Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford engineers receive award to improve supercomputing and solar efficiency
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 efficiency of solar power. The project will receive $3.2 million per year for five years.
Some mathematical simulations used to predict the outcomes of real events are so complex that they'll stump even today's top supercomputers. To incubate the next generation of supercomputers for tackling real-world problems, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected Stanford as one of its three new Multidisciplinary Simulation Centers.
Last modified Thu, 1 Aug, 2013 at 11:57
Engineering 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 luggage tag for all those new adventures you're going to have!
Last modified Fri, 31 May, 2013 at 14:32
Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope
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 might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
NASA officials announced Wednesday, May 15, that the Kepler space telescope – the agency's primary instrument for detecting planets beyond our solar system – had suffered a critical failure and could soon be shut down permanently.
Last modified Tue, 21 May, 2013 at 10:16
Stanford Dedicates Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences Building
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 professorships in the School of Engineering.
In the golden sun of a pristine Stanford afternoon, James J. Spilker, Jr. stepped to the podium before the building that bears the names of he and his wife, Anna Marie. It was a capstone moment for two lives that began humbly, one in the working class streets Philadelphia and the other in post-war refugee camps of Germany, but which reached great heights.
Last modified Tue, 18 Jun, 2013 at 14:53
Christensen Wins Timoshenko Award from ASME
Expert in mechanics of materials recognized for lifetime contributions to the field.
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.
Last modified Wed, 22 May, 2013 at 13:15
Close Wins Early Career Award from Department of Energy
Assistant Professor will study the behaviors of plasmas created when tiny meteoroids and space debris are vaporized in hypervelocity collisions with spacecraft.
Sigrid Close, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics in the School of Engineering, has received a 2013 Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The five-year grants bolster exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, a period when many scientists do their most formative work.
Last modified Tue, 9 Jul, 2013 at 14:53
After another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth
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.
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 is perhaps most alarming about this particular asteroid, called 2013 ET, is that, until March 3, no one had any idea it was headed toward Earth.
Last modified Tue, 12 Mar, 2013 at 12:55
Closing in on a Mystery that Impedes Space Exploration
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 Astronautics, is proving that the effects of "space dust" are a more likely cause.
New research by Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics assistant professor Sigrid Close suggests she’s on track to solve a mystery that has long bedeviled space exploration: Why do satellites fail?
Last modified Mon, 25 Feb, 2013 at 15:55
Eight Stanford Engineering Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive.
Eight professors from the Stanford University School of Engineering are among the newly elected National Academy of Engineering (NAE) members, the NAE said today.
Last modified Thu, 7 Feb, 2013 at 15:51
Stanford Researchers Break Million-core Supercomputer Barrier
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 newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
Stanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem—the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine.
Last modified Tue, 29 Jan, 2013 at 17:44
