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Mechanical Engineering

Image of bird robot on tree branch

Dec 8, 2021

A team of engineers create a perching bird-like robot

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Image of Douglass Wilde

Nov 17, 2021

Douglass Wilde, engineering optimization and design expert, has died

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

Close-up of the ankle exoskeleton emulator

Sep 30, 2021

Stanford exoskeleton research demonstrates the importance of training

Health, Transportation & Robotics Issue #123

Graduate students at Stanford School of Engineering

Sep 30, 2021

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

School News

Spheres in the Engineering quad

Sep 27, 2021

Stanford School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

School News

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

Tang’s lab showed how it was possible to make microfluidic experiments far more efficient. | Unsplash/Yingchih

May 12, 2021

To make particles flow more efficiently, put an obstacle in their way

Health Issue #117

A new technology enabled young, healthy adults to move 42 percent faster than when they were wearing normal shoes. | TONL

Apr 27, 2021

Engineers use ankle exoskeletons to greatly increase walking speed

Health Issue #116

What was most surprising was that viscoelasticity can have such a dramatic impact on the ability of cells to migrate. | Shutterstock/Komsan Loonprom

Apr 22, 2021

How do cells migrate? The process is key to many biological processes.

Health Issue #115

Diversity in engineering will be a key driver to achieving social justice and economic equality. | Photo by Christophe Wu

Mar 12, 2021

How do we make the field of engineering more diverse?

Technology & Society Issue #112

The nucleus of a stem cell throws its weight around to move through the body. | Image by Hyong-pyo Lee

Jan 11, 2021

Stem cells use a piston-like engine to ‘drive’ to their destinations

Health Issue #108

Simulated smart speaker interactions were used to test how altered moods might influence people’s trust in autonomous products. | Getty Images

Jan 4, 2021

A team of researchers study trust in autonomous products

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #108

The microlab test takes advantage of the fact that coronaviruses leave behind tiny genetic fingerprints wherever they go. | Getty Images

Nov 5, 2020

A new genetic microlab can detect COVID-19 in minutes

Health, Technology & Society Issue #105

Risk assessment | Unsplash/Dominik Lange

Oct 26, 2020

Researchers blend CAT scans and advanced computing to fight wildfires

Environment

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

Stanford Engineering faculty are working to find novel approaches to a novel challenge. | Adobe Stock/Zubada

Aug 17, 2020

Ken Goodson: How the School of Engineering is taking on COVID-19

Health, Technology & Society Issue #100

An AI-based robotics system could help predict and prevent falls. | Unsplash/Lindsay Henwood

Aug 10, 2020

Building a wearable that can catch you when you stumble

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

Global climate change threatens to fundamentally alter society as we know it … unless we can change our ways. | Unsplash/Science in HD

Aug 6, 2020

Arun Majumdar: Sustainability — the defining issue of the 21st century

Energy, Environment

Engineers need to explore the “peopleness” in the challenges they are trying to solve. | Unsplash/Andre Hunter

Jul 20, 2020

Sheri Sheppard: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?

Technology & Society Issue #100

Previous models have often overlooked soft costs — the cost interactions among people. | Photo by Getty Images

Jun 25, 2020

How interactions between developers and landowners affect wind farms

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society Issue #96

A nasal swab | Stocksy/Sean Locke

Apr 27, 2020

How a rapid field testing device could help head off future epidemics

Health Issue #93

A prototype of a new type of protective face mask | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Apr 14, 2020

COVID-19 prompts a team of engineers to rethink the humble face mask

Health, Technology & Society Issue #92