Mechanical Engineering

Jul 15, 2015

New fuel-cell materials could pave the way for practical hydrogen-powered cars

Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Stanford Professor Bernie Roth

Jul 7, 2015

Stanford d.school’s Bernie Roth recommends a bias toward action

Technology & Society

High-speed video reveals how lovebirds keep a clear line of sight during acrobatic flight. Stanford’s David Lentink says this strategy could be applied to drone cameras to improve visual systems.

Jul 6, 2015

Stanford high-speed video reveals how lovebirds keep a clear line of sight during acrobatic flight

Transportation & Robotics

Stanford engineering students have been testing an obstacle-avoidance algorithm for autonomous vehicles, using a pop-up obstacle they rigged up from a tablecloth and a leaf blower.

Jul 1, 2015

Stanford engineering students teach autonomous cars to avoid obstacles

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

A colorized image, enlarged 100,000 times, shows an ultrathin layer of molybdenum disulfide stretched over the peaks and valleys of part of an electronic device. Just 3 atoms thick, this semiconducto

Jun 25, 2015

Stanford researchers stretch a thin crystal to get better solar cells

Energy, Materials

A material inspired by the unique physics of gecko fingertips could allow robotic hands to grip nearly any type of object without applying excessive pressure.

May 27, 2015

Grippy, not sticky: Stanford engineers debut an incredibly adhesive material

Materials, Transportation & Robotics

A team led by Assistant Professor David Lentink has studied hummingbird flight to determine the sweet spot in wing dimensions that allows for hovering.

Mar 23, 2015

Stanford engineer helps crack mystery of bird flight

Transportation & Robotics

Mar 19, 2015

Stanford engineering students build basketball-shooting robots

Transportation & Robotics

Testers work with iBraillers in a training session at the Employers Federation of Ceylon in Sri Lanka. | Photo: Sohan Dharmaraja

Feb 10, 2015

Stanford engineer produces free Braille-writer app

Computation & Data, Health

Jan 29, 2015

Stanford-designed Hapkit brings physical touch to the virtual classroom

Technology & Society

Jan 15, 2015

Stanford engineers develop a device for measuring how birds take flight

Transportation & Robotics

Stanford Professor Shanhui Fan, center, gazes into the pizza- size prototype with co-authors Linxiao Zhu, left, and Aaswath Raman, right. The high-tech mirror reflecting their faces beams heat direct

Nov 26, 2014

Stanford engineers invent high-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space

Environment, Materials

Nov 21, 2014

Stanford engineers climb walls using gecko-inspired climbing device

Materials, Transportation & Robotics

Mechanical engineer Sindy K.Y. Tang has invented a device that can capture a visible record of chemical reactions to record water contamination. | Photo: Rod Searcey

Nov 3, 2014

Stanford engineers discover how to record the forensic history of chemical contaminations in water

Environment, Materials

An Anna’s hummingbird takes flight in Stanford’s Arizona Cactus Garden. | Courtesy Lentink Lab

Jul 30, 2014

Hummingbirds vs. helicopters: Stanford engineers compare flight dynamics

Transportation & Robotics

Mar 21, 2014

Battle of the ’bots – a springtime rite of passage for Stanford mechanical engineering students

Transportation & Robotics

Mar 17, 2014

Animatronic design challenge takes to the water

Transportation & Robotics

Dr. Robert Chang, an assistant professor of opthalmology at Stanford, Alexandre Jais, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Dr. David Myung, an opthamology resident, show off an early pro

Mar 11, 2014

Mechanical engineer helps eye doctors turn smart phone into diagnostic tool

Health

Jan 14, 2014

Solving big problems with tiny prototypes

Health

Jan 6, 2014

Learning from mistakes: Stanford engineering course builds students’ confidence by encouraging them to fail

Technology & Society

Elton Santos

Dec 19, 2013

Stanford engineer shows how a modified form of graphene could be used to make an energy-efficient data storage device

Technology & Society

Post-doctoral scholar Anthony Peng prepares an electromechanical device used to vibrate hair cells in the inner ear, mimicking the effect of incoming sound waves. | Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Se

Dec 3, 2013

Stanford Mechanical Engineers develop new technology to study hearing

Health

Stanford Associate Professor Wei Ci and doctoral researcher Yoonjin Won

Dec 2, 2013

Stanford engineers show how to optimize carbon nanotube arrays for hot spots

Computation & Data, Health

This bristly, bumpy membrane designed by Stanford engineers is the centerpiece of the most powerful, coolest-running solid oxide fuel cell of its size. | Reprinted with permission from An, J.; Kim,

Oct 21, 2013

Stanford engineers develop fuel cell that can deliver record power-per-square inch at record-low temperatures

Energy, Materials