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Student achievements
Student awards 2009 | 2008 | 2007 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)
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)
Aerospace Club among 20 teams picked by NASA for ‘launch initiative’ in April Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club is among 20 student teams selected by NASA from colleges and universities around the country to participate in NASA's 2008-2009 University Student Launch Initiative in April. (more)
Robot obstacle
course, fastest Geek contest highlight Engineering 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)
Chemical engineering 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.
(more)
2008 Student Awards
Engineering grad to take the wheel at Mexico City 250 this weekend: Engineering grad Brad Jaeger will be behind the wheel of Doran Racing’s #77 Kodak Ford Doran/Dallara at this weekend’s Mexico City 250, part of the Rolex Sports Car Series season. (more)
Experience counts for engineering seniors and their clients: Senior engineering students solve real-world design challenges for corporate sponsors during a two-semester design course. Students will share results with their clients and you can see the presentations at Senior Design Day, April 22, from 3-5 p.m. in Featheringill Hall. (more)
Two engineering students selected as 2008 Goldwater Scholars: Sesha Pinnaduwage and Arunan Skandarajah have been selected Goldwater Scholars for the 2008-09 academic year. Each will receive a two-year scholarship worth $7,500 a year for educational expenses. (more)
Student section of the American Nuclear Society established on campus: The American Nuclear Society (ANS) has student sections on many campuses. But Vanderbilt is the first university where a student section has been authorized that does not grant a degree in nuclear engineering. (more)
ME student wins first place in ASME Old Guard regional contest: Senior Nathan Grady, mechanical engineering, has won first place in the ASME Old Guard regional oral competition. The Old Guard competition held at the ASME student conference in Florida last weekend, allows students to make oral presentations on their undergraduate design projects or research. Grady’s presentation is entitled "Design of a UV Raman System for Scramjet Combustion Measurements.” (more)
IEEE/NPSS Recognizes Two Talented Grad Students: VUSN’s Daniel Loveless and Jonathan Pellish have both been named recipients of Graduate Scholarship Awards from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. The prestigious Scholarship Award recognizes outstanding graduate student contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences. Each student will be awarded $500, a certificate, and a one-year paid membership in the NPSS.
2007-2008 ACM
programming contest results
Electrical engineering doctoral student Karthik Subramanian received the "Shoulders-Gray-Spindt award" for best paper presented at the 20th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference held July 8-12 in Chicago. The paper, "Development of a vacuum packaged nanodiamond lateral field emission device," described his research on diamond-derived vacuum lateral field emission devices, which he is conducting in conjunction with the Advanced Carbon Nanotechnology program directed by the paper's co-authors Jimmy L. Davidson and W.P. Kang, professors of electrical engineering and materials science and engineering, and R. Schroder of Honeywell, Kansas City, an industrial collaborator. The award certificate cited Subramanian's "novel and ingenious work" in his research.
Graduate student Ryan
J. Thibodeaux received Honorable Mention in the
Founder's Medalist
Electrical Engineering
Computer Engineering
The Thomas G. Arnold Prize for Biomedical Engineering Systems W. Dennis Threadgill Award Shane Michael Magee
Robert D. Tanner Undergraduate Research Award
Summa Cum Laude
Two seniors shared the Thomas G. Arnold Prize for Research for their projects:
Biomedical engineering seniors Mark Fritz, John Huidekoper, Andrew Koivuniemi, David Mayhew, Chris Schroeder won the the Thomas G. Arnold Award for Design of Biomedical Engineering Systems for their senior design project, "In-vivo device for measuring and adjusting lap-band pressure.” This device, mentored by Dr. Robert Roselli of Biomedical Engineering and Dr. Thomas Rauth of General Surgery, would be used to control gastric flow for high obesity patients. Engineering graduate students Ash Jayagopal and Chinmay Soman won second runner up in the Nano Idea to Product (I2P) competition for their QuaD-MAP early-stage cancer detection invention. The competition was part of the Nano Nexus 2007 conference, held April 2 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Fifteen teams from 12 colleges competed, with Vanderbilt's team taking home a $2,000 prize. (more) Computer Science doctoral candidate Jason Tan and Computer Science and Computer Engineering Professor Gautam Biswas won the best paper award at Digitel 2007: IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Toy-Enhanced Learning, held March 26-28 in Jhongli, Taiwan. The paper was entitled, "Simulation-Based Game Learning Environments: Building and Sustaining a Fish Tank." VU ASCE students take first in concrete canoe competition
and surveying: About 35 students of the Vanderbilt Student
Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) placed
second overall at the Southeastern Student Conference at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Vanderbilt was one of 24
schools participating in
2007 Potato Gun winners, E-Week 2007 Egg Drop Winners: Vanderbilt student team selected as finalist in MTV-U Ecomagination challenge: Mostly comprised of Vanderbilt engineering students and led by civil and environmental engineering professor Jim Clarke, the Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative www.vanderbilt.edu/wilskills/biodiesel.html is one of ten finalists among college teams competing in the first-ever MTV-U GE Ecomagination Challenge. To vote for the VU team and help them win the contest click here. www.ecocollegechallenge.com Senior biomedical engineering student Erica Bozeman won the first place research award for her poster presented at the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Undergraduate Research Conference held Nov. 16 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Her first-place poster was entitled "Development of an Adherence Diagnostic Assay for the In-Vitro Analysis of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Surface Adhesin A (PsaA) Protein and the Human Cell Receptor