Stanford Engineering -- Education and Students

Robert Sinclair named director of Bing Overseas Studies Program

25 May 2010 19:10:22 GMT

Robert Sinclair, the Charles M. Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering, has been named director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP). Sinclair will begin Sept. 1.

High school students use cutting-edge technique to create fluorescent proteins, thanks to Stanford researchers

10 Jun 2010 19:10:22 GMT

The high school students are the first outside of Stanford to reproduce a technique for creating glowing proteins – first discovered in jellyfish – outside of a living cell

Gentry Wins ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Innovation in Encryption Technology

16 Jun 2010 19:10:22 GMT

Stanford computer science doctoral candidate developed scheme that could spur advances in cloud computing, search engine queries, and e-commerce.

Two Engineering undergraduates receive Deans' Award for Academic Accomplishment

25 May 2010 19:10:22 GMT

Theresa "Terri" Hoberg, of Santa Rosa, Calif., who completed her degree in mechanical engineering is honored for examining how an electronics cooling system performed as it was scaled down to successively smaller sizes. Jee Soo Yoo, of Seoul, Korea, is a junior in materials science and engineering who is honored for her exceptional research ability in the area of nanostructured materials.

The Earth We Share: Astronaut Mae Jemison returns to campus to talk sustainability, science in society

8 Jun 2010 11:10:22 GMT

Most people know Jemison as a historic astronaut, but she drew on all of her accumulated perspective during two days of lectures and meetings with fellow ChemE alumni and current students. She challenged her audiences to account for their professional impact on, and interactions with, other people and the planet.

Stanford parallel programming course available online for free

22 Apr 2010 20:27:42 GMT

Beginning today, the school's Stanford Center for Professional Development will make recorded lectures of the computer science course CS 193G: Programming Massively Parallel Processors with CUDA available through Stanford on iTunes U. A direct link to the course that includes slides and support materials can be found through Stanford Engineering Everywhere, the school's free course website.

Stanford students reach local community with designs to help people with disabilities

11 Mar 2010 20:27:42 GMT

Engineering lecturer David Jaffe's Perspectives in Assistive Technology class gives budding engineers hands-on experience.

Communications programs help engineers get their message across

8 Feb 2010 01:12:09 GMT

TWP and OCP exist to equip students with the tools to be clear and compelling. At different times in their careers, their audience could be a specialized crowd at a technical conference, policymakers considering legislation, or marketing executives at an employer.

iPhone Programming Class available free online

12 Jan 2010 01:12:09 GMT

As the popularity of cell phone apps has increased by leaps and bounds, so has a Stanford course that teaches students and the general public (via the Internet) how to create apps for Apple's iPhone.

Video: Teaching Machines to Learn

23 Dec 2009 01:12:09 GMT

Programming a computer to read breast MRI scans or to concoct a recipe from a few ingredients would be incredibly tedious, and perhaps impossible, the traditional way. Instead of specifying every instruction in their code, the students in the class Computer Science 229: Machine Learning take a different approach. They program computers to learn these tasks for themselves. Equipped with the right algorithms, computers can be "trained" to decide for themselves what the most likely answer to a problem should be. The class is taught by Associate Professor Andrew Ng.