Engineering
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Vanderbilt team examines human factors in nuclear power plant operations
A multidisciplinary Vanderbilt team with deep experience in improving patient safety and technology usability has received a three-year, $800,000 Department of Energy grant to help nuclear power plant operators better perform their jobs. Read MoreNov 13, 2014
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Vanderbilt experts can provide insights into Nashville’s growth
Vanderbilt experts from a variety of fields are available to help explain issues surrounding Nashville's transformation into the latest “it” city. Read MoreNov 12, 2014
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VUCast: Growing to new heights
In the latest VUCast: Learn how the Children's Hospital is growing to heal more babies and children; see the latest big gift from Vanderbilt alums; and watch a first-year student balance engineering and ice. Watch now! Read MoreNov 4, 2014
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Game theory can help predict crime before it occurs
A team headed by Eugene Vorobeychik, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, uses game theory and big data to optimize policing. Read MoreOct 21, 2014
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Brain surgery through the cheek
Vanderbilt engineers have developed a surgical robot designed to perform brain surgery by entering through the cheek instead of the skull. Read MoreOct 15, 2014
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New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups. Read MoreOct 2, 2014
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Will Grissom makes problem-solving nerds look cool
“I live for the problems we get to solve,” says Will Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and electrical engineering. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Aerospace Club Wins NASA Rocketry Competition
For the second year in a row, students from Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club won NASA’s annual Student Launch rocketry competition, beating out teams from 31 other universities, including Cornell, Northwestern and Notre Dame. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Kimberly Bryant, BE’89, Is Changing the Face of High-Tech with Black Girls Code
The mission of Bryant's nonprofit organization, Black Girls Code, is to reach out to minority girls age 7 to 17 from all socioeconomic levels, and teach them about computer technology—from creating websites and writing computer applications to crafting computer games and working in robotics. Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Tech Giants, Engineers to Create Standards for ‘Internet of Things’
A new group called the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)—which includes Vanderbilt engineers and researchers in the university’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)—announced plans in March to create engineering standards for the “Internet of Things.” Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Research Roundup, Summer 2014
Private Property and Government Inaction | Probiotic Could Prevent Obesity | Freedom from Power Cords | Pickiness Doesn’t Always Pay Read MoreSep 26, 2014
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Fox News: Professor touts faster, cheaper way to test for explosives
Sharon Weiss has modified white gold leaf paper so that its surface provides signal amplification of 100 million times – so that a laser and detector to identify the chemical molecules of whatever it has been applied to. Read MoreJul 31, 2014
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Victory Lane: Travis Geisler, BE’03, is driven to win at Team Penske
When it comes to his love for auto racing, Travis Geisler is always willing to go the extra mile—thousands of them, really, if one considers his college years. While at Vanderbilt he made the 1,200-mile round trip between Nashville and his hometown of Pittsburgh nearly every weekend just to compete… Read MoreJun 19, 2014
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Two Vanderbilt projects showcased at SmartAmerica Challenge EXPO
Two Vanderbilt engineers participated in the SmartAmerica Challenge EXPO in Washington D.C. Read MoreJun 12, 2014
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Guarding against ‘Carmageddon’ cyberattacks
Vanderbilt researchers are helping to develop software to secure the nation's computerized traffic control systems, both present and future, against cyberattacks. Read MoreJun 11, 2014
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VUCast: Ingenious Inventions
In the latest VUCast: Check out some creative inventions by Vanderbilt students; see how a "bionic man" has ties to Vanderbilt; and learn details about a new academic building under construction on campus. All this and more in the latest VUCast, Vanderbilt's online newscast. Watch now. Read MoreMay 21, 2014
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Liberating devices from their power cords
A new type of supercapacitor brings us a step closer to a day when everything from cell phones to electric vehicles will no longer need separate batteries. Read MoreMay 19, 2014
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Two Vanderbilt projects featured in new NIBIB “Bionic Man” web tool
The prosthetics research of Michael Goldfarb is featured in "The NBIB Bionic Man," an interactive web tool that helps students and the public learn about innovative federally-funded biomedical research. Read MoreMay 6, 2014
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Grissom receives foundation’s first 2014 external research award
Will Grissom, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the first External Research Award of 2014 from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation for his project titled “MR Temperature Imaging Toolbox for Focused Ultrasound Neurosurgery.” Read MoreApr 30, 2014
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International Student Wins Video Contest
Khairul Kamarulzaman, an Engineering student at Vanderbilt, won a video contest with his video that explores the beautiful landscape of America. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreApr 22, 2014