STANFORD ENGINEERING

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STANFORD ENGINEERING

• Imagine the future

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About Stanford Engineering

• Nine departments
• Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Bioengineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Management Science and Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• 230 faculty, 650 undergraduates, 2950 graduate
  students.
• Ranked 2 overall engineering school by U.S.
  News
• 2006 graduate school rankings.

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About Stanford Engineering

• Faculty/Emeriti Distinctions (number)
• National Academy of Engineering (75)
• Presidential/NSF Young Investigators (42)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (33)
• National Academy of Sciences (19)
• National Medal of Science (7)
• National Medal of Technology (4)
• National Institute of Medicine (3)
• Kyoto Prize (2)
• Nobel Prize (1)

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Stanford Engineering stands out

• Top engineering school within a top university
• Highly ranked schools and depts. including Law,
  Medical, Business, Education.
• In the heart of Silicon Valley
• Strong record of entrepreneurship and
  partnerships in the tech sector.
• World class research facilities
• More than 65 labs with state of the art
  equipment.
• Pioneering professional education programs
• Stanford Center for Professional Development has
  served thousands of working, professional
  students and hundreds of companies over the last
  50 years.
• Huge alumni network
• More than 46,000 alumni including 100s of company
  founders, CEOs

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Strategic Initiatives

• Bioengineering
• New discoveries, technologies, and therapies for
  human health.
• Environment Energy
• Meeting the needs, such as energy, of a growing
  world population in an environmentally
  sustainable way.
• Information Technology
• Research ranging from basic science, through
  materials and devices, to systems and
  applications.
• Nanoscience Nanotechnology
• Advancing the science and technology of very
  small structures.

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Multi and Interdisciplinary
Chemical
Civil Enviro
Bio
Management
Enviro
Bio
Mechanical
Nano
Info
Aero Astro
Materials
Computer
Electrical
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Bioengineering

• Representative facilities and research
• Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab (Scott Delp)
• Combining experiment and computation to study
  human movement. Researchers create models to
  analyze muscle function, design new medical
  products and guide surgery.
• Neuron regeneration with adult stem cells (Karl
  Deisseroth)
• Research into treating depression, schizophrenia
  and autism by guiding how stem cells become
  neurons in a key part of the brain.
• High-throughput Labs on a Chip (Stephen Quake)
• Technology based on microfabricated silicone flow
  channels allows for integrated circuit-like
  automation of many life sciences experiments,
  such as testing the effects of different inputs
  on stem cells.

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Environment and Energy

• Representative facilities and research
• Global Climate and Energy Project (20 faculty
  from 5 depts.)
• GCEPs 3 objectives Identify research on low
  emissions, high-efficiency energy. Identify
  barriers to applying these technologies. Research
  technologies to overcome barriers and accelerate
  application.
• Clearing the Air (Mark Jacobson)
• Sophisticated computer models of air pollution
  and key insights into wind power, climate change
  and the health benefits of zero-emission energy.
• Water cleansing biotechnology (Craig Criddle)
• Criddles research includes cleaning up
  pollutants such as uranium, nitrates and chromate
  using bacteria and other microorganisms.

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Information Technology

• Representative facilities and research
• Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (Sebastian
  Thrun)
• Teaching machines to reason. Projects include
  robots such as an autonomous (self-driving) car
  and a generally intelligent household robot that
  can assist the disabled and elderly.
• Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (Jelena Vuckovic)
• Toward optical computing building and
  integrating light sources, waveguides, filters,
  modulators and other devices on a photonic
  crystal chip.
• Enhanced GPS (Per Enge)
• Augmenting the Global Positioning System with
  error correction and interference reduction to
  make astoundingly accurate navigation systems.

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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

• Representative facilities and research
• Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (Yoshio Nishi)
• A well equipped, 10,500 square-foot,
  vibration-isolated class 100 cleanroom used by
  600 members from academia, industry and
  government.
• Carbon nanotube transistors (H.S. Philip Wong)
• When standard silicon transistors become too
  small, nanotubes have the potential to keep
  Moores Law going.
• Self-assembly of nanoscale structures (Zhenan
  Bao)
• With a little guidance, biological and chemical
  processes can assemble materials into intricate
  and useful electronic structures without onerous
  and expensive lithography.

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Other key priorities

• Stanford Institute of Design (David Kelley)
• A place for students and faculty in engineering,
  medicine, business, the humanities, and education
  to work together to solve big problems in a human
  centered way.
• A place for multidisciplinary teaching,
  prototyping, and research.
• The prototypes produced in the institute will
  include objects, software, experiences,
  performances, and organizations.
• Research experience for Undergraduates (Brad
  Osgood)
• Engineering undergraduates can spend a summer
  working in graduate research groups, gaining the
  kind of hands-on research experience that can
  help them decide upon an engineering major.