Amrutur Anilkumar

  • Vanderbilt rocket

    Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge

    The Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has captured first prize in the 2013 NASA Student Launch Initiative. The Vanderbilt team also took home the 2013 Best Payload Design award for the most creative and innovative payload experiment: bio-hybrid ramjet engines that use carbon-neutral, 100-percent-renewable bio-hybrid fuels for combustion. Read More

    May 21, 2013

  • Rocket launching

    Aerospace club wins payload design category of annual NASA rocket contest

    For the fourth year in a row, the Best Payload Design award went to the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club in the 12th annual NASA University Student Launch Initiative Sunday, April 21, in a field at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala. This is the sixth year the club has entered the national rocketry competition. Read More

    Apr 22, 2013

  • Aeronautics Institute winners

    Seniors earn Aeronautics Institute win before Design Day debut

    A novel redesign of industrial exhaust stacks that could result in 12% energy savings has earned a Vanderbilt student design team a second-place win in the team division at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region II conference last week. Read More

    Apr 17, 2013

  • NASA Vanderbilt Bottle Rockets

    Bottle rockets pique middle schoolers’ interest in engineering

    The Aerospace Club has partnered with Peabody College to produce a five-week program using soda bottle rockets to introduce middle school students to basic engineering principles. Read More

    Dec 10, 2012

  • Science and Math students at Love Circle

    October winds offer students good view of turbine action

    Students from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt trekked about three miles from campus to the School of Engineering’s wind-solar alternative energy site to see a wind turbine in action atop Love Circle hill in Nashville. Read More

    Nov 30, 2012

  • Rocketeers

    Vandy rocketeers come in third in national competition

    For the third year in a row the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has come in third in the national rocket competition that is part of the NASA University Student Launch Initiative. Read More

    Jun 26, 2012

  • rocket

    Engineering, Peabody effort lands NASA STEM outreach award

    A combined team from Vanderbilt Engineering’s Aerospace Club and Peabody’s Department of Teaching and Learning won a prestigious outreach award from NASA for inspiring school students in the study of rocketry and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related topics. Read More

    Apr 24, 2012

  • EPA design team

    Engineering team demos spinach-powered solar cell at EPA competition

    Five Vanderbilt engineering seniors will be on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., April 21-23 to demonstrate a solar panel that uses spinach to capture and convert the sun’s energy to electricity. Read More

    Apr 20, 2012

  • Kudos

    Kudos

    Anilkumar (Vanderbilt) Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, and Sankaran Mahadevan, the John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, have been elected associate fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Peter Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed to… Read More

    Mar 1, 2012

  • Vandy rocket launch USLI09

    Vandy rocketeers strike again

    Last Sunday, Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club participated in a major NASA rocket competition at Huntsville, Alabama and came away with a first place award for their payload design. This is the fourth year that the Vanderbilt group has been invited to the NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge and… Read More

    Apr 22, 2011