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Vanderbilt mechanical engineering students have designed a thermoelectric generator for aerospace applications that elicited strong accolades at the spring 2010 NASA-sponsored University Launch Initiative and won the Payload Design prize.  It has no moving parts and can convert some of the waste exhaust heat into usable electrical power. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club recently won a prestigious altitude contest when its rocket reached a height of 5,264 feet at a launch contest held in late April at a north Alabama farm.  “The corn growing in that field will never taste as sweet as the success of our rocket,” said senior… Read More