Michael Dodson
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Vanderbilt Senior Design Team Innovates Portable ECMO Device for Improved Respiratory Support
A team of fourth-year Vanderbilt biomedical engineering students, Gabriella Glomp, Briana Bernicker, and Ysabel Gomez, is working on a senior design project aimed at improving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) technology. Their project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), focuses on making… Read MoreMay. 5, 2025
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Eye on Innovation: How Four Vanderbilt Seniors Engineered a Fully-Rotating Animatronic Eyeball
What if an animatronic eye could rotate 360° in any direction? That’s the challenge four Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering fourth-year students, Ari Horwitz, Jackson Singer, Henry Dirksen, and Kaylee Greenberg, took on for their senior design project. Partnering with Nashville-based animatronics company Animax Designs, the team was tasked with a… Read MoreMay. 5, 2025