Dalaney Conte Graduation

Dalaney Conte is a 4th year mechanical engineering student graduating in May 2023. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with a passion for learning in hands-on environments. During her time at SDSU she has been involved in multiple engineering related projects/clubs and is interested in using the technical skills she has developed in the classroom to humanely apply them in the real world. As a junior she was the membership coordinator in the SDSU chapter of Engineers Without Borders and assisted in building six raised garden beds for a local Native American resource center. She also participated in an independent study course at the Combustion and Solar Energy Laboratory on campus where she helped design and build a lift apparatus for a two-part combustion chamber. Over the summer she was accepted into the Applied Energy REU program at Purdue University where she spent two months in West Lafayette, Indiana investigating the efficiency of discretized hydraulic accumulators in a simulated wave energy converter.

Dalaney is currently a part of Team Hephaestus, which is a senior design project sponsored by the mechanical engineering department. The goal of the project is to use thermoelectricity to generate a power output with a campfire. After graduation Dalaney will begin work as an Associate Engineer at Solar Turbines in their NPI Rotational Program. She is excited that she will be able to continue living in San Diego and foster the technically curious mindset that SDSU has encouraged since she began her time in the program.