E-cadherin." Vanderbilt engineering graduate students were awarded first and second place in the 2006 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Poster Competition for their presentations Wednesday, Nov. 8. Chemical engineering student Christina Payne won first place for "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Nanoscale Device for Fast Sequencing of DNA," and materials science student Anuradha Bulusu obtained second place for "Modeling of Thermoelectric Properties of Nanofilms and Nanowires." A team of Vanderbilt computer science undergraduates took first place in one of the ten sites of the annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, Mid-Central Region. Juniors Evan Makowski and Dan Smith, and sophomore Roger Wu defeated 16 other area collegiate teams on site at the five-hour event, held Nov. 5 at Tennessee Technological University, correctly solving six of the seven problems in the smallest amount of time. The team also finished second in the region, defeating 122 teams, behind Northwestern University. The ACM Mid-Central Region includes colleges located in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. By finishing second, the Vanderbilt team will be eligible to compete in the International World Finals to be held in Japan in the spring. Senior Matthew DeVries was responsible for team practices and team training and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lecturer Julie Johnson acted as the faculty team coach. Another Vanderbilt team, consisting of DeVries, freshman Andrew Jallouk, and senior Ari Wilson, finished fourth at the Tennessee Tech Site and 21st in the Region. Electrical Engineering doctoral candidate Megan Casey won the Best Student Paper Award for the 2006 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, held July 17 - 21 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Her paper, "Single-Event Tolerant Latch Using Cascode-Voltage Switch Logic Gates," was co-authored by Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Bharat L. Bhuva, doctoral candidate Jeff D. Black, Professor of Electrical Engineering Lloyd W. Massengill, doctoral candidate Oluwole A. Amusan, and Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Arthur F. Witulski. Jacob J. Hughey, engineering senior with a double major in biomedical engineering and mathematics, has won a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. He was selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program, established by the U.S. Congress in 1986, covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of 7,500 per year. Engineering senior Talbot Hansum received the Federal Executive Association’s “Team Volunteer Service Award” for 2006 from Carol Warner, president of the Middle Tennessee Federal Executive Association, at a luncheon honoring Vanderbilt Naval ROTC’s community service efforts during the 2005-06 academic year. This marks the second consecutive year Vanderbilt’s NROTC program has been recognized with the award, and the first time that has happened in the award's history. Engineering graduate student Xing Zhou has won an IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2006 Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant. Zhou received the award in recognition for her research and contributions to understanding the effects of temperature stress and ionizing radiation exposure on metal-oxide semiconductor devices incorporating alternative dielectrics to silicon dioxide. She was nominated for the award by her thesis adviser, Dan Fleetwood, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
*Tau Beta Pi inductees, 2007* The National Science Foundation winners of the
prestigious graduate research fellowships include eight from the
Vanderbilt School of Engineering:
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Poster Competition
Winners
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Aerospace Club part of AstroBlast!
National
Society of Black Engineers students shine at Orlando conference
Ben Schmidt, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering, had the opportunity
Wednesday to describe his federally funded research to numerous policymakers on
Capitol Hill, including members of congress and their aides, as well as top
staffers for the House Committee on Science and Technology. Here, he responds
to one of several questions from Rep. Jim Cooper, who represents Nashville in
the U.S. House of Representatives. Schmidt was one of five engineering students
from Tennessee universities who joined their deans in Washington to help make
the case for strong federal investment in engineering research and education.
The trip was led by Dean Ken Galloway.
Spradley to
receive Post Foundation scholarship: Leah Spradley, a graduate student in civil and environmental
engineering, will receive a prestigious Roy G. Post Foundation
Scholarship in February. The $5,000 award will be presented at the
WM2008 Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. The conference is organized by
the WM Symposia, a non-profit corporation founded to provide a forum
for discussion of the safe management of radioactive waste and
radioactive materials. 
The
Vanderbilt National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
student group traveled to the Annual Fall Regional Conference
October 26-28, 2007, in Jackson, MS. Vanderbilt won 1st
prize for the most increase in Fall Regional Conference
membership amongst a medium sized NSBE chapter and had
twenty-one students in attendance. Tiffany Palmer, a junior in
chemical engineering, is the NSBE Regional Membership Chair.
Ayotunde (Ayo) Oluwakorede Ositelu, a junior in BME, won 1st
place in the Undergraduate Students in Technical Research (USTR)
Competition in Region 3. He will compete in the USTR National
Competition on March 19-23, 2008 during the NSBE National
Convention to be held in Orlando, Florida.
The
Best Student Research Paper Award was given to engineering
graduate students Megan Casey (left) and Yongming Lieu (right)
for their papers published during 2006. The awards were given
during the school end-of-year ceremony on May 8 in Adams Atrium,
Featheringill Hall.
the competitions ranging from building bridges made of steel to
those constructed of spaghetti. One of the most popular
competitions is the concrete canoe. Students not only design
and construct a canoe made of light-weight, reinforced concrete,
but they spend a day at a local lake racing their masterpieces.
Other competitions include surveying, a t-shirt design, concrete
sports, and a mystery competition. The Vanderbilt students were
among the top teams in the following competitions: