The first slide comes up on the white-walled lecture room's double display screens. In capital letters, it declares: "EMPATHY." The 40-odd Stanford students gathered in a semicircle of plastic chairs on the cement floor blink at the screen, awaiting explanation. Almost all of them are pursuing graduate degrees in some form of engineering or business — disciplines known more for unemotional logic and bare-knuckle competitiveness than getting in touch with someone else's feelings. Erica Estrada, a recent Stanford mechanical engineering grad with long, loose black hair, clicks to the next ... Read More