engineering

News articles classified as engineering

Stanford Report — November 9, 2021

Course dives into untold histories of inventions

First-year students learn about the winding paths leading to inventions and experiment with electronics.

April 15, 2020

A COVID-19 calculator that tells hospitals what to brace for

Stanford’s engineering and medical faculties collaborate on a calculator that predicts whether and when a hospital or a community is about to be overwhelmed.

School of Medicine — April 15, 2020

Stanford researchers lead effort to build rapid-response ventilators

An effort to design and build new, simplified ventilators for patients with severe cases of COVID-19 is being led by researchers at Stanford.

April 14, 2020

Stanford researchers reengineer COVID-19 face masks

Stanford engineers have developed a new type of protective face mask that can counteract the side effects of oxygen deficiency.

Stanford Engineering — April 9, 2020

A researcher turns to data to fight the COVID-19 virus

An expert in bioinformatics describes how better information and modeling can help caregivers stay a step ahead of the new virus.

Stanford Engineering — April 9, 2020

Companies scrambled to set up virtual workspaces. Is this the future?

Remote-only organizations pose complex management challenges. Two scholars share their thoughts on how to navigate our sudden new reality.

August 1, 2016

Stanford researchers teach human ethics to autonomous cars

Stanford engineers are creating algorithms to instruct self-driving cars how to make decisions that come intuitively to humans.

June 28, 2016

New Stanford engineering tools record electrical activity of cells

New tools for probing the inner workings of neurons developed through an initiative of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute will help scientists understand and heal the brain.

June 1, 2016

Stanford’s social robot ‘Jackrabbot’ seeks to understand pedestrian behavior

The Computational Vision and Geometry Lab has developed a robot prototype that could soon autonomously move among us, following normal human social etiquettes. It's named 'Jackrabbot' after the springy hares that bounce around campus.