Engineering
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Undergrads virtually manipulate model car for fast design changes
The goal of the Adaptive Vehicle Make program is to develop software to test vehicle designs before they are built. Read MoreOct 5, 2012
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Coursera co-founder discusses digital learning platform’s rapid growth, success
Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller gave the first talk in the 2012-13 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series Oct. 2. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Since its launch roughly a year ago, the online learning consortium Coursera has grown to more than 1.5 million registered users. This rapid… Read MoreOct 4, 2012
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Daphne Koller: “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”
Watch video of Daphne Koller, professor of computer science at Stanford and co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, delivering the School of Engineering’s annual John R. & Donna S. Hall Lecture. Read MoreOct 2, 2012
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ISIS software project receives $17.2M contract from DARPA
The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems has been awarded a $17.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate the Android Mobile Middleware Objects (AMMO2) project. The contract was announced Sept. 19. Read MoreSep 28, 2012
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Liberia retold through late documentarian’s work, film
‘Long Story Bit by Bit’ opens Oct. 12 at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery "Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by Tim Hetherington" will be on view at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Oct. 12-Dec.6. (photo by Tim Hetherington) Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, Photography by… Read MoreSep 26, 2012
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Online education pioneer to deliver Hall Lecture Oct. 2
Daphne Koller will present her ground-breaking work in free, universally accessible college education as the first guest speaker in the 2012-13 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read MoreSep 19, 2012
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Vanderbilt University to offer free courses online through Coursera
Vanderbilt University will make its first institution-wide foray into offering worldwide, free, digital courses by some of its leading faculty members in spring 2013 via the digital learning consortium Coursera. Read MoreSep 19, 2012
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Memorial service for engineering professor Tomlinson Fort Jr. is Sept. 23
Tomlinson Fort (Vanderbilt University) A memorial service for Tomlinson Fort Jr., Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in Vanderbilt’s Benton Chapel. Visitation with the family will follow at 3 p.m. Fort, 80, died Sept. 13 in Franklin, Tenn. Fort joined… Read MoreSep 18, 2012
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Vanderbilt marks fourth year as ‘U.S. News’ No. 17 national university
Vanderbilt University was named the 17th-ranked national university by "U.S. News & World Report." Read MoreSep 12, 2012
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VUCast: Driving Design
This Week on VUCast: How engineering students are driving the next big idea for the U.S. military. Why is Vanderbilt seeing green? See how Vanderbilt is getting fans pumped up to Anchor Down! [vucastblurb]… Read MoreSep 10, 2012
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Google Research Award goes to engineering team
A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. Read MoreSep 7, 2012
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Tennessee sustainability report to be released Sept. 11
The effects of climate change will have widespread impact on the state, but there are opportunities to offset it by incorporating “climate-friendly” and “climate-resilient” actions into routine management decisions, say scientists from Vanderbilt and other major Tennessee research institutions in a new report. Read MoreSep 6, 2012
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NSF funding boosts Vanderbilt climate change studies in Sri Lanka
In 2010 the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment began a unique interdisciplinary study of agricultural adaptation to water scarcity in Sri Lanka's Mahaweli River Watershed. Now a five-year, $3.7M grant from the National Science Foundation, through their Water Sustainability and Climate program, will further the study and its global best practices. Read MoreSep 6, 2012
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Hornberger named chair of Civil Engineering, three others join faculty
The School of Engineering has announced the appointments of a new department chair and three new faculty members. Read MoreAug 23, 2012
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Engineer, astronomer and geologist receive NSF Faculty Early Career Development awards
An electrical engineer who is attempting to make wireless communications more reliable, an astronomer who studies the evolution of the cosmos by creating large numbers of virtual universes and a geologist who is studying the origins of super-eruptions have received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development awards. Read MoreAug 9, 2012
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Test flight over Peru ruins could revolutionize archaeological mapping
Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests of the Semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system being developed at Vanderbilt University go well. Read MoreAug 1, 2012
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Vanderbilt-led team to develop ‘microbrain’ to improve drug testing
Creating a device out of human cells that simulates brain chemistry is the goal of a $6.4 million grant which is part of major new federal initiative to develop a series of “organs on a chip” designed to improve the drug development process. Read MoreJul 24, 2012
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Sztipanovits named Keck Institute visiting scholar
Janos Sztipanovits, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Engineering, has been selected as a 2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar by the W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology. Read MoreJul 13, 2012
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Hothouse for Scientists: Undergraduates work alongside seasoned researchers
The Systems Biology and Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Experience Searle Undergraduate Research Initiative is one of only a handful of multiyear, year-round undergraduate research programs in the nation. Read MoreJul 9, 2012