Spotlights
Skyler St. Pierre
PhD candidate
I study how we can use neural networks and machine learning to better understand the mechanics of …
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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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Jesse Streicher
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
When I was in fifth grade, I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma, which hurt my confidence in …
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Joy Franco
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to be an artist …
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Megan MacDonald
PhD ’12
Mechanical Engineering
Do you remember the scene at the end of the movie Apollo 13 where the team at NASA was concerned …
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Janna Rodriguez
MS ’14, PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
Every paper I’ve written as a graduate student has gone through the Technical Communication …
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Moses Swai
’18
Mechanical Engineering
I’ve always been obsessed with figuring out how things work …
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Maria Holland
PhD ’17
Mechanical Engineering
Quilting is a great analogy for the research I do in computational biomechanics. Quilts are made up …
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Allison Okamura
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
The most important thing about being an engineer is understanding people and designing systems that …
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Etosha Cave
PhD ’15
Mechanical Engineering
What if we could rewrite the story of waste CO2? What if we could use metal catalysts to reduce …
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Lysha Matsunobu
’18
Mechanical Engineering
Next year I will be the president of the Society of Women Engineers at Stanford (SWE). I joined SWE …
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Paul Watkins
‘17
Mechanical Engineering
I’m a black mechanical engineering scholar from Ferguson, Missouri. A small town known for being …
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Helena Scutt
MS ’17
Mechanical Engineering
I hope my story helps other women. I was an undergrad at Stanford while competing on the school …
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Stewart Isaacs
’17
Mechanical Engineering
I got involved with the Stanford Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (SBSE) my freshman year …
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Kayla Guillory
’18, Product Design
Mechanical Engineering
When I first arrived at Stanford, I thought I was going to major in mechanical engineering, but …
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Kaitlyn Gee
’18
Mechanical Engineering
I identify both as a Native and as an engineer, but those two worlds don’t always overlap. I’m …
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