Stanford Engineering's nine departments form the core of the school. They are the intellectual home bases for faculty and students alike. We decided this month to celebrate the departments with a puzzle about them and we imagined an essential icon for each one.

Directions for puzzle
In this puzzle your job is to assemble the icons for all nine Stanford Engineering departments by moving and rotating the tiles so that the images on their edges match up. In the proper solution, only one icon for each department must be assembled, so you will have spare parts left over. For fun we will post (below) the names of every 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.

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

This is a TOUGH puzzle! But engineering alumni are true champs and the answers are pouring in! Congratulations to all solvers. All entries, listed here or not, will be entered in the "Alumni Permanent Record" and count towards Honorary Degrees in Puzzology next June. To check out the degree earners this year please see the Puzzology page.

"Winning" entries

    1) Wah Kwok

    2) Navid Yazdani

    3) Michael Connors

    4) Stephanie Sud

    5) Timothy Whalen

    6) Jack Chou

    7) Sophia Wan Traweek

  8) Mark Kahn

    9) Angela Hockman

  10) Mark Aragon

  20) Robert Odineal

  30) Kim Tracy

  40) Robert Murphy

  50) William Lynch

  60) Trina Flores

  70) Samantha Infeld

  80) Vince King

  90) Chris Taylor

100) Howard Pollack

110) Debra White

120) Danyl Dowding

130) Chip Classanos

140) Dan Newell

150) Viren Bhanot

160) Jeremy Kolenbrander

170) Bret Lobree

180) Keith Gordon

190) Mark McCarty

200) Jeffrey Rembold

210) Kevin Shen

220) Stella Hwang

230) Nick Rustad

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