News
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Can we use plastic waste to build roads, buildings, and more?
Stanford engineers Zhiye Li and Michael Lepech discuss the potential for reusing discarded plastic in infrastructure applications.
July 18, 2023
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Stanford engineers point the way to more affordable, sustainable urban neighborhoods
Analysis presents a first-of-its-kind framework to design the most efficient mix of urban buildings along with integrated systems to supply power and water services.
April 05, 2022
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Pouya Successfully Defended His Dissertation
Pouya successfully defended his dissertation titled "Design and Optimization of Integrated Water, Energy, and Transportation Infrastructure for Urban Sustainability" on 11/29/2021.
November 29, 2021
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Congrats to Adrian on successfully defending his thesis
His thesis was titled "On 3-D Printing Biopolymer-bound Soil Composites"
August 23, 2021
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Program alumna pays it forward by helping new students learn to SURF
A Stanford Undergraduate Research Fellowship propelled Andrea Coto into STEM. Now a Stanford PhD student, she encourages undergraduates to apply for the program that helped her.
June 14, 2021
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Stanford researchers will use the Korean ‘smart city’ of Songdo as a living laboratory
Professor Michael Lepech is the faculty director of the new Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus
June 03, 2021
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Lepech and Allende awarded best paper in ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Professor Lepech and Mia Allende (Ph.D. '19) are co-authors on the technical paper, “Hypervelocity Impact Performance of Biopolymer-Bound Soil Composites for Space Construction"
April 01, 2021
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SSI selected by NASA to send experiment to International Space Station
Lepech, SSI faculty advisor: “the materials that we are developing for upcoming long duration space missions may someday become the most sustainable building materials... on Earth"
February 11, 2021