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Princeton Professor Peter R. Jaffe delivers Frank L. Parker Distinguished Lecture Series Nov. 2:
Peter R. Jaffe, civil and
environmental engineering professor at Princeton University,
gave the Frank L. Parker Distinguished Professor Lecture
Series today at 138 Featheringill Hall. His address was
titled “Microbial and Geochemical Responses to
Biostimulation of U(VI) Reduction in Soils and U(IV)
Post-stimulation Stability” and was sponsored by the Mason
Foundation.
(more)
November 2, 2009
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Computer science team
places first in regional round of IBM’s Battle of the
Brains:
The
School of Engineering Gold Team placed first in a
regional round of the 34th annual Association
for Computing Machinery International Collegiate
Programming Contest Oct. 24, making it the fifth
straight year a Vanderbilt computer science team has
taken top honors in a regional round.
(more)
October 30, 2009
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MIT professor, scholar of engineering design Woodie Flowers to speak Oct. 28:
Training and education, says
Professor Woodie Flowers, are very different. “I think
it is time to shift gears – to shift away from the ‘sage on
the stage,’” says Flowers. Universities, he says, need to
get out of the business of training.
(more)
October 19, 2009
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Engineering's Distinguished Alumnus Award bestowed on business leaders, engineering dean: Vanderbilt engineering alumni Carl E. Adams Jr., George
E. Cook and Charles E. Fields Jr. each received a
Distinguished Alumnus Award from Vanderbilt’s
School of Engineering during an Engineering
Celebration Dinner held Oct. 15 at the university’s
Student Life Center.
(more)
October 16, 2009
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National security and counter-terrorism forum set for Oct. 16:
A forum on national security, “From Cyber-Warfare to
Biological Attacks: Counter-Terrorism in the 21st Century,”
will be held Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. in Room 4309 of the Stevenson
Center at Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt community is invited to
attend and participate in the open forum, which will allow
for questions from the audience.
(more)
October 12, 2009
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CS
professor to take part in NAE's first Frontiers of
Engineering Education symposium:
Xenofon Koutsoukos, associate professor
of computer science and computer engineering, is one of
49 of the nation’s brightest young engineering
researchers and educators who were chosen from a highly
competitive pool of applicants
to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE)
first Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE)
symposium Nov. 15-18 in Herndon, Va.
(more)
October 7, 2009
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Engineering Career Day is Oct. 6:
Vanderbilt Career Center will host an Engineering &
Information Technology Industry Career Day at the Student
Life Center from 3-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
(more)
September 14, 2009
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School of Engineering recruits 7 new faculty members:
The
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the
appointment of seven new faculty members to its full-time
teaching staff.
(more)
September 1, 2009
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Michael D. Griffin, a former administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will give
the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture –
Challenges Facing the U.S. Civil Space Program – at 4
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in Featheringill Hall’s Jacobs
Believed in Me Auditorium. (more)
September 1, 2009
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ISIS professors receive NSF Awards as a result of U.S. stimulus plan:
Two ISIS professors have
received National Science Foundation awards in the area of
intelligent learning environments and distributed real-time
embedded systems.
(more)
August 26, 2009
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EECS chair receives IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Merit Award: Daniel M. Fleetwood, chair of the electrical engineering and computer science department, has received the 2009 IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Merit Award, which recognizes an individual who has made outstanding technical contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences.
(more)
August 15, 2009
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DoD funds to stimulate research go to VUSE professors: The Department of Defense
announced August 7 the awarding of 28 grants
totaling $14.1 million as part of the fiscal
2009 Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate
Competitive Research (DEPSCoR). (more)
August 14, 2009
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Gokhale, Guelcher receive CAREER awards:
Two assistant professors have received
prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
awards. Anirudda Gokhale and Scott Guelcher each
received awards totaling $500,000, and issued
for the next five years.
(more)
August 6, 2009
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VUSE space-defense institutes gain new home on Music Row:The
School of Engineering’s Institute for Space and Defense
Electronics (ISDE) and the Institute for Software
Integrated Systems (ISIS) anticipate further growth
after relocation to new offices at 1025 16th Avenue
South.
(more)
July 15, 2009
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ChBE department awarded graduate fellowships through U.S. Department of Education:
Vanderbilt’s chemical and biomolecular
engineering (ChBE) department was recently awarded
fellowships through the U.S. Department of Education in
the area of advanced materials through the Graduate
Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program.
