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Thursday, February 7, 2013
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,...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
David Lallemant, a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the John A. Blume Fellowship is allowing him to assess the risk of natural disasters in dense urban areas around the world. For many of these communities, government resources aren't available to conduct this type of...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Ivy Huang discusses how the Berg fellowship is helping her improve the water resources in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Success, she says, isn't defined by your personal achievements but by the impact you have on others.
Friday, January 18, 2013
A team of Stanford engineering students is constructing a solar house they call Start.Home that could ultimately serve as a model for the sustainable home building industry. The dwelling, dubbed "Start.Home," is based on a revolutionary design that integrates most of the infrastructure required for...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Craig Criddle is on his office phone, and he doesn’t appear pleased. The Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering responds to his interlocutor on the other end of the line in terse, clipped phrases before finally hanging up.
“You know,” he says with some weariness after the call, “...
Monday, January 7, 2013
As Dean, I am frequently asked, what is Stanford Engineering’s secret? What has made the school so successful, not just in recent decades but over its 87-year history?
There are many things I could point to—our world-class faculty, the quality of our students, our technical facilities and our...
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Mengyao Yuan was one of sixteen students selected to participate in the School of Engineering's summer 2012 China Internship Program. The students covered a wide spectrum of majors and each spent the summer with host organizations drawn from a range of multinational and local companies.
This is ...
Friday, December 7, 2012
A research team made up largely of Stanford undergraduate students received prestigious federal recognition recently. They are working on low-cost technology to provide safe drinking water to millions.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Mahalia Miller is a PhD student in the Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research focuses on network analysis, specifically how earthquakes might effect traffic networks. She was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a National Science Foundation's Graduate...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sewage treatment plants generally rate low on anyone’s list of preferred recreation sites, and rightly so. The architecture emphasizes utility over aesthetics, and the aroma is – well, pungent to say the least.
But Richard Luthy, the Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering, foresees a day...
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