printer friendly pageENGR 202S: Directed Writing Projects
Effective writing is key to academic and professional progress. 202S provides individualized writing instruction for students working on important writing projects such as dissertations, grant proposals, theses, journal articles, and teaching and research statements. The course consists of once weekly one-on-one conferences with lecturers from the Technical Communication Program. Students receive close attention to and detailed feedback on their writing to help them become more confident writers, hone their writing skills, and tackle any writing issues they may have. The TCP Director assigns each student to an instructor; meetings are scheduled by each instructor. No prerequisite. Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit. This course may be repeated for credit.
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Instructors:
Harrison, K. (PI)
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McDevitt, M. (PI)
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Modifica, L. (PI)
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Harrison, K. (PI)
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McDevitt, M. (PI)
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Modifica, L. (PI)
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O'Nan, J. (PI)
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Sullivan, E. (PI)
ENGR 202W: Technical Communication
To be effective as an engineer or scientist, you must communicate your cutting-edge research and projects effectively to a broad range of audiences: your professors, your fellow students, your colleagues in the field, and sometimes the public. ENGR. 202W offers a collaborative environment in which you will hone your communication skills by writing and presenting about a project of your choosing and working on your CV/resume. ENGR202W is a practicum (supervised practical application) that helps you build toward a complete skillset for technical communication in the twenty-first century. Through interactive presentations and activities, group workshops, and individual conferences, you will learn best practices for communicating to academic and professional audiences for a range of purposes.
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Harrison, K. (PI)
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Modifica, L. (PI)
ENGR 203: Public Speaking (ENGR 103)
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.
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Vassar, M. (PI)
ENGR 210: Perspectives in Assistive Technology (ENGR 110) (ENGR 110)
Seminar and student project course. Explores the medical, social, ethical, and technical challenges surrounding the design, development, and use of technologies that improve the lives of people with disabilities and older adults. Guest lecturers include engineers, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and assistive technology users. Special activities include field trips to local facilities, an assistive technology faire, and a film screening. Students from any discipline are welcome to enroll. 3 units for students (juniors, seniors, and graduate students preferred) who pursue a team-based assistive technology project with a community partner - enrollment is limited to 27. 1 unit for seminar attendance only (CR/NC) or individual project (letter grade). Projects can be continued as independent study in Spring Quarter. See course website at
http://engr110.stanford.edu. Designated a Cardinal Course by the Haas Center for Public Service.
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| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Jaffe, D. (PI)
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Ojeaburu, H. (TA)
ENGR 217: Expanding Engineering Limits: Culture, Diversity, and Equity (CSRE 117, CSRE 217, ENGR 117, FEMGEN 117, FEMGEN 217)
This course investigates how culture and diversity shape who becomes an engineer, what problems get solved, and the quality of designs, technology, and products. As a course community, we consider how cultural beliefs about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, abilities, socioeconomic status, and other intersectional aspects of identity interact with beliefs about engineering, influence diversity in the field, and affect equity in engineering education and practice. We also explore how engineering cultures and environments respond to and change with individual and institutional agency. The course involves weekly presentations by scholars and engineers, readings, short writing assignments, small-group discussion, and hands-on, student-driven projects. Students can enroll in the course for 1 unit (lectures only), or 3 units (lectures+discussion+project). For 1 unit, students should sign up for Section 1 and Credit/No Credit grading, and for 3 units students should sign up for Section 2 and either the C/NC or Grade option.
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ENGR 240: Introduction to Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems
Miniaturization technologies now have important roles in materials, mechanical, and biomedical engineering practice, in addition to being the foundation for information technology. This course will target an audience of first-year engineering graduate students and motivated senior-level undergraduates, with the goal of providing an introduction to M/NEMS fabrication techniques, selected device applications, and the design tradeoffs in developing systems. The course has no specific prerequisites, other than graduate or senior standing in engineering; otherwise, students will require permission of the instructors.
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| Units: 3
ENGR 245: The Lean LaunchPad: Getting Your Lean Startup Off the Ground
Learn how to turn a technical idea from a lab, research, or vision into a successful business using the Lean Launchpad process (business model canvas, customer development, running experiments, and agile engineering.) Hands-on experiential class. 15+ hours per week talking to customers, regulators and partners outside the classroom, plus time building minimal viable products. This class is the basis of the National Science Foundation I-Corps with a focus on understanding all the components to build for deep technology and life science applications. Team applications required in March. Proposals may be software, hardware, or service of any kind. See course website
http://leanlaunchpad.stanford.edu/. Prerequisite: interest in and passion for exploring whether your technology idea can become a real company. Limited enrollment.