(more)
July 10, 2009
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Sharon Weiss wins prestigious White House award:
Sharon Weiss, assistant professor of electrical
engineering, has been recognized as one of the
nation’s top young scientists with a Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE),
the highest honor bestowed by the United States
government on young professionals in the early
stages of their independent research careers. Weiss
is one of 100 beginning researchers named July
9 by President Obama.
(more)
July 9, 2009
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Dan Fleetwood is named Olin Henry Landreth Professor: Vanderbilt
University and the School of Engineering have named
Professor Daniel M. Fleetwood to the Olin Henry
Landreth Chair in Engineering. Landreth was
Vanderbilt’s first professor of engineering and its
first dean of engineering.
This is a new chair within the School of Engineering
and it has been made possible through a gift from an
anonymous donor. The seven-year appointment is
effective July 1, 2009. (more)
July 1, 2009
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Goldfarb team wins best paper award at ICORR 2009:
Mechanical engineering professor Michael Goldfarb
and his team at Vanderbilt University received the IEEE-Best Paper
Award at ICORR 2009 in
Kyoto, Japan, at the 11th
International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
June 23-26.
(more)
June 30, 2009
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Engineers work on technique to improve cochlear implantation process:
A new
technique currently in testing at Vanderbilt could make
cochlear implantation faster, safer and less invasive. If
proven effective, the new technique could reduce surgery
times from about two hours to as little as 20 minutes.
(more)
June 30, 2009
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New
endowed chair honors Professor Peter Pintauro: Recognized for his work in the field of fuel cell
membranes and electrochemical engineering, Professor Peter
N. Pintauro, chair of the chemical and biomolecular
engineering department, is the first holder the H. Eugene
McBrayer Chair in Chemical Engineering in the Vanderbilt
University School of Engineering.
(more)
June 22, 2009
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Gokhale
receives award from Construction Industry Institute: Sanjiv
Gokhale, professor of the practice in civil engineering, is
the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Professor award by
the Construction Industry Institute (CII). The
award was created this year and will be presented at CII's
annual conference in July.
(more)
June 25, 2009
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Kosson receives international award
at conference in France:
David S. Kosson, chair of civil and environmental
engineering, received the 2009
ISCOWA Award given by the International
Society for the Environmental and Technical
Implications of Construction with Alternative
Materials at the WASCON meeting in Lyon, France June
5.
(more)
June 10, 2009
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Motorsports secures strong overall finish at Formula SAE competition in Michigan:
Vanderbilt Motorsports secured a strong 26th place overall
finish at this year’s Formula SAE competition held at
Michigan International Speedway May 13-16.
(more)
June 1, 2009
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Dean Kenneth Galloway
elected chairman of national board of engineering
deans:
Kenneth Galloway, dean of Vanderbilt's School of
Engineering, has been elected by his national peers
to a two-year term as chair of the Engineering Deans
Council Executive Board.
(more)
May 19, 2009
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Jansen to lead
American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery:
E. Duco Jansen, professor of Biomedical Engineering
and Neurosurgery, recently was elected president of
the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
The ASLMS is the world’s largest and preeminent
scientific organization dedicated to promoting
research, education and high standards of clinical
care in the field of medical laser applications. It
has more than 4,300 members worldwide.
(more)
May 15, 2009
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ME Students
receive awards at Senior Reception: Distinguished awards
were presented May 7 to five seniors and three design
teams at a reception hosted by the mechanical
engineering department in honor of the department’s
graduating seniors.
(more)
May 13, 2009
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Chancellor
presents a Founder’s Medal to
Arunan Skandarajah:
The 2009 Founder’s
Medalist for the School of Engineering is
Arunan Skandarajah,
who graduated May 8 at the top of the graduating
class in the School of Engineering with a BE degree
in biomedical engineering. Chancellor Nicholas
Zeppos presented the medal to Skandarajah during
Commencement ceremonies.
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Outstanding graduates
recognized at 2009 Commencement Reception:
A reception to honor 43 engineering graduates for their
outstanding scholarship was held May 7. The graduates
and their friends and families gathered at the
University Club for an awards ceremony and a buffet
meal.
(more)
May 11, 2009
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Engineering faculty promoted; annual awards presented:
(May 2009) – Dean Kenneth F. Galloway announced the
promotions of three engineering faculty members at a May
5 reception after the final faculty meeting of the
2008-2009 academic year.
