Over the last half-century, students in the ME310 course have produced hundreds of prototypes for cameras, makeup, cars and much more. Combined with international teams, they design and develop new products while learning from reality.
The Stanford Data Challenge Lab class meets every day and requires nearly 100 homework assignments. But innovative instruction has students clamoring to take the class, which teaches professional-level data skills.
Projects in The Senior Reflection mix science with art. They have included documentaries, sculptures and performances and expressed students’ views on nature, health and personal experiences.
Katharine Ku joined the Office of Technology Licensing in 1981 and became its executive director in 1991. After 27 years leading the effort to bring Stanford technologies to the world, she will retire June 1.
Satz will assume her new position on Sept. 1. She will succeed Richard Saller, who has served as dean for 11 years and is returning to full-time teaching.
During his annual address to the Academic Council, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne outlined initiatives that university leaders believe will set an agenda for Stanford in the next decade and beyond. The initiatives emerged from the university-wide, yearlong, long-range planning process.
Undergraduate students who used a course information platform to learn about the performance of previous students in classes at their university earned slightly lower grades, according to new Stanford research.
Nadarajan Chetty, Trevor Hastie and Daniel Herschlag are now part of an organization designed to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.