School of Engineering
Showing 21-40 of 46 Results
-
Crystal Pennywell
Faculty Affairs and Staffing Manager, Mechanical Engineering
Current Role at StanfordManager, Center for Design Research
-
Carrie Petersen
Adm Assoc 3, Computer Science
Current Role at StanfordFaculty Administrator
-
Forest Olaf Peterson, Ph.D.
Research Affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Staff, Civil and Environmental EngineeringBioAs a postdoctoral research affiliate, I bring both blue-collar and white-collar perspectives to my role as a scholar of infrastructure. For seven years, I was a concrete laborer on large infrastructure projects with the Laborers’ International Union of North America. Those years taught me social and environmental dimensions from the ground up. My fellow laborers wanted to work safely. However, though skilled, we often did not have the information to succeed without unnecessary hardship, for example, on a large highway project we could have worked on another task while a broken piece of equipment was repaired, however, neither the crew nor our supervisors had access to a task schedule to see that (there was a schedule, it was just permission that was missing). As a result, our supervisors forced us to continue work loading miles of heavy concrete barriers with a damaged loader. Our choices were to work, quit, or be fired; we were not the operator of the loader, we were the ground crew. Eventually, a two-ton barrier dropped and hit something that flipped it over where it came to rest just inches above my chest. My fellow workers celebrated my life. One cried in memory of a recent work fatality. We were told to get back to work. The futility of the situation has left a lasting impression.
researchgate.net/profile/Forest_Peterson -
Laura McClellan Pickel
Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness
BioAfter graduating from Williams College with a double major in Mathematics and Psychology, I worked at CITYterm for three years. CITYterm is an intensive, experience-based residential semester program for 30 intellectually adventuresome 11th and 12th graders that engages students in an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on New York City.
After experimenting with the flipped classroom model, I followed my interest in education technology to Stanford University to pursue a Masters in Learning, Design and Technology.
Since matriculating at Stanford, I've been engaged by the process of Design Thinking and how it might be incorporated in K-12 settings. -
Mr Ryan K Pierce
Adjunct Lecturer, Bioengineering
BioRyan Pierce is a Lecturer in Bioengineering, and Co-Founder and CEO of Nine, a neonatal/maternal health technology company. He has served as VP of Design and Innovation at Ventus Medical, VP of Business Development at Loma Vista Medical, a healthcare investor at De Novo Ventures, and a product designer at Concentric Medical and The Foundry/Zephyr Medical. He is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rock Health, a digital health seed fund. An inventor on 30 U.S. patents, he holds mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
-
Ileana Pirozzi
Adjunct Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering - Design
BioIleana Pirozzi, from Santa Maria a Vico / Colleferro, Italy, is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University School of Engineering. Ileana is also a graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford School of Engineering, where she earned her PhD in Bioengineering as a Knight-Hennessy (KH) Scholar. As part of the KH program, Ileana completed three years of global leadership training. In fulfillment of her PhD work, Ileana led a variety of projects to push the next generation of smart medical devices to prevent and treat heart failure. Her clinical focus is congestive heart failure and congenital heart disease, and her engineering approach includes biomimetic device design leveraging computational modeling, optimization techniques and soft robotics. Ileana is also interested in exploring novel approaches integrating AI and sensing for improved patient monitoring and long-term care.
Ileana earned a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and biomedical engineering from Brown University. She was also a research intern at the NASA Ames Research Center and at the Tripathi Biomedical Engineering Lab at Brown. She was elected President of the Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honors Society. Additionally, she was named a Vincent and Ruby DiMase Research Fellow at Brown’s School of Engineering and was a recipient of the Domenico Ionata Award for excellence in research and creativity in engineering, the Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering Award, the Distinguished Thesis Prize and the K.T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award. With a team of Brown University and RISD students, Ileana developed an implantable medical device for use in cardiopulmonary bypass surgeries. Further development of the device was pursued through a startup company under the name of EmboNet. The company was awarded several national and international prizes and grant awards.
