News & Updates
Stanford team wins international award for experimental blood test device that uses a smart phone
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Four students and two faculty advisors create portable device that can detect hepatitis B infections in minutes to win one of five awards in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, a global competition to improve diagnostic devices.
Two Stanford Engineering professors elected fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Mark Cutkosky has been recognized for achievements in robotics, and Thomas Kenny has been honored for achievements in microelectromechanical systems.
Making Personalized Medicine Practical
Monday, November 10, 2014
Personalized medicine will bring with it the problem of storing and processing the vast amounts genetic information needed to tailor medical care to individual needs. Stanford electrical engineers have an answer.
Three influential innovators named Stanford Engineering Heroes
Monday, November 10, 2014
Distinguished Stanford engineers honored for their impact on our lives and the world.
Engineering students program smartphones to control quadcopters
Thursday, November 6, 2014
In mechanical engineering course ME 202, Stanford students learn how to turn open-source smartphone operating systems into powerful control of mechatronic devices.
Stanford chemical engineers borrow technique from petrochemical industry to store solar energy
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Many high school students have zapped water with electricity to make hydrogen and oxygen. To turn that chemical process into a type of battery, researchers adapt ideas from oil refineries.
Stanford engineers discover how to record the forensic history of chemical contaminations in water
Monday, November 3, 2014
An invention called a time capsule is a tiny chemistry lab designed to take a fingerprint of contamination and also disclose when it occurred.
Stanford Professor Ron Howard shares honors for pioneering ‘decision analysis’
Friday, October 31, 2014
The Society for Decision Professionals has named a new award for Howard and a colleague at Harvard who jointly developed this engineering-based approach to making complex choices.
Stanford system combines software with human intelligence to improve translation
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Using software to suggest word choices makes professional translators more productive in the $34-billion-a-year market for foreign language translation.
Learning from 1989: Stanford engineer studies the aftermath of earthquakes
Friday, October 17, 2014
Professor Anne Kiremidjian is an expert at assessing the likely intensity and duration of earthquakes and estimating the probable damage.
Stanford engineers build, test earthquake-resistant house
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Twenty-five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, a Stanford team develops inexpensive design modifications that could be incorporated into new homes to reduce damage in an earthquake.
Stanford engineers develop tiny, sound-powered chip to serve as medical device
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Using ultrasound to deliver power wirelessly, Stanford researchers are working on a new generation of medical devices that would be planted deep inside the body to monitor illness, deliver therapies and relieve pain.
Stanford scientists create a 'smart' lithium-ion battery that warns of potential fire hazards
Monday, October 13, 2014
Stanford's Yi Cui and colleagues have created a lithium-ion battery that alerts users to potential overheating and fire.
Stanford Engineering scholars work with bankers to encourage investments in sustainable projects
Monday, October 13, 2014
Two scholars in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working on a model that could help banks reward borrowers for decisions that benefit the environment.
Stanford team invents sensor that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure
Friday, October 10, 2014
Device is used to monitor brain pressure in lab mice as prelude to possible use with human patients; future applications of this pressure-sensing technology could lead to touch-sensitive “skin” for prosthetic devices.
Stanford's GCEP awards $10.5 million for research on renewable energy
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Stanford scientists and an international research group receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.
Stanford engineers developing miniature wireless device to create better way of studying chronic pain
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
A team of Stanford engineers is creating a small wireless device that will improve studies of chronic pain. The engineers hope to use what they learn to develop better therapies for the condition, which costs the economy $600 billion a year.
Stanford engineer says 'smart grid' needed to shift electrical system to alternative energy
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Solar, wind and other alternative sources are easier on the environment but less predictable than coal, gas or oil-fired plants, demanding a more sophisticated distribution and delivery system.
Two Stanford professors earn National Medal of Science
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thomas Kailath and Burton Richter have been awarded the nation's highest honor for achievement in the fields of engineering and science.
Stanford computer scientist selected to join ambitious Moore Foundation program
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Chris Re is one of 14 academic leaders invited to the 5-year, $21 million Data-Driven Discovery Initiative advanced by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The 15th Biennial Summer Program of the Center for Turbulence Research
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
International participants from academia, industry and government collaborate on projects at biennial summer program.
Stanford researchers create 'evolved' protein that may stop cancer from spreading
Friday, September 19, 2014
Experimental therapy stopped the metastasis of breast and ovarian cancers in lab mice, pointing toward a safe and effective alternative to chemotherapy.
Stanford team developing gel-like padding that could help cells survive injection and heal spinal cord injuries
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
A team of engineers and scientists is developing a gel to help protect cells from the trauma of being injected into an injury site. The work could help speed cell-based therapies for spinal cord injuries and other types of damage.
Stanford bioengineers develop a toolkit for designing more successful synthetic molecules
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Synthetic molecules hold great potential for revealing key processes that occur in cells, but the trial-and-error approach to their design has limited their effectiveness. Christina Smolke introduces a computer model that could provide better blueprints for building synthetic genetic tools.
Rapid charging and draining doesn’t damage lithium ion battery electrodes as much as thought
Monday, September 15, 2014
A team including Stanford engineers discovers that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.
