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Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Jun 15, 2022

A gift from a dedicated Stanford family continues a legacy of support

School News

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Jun 13, 2022

Tau Beta Pi Announces 2022 Teaching Award and Teaching Honor Roll

School News

Photo of a set of CubeSats being deployed into space.

Jun 8, 2022

CubeSat: The little satellite that could

Technology & Society Issue #139

May 10, 2022

Daniel B. DeBra, expert in precision control systems, has died at 91

School News

Mar 25, 2022

Stanford Engineering announces the winners of its annual staff awards

School News

A person throws a balsa wood plane off the porch of a building

Mar 17, 2022

Students learn the basics of flight through hands-on activities

School News

Dec 16, 2021

Charles Steele, expert in a wide range of scientific areas, has died

School News

A rendering of the wing of a commercial airplane

Oct 22, 2021

Improved computer simulation can build faster, cleaner, cheaper planes

Computation & Data, Transportation & Robotics Issue #124

Closeup of robotic cane

Oct 15, 2021

A team of researchers build a $400 self-navigating smart cane

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society Issue #124

Graduate students at Stanford School of Engineering

Sep 30, 2021

“Graduate school is one of the most exciting times in life”

School News

A new algorithm can help drones and other similar low-power robots decide when and when not to off-load their AI tasks. | iStock/evandrorigon

Sep 16, 2021

Solving the robot off-loading problem

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #122

Stanford graduate student Delaney Miller wearing the energy expenditure monitoring system. | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Jul 14, 2021

A team of engineers design an accurate wearable calorie burn counter

Health, Technology & Society Issue #120

A robotic gripper, developed by Stanford engineers, was tested aboard the ISS. | From a video by Kurt Hickman

May 24, 2021

Stanford ‘gecko gripper’ tested on the International Space Station

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #118

Illustrations of ReachBot traversing a Martian cavern across two different types of treacherous terrain | Image courtesy of Marco Pavone

May 12, 2021

A chance to apply sci-fi concepts to real space exploration

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #117

A penguin colony | Unsplash/Hubert Neufeld

Oct 28, 2020

Algorithms guide aerial drones to map penguin colonies in Antarctica

Environment, Transportation & Robotics

What will happen at the critical instant a rocket engine ignites? Stanford engineers will help answer that question. | Image courtesy of Javier Urzay

Oct 1, 2020

Interdisciplinary team develops ‘exascale’ computing for spaceflight

Technology & Society Issue #104

NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover — the aptly named Perseverance — is scheduled to launch this summer. | Photo courtesy of Kurt Hickman

Jul 21, 2020

A group of scientists anticipate the Mars 2020 rover launch

Technology & Society

Building systems that meet the exceptionally high level of safety expected of commercial air transport is challenging. | iStock/Helin Loik-Tomson

Jun 30, 2020

Mykel Kochenderfer: AI and safety-critical systems

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

“Delivery drones are the future.” | iStock/krugli

Jun 30, 2020

Could drones deliver packages more efficiently by hopping on the bus?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #97

Artist rendering of a spaceship leaving a lunar colony. | Image credit: SpaceX

May 11, 2020

How do we protect planets from biological cross-contamination?

Energy, Environment

An artist’s interpretation of space trash objects orbiting the Earth | Adobe Stock/dottedyeti

Feb 13, 2020

Simone D’Amico: “The Swarm” is coming to an orbit near you

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #89

A class of engine now used to keep satellites in stable orbits could be adapted to power long-distance space probes. | NASA/JPL-Caltech/Science Source

Feb 11, 2020

How better propulsion systems can help improve space exploration

Transportation & Robotics Issue #88

Senesky and her colleagues will prepare a set of experiments that will take graphene aerogel to the International Space Station. | Adobe Stock/Tryfonov

Jan 16, 2020

What could we make if we learned how to manufacture things in space?

Materials Issue #86

To understand the future of space flight, it helps to think about a flock of birds flying in a tight formation. | Stocksy/Giorgio Magini

Jan 14, 2020

Could tiny satellites explore space by flying in flocks?

Transportation & Robotics Issue #87