"A crane crashed on the roof. What happened?"
Case studies and methods of engineering failure analysis

Inspect the anatomy of failure - fire explosions, large scale catastrophes, electrical failures, and more - by considering both the methods of engineering analysis and the science behind the modes of failure.

Fundamentals of Compressible Flow

Compressible flows play a crucial role in a vast variety of man-made and natural phenomena, from high flight speed to gas processing and pipeline transfer. Walk through the curriculum of AA210A with Professor Cantwell as well as some key examples of compressible flows in aviation and projectiles.

Product and Systems Development

Explore modern approaches to product and systems development for complete life cycle value. Understand stakeholder roles and best practices from requirements through concept formulation, manufacturing and delivery, as well as the elements that assure productivity and quality.

A New Suite of Computational Molecular Biology Courses

Learn about Stanford University courses in computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics.

Biodesign Innovation

Learn about the Biodesign Innovation two-term course sequence, a systematic introduction to the process of medical technology innovation from the lab to the marketplace. Paul G. Yock, MD, inventor of the Rapid Exchange™ balloon angioplasty system and Todd J. Brinton, MD, a fellow of interventional cardiology at the Stanford School of Medicine will provide a guided tour of the course content and philosophy.

Cardiovascular Bioengineering

Understand how the combination of engineering and medical principles, both in breadth and depth, helps engineers working in the medical device, medical diagnostic, and pharmaceutical industries.

Translational Bioinformatics

As technology produces newer and faster ways to obtain and process biological data, the role of translational bioinformatics is to store, analyze and interpret this data, transforming the results into diagnostics and therapeutics for medicine. Learn about this emerging cross-discipline of computer science and biology.

Key Issues in Distributed Systems

Distributed systems, whether application systems or operating systems, are increasingly important to achieve performance, fault-tolerance, scalability, and extensibility. Explore the key issues with distributed systems: the implementation of shared state and the trade-off between consistency and availability.

Current Trends in Computer Security

Examine Web site vulnerabilities, DNS rebinding and other recent vulnerabilities, and Web 2.0 security trends.

Emerging Threats: The importance of computer security

Gain an overview of the threats that have emerged in the computer security landscape in recent times, the impact on industry, and measures that can be taken to counteract attacks on vulnerable systems.

Programming Methodology

Programming requires a much higher level of artistry than simply the science of syntax. Understand the importance of pairing language with technique when you develop software, as well as the four D's of development. You'll also have the opportunity to view demos of real assignments you'll be assigned in CS106A.

Securing the Web: Clients, servers, and 3rd-party content

Learn best defenses against web-based malware, sandboxing 3rd party Javascript, and a recent browser menace: heap-spraying attacks.

The Spread of Web-Based Malware and New Defenses

Learn about what recent distribution trends of web-based malware mean for information technology professionals and engineers, and the process of building and running web applications. Also, discuss a variety of existing and novel defenses and their pros and cons, with a focus on how they can be used to prevent, detect, diagnose, and quarantine infections of web applications.

Long-Range Design: A proven paradigm for radical innovation

Learn the new tools (e.g. critical foresight, anticipatory research design thinking) that are empowering organizations to improve the quality and speed of their research and design innovation programs.

Future Opportunities of Electrical Engineering – Why EE matters

Innovations in electrical engineering have led to major applications and products that fundamentally alter our lifestyles – from personal computing to environmental sensing. How will we tackle the opportunities and challenges ahead in this dynamic and changing field? Simon Wong, Stanford University's Vice Chair of Electrical Engineering, and Stephen P. Boyd, Professor of Electrical Engineering, will discuss these challenges and several new EE courses that can help you capture these emerging opportunities.

Advanced Analog Circuit Design

Survey the Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design course (EE 214) as well as other courses offered in the analog circuit design sequence. Professor Murmann will present on a broad range of topics, from the design of broadband transistor stages in advanced CMOS and bipolar technologies to recent developments in the field.

Micro/Nano Systems Design and Fabrication

Learn about using nanotechnology to build systems with nanoscale control of spatial features. Discover the use of MEMS instrumentation as tools for studies on surfaces and interfaces. Gain an overview of micro/nano systems design and fabrication.

Better. Cheaper. Faster: How value-based management delivers vastly improved portfolio results

Learn the benefits of value-based management to ensure improved portfolio results and the steps required to maneuver your organization to a new process for portfolio management. In this 60-minute session, you will explore a roadmap that will allow your organization to improve individual project decisions in the context of the entire portfolio rather than ad-hoc decision-making made in a state of urgency.

The Decision Leadership Dilemma: How to lead decision makers who outrank you

Come to understand senior-management perspectives, build commitment to decision quality, and plan and conduct decision board meetings. With practice and guidance, most decision support staff can learn to lead a decision board through a thorough consideration of decision content and quality, enabling productive dialogue and facilitating eventual agreement.

