Mechanical Engineering

A medical device company co-founded by a Vanderbilt engineering professor recently announced the completion of a successful first-in-human clinical study using its innovative technology that radically improves minimally invasive endoscopic surgery. Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at… Read More

VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series  VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Piper Cannon, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Seth Crawford, PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering Talk #1 Title: In Vivo Human Pilot Studies Guiding Next Generation System Design… Read More

Eleven Vanderbilt engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Read More

When Robert J. Webster III was working on an engineering project for his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, he was struck with an unnerving thought: The technology he was helping create seemed interesting, but it wouldn’t reach patients for at least 20 years. “And that’s only if everything went well,” he… Read More

A hands-on interactive class designed by graduate students in the Medical Engineering and Discovery (MED) Lab for high school students drew enthusiastic reviews from a Nashville college-preparatory school group. Sessions included introduction to engineering and STEM, computer aided design, robotics and coding, bioinspired design, and a civil engineering module… Read More

VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Ann Majewicz Fey, PhD Associate Professor, Robert and Francis Stark Centennial Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin               Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. Read More

A multidisciplinary team from the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop a low-cost simulation tool to train medical personnel in Kenya to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures.  … Read More

A company co-founded by Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at Vanderbilt University, has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible… Read More

VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Hrishikesh Deo, PhD Founder and CEO, Ergami Endoscopy Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Flexible endoscope hygiene and infection prevention strategy: Innovations in endoscope design Abstract: Flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes are… Read More

VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Xiaoguang Dong, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations Abstract:… Read More