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| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Blank, S. (PI)
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Epstein, J. (PI)
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Hershenson, M. (PI)
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Blank, S. (PI)
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Epstein, J. (PI)
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Hershenson, M. (PI)
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Weinstein, S. (PI)
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Bottazzini, F. (TA)
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Ellsworth, C. (TA)
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Jain, S. (TA)
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Yu, S. (TA)
ENGR 248: Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions (ENGR 148)
Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions examines how leaders tackle significant inflection points that occur in high-growth entrepreneurial companies. Students learn how to develop principles as a powerful tool to face tough situations that they will encounter in their lives and their chosen career. Cases and guest speakers discuss not only the business rationale for the decisions taken but also how their principles affected those decisions. A capstone project provides frameworks for students to develop their own set of principles. The teaching team brings its wealth of experience in both entrepreneurship and VC investing to the class. Limited enrollment. Admission by application:
https://forms.gle/VU36jjGwmsK54CsK9
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Fuchs, J. (PI)
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Blinkman, S. (TA)
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Fattah, N. (TA)
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Instructors:
Fuchs, J. (PI)
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Blinkman, S. (TA)
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Fattah, N. (TA)
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Murphy, M. (TA)
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Shanker, V. (TA)
ENGR 265: Technology Licensing and Commercialization
Course focuses on how to bridge the gap between creation and commercialization with new ideas, inventions, and technology. Comprehensive introduction to patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Covers business strategies and legal aspects of determining what can be owned and licensed, how to determine commercial value, and what agreements and other paperwork is necessary. Discussion includes aspects of Contract and Intellectual Property law as well as provisions of license agreements, NDAs, and their negotiation. All materials provided including many sample documents.
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| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hustein, J. (PI)
ENGR 289: Career Building: Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship, People, Innovation, Decision-Making and Impact (CHEMENG 189, CHEMENG 289, RAD 189, RAD 289)
This course is designed to enable graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in science and engineering to hone strategies for career success. Drawing strongly on entrepreneurial principles and lessons from industry, the course complements the traditional curriculum by focusing on career-building tools that students need to improve their professional prospects and achieve their goals. Relevant for those who plan to pursue careers in academia and industry alike, a central focus will be on managing one's career as if it were a start-up, emphasizing principles that empower individuals to take more control of their futures: investing in yourself, building professional networks, taking intelligent risks, and making uncertainty and volatility work to one's advantage. Through a series of in-classroom presentations and interviews - with professors, entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, investors, and thought leaders from diverse fields and sectors - students will gain important knowl
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This course is designed to enable graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in science and engineering to hone strategies for career success. Drawing strongly on entrepreneurial principles and lessons from industry, the course complements the traditional curriculum by focusing on career-building tools that students need to improve their professional prospects and achieve their goals. Relevant for those who plan to pursue careers in academia and industry alike, a central focus will be on managing one's career as if it were a start-up, emphasizing principles that empower individuals to take more control of their futures: investing in yourself, building professional networks, taking intelligent risks, and making uncertainty and volatility work to one's advantage. Through a series of in-classroom presentations and interviews - with professors, entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, investors, and thought leaders from diverse fields and sectors - students will gain important knowledge and practical strategies, with course modules on topics such as ideation and innovation, the skill of self-advocacy, the fundamentals of negotiation, building and managing teams, and effective communication and storytelling. Additional modules will focus on biotechnology and deep tech start-up companies, as well as strategies for cultivating a successful academic career. The idea for this course emerged from the instructor's reflections on 30 years of research, teaching, mentorship, and deep entrepreneurial experiences spanning the gamut of approaches to translational science - academic discovery, invention, conceiving of and leading multi-institutional research centers, building research and business teams, launching and financing start-ups, building business models to advance real-world applications of cutting-edge science, and seeing through research-based companies to success (including growing an idea into a multi-billion dollar company). For this course, students will be expected to complete relevant reading assignments, participate actively in class dialogue, and complete regular writing assignments focused on course topics as they relate to ones own career-building needs and professional aspirations. Students may also have opportunities to lead class discussions on topics of interest.
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| Units: 3
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