Engineering Student Stories
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Luis Enrique Otero is Class of 2025 Outstanding Senior; nine other nominees celebrated
Learn about what inspires the Class of 2025 Outstanding Senior winner and read about all the nominees. Read MoreNov 13, 2024
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CLASS OF 2024: Great attitude and engineering skills help M. Aziz Medhioub with his American dream
WATCH: Learn about the journey that brought Aziz Medhioub from North Africa to Nashville and the role he's playing on Vanderbilt's award-winning rocket design team. Read MoreMar 22, 2024
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CLASS OF 2024: Jack Bulger’s life journey shapes him as a player and person
WATCH: VandyBoys catcher Jack Bulger talks about the teacher who inspired him most and how he built his own brace with what he learned at the School of Engineering. Read MoreMar 15, 2024
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CLASS OF 2024: Schyler Rowland finds a home in the lab, collaborating to fight diseases
WATCH: Learn how biomedical engineering major Schyler Rowland says mentors have inspired her future in fighting diseases Read MoreMar 1, 2024
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Little Sphere, Big Power: Students work to build miniature fusion reactor
The Vanderbilt Fusion Project, an initiative involving 40 undergraduates from 22 majors across three schools, is seeking to build a miniature nuclear fusion reactor—and make history. Read MoreMay 17, 2023
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WATCH: Class of 2023 students dare to grow, pursuing passions with a strong vision
Meet some members of the Class of 2023 who are pursuing unique and impactful paths with enthusiasm, intellect and a strong vision. Read MoreApr 21, 2023
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WATCH: Class of 2023 students collaborate, form connections
Meet some members of the Class of 2023 whose inspired collaborations—within Vanderbilt, across the Nashville community and beyond—are making the world better. Read MoreApr 14, 2023
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Class of 2023: Lauren Grohowski focuses on being an empathetic engineer
Class of 2023: When mechanical engineering major Lauren Grohowski talks about her numerous projects, her face lights up with excitement. She not only geeks out over the joy of building and solving complex problems, but she also is passionate about using her skills to be an “empathetic engineer.” Read MoreApr 7, 2023
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WATCH: Class of 2023 students build belonging, enrich Vanderbilt community
Meet some members of the Class of 2023 who are cultivating belonging to strengthen, support and enrich the community at Vanderbilt and beyond. Read MoreApr 7, 2023
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Blake Christiansen recognized as Class of 2023 Outstanding Senior for leadership, community building
A talent for cultivating fellowship and belonging helped earn Blake Christiansen this year’s Outstanding Senior Award, one of Vanderbilt’s highest undergraduate student honors. Read MoreNov 11, 2022
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10 from Class of 2023 named Outstanding Senior finalists; winner to be announced at Homecoming game Oct. 8
Ten students from the Class of 2023 have been named as finalists for the Outstanding Senior award, one of the highest honors an undergraduate student can receive at Vanderbilt. Each of the nominees will be recognized, and the top Outstanding Senior will be announced, during halftime of the Commodores’ Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 8. Read MoreOct 7, 2022
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Class of 2022: Quentin Millora-Brown willing to play his role in engineering climate change solutions
Quentin Millora-Brown, a senior forward on the men’s basketball team, had his best individual season this year. A starter in 30 games, he led Vanderbilt in blocked shots and was second in rebounding. Perhaps even more importantly, he helped create the culture of succes. Off the court, Millora-Brown knows that camaraderie alone won’t solve society’s most pressing issues, such as the climate crisis—a problem he is passionate about. But he believes the same team approach in pursuit of a larger goal will make a difference. Read MoreApr 27, 2022
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Rock-climbing student duo pursues scientific, business and Olympic dreams
Vanderbilt Climbing Club teammates Michael Finn-Henry and Olivia Busk are taking collaboration and innovation to new heights with a breakthrough medical device—and a possible trip to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read MoreApr 25, 2022
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Class of 2022: Brianne Gross is an unlikely lacrosse star and a born engineer
Growing up in California, where lacrosse had yet to take hold to the same extent as on the East Coast, Bri Gross discovered her athletic passion almost by accident. But the first time she picked up a lacrosse stick was far from the first time she was intrigued by how something worked. Never far from her dad’s side in his garage workshop, she was and remains an inveterate tinkerer. Read MoreApr 20, 2022
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The Wond’ry aids Vanderbilt student in designing African language learning app to connect with native roots
With help from the Wondr'y, Vanderbilt students and peers have designed an African language learning app to connect with their native roots. Read MoreDec 2, 2021
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Class of 2021: Family bonds inspire biomedical engineering major to fight breast cancer through cellular research
A series of family heartaches propelled Yoanna Ivanova to pursue cellular research tied to breast cancer. She credits her connections with fellow engineering majors in the Clark Scholars Program for creating positive experiences in and out of the lab. Read MoreMay 12, 2021
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Class of 2021: From rockets to fighter jets, mechanical engineering major builds on big successes
Will Reisner enjoys reaching new heights. The mechanical engineering senior is the vehicle team lead on the perennially top-ranked Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Laboratory rocket team. Read MoreMay 3, 2021
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Vanderbilt wins NASA’s 2019 Student Launch Competition, sixth in 7 years
Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Design Laboratory again has earned top honors in NASA’s National Student Launch Competition, the lab’s sixth national championship and second consecutive win in 12 years. Read MoreMay 16, 2019
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From Mars habitat to little boy’s prosthetic hand, Design Day 2019 fascinates
Inspiration and innovation abounded as more than 70 teams of engineering seniors presented their final projects Monday. The annual Senior Design Day attracted hundreds of visitors from Vanderbilt and the Nashville community to the Student Life Center. Read MoreApr 24, 2019
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Find Your Impact: Student empowers women through tech
Vanderbilt engineering student Miti Joshi took a leap of faith when declaring her major. She ended up falling in love with computer science and launching Vanderbilt Women in Computing. Read MoreMar 27, 2019