Engineering

Scholars are developing a way to make wastewater drinkable while also recovering valuable products like fertilizer components.

Interdisciplinary researchers at Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research are using rapidly advancing tools to solve interdisciplinary problems connected to fluid flow.

Assistant Professor of chemical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering William Tarpeh brings his love of problem-solving to his research.

The possibility of detecting a pocket of habitable water under the surface of Europa is just one of the reasons to be excited about NASA's mission, says Dustin Schroeder, an expert in using radar to assess glaciers and a member of Clipper's science team.

"I remember daycare trips to coastal parks, and for most of my childhood I fell asleep at night to a sound machine playing the sound of breaking waves. My parents are geologists who really enjoy nature, so we spent a lot of time outdoors. Most families have family portraits hanging on the walls, but we had vials of sand samples clustered along ours."

Pioneering epidemiology project WastewaterSCAN has added parainfluenza, rotavirus, adenovirus group F, enterovirus D68, Candida auris, and hepatitis A to the list of infectious diseases it can monitor for public health.

"As a kid I would go to construction sites with my dad, a civil engineer, and he’d show me plans for putting reinforcement inside concrete columns. Together, we would count that the right amount of steel was there to protect a structure."

"I mostly study earthquakes and wave loading conditions, but climate change is driving more disastrous hurricanes, increased flooding, and catastrophic wildfires, all of which increase the risk to our civil infrastructure."