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TPA scholars, many of whom hold appointments elsewhere across Stanford, are actively engaged in educating students, business executives, and policymakers.

By deepening understanding of science, engineering, the social sciences, and policy issues—as well as the way these domains interact with one another—our scholars help equip current and future generations with the knowledge needed to seize the exciting opportunities associated with rapidly evolving emerging technologies and to manage the risks associated with them.

Examples of courses offered by Hoover TPA fellows include:

 

Introduction to Bioengineering | BIOE 80

The main goals of this course are (1) to help students learn ways of thinking about engineering living matter and (2) to empower them to explore the broader ramifications of engineering life.

Instructor

Drew Endy

Drew Endy

Science Fellow/Senior Fellow (courtesy)

Drew Endy is a science fellow and senior fellow (courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He leads Hoover’s Bio-Strategy and Leadership effort, which focuses on keeping increasingly biotic futures secure, flourishing, and democratic. Professor Endy also researches and teaches bioengineering at Stanford University, where he is the Martin Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, senior fellow (courtesy) of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and faculty codirector of degree programs for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

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Design and Control of Haptic Systems | ME 327

Study of the design and control of haptic systems, which provide touch feedback to human users interacting with virtual environments and teleoperated robots.

Instructor

Allison Okamura

Allison Okamura

Senior Fellow (courtesy) / Science Fellow

Dr. Allison Okamura is a science fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineering Department and has a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. She is a deputy director of the Wu Tsai Stanford Neurosciences Institute, a founding member and Executive Committee Member of the Stanford Robotics Center, and director of graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford.

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AI as a Technology Accelerator

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Drawing on the Stanford Emerging Technology Review, this course offers a technically grounded, human-centered, and interdisciplinary exploration of how AI is transforming fields such as biotechnology, neuroscience, cybersecurity, space technologies, and materials science, while also being shaped by advances in many of these domains.

Instructor: To be appointed

Space Flight | AA 131

This class is about how to build a spacecraft. It is designed to introduce undergraduate engineering students to the engineering fundamentals of conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating satellites and other space systems.

Instructor

Simone D’Amico

Simone D’Amico

Research Fellow/Science Fellow

Simone D’Amico, science fellow at the Hoover Institution, is associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics (AA), the W. M. Keck Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering, and professor of geophysics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the founding director of the Stanford Space Rendezvous Laboratory, codirector of the Center for Aerospace Autonomy Research (CAESAR), and director of the undergraduate program in aerospace engineering at Stanford.

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Building an Aerospace Startup from the Ground Up | AA 261

Silicon Valley has experienced a dramatic increase in aerospace-focused, venture capital-backed companies over the last decade. This course examines the drivers of success and failure in these ventures.

Instructor

Dan Berkenstock

Dan Berkenstock

Distinguished Research Fellow

Dan Berkenstock is a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His work aims to ensure sustained American aerospace leadership well into the twenty-first century and provides space-related scholarship and policy recommendations through Hoover's Technology Policy Accelerator. From 2008 to 2017, Berkenstock was the founding chief executive officer, later chief product officer, of Skybox Imaging.

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Private Enterprise for Military Leaders

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The traditional prime defense contractors account for approximately 1.5% of the US economy by market capitalization. Meeting the growing threats of the 21st century requires warfighters to be equipped by a much larger swath of America’s industrial base. This short course provides a primer for military leaders on the constraints, drivers, and opportunities associated with the other 98.5% of the economy, with an emphasis on private equity and venture capital-backed private companies.

Instructor

Dan Berkenstock

Dan Berkenstock

Distinguished Research Fellow

Dan Berkenstock is a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His work aims to ensure sustained American aerospace leadership well into the twenty-first century and provides space-related scholarship and policy recommendations through Hoover's Technology Policy Accelerator. From 2008 to 2017, Berkenstock was the founding chief executive officer, later chief product officer, of Skybox Imaging.

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Spies, Lies, & Algorithms | AMSTUD 115S, INTNLREL 115, POLISCI 115, PUBLPOL 114

This course examines the past, present, and future of American espionage, surveying key issues in the development of the US Intelligence Community since World War II. It pays particular attention to how emerging technologies are transforming intelligence today, examining cyber threats, the growing use of AI for both insight and deception, and the “open-source” intelligence revolution online.

Instructor

Amy Zegart

Amy Zegart

Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow

Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. The author of five books, she specializes in U.S. intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, grand strategy, and global political risk management.

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Technology, National Security, and Sustainability| EPS 194, EPS 204

This class addresses current national security and sustainability challenges, and the role that technology plays in shaping our understanding of, and our response to, these challenges. Topics include the interplay between technology and modes of warfare, how issues such as the environment and energy generation impact new technologies, and how national security concerns affect sustainability and vice-versa.

Instructor

Herbert Lin

Herbert Lin

Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security

Dr. Herb Lin is Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution and senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in the use of offensive operations in cyberspace as instruments of national policy and in the security dimensions of information warfare and influence operations on national security.

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