Mechanical Engineering

VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Sheila Russo, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Boston University Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title:  Toward Soft Robotic Systems for Advanced Endoscopic Procedures… Read More

VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Eric Tang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Handheld Spectrally Encoded Coherence Tomography and Reflectometry (SECTR) for Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Imaging RIP #1 Description:… Read More

VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Timothy Kowalewski, PhD, Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Date: February 27, 2020 Location: Stevenson Center 5326, Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title: To Err is Human –… Read More

The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony at the Student Life Center. Read More

VISE trainees Ethan Joll, Katie Ozgun and Laura Masson welcomed VISE Summer Fellows to the program in mid June. (L to R: G. Alduraibi, N. Narasimhan, D. Peoples, E. Joll, D. Doss, K Ozgun, Y. Xiong, D. Crews, K. Derby, C. Friday, L. Masson) Nine students worked with VISE faculty… Read More

Bouncing back from surgery is no easy task. But what if a robot could make an incision so small, you’d barely notice it? The next generation of medical robots are being built right here in Nashville. Read More

Nabil Simaan is a professor of mechanical engineering, computer science and otolaryngology and leads the Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications lab. His research includes human-robot interaction, robotic systems for surgical assistance, robot-assisted manufacturing, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible… Read More

The path from university lab to commercialization is especially complex in the biotech industry. Challenges range from long lead times, sometimes measured in decades, to the costs of transforming ideas into innovations, as well as issues of intellectual property, patenting and licensing. Read More

to be delivered by Jake Abbott, PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah Robotics Center             Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Magnetic Manipulation in Medical Robotics Abstract: Microscale and… Read More