Management Science and Engineering

A Nobel Prize winner, Google's founders, the first American woman in space and others honored for their contributions to technology and society.

A Nobel Prize winner, the founders of Google and the first  American woman in space are among the six people selected as this year's Stanford Engineering Heroes, an honor recognizing those who have advanced the course of human, social and economic progress through engineering and science.

The six, who have worldwide reputations as innovators and leaders, represent a diversity of fields ranging from aeronautics to economics to electrical engineering.

Last modified Wed, 4 Dec, 2013 at 10:48

A Stanford study highlights the critical importance of strong technical skills in launching tech ventures, casting doubt on the conventional wisdom that a founding team with diverse business skills is the best approach.

New research on entrepreneurship shows that diverse business skills are not always the secret to success in the world of tech start-ups. While different strengths matter sometimes, researchers found that a tech-focused founding team is almost always best.

Last modified Tue, 10 Dec, 2013 at 15:50

A professor emeritus of Management Science and Engineering, Perry has advised presidents, served as Secretary of Defense and dismantled nuclear weapons

William J. Perry has been an entrepreneur, soldier, professor, businessman and national leader. Now he is a hero as well.

Perry, former U.S. secretary of defense, is the latest person to be inducted as a Stanford Engineering Hero, joining a select group of Stanford alumni or former faculty whose life work has profoundly advanced the course of human, social and economic progress.

Heroes are selected annually by a panel of distinguished subject-matter experts and technology historians.

Last modified Fri, 18 Jul, 2014 at 14:02

Stanford's Precourt Institute, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center have awarded 11 seed grants to Stanford faculty for early-stage energy research.

Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

Last modified Thu, 31 Oct, 2013 at 8:57

The Accel Innovation Scholars program allows engineering doctoral candidates to explore entrepreneurship and gain the knowledge, skills and mindset to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

More than 250 students earn their doctorates each year at Stanford's School of Engineering.

Some go on to academic careers in scholarly research, while many join or launch companies using the knowledge they gained in school. Some eventually do both. As a result, a significant number of engineering doctoral students are eager to learn how to evaluate the commercial viability of new technology and how to bring those ideas to life.

A new program does just that.

Last modified Fri, 30 Aug, 2013 at 9:43

Management Science & Engineering Professor (Research) Siegfried Hecker explains how he and others worked with engineers and nuclear scientists from the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan to clean up a dangerous abandoned Soviet nuclear test site.

More than 450 nuclear tests were carried out by the Soviet Union in the isolated steppes of eastern Kazakhstan from 1949 to 1989. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russians pulled out and left the Kazakhs to their own devices – literally. Enough fissile material for a dozen or more nuclear weapons was left behind in mountain tunnels and bore holes, virtually unguarded and vulnerable to scavengers, rogue states or potential terrorists.

Last modified Wed, 21 Aug, 2013 at 11:35

Appel, an All-American pitcher, heads to the Houston Astros.

With the first pick of the 2013 Major League Baseball first-Year player draft, the Houston Astros selected Stanford Engineering grad Mark Appel, a right-handed pitcher and All-American.

"This has been such a surreal moment for me and my family knowing that I'm going back home to Houston," said Appel., who completed his degree in Management Science & Engineering earlier this year. 

Last modified Fri, 7 Jun, 2013 at 10:27

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

New synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically.

Among its many talents, silver is an antibiotic. Titanium dioxide is known to glom on to certain heavy metals and pollutants. Other materials do the same for salt. In recent years, environmental engineers have sought to disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water using nanoscale particles of these active materials. Engineers call them nanoscavengers. The hitch from a technical standpoint is that it is nearly impossible to reclaim the nanoscavengers once in the water.

Last modified Tue, 21 May, 2013 at 9:57

Engineering researchers at Stanford University have devised a mathematical model that helps demonstrate what’s behind the growing rift in American society. They have used the knowledge to create Internet-based social systems that counteract polarization.

Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes watching some of the more partisan “news” networks lurking in the bowels of cable television is aware that America has grown more polarized in recent years. What’s not so certain is why. In a paper published online March 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers at Stanford has devised a mathematical model that helps demonstrate what’s behind the growing rift.

Last modified Tue, 9 Apr, 2013 at 9:06