Spotlights

When I was around 14, NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars and it was an aha moment for me …

Both my parents are lawyers, but my dad’s always been a tinkerer, making furniture and getting his …

There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at …

#IAmAnEngineer: I work on developing algorithms that help robots understand the world around them, …

#IAmAnEngineer Ever since I was little, I’ve been curious about how things worked — what’s …

I’ve always had a lot of different interests. As a kid, I was very into math, science, engineering …

As a kid, I was enthusiastic about aerospace but I didn’t memorize types of airplanes or the names …

It’s still completely unbelievable to me that aircraft can fly at all, and I’m saying that as an …

Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, went to the high school I attended years before me …

As a child, I loved watching planes and visiting busy airports …

I’ve been at Stanford for almost 10 years working on my bachelor’s, master’s, and now my PhD …

I’ve been interested in space since I was in the third grade …

Attaching the word ‘space’ before anything immediately makes it more exciting to me. (A car …

Everyone at Stanford Engineering is part of something bigger than themselves …

Think of a sci-fi movie where a spaceship gets hit by enemy fire. An alarm goes off that says …

I believe in using technology for change. My goal is to build products that allow us to connect more …

I’m obsessed with finding new forms of life on our home planet. To me, that is one of the most …

I am an engineer. To me, being an engineer means having high impact. I think that is what sets …

My one piece of advice for new students? Know this: Most students I’ve talked to go through …

As humans we have a nervous system, so we can sense and communicate about what’s ailing us …