Engineering And Technology
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Nashville Scene Innovations 2013: Tankstarter
Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) was awarded a $9.3 million contract to develop a collaborative software so that other non-government teams could design a new amphibious tank for the Marine Corps. Sandeep Neema, research associate professor of electrical engineering, is quoted. Read MoreAugust 9, 2013
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Nashville Scene Innovations 2013: Seat relief
For their senior design project for the School of Engineering, six Vanderbilt students created the KidSense Car Seat System. The system detects if a child has been left unattended and if the environment has become dangerously hot or cold. Co-creator Chelsea Stowell, BE’13, is quoted. Read MoreAugust 9, 2013
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Nashville Scene Innovations 2013: How soon is NAO
Vanderbilt researchers reprogrammed a humanoid robot and an XBox Kinect to help autistic children improve their abilities to engage in social interactions. Nilanjan Sarkar, professor of mechanical and computer engineering, is quoted. Read MoreAugust 9, 2013
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Nashville Scene Innovations 2013: MOOC Synthesizer
Vanderbilt University seeks to be on the leading edge of the MOOC field with the opening of its Institute for Digital Learning. Read MoreAugust 9, 2013
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Robot uses steerable needles to treat brain clots
Surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain is a perfect job for a robot. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreAugust 8, 2013
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Industry Week: Are engineering schools the unsung hero in America’s industrial rebound?
Groundbreaking research, cutting-edge systems and university partnerships with industry and government have resulted in new technologies and paradigms that have transformed American industry, and will continue to bolster American competitiveness for the next decade, writes Philippe Fauchet, dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Read MoreAugust 1, 2013
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Collaboration between Vanderbilt and startup Femtometrix leads to exclusive deal
An innovative wafer inspection tool developed by a team of Vanderbilt professors and engineers has been licensed exclusively to startup company Femtometrix. Read MoreJuly 18, 2013
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Vanderbilt wins $9.3M DARPA contract to evolve tools for military vehicle design
Vanderbilt University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. Read MoreMay 1, 2013
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Tracking gunfire with a smartphone
A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Read MoreApril 25, 2013
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Prosthetic limb advances could help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings
Within the next one to three years, "bionic" prosthetic devices will become available for the people whose limbs were amputated in the Boston Marathon bombing that are substantially smarter, more capable, more active and more interactive than those currently on the market. Read MoreApril 19, 2013