Patelis, all biomedical engineering third-years, work on a Go Baby Go car. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) The toy car’s body looks the same as when students in Amanda Lowery’s Material Manipulations course received it, but the features inside are virtually… Read More

Civil and environmental engineering graduate student Thushara Gunda delivers her Three Minute Thesis on helping Sri Lankan farmers with drought. (Daniel DuBois/Vanderbilt University) Topics ranged from giving nanoparticles the aquatic skills of an Olympic swimmer so they can deliver anti-cancer drugs more effectively…to developing an ultrasonic Trojan… Read More

Andrea Yanicky Andrea Yanicky arrived at InfoWorks in 2002 with the ink barely dry on her Vanderbilt University engineering science degree, ready to start her business consulting gig at the then 20-person firm. But by the time she arrived, her gig wasn’t open. Instead,… Read More