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Risk Reliability And Resilience

  • $2.5 million NASA project will develop and test safety management for ‘air taxis’

    $2.5 million NASA project will develop and test safety management for ‘air taxis’

    Multi-university team tackles safety systems for autonomous eVTOLs Vanderbilt engineers are part of a NASA-funded, multi-institution effort to develop safety systems for a mode of transportation that doesn’t exist yet—small, commercial, autonomous planes that move people by air between locations in large, crowded cities. The task is a formidable one with machine learning at its... Read More

    Jun 28, 2021

  • $2.5 million NASA project will develop and test safety management for ‘air taxis’

    $2.5 million NASA project will develop and test safety management for ‘air taxis’

    Multi-university team tackles safety systems for autonomous eVTOLs Vanderbilt engineers are part of a NASA-funded, multi-institution effort to develop safety systems for a mode of transportation that doesn’t exist yet—small, commercial, autonomous planes that move people by air between locations in large, crowded cities. The task is a formidable one with machine learning at its... Read More

    Jun 28, 2021

  • Grad student adds drone imagery to toolbox for post-disaster recovery

    Grad student adds drone imagery to toolbox for post-disaster recovery

      A new online gallery of photos taken in the days, weeks and months following the March 2020 regional tornados is the work of an engineering graduate student who wants to make disaster recovery more equitable. Daniel Perrucci, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, used bird’s eye imagery from drones as well as street-level photography... Read More

    Jun 24, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read More

    May 5, 2021

  • Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Vanderbilt graduate researcher awarded prestigious $161,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant

    Irfan Ibrahim The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has awarded an Integrated University Program fellowship grant of $161,000 to environmental engineering graduate research assistant Irfan Ibrahim to further his work on nuclear reactor safety. The office’s awards provide 50 scholarships and 31 fellowships for nuclear scientists and engineers at 35 colleges and... Read More

    May 5, 2021