events
Upcoming Events and Opportunities
Added 10/22/06:
You are invited to
The new green: How greed might save the world
with
Ben Tarbell
Program Manager, Miasolé PV modules
www.miasole.com
Time: Thursday, October 26, 12pm
Place: Packard Electrical Engineering Building, Room 204
A light lunch will be served.
RSVP appreciated but not required.
Contact Alex Tung (tungsten@stanford.edu )
This is part of a series on “Challenges in Engineering and Public Service”, sponsored by the Office of Engineering and Public Service (http://soe.stanford.edu/publicservice ). Email tungsten@stanford.edu to get on the mailing list for this series or send email to engservice-discussion-join@lists.stanford.edu
Speaker Details:
Ben is the Program Manager of photovoltaic module products at Miasolé. In this role, he leads the development of end-products that incorporate Miasolé’s low-cost, flexible photovoltaic cells. Prior to joining Miasolé, he worked at Nth Power investing in clean technology companies and at IDEO where he led the sustainable product design discipline. Ben has also lived in Africa where he developed technologies and business models for local entrepreneurs with organizations like ApproTEC (now KickStart). Ben holds a BS from Cornell University, an MS from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ben and his wife live in Palo Alto, California and spend most weekends backpacking, skiing, biking, and playing soccer.
Added 10/3/06:
You are invited to
High Impact Product Design for the Developing World
with
David Sowerwine
Founder, EcoSystems Nepal
Time: Thursday, October 12, 12:15pm
Place: Packard Electrical Engineering Building, Room 101
A light lunch will be served at noon in the adjacent room 102. The talk will begin at 12:15pm.
RSVP appreciated but not required.
Contact Alex Tung (tungsten@stanford.edu )
This is part of a series on “Challenges in Engineering and Public Service”, sponsored by the Office of Engineering and Public Service (http://soe.stanford.edu/publicservice ). Email tungsten@stanford.edu to get on the mailing list for this series or send email to engservice-discussion-join@lists.stanford.edu
Speaker Details:
David Sowerwine founded a company, EcoSystems (Nepal), with his wife Haydi in 1996. Their intent has been to improve living standards for rural people by creating affordable energy and transport products. Their progress required not only engineering solutions, but overcoming a host of other problems: corruption, fatalism, entrenched state enterprises, poor quality and work standards, disruptive aid policies...
They started work on a human-powered monorail system, but eager villagers mistook this to be a bridge. R&D efforts soon took a detour. Many engineers, including Nathan Eagle, Sally Madsen, and Will Beecher of Stanford, volunteered their skills.
Now eight years later, EcoSystems' five employees have installed 31 WireBridges which have carried over 2,000,000 riders without injury.
The company's latest initiative - a 70-watt pedal generator and battery storage and distribution system-will begin field trials in December and promises to light millions of homes and power A/V learning centers in thousands of schools...
Stanford: B.S.Ch.E. '62, MBA '72
http://www.ecosystemsnepal.com
Added 6/5/06:
"Challenges in Engineering and Public Service" Discussion June 6, noon-1pm in Packard 204
From Classroom to Startup: Design for Developing Countries
with Sally Madsen, Founder and Director of Engineering at Ignite Innovations
Time: Tuesday, June 6, noon -1pm
Place: Packard Electrical Engineering Building, Room 204 (2nd Floor)
A light lunch will be served.
RSVP appreciated but not required.
Contact Alex Tung (tungsten@stanford.edu )
This is the third in a series on “Challenges in Engineering and Public Service”, sponsored by the Office of Engineering and Public Service (http://soe.stanford.edu/publicservice ). Email tungsten@stanford.edu to get on the mailing list for this series or subscribe to engservice-discussion@lists.stanford.edu
Speaker Details:
Sally Madsen received her BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Her past experience includes work for design consultancies in the US and development projects in Honduras and Nepal. Sally is one of the founders and director of engineering of Ignite Innovations, a spin-off company from a class at Stanford, which seeks to “empower lives in the developing world through innovative products.” The company’s first product is a solar-powered lantern using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) in India. Sally is currently a designer at IDEO, a Palo-Alto-based design firm.
Added 3/14/06:
"Challenges in Engineering and Public Service" Discussion April 20, noon-1pm in Packard 204
“Interfacing with Communities on Engineering Service Projects”
Come hear about three exciting student-run engineering service projects that have partnered with very different communities:
Ecological Sanitation Project in Mexico/Haiti/Stanford - Engineers for a Sustainable World
Solar Golf Cart Project in East Palo Alto – Society of Black Scientists and Engineers
Biodiesel Project at Stanford – Students for a Sustainable Stanford
Meet fellow service-minded engineers, discuss real-world challenges, get involved!
Time: April 20, noon -1pm
Place: Packard Electrical Engineering - Room 204 (2nd floor)
(Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=04-030)
Food will be served - RSVP to Alex Tung (tungsten@stanford.edu) is appreciated.
This is the first in a series on “Challenges in Engineering and Public Service”, sponsored by the Office of Engineering and Public Service (http://soe.stanford.edu/publicservice).
Next Discussion: May 4, noon-1pm.
Email tungsten@stanford.edu to get on the mailing list for this series or subscribe to engservice-discussion@lists.stanford.edu
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