University Courses Team Develops Platform to Disrupt the Oil & Gas Industry

Written by Jess Banasiak, Chemical Engineering Major, Vanderbilt University Class of 2018 Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing is a project-based University Course that allows teams comprised of engineering and non-engineering students to design technology solutions that can be implemented across campus and throughout Nashville. The course complemented my Innovation Garage Fellowship with Accenture…

Posted by anderc8 on December 21, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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Ugly Foods: The Creation of a Mobile App

Written Edward Yun, Vanderbilt ’17 (Computer Science) Last fall, I read an article about the amount of food wasted in the U.S. every year. What surprised me most was how much we throw away because of arbitrary “beauty” rules. If a fruit or vegetable is less than 90 percent perfect, it can’t be sold to…

Posted by anderc8 on May 17, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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Student Project Team Develops Mobile App for Legal Aid

Written by Vanderbilt University junior Economics major Sasha Pines  The introduction of project-based University Courses at The Wond’ry will completely revolutionize the way we learn at Vanderbilt, as experiential learning is simply the best model for job training. Technology projects are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring clear communication and organized initiative. Students are granted the opportunity to…

Posted by anderc8 on February 16, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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One-on-one with the faculty behind Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing (Part 3 of 3)

Vanderbilt University Computer Science professors Douglas C. Schmidt and Jules White recently sat down to answer a few questions about their University Course, Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing, which they co-taught during the Fall 2016 semester and are co-teaching again this spring. In the third and final installment of a three-part series, Profs….

Posted by anderc8 on January 26, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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One-on-one with the faculty behind Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing (Part 2 of 3)

Vanderbilt University Computer Science professors Douglas C. Schmidt and Jules White recently sat down to answer a few questions about their University Course, Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing, which they co-taught during the Fall 2016 semester and are co-teaching again this spring. In the second installment of a three-part series, Profs. Schmidt and…

Posted by anderc8 on January 25, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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One-on-one with the faculty behind Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing (Part 1 of 3)

Vanderbilt University Computer Science professors Douglas C. Schmidt and Jules White recently sat down to answer a few questions about their University Course, Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing, which they co-taught during the Fall 2016 semester and are co-teaching again this spring. In the first installment of a three-part series, Profs. Schmidt and…

Posted by anderc8 on January 19, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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Welcome to Hub, a mobile application designed for idea-sharing and collaboration

Written by Vanderbilt senior Meredith Mattlin, who is a double major in Medicine, Health & Society and Sociology This video is a quick demo and walkthrough of Hub, an in-progress app designed for idea-sharing and collaboration. Hub is responding to the need for a digital meeting place that fosters academic and project-based idea creation and collaboration…

Posted by anderc8 on January 17, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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Students develop mobile application aimed at improving malnutrition screening at VUMC

Blog post written by Sirui Ma, a Vanderbilt student enrolled in UNIV 3278 (Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing) This semester, as part of the inaugural class of UNIV 3278 Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Computing, I have been leading a team of software engineers to develop a mobile application to improve malnutrition screening…

Posted by anderc8 on December 19, 2016 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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An Introduction to ‘Tackling Big Problems with Mobile Cloud Computing’

We’ve been teaching at Vanderbilt for many years and have taught thousands of Vandy students in our on-campus courses, as well as hundreds of thousands of students around the world as part of our trans-institutional Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) specialization with Coursera and the University of Maryland. Yet until this semester, we’ve never taught…

Posted by anderc8 on October 7, 2016 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

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