Eight Stanford Engineering Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Type: Research News Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive. By Andrew Myers Slug: Eight Join NAE Short Dek: Among the...
View ArticleClosing in on a Mystery that Impedes Space Exploration
Type: Research News The large meteoroid that struck Russia last week is just one of the factors in space that cause satellites to fail. Sigrid Close, a Stanford Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and...
View ArticleAfter another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that...
Type: Research News Several large asteroids have zipped dangerously close to Earth in the past month. Scott Hubbard is part of a team that plans to track down future threats. Bjorn Carey | Stanford...
View ArticleStanford to collaborate with edX to develop a free, open source online...
Type: Press Release EdX will be available as an open source learning platform on June 1. In support of that move, Stanford will integrate features of its existing Class2Go open source online learning...
View ArticleClose Wins Early Career Award from Department of Energy
Type: Research News Assistant Professor will study the behaviors of plasmas created when tiny meteoroids and space debris are vaporized in hypervelocity collisions with spacecraft. Andrew Myers |...
View ArticleApply now for the Bridge to China Program
Type: Announcement The School of Engineering China programs aim to enhance engineering education by providing undergraduate, co-term, master's, and PhD students with an opportunity to learn about...
View ArticleChristensen Wins Timoshenko Award from ASME
Type: Research News Expert in mechanics of materials recognized for lifetime contributions to the field.Slug: Christensen Wins Timoshenko Short Dek: Mechanics expert recognized for lifetime of...
View ArticleStanford Dedicates Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences Building
Type: Research News President Hennessy, Jerry Yang and 200 others toast GPS pioneer and wife for lifetime achievements and gift that will fund a state-of-the-art research environment and two...
View ArticleStanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive...
Type: Research News Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. He explains how NASA...
View ArticleEngineering Senior Send-Off
Congrats class of 2013!Come celebrate your upcoming commencement with Stanford Engineering.Join us in the SEQ on June 12 from 3-5 pm.Enjoy some yummy ice cream and a pick up your senior gift -- a...
View ArticleStanford Women in Space
The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew-members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. In the 50-year...
View ArticleStanford Researchers Break Million-core Supercomputer Barrier
Type: Research News Researchers at the Center for Turbulence Research set a new record in supercomputing, harnessing a million computing cores to model supersonic jet noise. Work was performed on the...
View ArticleStanford engineers receive award to improve supercomputing and solar efficiency
Type: Award Associate Professor Gianluca Iaccarino will lead a government-funded project that will use the next generation of supercomputers to model techniques that could dramatically increase the...
View ArticleStanford Engineering alum heading for space
Type: Research Profile Michael Hopkins will join Russian cosmonauts on a six-month visit to the International Space Station. By Glen Martin Slug: Stanford Engineering Alum in Space Short Dek:...
View ArticleDrones open way to new world of coral research
Type: Research Profile Camera-equipped flying robots promise new insights into climate-change effects on important ecosystems. By Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Slug:...
View ArticleStanford faculty awarded $2.2 million for innovative energy research
Type: Research News Stanford's Precourt Institute, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center have awarded 11 seed grants to Stanford faculty for early-stage energy research. Mark Golden |...
View ArticleStanford School of Engineering names new engineering heroes
Type: Announcement A Nobel Prize winner, Google's founders, the first American woman in space and others honored for their contributions to technology and society. By Jamie Beckett | Stanford...
View ArticleStanford Engineering Year in Review
Type: Press Release Stanford engineers are driven to change the world, and 2013 was no exception. Stanford Engineering faculty and students blazed new trails in energy, nanotechnology, bioengineering,...
View ArticleLetter from the Dean
Type: Announcement Stanford engineers have always tackled the biggest challenges, and the past academic year was no exception. Slug: New Directions Tuesday, December 17, 2013read more
View ArticlePresident Obama selects two Stanford engineers for early career award
Type: Research News Sigrid Close, an assistant professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Jennifer Dionne, an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the...
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