printer friendly pageENGR 103: Public Speaking
Priority to Engineering students. Introduction to speaking activities, from impromptu talks to carefully rehearsed formal professional presentations. How to organize and write speeches, analyze audiences, create and use visual aids, combat nervousness, and deliver informative and persuasive speeches effectively. Weekly class practice, rehearsals in one-on-one tutorials, videotaped feedback. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Eisele, M. (PI)
ENGR 105: Feedback Control Design
Design of linear feedback control systems for command-following error, stability, and dynamic response specifications. Root-locus and frequency response design techniques. Examples from a variety of fields. Some use of computer aided design with MATLAB. Prerequisite:
EE 102,
ME 161, or equivalent.
Terms: Win, Sum
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Instructors:
Emami-Naeini, A. (PI)
;
Gerdes, J. (PI)
ENGR 110: Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 210)
Seminar and student team project. Medical, social, psychological, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of assistive technologies to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Guest speakers include professionals, clinicians, and device users. 1 unit for seminar attendance only. 3 units for students who prepare a background and preliminary design report for an assistive technology project that can be further designed and fabricated by team members in
ME 113 or
CS 194 or as independent study in Spring Quarter. See
http://www.stanford.edu/class/engr110.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Jaffe, D. (PI)
;
Nelson, D. (PI)
ENGR 120: Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering (ENERGY 120)
Lectures, problems, field trip. Engineering topics in petroleum recovery; origin, discovery, and development of oil and gas. Chemical, physical, and thermodynamic properties of oil and natural gas. Material balance equations and reserve estimates using volumetric calculations. Gas laws. Single phase and multiphase flow through porous media.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Horne, R. (PI)
;
Wilcox, J. (PI)
ENGR 130: Science, Technology, and Contemporary Society (STS 101, STS 201)
Key social, cultural, and values issues raised by contemporary scientific and technological developments; distinctive features of science and engineering as sociotechnical activities; major influences of scientific and technological developments on 20th-century society, including transformations and problems of work, leisure, human values, the fine arts, and international relations; ethical conflicts in scientific and engineering practice; and the social shaping and management of contemporary science and technology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
McGinn, R. (PI)
ENGR 131: Ethical Issues in Engineering (STS 115)
Moral rights and responsibilities of engineers in relation to society, employers, colleagues, and clients; cost-benefit-risk analysis, safety, and informed consent; the ethics of whistle blowing; ethical conflicts of engineers as expert witnesses, consultants, and managers; ethical issues in engineering design, manufacturing, and operations; ethical issues arising from engineering work in foreign countries; and ethical implications of the social and environmental contexts of contemporary engineering. Case studies, guest practitioners, and field research. Limited enrollment.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER
ENGR 140A: Leadership of Technology Ventures
First of three-part sequence for students selected to the Mayfield Fellows Program. Management and leadership within high technology startups, focusing on entrepreneurial skills related to product and market strategy, venture financing and cash flow management, team recruiting and organizational development, and the challenges of managing growth and handling adversity in emerging ventures. Other engineering faculty, founders, and venture capitalists participate as appropriate. Recommended: accounting or finance course (MS&E 140,
ECON 90, or
ENGR 60).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Byers, T. (PI)
ENGR 140B: Leadership of Technology Ventures
Open to Mayfield Fellows only; taken during the summer internship at a technology startup. Students exchange experiences and continue the formal learning process. Activities journal. Credit given following quarter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Byers, T. (PI)
ENGR 140C: Leadership of Technology Ventures
Open to Mayfield Fellows only. Capstone to the 140 sequence. Students, faculty, employers, and venture capitalists share recent internship experiences and analytical frameworks. Students develop living case studies and integrative project reports.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Byers, T. (PI)
ENGR 145: Technology Entrepreneurship
For juniors, seniors, and coterminal students of all majors who seek to understand the formation and growth of a technology-based enterprise. The entrepreneurial process, and the role of the individual. Case studies; projects. Attendance in first class required.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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