(more)
May 5, 2009
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Three of four new Board of Trust
members have ties to School of Engineering:
Two Vanderbilt alumni and a
graduating Chancellor’s Scholar – all having ties to the School
of Engineering – are the newest members of the Vanderbilt Board
of Trust.
During its May 1 meeting, the board elected Lee M. Bass, a
Vanderbilt parent; Bruce R. Evans and William W. Featheringill
to five-year terms. Ayo Ositelu will serve a four-year term as
the 2009 Young Alumni Trustee.
(more)
May 2, 2009
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Engineering
graduate program rises in 2010 US News & World
Report’s rankings: Vanderbilt’s
School of
Engineering graduate program improved three
positions to No. 39 in annual rankings by
U.S. News &
World Report. The 2010 annual graduate
program rankings were released today. The
School ranks ahead of Yale and Washington University in
St. Louis and just behind Duke and Virginia.
(more)
April 23, 2009
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Schrimpf receives Harvie Branscomb Distinguished
Professor Award:
Ronald
D. Schrimpf, professor of electrical engineering and
professor of computer engineering, received
The Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award
April 17 at the spring faculty senate.
(more)
April 20, 2009
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Ph.D. student in
computer science wins Armed Forces electronics
fellowship: Vanderbilt University doctoral student
Jonathan L. Wellons has been awarded an Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Association Ph.D.
Fellowship. Wellons’ research deals with robust routing
algorithms for wireless networks.
(more)
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ESPN to cover
NASCAR racer’s visit with Vanderbilt Motorsports
students:
(April 3, 2009) –
Braun Racing driver Burney Lamar and crew chief
Trent Owens have some advice to share with engineering
students next week and
ESPN plans to cover the campus visit. Lamar, driver
of the No. 32 Dollar General Toyota for Braun, located
in Mooresville, N.C., and Owens will tour the school of
engineering’s motorsports facility April 9 and offer
advice to students as they prepare their formula-style
race car for upcoming collegiate competition in
Virginia, April 22-25, and in Michigan, May 13-16.
(more)
April 3, 2009
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Two BME students selected as Goldwater Scholars for 2008-2009
academic year: Two students recommended by the faculty and
staff of Vanderbilt University have been selected as
2008 Goldwater Scholars. Each will receive a two-year
scholarship worth $7,500 a year for educational
expenses.
(more)
March 31, 2009
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Ayo Ositelu named
2009 Young Alumni Trustee:
Senior Ayo Ositelu was recently named the 2009 Young
Alumni Trustee on the Vanderbilt University Board of
Trust. Ositelu is a biomedical engineering and
mathematics double major from Indianapolis, Ind.
A
Chancellor Scholar, Ositelu also is president of the
African Students Union, vice president of the Biomedical
Engineering Society and Regional Academic Excellence
Chair for the National Society of Engineers.
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Chemical company exec to discuss sustainability in
chemical, energy industries:
Dr. Jeffrey J. Siirola, Technology Fellow in the Eastman
Research Division of Eastman Chemical Company in
Kingsport, Tenn., will deliver the 2009 Tis Lahiri
Memorial Seminar at Vanderbilt University. The seminar
is sponsored by the Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and will be held Monday, April
13, at 4:10 p.m. in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium in
Featheringill Hall.
(more)
March 30, 2009
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New
biomedical classes are 'engineering in action':
Students pick projects with service components that
support academic and personal development. It's
'engineering in action' and the challenge is to find
balance in time and involvement.
(more)
February 24, 2009
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Student’s dynamo-powered otoscope delights doctors:
In remote locations far from electricity and replacement
batteries, a basic piece of medical exam equipment – the
otoscope – can be useless. Heather Stone has adapted a
standard otoscope using a hand-cranked dynamo and VU
doctors approve.
(more)
February 24, 2009
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12 BME students to spend week working in Guatemalan
clinic, hospital: Twelve biomedical engineering
students, their professor, and a former dean of the
engineering school will spend spring break (Feb.
28-March 7) in Guatemala City.
(more)
February 24, 2009
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VU to
calculate carbon footprint: Vanderbilt plans to
calculate its carbon footprint this spring through a
greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Conducting this
inventory is an ongoing part of Vanderbilt’s commitment
to a sound environmental management system that ensures
the safety, health, and sustainability of our campus,
according to Cynthia Paschal, associate professor of
biomedical engineering and chair-elect of the Faculty
Senate.
(more)
February 23, 2009
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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.
