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Emeritus Prof. Walter Vincenti, '38, spoke to the Stanford Emeriti Council on what Stanford was like when he was an undergraduate.   He was introduced by former Aero/Astro Chair Emeritus Prof. George Springer, who pointed out that Prof. Vincenti has the longest connection with Stanford of anyone in...

Thomas Lee, Sanjay Lall, Boris Murmann and Christos Kozyrakis, all members of the electrical engineering faculty at Stanford, have been named IEEE fellows in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in engineering. Lee was recognized for contributions to the design of CMOS radio-frequency...

New green propellants. Tiny aerial vehicles that fly like birds. Faster algorithms to simulate turbulence. The most precise positioning technology known to science. These are among the projects that will be pursued by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)/Stanford Center of...

"Seeing is believing," or so the saying goes. A new facility housed in the Huang Engineering Center gives that old adage a forward spin: Seeing is understanding. Stanford's new HANA Immersive Visualization Environment, or HIVE for short, is designed to give researchers a powerful new tool to see,...

Could a computer analysis of dolphin communications serve as a model for deciphering possible future contacts with an extraterrestrial race? That was but one of the questions that arose last week when dozens of space scientists gathered at Stanford Engineering for the NASA Innovative Advanced...

Like undiscovered groves of giant redwoods, centuries-old living corals remain unmapped and unmeasured. Scientists still know relatively little about the world's biggest corals, where they are and how long they have lived. The secret to unlocking these mysteries may lie with a shoebox-size flying...

Space camp? Try space school. Of roughly 500 astronauts that NASA has trained thus far, 21 attended Stanford University, and four of these alums are on the active roster. Michael Hopkins (MS AA '92) is one of these four. A colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Hopkins will blast off for the International...

  Richard Christensen, a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Timoshenko Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), among the highest honors in the field of applied mechanics.

On Saturday, an asteroid the size of one and a half football fields flew within 240,000 miles of Earth. If the space rock had hit land, it would have leveled an area the size of San Francisco Bay. If it had hit the Pacific Ocean, the impact would have sent a tsunami to every facing shore. But what...

Eight professors from the Stanford University School of Engineering are among the newly elected National Academy of Engineering (NAE) members, the NAE said today. According to the NAE, membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education,...

A student whose work could further exploration of moons, comets and asteroids and another who is working to engineer a photosynthetic bacterium are this year’s recipients of United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) graduate research fellowships.

NASA has announced that Debbie Senesky and Marco Pavone, both assistant professors in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Stanford University School of Engineering, have been selected as recipients of the agency’s inaugural Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career...

A Stanford team with a novel idea finished in the top six of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National University Clean Energy Business Challenge earlier this month. In May, the Stanford team’s project beat out more than 60 other university teams to win the competition’s western regional...

Aeronautical engineers believe that hypersonic planes flying at seven to fifteen times the speed of sound will someday change the face of air travel here on Earth and out into space. If we can master its ‘known unknowns,” that is. Hypersonic flight is a particularly intense engineering challenge...

Stanford Aero/Astro Emeritus Prof. Arthur Bryson has received the 2009 Daniel Guggenheim Medal "for a lifetime of seminal contributions to real systems, creating and applying practical optimal control and estimation techniques to airplanes, rotorcraft, and missiles."

A 2004 regulatory change by the Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA) that created an entirely new Light Sport Aircraft category and new Sport Pilot License was a dream come true for Kirk Hawkins (MS 1995 Eng, MS 2005 Business). Hawkins is a man passionate about engineering, business, sports and...