Alumni

Stanford Engineering Puzzle

April 2007
Stanford Engineering Puzzle

SEQ2 is a new science and engineering quad now under construction on the western side of campus. When it is completed over the next several years, Stanford students and faculty will have truly 21st Century research and teaching facilities. The four new buildings will become centers for the study of the environment and energy; bioengineering and chemical engnineering; and nanotechnology. A fourth building will be a new center for Stanford Engineering, complete with a state-of-the-art library.

Still, as with any new set of buildings, it may be tough to get around at first. There may be some very smart, very lost people in the halls until people get comfortable.

Directions for puzzle
In this puzzle your job is to navigate around SEQ2, moving from building to building like a student who has three classes, some homework to drop off, and office hours to visit (use the undo and redo buttons to if you realize you've made a mistake, or just refresh the page). For fun we will post (below) the names of ten alumni who successfully complete the puzzle and e-mail the secret word in the subject line to staff member Marge Kastner. She'll post entry number 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, etc. up to 91.

You must have Flash installed to run this puzzle, which was designed by Scott Kim of Shufflebrain and programmed by Larry Doyle of Cyberiandesign.


"Winning" entries
Congratulations to all our winners! Here are the ones that came in at the right time to be recognized. Thanks to the brillant suggestion from alum Allan Abbott (BS EE 1964), we're working on a program for Honorary Master Solver degrees--and more--for all of you serial solvers. Watch this space next month for more details.

1)     Jeff Blohm
11)   Darren Jones
21)   Darin McGrew
31)   Rusty Schweickart
41)   Danny Hsu
51)   Kevin Koehler
61)   Brad Davids
71)   Elizabeth Yin
81)   Alicia Kubida
91)   Donald Wise
101) Jason Taylor
111) Julie Allen Newell
121) Kapil Viswanathan
131) Xavier Merlin
141) John Paff
151) Don Bentley
161) David Reid

Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.