(more)
February 2009
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Alum introduces Obama at signing ceremony for
stimulus bill:
Blake Jones gave President Barack Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden a tour of a solar array his
company installed on the Denver Museum of Nature &
Science, the largest system of its kind in
Colorado. Afterward,
he introduced Obama before the president signed the
$787 billion economic stimulus bill Tuesday.
(more)
February 2009
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E
Week: Winners hit bullseye – eggxactly:
Teams braved cold temps and a steady breeze on top
of Featheringill Hall today in an attempt to win
cash in an Egg Drop Competition that kicked off
Engineers Week events on campus.
(more)
February 2009
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Robot obstacle
course, fastest Geek contest highlight Engineers
Week:
Engineering students will showcase their ingenuity
through a series of challenging – but fun –
competitions and events held during National
Engineers Week February 16-20. In addition to
spotlighting the engineering profession, the
competitions and activities are designed to interest
students in engineering and scientific fields.
(more)
February 2009
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Chemical engineering senior awarded prestigious
Gates Cambridge Scholarship for international study:
Senior Amanda Scott has won a prestigious Gates
Cambridge Scholarship – a full-cost award for graduate study and
research in any subject available at the University of
Cambridge. Scott will begin her studies at Cambridge in October
2009. (more)
February 2009
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Hornberger to deliver Hall Lecture Feb. 10:
George M. Hornberger will give the John R. and Donna S.
Hall Engineering Lecture – Complicated
Interdependencies: Water, Energy and Food – at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 10, in Featheringill Hall’s Jacobs
Believed in Me Auditorium.
(more)
February 2009
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Goldfarb, Schrimpf, Hornberger awarded endowed
chairs:
Three faculty members of the School of Engineering
at Vanderbilt University have been awarded endowed
chairs.
Michael Goldfarb is the new H. Fort Flowers
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ronald Schrimpf
is the Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering,
and George M. Hornberger is the Craig E. Philip
Professor of Engineering.
(more)
January 2009
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Dollar
General, Braun Racing develop one-of-a-kind internship
to benefit VUSE Motorsports program:
Braun Racing, a two-car operation in the NASCAR
Nationwide Series, and its sponsor, Dollar General
Corporation, have announced a one-of-a-kind internship
program with the motorsports program in the School of
Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
(more)
January 2009
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Student engineers test cars at
Barber Motorsports Park:
Engineering students from Vanderbilt and five other
universities ventured onto the pavement at Barber Motorsports
Park in Leeds, Ala., on a chilly Saturday to test the designs of
their formula-styled race cars.
(more)
January 2009
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Facebook VP to speak at VU
engineering school Jan. 29:
Nashville
, Tenn.
(Jan. 22) – Of the more than 150 million active Facebook users,
about 13 million users update their statuses at least
once each day, which results in almost 3 billion minutes
spent on Facebook daily.
(more)
January 2009
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Vanderbilt named among FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to
Work For:
For the first time Vanderbilt has been
named one of the top 100 best places to work in the
United States in
FORTUNE magazine’s annual survey, and it is
the first educational institution to ever be named to
the list. The No. 98 ranking released Jan. 22
encompasses approximately 21,000 employees at Vanderbilt
University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
(more)
January 2009
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Researcher plays key role in studies that point to novel
target for treating arrhythmias: Franz Baudenbacher,
assistant professor of biomedical engineering and
physics, played a key role in studying the electrical
changes that caused arrhythmias – abnormal heart rhythms
– in mice that could lead to novel arrhythmia
treatements. Findings were reported recently in The
Journal of Clinical Investigation.
(more)
January 2009
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Six-part
lecture series to focus on environment, energy and
sustainability: Vanderbilt University experts on
various aspects of the environment, energy and
sustainability will share insights during a six-part
spring semester lecture series open to the general
public. (more)
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Alum at
Baylor College of Medicine named Cullen Trust fellow:
The Cullen Trust for Higher Education
Physician/Scientist Fellowship Program has awarded a
one-year fellowship to Baylor College of Medicine
first-year student Jonathan Lin, who graduated summa cum
laude from Vanderbilt University in 2006 with a bachelor
of engineering, electrical engineering and mathematics.
(more)
January 2009
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Sanjiv Gokhale is
ASCE Fellow:
Sanjiv Gokhale, professor of the practice in civil
engineering and director of the Construction Management
Program, has been elected as a Fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
(more)
January 2009
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