Partner

Education

Bob Twiggs
Project Leader, Partner/Professor, Space Systems Development Laboratory, Stanford University
Space Systems Development Laboratory, Durand 271, Aeronautics
Stanford, CA 94305
County: Santa Clara
http://ssdl.stanford.edu/...

Organization:
Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. The university offers its students a remarkable range in both academic and extracurricular activities. Stanford believes that collaboration across disciplines will be key to future advances. It has recently introduced new multidisciplinary initiatives in the areas of biosciences, the environment and international affairs. As a research and teaching university, Stanford offers both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to work closely with faculty and researchers. Stanford is a partner on four WIRED projects, listed below.

Tasks:
Project 1.5 - Joint University Innovation Model:
- As project lead, Stanford will work in conjunction with its partners to identify organizations that create an atmosphere in which culture, environment, and systems are characterized and driven by robust innovation and flourishing entrepreneurship, and are recognized as industry leaders.
- Contact participant entities from site visits, tech transfer officials who participated in workshops, WIRED partners, and others semi-annually to identify changes made to innovation processes and the impacts, if any, of these changes.
Project 1.6 - Student Payloads on Military Launches:
- Determine the viability of including student payloads on military launches to support student experiential learning opportunities.
- Identify and publish the necessary protocols within the military launch system to facilitate and allow student ride-sharing opportunities.
Project 3.3 - Space-Related University Programs:
- As project lead, establish and promote a payload development program at Stanford with graduate, undergraduate, and high school students to build rocket payloads for space testing. As project lead, Stanford's goal, in collaboration with its partners, will be to ensure at least four such flights in the program's first year.
Project 3.10 - Stanford Mentoring Model:
- As project lead, Stanford will establish and promote a development program to work with mentors who will support training with schools in their region. In collaboration with the mentors and the project partners, a curriculum will be developed to take students through the program and to provide for on-campus testing of program experiments.