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Stanford Engineering Puzzle

October 2007

Stanford Engineering's nine departments form the core of the school. They are the intellectual home bases for faculty and students alike. We decided this month to celebrate the departments with a puzzle about them and we imagined an essential icon for each one. Directions for puzzle In this puzzle your job is to assemble the icons for all nine Stanford Engineering departments by moving and rotating the tiles so that the images on their edges match up. In the proper solution, only one icon for each department must be assembled, so you will have spare parts left over. For fun we will post (below) the names of every ten alumni who successfully complete the puzzle and e-mail the secret word in the subject line to staff member Marge Kastner. She'll post entry number 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, etc.

You must have Flash installed to run this puzzle, which was designed by Scott Kim of Shufflebrain and programmed by Larry Doyle of Cyberiandesign.

This is a TOUGH puzzle! But engineering alumni are true champs and the answers are pouring in! Congratulations to all solvers. All entries, listed here or not, will be entered in the "Alumni Permanent Record" and count towards Honorary Degrees in Puzzology next June. To check out the degree earners this year please see the Puzzology page.

"Winning" entries

  • 1) Wah Kwok
  • 2) Navid Yazdani
  • 3) Michael Connors
  • 4) Stephanie Sud
  • 5) Timothy Whalen
  • 6) Jack Chou
  • 7) Sophia Wan Traweek
  • 8) Mark Kahn
  • 9) Angela Hockman
  • 10) Mark Aragon
  • 20) Robert Odineal
  • 30) Kim Tracy
  • 40) Robert Murphy
  • 50) William Lynch
  • 60) Trina Flores
  • 70) Samantha Infeld
  • 80) Vince King
  • 90) Chris Taylor
  • 100) Howard Pollack
  • 110) Debra White
  • 120) Danyl Dowding
  • 130) Chip Classanos
  • 140) Dan Newell
  • 150) Viren Bhanot
  • 160) Jeremy Kolenbrander
  • 170) Bret Lobree
  • 180) Keith Gordon
  • 190) Mark McCarty
  • 200) Jeffrey Rembold
  • 210) Kevin Shen
  • 220) Stella Hwang
  • 230) Nick Rustad

Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.