From Startups to Success
VUSE engineers thrive as entrepreneurs in businesses large and small. What do they have in common? Creativity and collaboration, a focus on giving people what they want, plus access to capital, savvy management and a singular passion for making great ideas reality.
Calculating Risk, Increasing Reliability
When you take a plane trip, drive across a bridge or ride the commuter train to work, you trust that those structures and systems are safe. Likewise, pilots flying combat missions depend on their planes and astronauts hurtling into space depend on the rockets propelling them.
A Changed Life
Back when Fran Schwaiger Presley, BS’79, was a small-town Alabama girl, a full scholarship to the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering did more than crack a door to opportunity—it threw open the gates of resoluteness.
Ask an Engineer— Spring 2010
What is Coal Ash?
The term “coal ash” has been in the media a lot in the past year. Vanderbilt Engineering asked a School of Engineering research team to explain the term and tell us why it is important.
Impact— Spring 2010
Champions for the Pursuit of Dreams
Doug Davis says he felt he was already a rich man when he left the School of Engineering in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a job at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard near San Francisco, Calif.
On Campus— Spring 2010
Student Developer Draws Sales with iPhone Apps
One of the hottest new electronic mediums for visual artists comes from a Vanderbilt University School of Engineering student who says he has no artistic skills himself.
Spring 2010— Unforgettable
Unforgettable – Karl B. Schnelle Jr.
The idea of asking for help never occurred to me. But fortunately, Professor Karl Schnelle has always had a way of ignoring walls like that and helping students get past them, too.
Just the Facts— Spring 2010
Patented Success
If it doesn’t exist or it needs improvement, invent and innovate. These are just a few Vanderbilt University School of Engineering alumni who did just that.
In the Field— Spring 2010
Quest for Knowledge Spurs Nanotechnology Entrepreneur Karen Buechler
Curiosity led Karen Raska Buechler, BE’94, to Vanderbilt University School of Engineering for a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and on to graduate school in Colorado for her master’s and doctorate.
Giving— Spring 2010
Celebrating Alumni and the Impact of the School of Engineering
More than 250 alumni, parents and friends turned out for the 2009 Engineering Celebration Dinner in October to commemorate the life-long impact of a Vanderbilt engineering education.
Honors and Awards— Spring 2010
Honors and Awards
Julie Adams, Gautam Biswas, Benoit Dawant, W. Wesley Eckenfelder, Aniruddha Gokhale, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Clare McCabe, G. Kane Jennings, Yuan Xue…
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Pushing to Improve
Smaller. Less invasive. More flexible. Those aren’t just directives from physicians regarding medical devices—they’re the goals that Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster III has set for his research and lab.
Digest
- Interdisciplinary Team Earns Gates Foundation Award
- More Than 45 Years of Doing It Right
- Professor Outlines Defense, Software Challenges in Capitol Hill Briefing
- Students Work for Clean Water
- Fleetwood Honored With Olin Henry Landreth Chair in Engineering
- Parker Participates in Peace and Science Conference at the Vatican
From the Dean
Entrepreneurial Engineers
It is widely believed that, to strengthen our economy, we need new ventures, new enterprises, new businesses and new industries. Can you teach entrepreneurship? Or are some individuals just born entrepreneurs? Are engineers entrepreneurial?
The Fine Print
