Message from the Chair:
The Mechanical Engineering Department is thriving at Vanderbilt.
This year we reached a new high with an undergraduate enrollment of
271 students. (more)
LATEST ME NEWS NSF FEllowships:
Graduate students Jenna Toennies and Marc Ramsey win National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
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Robots monitor emotional state of children with ASD: The day that
robot playmates help children with autism learn the
social skills that they naturally lack has come a
step closer with the development of a system by
Professor Nilanjan Sarkar that allows a robot to
monitor a child's emotional state.
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