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Based on feedback from our 2015 Annual Meeting, the CARS 2016 Annual Meeting has been moved to Friday, October 14 at VAIL. The morning session will feature faculty and research staff presentations with student presentations in the afternoon. There will be a reception following the presentations and discussion from 4:30 - 6:30 PM. Affiliate  allocation for the Annual Meeting is 3 attendees per company.  The meeting agenda can be viewed here. We will be reaching out to affiliates for RSVP's.

Co-taught by David Kelley and Reilly Brennan, ME200 looks at historical importance through the lens of the automobile culminating in the final class project of judging the recipient of the Stanford Revs Automotive Trophy at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August.  If you will be at the Concours, look for the ME200 students on the lawn and learn about their judging criteria.

Automated vehicles will arrive on the back of a variety of advancements: in software, sensors, manufacturing, materials, regulation and more. In this in-depth workshop, we will discuss the ingredients of autonomy to learn about their progress, in effect 'unpacking' them into separate parts to ascertain their progress, integration challenges and the various design choices that producers are making. Look for the workshop registration link in the August newsletter.

Per Enge, the Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics will discuss the Cyber Safety effort which combines efforts from Aeronautics, Astronautics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Physics to blunt the danger to the future of transportation from cyber terrorists, e-criminals and hackers. These bad actors will now ply their trades on the mobile transactions between driverless vehicles rather than rack-bound computers. This presentation will focus on the protection of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (i.e.

Co-taught by David Kelley and Reilly Brennan, ME200 looks at historical importance through the lens of the automobile culminating in the final class project of judging the recipient of the Stanford Revs Automotive Trophy at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August.  If you will be at the Concours, look for the ME200 students on the lawn and learn about their judging criteria.

You are invited to the Happy Hour for Bits and Watts community. Bits and Watts is a new Stanford-SLAC research partnership to accelerate the integration of more than 50 percent renewable energy into the electricity grid. The Happy Hour will be held every Tuesday starting next week at the Y2E2 second floor terrace.

The next CARS and Revs workshop will look at the future of personal mobility vehicles. Defined as powered vehicles with a small footprint (consider electric scooters, neighborhood electric vehicles, and even powered unicycles), they are an important enabler of micro travel within a city. The workshop will bring together small startups, large manufacturers, municipal and planning experts as well as researchers from the Stanford community. Please join us to learn and experience how personal mobility devices will change your world. Seating is limited.

May 28th and 29th at Thunderhill Raceway is a testing weekend for groups interested in autonomous vehicles and related technologies. Organizers Damien Scott, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Joshua Schachter, Darren Liccardo, and Chris Heiser plan to extend this out to several events, and eventually add autonomous racing to the events.

Twice a year the Design Group opens up our design labs and classrooms to professionals who want to learn design thinking. The Master Class is taught by our senior faculty who will lead you through a selection of hands-on workshops where you will learn the design thinking problem-solving tools and problem-finding frameworks that support innovation and strategic leadership.