Decision Leadership: Guiding teams to high quality decisions in challenging organizational and analytical contexts

Lead groups to high quality decisions by leveraging your leadership abilities, facilitating in difficult situations, and managing group dynamics.

Destructive Decision-Making Habits

Personality often shapes approach. Learn to be an effective decision-maker by better understanding yourself. Determine how to build your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses to become more effective.

Enterprise Risk Management: A value driven approach

Organizations are beginning to recognize that understanding uncertainty can be a competitive advantage rather than a threat. Learn how value-focused ERM creates a direct line of sight from shareholder value to risk management through an understanding of potential risk factors, decision analytic methods, and best practices. You'll be introduced to the risk management systems that leading corporations use today to protect and grow shareholder value.

Enterprise Risk Management: What top management wants from its ERM program

Enterprise Risk Management -- or ERM in management parlance -- is top of mind among many CEOs and boards of directors. And not just in the financial industries, where the subprime mortgage crisis has triggered a broad malaise. Debt rating agencies and regulators are beginning to step up their scrutiny of corporations' risk management processes. Now all corporate leaders are paying attention to their methods and processes for dealing with risk and uncertainty. Many companies have a Corporate Risk Officer in place or are implementing an enterprise governance, risk and compliance platform. If your ERM is compliance-centric, the effort will miss the real opportunity to protect and enhance shareholder value.

Focus on Innovation: New Trends in Technology Assessment and Regulation of Medical Devices

Gain an overview of technology assessment and regulation of medical devices and its importance in the U.S. and abroad, learn about the role and importance of assessment in the innovation process, and discover the key stakeholders (including regulatory agencies and payers).

Getting It Right the First Time: A proven paradigm for strategic decision-making

Successful business leaders know that decision-making must be fast, effective, and done right the first time. Business leaders are called upon to identify the decisions with the greatest impact on corporate performance. To meet these challenges, a new paradigm for strategic decision-making is required: an understanding of the art and science of decision-making, the six elements that ensure high-quality decisions, and how to translate quality decisions into effective action.

Organizational Behavior: Evidence in action

Understand fundamental organizational behavior issues (e.g. employee selection, rewards, teamwork, culture, innovation) from an evidence-based perspective.

Strategic Innovation: Creativity for profit

Discover how corporations are working to reconcile the "creative" side of business ideation with the analytical side in ways that promote innovation while satisfying the need for financial rigor.

Sustainable Design, Product Development, and Manufacturing

In the context of global warming and the changing environment, the former assumption that product development, manufacturing, and use have very little impact on the environment has changed. Acute concern over renewable and non-renewable resources will impact business now and in the future. Understand the intersection of business and the environment in order to create sustainable business solutions.

Thriving in the Midst of the Storm: Making strategic decisions in difficult economic times

Industries like energy, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, to name a few, make big bets while facing great uncertainty over long time horizons. In good times and bad, they must evaluate investments and opportunities where the results of their decisions will not be known for years, sometimes (as in the case of pharmaceutical companies) decades. These companies do not have the luxury of waiting for the economy to improve. What can we learn from their tested approaches? David Leonhardi describes how the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group applied decision methodology to develop the 787 Dreamliner, a truly big and risky bet. Dave, a business strategist at Boeing, describes the methods and approaches his team used to guide corporate leaders to a high-quality decision. Learn to apply strategic decisions during the current storm.

Why Decisions Go Bad: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Why do good decisions go bad and how can you avoid common analytic mistakes? Learn how the Strategic Decision and Risk Management certificate can improve your decision-making framework.

Better, Faster, Cheaper: Bridging the gap between great ideas and great products

Improve the competitiveness of your company’s products by addressing new value propositions, life-cycle cost, and quality issues.

Dynamics and Simulation

Span centuries of mathematics from classical equations to symbolic computational tools that are foundational to a diverse range of industries. Learn, for example, how such tools may be applied to simulate and control mechanical, aerospace, and biomechanical systems.

If We Build It, Will It Sell?

Do you look at product quality through the lens of human response? Join David Beach, Director of the Product Realization Laboratory, for a broad survey of successful products, like the Tesla roadster, incubated and nurtured at Stanford University during his tenure. Arrive at a better understanding of the tangible and intangible art of product design, from statistics, six sigma, aesthetics, to the ‘design experience’.

The New Consumer Data Revolution

Platforms like Facebook empower individuals to contribute a wide variety of both quantitative and qualitative data, including transactions, intentions, social relations, attention gestures, and location. Social recommendations and behavioral targeting are examples of recent use of such data. What are the implications for data mining and e-business?

Data Mining: The Tool of the Information Age Revolution

The Web and improved computing technologies have enabled organizations to collect data on their users like never before and with unprecedented speed. With huge implications for e-commerce, healthcare, and many other sectors of the economy, this wealth of information necessitates more sophisticated tools for parsing meaning and drawing conclusions. Learn how to explore, analyze, and leverage data sets of any scale in this 60-minute webinar with Google's Search Scientist and Stanford Instructor Rajan Patel.