If you’re a potential engineering student at Stanford, I highly suggest taking a look at the SCPD Free Previews. There, you’ll find some sample lectures for the first week of a number of engineering courses. From these, you can better assess the professors and the teaching styles of the engineering school.
Stanford is well known for their services catering to off-campus students, which are usually people who work in the Bay Area, and are sponsored by their companies to take a few courses (or earn a degree). Stanford probably has one of the best infrastructures for online instruction in the US. A large number of engineering lectures are all online, allowing easy perusal for the off-campus (or, lazy on-campus) students.
