Engineering

Vanderbilt researchers, with collaborators from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and the University of Cincinnati, developed a mobile app—Community Oversight of Privacy and Security—and tested it with parents and teenagers to see whether working collaboratively would help resolve some of the tech-centered disputes while enhancing the safety and privacy of all family members. Read More

Vanderbilt University has created a laser safety program and appointed a certified laser safety officer, significant steps in the university’s ongoing efforts to establish its Environmental Health and Safety Department. Vanderbilt announced it would transition its research EHS function from Vanderbilt University Medical Center to the university earlier this year. Read More

Nilanjan Sarkar and Meiyi Ma have received Civic Innovation Challenge planning grants from the National Science Foundation. The purpose of the NSF CIVIC program is to accelerate the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are seeking up to 150 local volunteer drivers to participate in a novel traffic study using I-24 MOTION from Nov. 14 to 18. Read More

Vanderbilt University welcomes 74 new faculty across its nine schools and colleges for the 2022–23 academic year. Here, some of the university’s new faculty share the work they are doing to tackle current real-world challenges. Read More

Sankaran Mahadevan is the winner of the 2022 IASSAR Distinguished Research Award, presented every four years to two eminent senior researchers by the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability at its quadrennial meeting. Read More

Vanderbilt University welcomes 74 new faculty across its nine schools and colleges for the 2022–23 academic year. Here, some of the university’s new faculty share their academic collaborations. Read More

Cynthia Reinhart-King was among a handful of national experts invited to participate in the White House Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing for the American Bioeconomy. The event marked the launch of a new initiative to develop bio-based solutions to global challenges ranging from food security and climate change to health security and supply chain disruptions.  Read More

A grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow John T. Wilson to explore ways to use recently developed nanoparticles to stimulate immunity pathways in children, with the aim of making immunotherapy treatments for neuroblastoma more effective. Read More

In this international research cooperation, Vanderbilt is leading the development of AI to automatically localize and count monkeypox lesions, the main measure of disease severity, and spearheading a guideline to classify monkeypox lesions. Read More

Vanderbilt researcher Nilanjan Sarkar is partnering with Lorraine Mion of the Ohio State University and two Middle Tennessee long-term care facilities to investigate how augmented reality technologies can ease loneliness among residents. Read More

A new study by Vanderbilt researchers demonstrates the ability to initiate chemical reactions by cooling materials instead of heating them. Read More

A new study by Vanderbilt researchers demonstrates the ability to initiate chemical reactions by cooling materials instead of heating them— a counterintuitive process that could open new vistas for applications ranging from monitoring shipping conditions to developing smart clothing that guards against dangerously low temperatures. The paper, published in August by the journal RSC Advances,... Read More

Justin Baba, research associate professor of biomedical engineering, is among 21 individuals from 16 higher education institutions across the country to be named a 2022 Engineering Unleashed Fellow by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network. Read More

One of the world’s most gifted problem solvers comes to the Wond’ry on Monday, Aug. 29, to share his journey with students considering unique career paths. Read More

International nuclear waste management pioneer and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering Frank L. Parker, 96, died Aug. 10 in Nashville. Parker was named Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Emeritus, and professor of civil and environmental engineering, emeritus, in 2011 after a 43-year career at Vanderbilt. Read More

The online master’s program in the School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science ranked No. 1 in Fortune magazine’s inaugural survey of online computer science graduate programs. Read More

A team of Vanderbilt engineers have completed a collaborative project with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell to design and test a first-of-its-kind exoskeleton that supports U.S. Army soldiers participating in sustainment and logistics operations. Read More

Two leading energy companies that used a Vanderbilt-pioneered process to develop safer nuclear reactors received a prestigious technology award from the Electric Power Research Institute in June. Read More

Faculty, representatives from the Office of Research and Innovation and the Office of Government and Community Relations share mobility, smart city, community resiliency, and transit technologies and solutions being developed, built and deployed by Vanderbilt and throughout the region and build connections for future collaborations. Read More