Joseph Towles
Lecturer
I was in high school the first time I heard the word “engineer” used separately from conducting …
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Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
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Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
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Javier Urzay
Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, Center for Turbulence Research and Associate Director, Stanford PSAAP-III Center
Mechanical Engineering
I am a senior research aerospace engineer at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford …
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Dhiraj Indana
PhD
Mechanical Engineering
My parents, who are both doctors, instilled in me a love of biology …
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Kylie Holland, Phoebe Wall and William Alvero Koski
MS candidates
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering
There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at …
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Karsu Ipek Kilic
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I’m from a very small city in Turkey where my parents were physics professors at its only …
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Ovijit Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: As an undergraduate I was passionate about math and physics, and I knew I wanted to …
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Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and …
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Kelly Chu
Group Lead
Mechanical Engineering
I’m a group lead responsible for the Mechanics and Computation and the Biomechanics groups in the …
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Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I see “problems” less as impassable obstacles and more as things that can be …
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Alaisha Alexander
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
While I was an undergrad at MIT, I chose mechanical engineering because it was the most broad field, …
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Catie Cuan
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I didn’t study engineering in college …
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Elise Friedman
’18
Mechanical Engineering
I think something that’s really cool about Stanford Engineering, or at least my experience at …
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Kalvin Parker
’18
Mechanical Engineering
What’s the biggest aha moment I’ve had as an engineering student …
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Ben Taylor
’18
Mechanical Engineering
My favorite engineering class was ME203 Design and Manufacturing …
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada
’18
Mechanical Engineering
I challenge future students to expand their idea of what it means to be a successful engineer …
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Megan Rowe
’19
Mechanical Engineering
It’s so easy for me to get lost in my schoolwork every week and forget about taking advantage of …
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Jack Pigott
’18
Mechanical Engineering
#ENGR193 was a great way to bridge the gap between Stanford and the working world …
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Ryan Cohen
’19
Mechanical Engineering
Stanford has given me the freedom to explore different disciplines and fields of engineering, most …
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Tyler Cloyd
’18
Mechanical Engineering
I’ve been told that the professional work environment will be very different from school, but …
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Danielle Cojuangco Abraham
BS ’07
Mechanical Engineering
I grew up in the Philippines. When I reflect back on my high school days, I remember doing well in …
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