Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

37 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Faculty

• Ellen Kuhl, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering h-index 85
  Notable: “Mechanical properties of gray and white matter brain tissue by indentation” (2015) · 705 citations
• Mark Cutkosky, Fletcher Jones Professor in the School of Engineering h-index 81
  Notable: “On grasp choice, grasp models, and the design of hands for manufacturing tasks” (1989) · 1,498 citations
• Juan G. Santiago, Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor h-index 78
  Notable: “A review of micropumps” (2004) · 1,837 citations
• Allison Okamura, Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 73
  Notable: “A soft robot that navigates its environment through growth” (2017) · 936 citations
• Xiaolin Zheng, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Energy Science Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering h-index 72
  Notable: “Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources” (2007) · 2,929 citations
• Thomas Kenny, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Student Affairs and Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering h-index 67
  Notable: “Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair” (2000) · 2,737 citations
• Eric S.G. Shaqfeh, Lester Levi Carter Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 61
• David Kelley, Donald W. Whittier Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 56
  Notable: “The Look AHEAD Study: A Description of the Lifestyle Intervention and the Evidence Supporting It” (2006) · 883 citations
• Hai Wang, Silas Palmer Professor of Engineering h-index 53
  Notable: “Assessment of algorithms for mitosis detection in breast cancer histopathology images” (2014) · 473 citations
• Matthias Ihme, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Photon Science and, by courtesy, of Energy Science and Engineering h-index 52
• Gianluca Iaccarino, Robert Bosch Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Joseph L. and Roberta M. Rodgers Professor h-index 51
• Sean Follmer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science h-index 46
  Notable: “inFORM” (2013) · 624 citations
• Mark A. Cappelli, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 44
• Adam Boies, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Center Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy h-index 40
  Notable: “Vanadium Dioxide Cathodes for High‐Rate Photo‐Rechargeable Zinc‐Ion Batteries” (2021) · 267 citations
• Beverley J McKeon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 39
• Ali Mani, Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 39
• Renee Zhao, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering and of Materials Science and Engineering h-index 37
  Notable: “Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials” (2018) · 2,138 citations
• Friedrich Prinz, Leonardo Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy h-index 28
  Notable: “Why the Brazil nuts are on top: Size segregation of particulate matter by shaking” (1987) · 970 citations
• Vivian Feig, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 27
  Notable: “Skin electronics from scalable fabrication of an intrinsically stretchable transistor array” (2018) · 2,174 citations
• Wei Cai, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering h-index 16
  Notable: “Using the k-core decomposition to analyze the static structure of large-scale software systems” (2009) · 91 citations
• Monroe Kennedy III, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science h-index 12
  Notable: “Automated biomanipulation of single cells using magnetic microrobots” (2013) · 232 citations
• Sanjiva Lele, Edward C. Wells Professor of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering h-index 6
  Notable: “Towards Best Practices for Jet Noise Predictions with Unstructured Large Eddy Simulations” (2012) · 76 citations
• Wendy Gu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering h-index 5
  Notable: “Pain phenotypes classified by machine learning using electroencephalography features” (2020) · 67 citations
• Parviz Moin, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor in the School of Engineering h-index 1
  Notable: “A Level-Set Model for Shadow-Driven Roughness Growth in Rime Ice Accretion” (2026)
• Adrian Lew, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Dr. Arun Majumdar, Chester Naramore Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; Jay Precourt Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Energy Science and Engineering, of Photon Science
• Eric Darve, Director, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Kenneth Goodson, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, Davies Family Provostial Professor, and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering
• Marc Levenston, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Laboratory)
• Matthew R. Edwards, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Michaelle Ntala Mayalu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
• Natalie Larson, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Ovijit Chaudhuri, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
• Ronald Hanson, Clarence J. and Patricia R. Woodard Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Scott L. Delp, Director, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford, James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering and of Mechanical Engineering
• Sindy Tang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology and of Bioengineering
• Steven Hartley Collins, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.