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Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering senior Joseph Dawisha! Dawisha was selected as a participant in the Toyota Dream Endowment, a program for students of diverse backgrounds interested in a career in the automotive industry and motorsports.

Seven SDSU students were chosen for the CSU pre-doctoral award, allowing them to pursue opportunities to expand research and realize their dreams.

Scientific articles are currently published at a rate of almost 4 papers a minute. With so much new scientific information coming out of the world’s laboratories, the most common ways the community keeps up with the latest scientific information and breakthroughs is by following science sections of traditional news sites or more often, science focused social media posts such as blogs and tweets.

Kaustubh Khedkar (left) is currently a third year joint doctoral program student in the ME department. He received the 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics conference award, which allowed him to present his on-going doctoral research at the congress held in Chicago (July 25 - 29, 2021). Kaustubh presented a novel method to implement a real-time control strategy within fully-resolved computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of wave energy converter (WEC) devices. Ramakrishnan Thirumalaisamy (right), a Ph.D. student who works with Dr. Amneet Bhalla in the Computational Fluid Dynamics and Flow Physics Laboratory, received the 16th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics conference award at the congress held in Chicago (July 25 - 29, 2021).

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers) Champion H. Mathewson Award is presented by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) annually, and is considered an important career achievement.

The funding of $444, 000 for the project advances research capabilities at two HSI (NMSU, SDSU) in support of the NASA Artemis program with a focus on enhancing diversity and inclusion.

Dr. Karen May-Newman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, led a new summer internship program in the College of Engineering for freshmen, sophomores and transfer students called WE-BELIEVE (WomEn and Black Empowered Learners Interning in Engineering EnVironmEnts). Dr. Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi and Dr. Elisa Torresani, Assistant Professors of Mechanical Engineering, served as Faculty mentors in the program.

Dr. Eugene Olevsky, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering (pictured above), Dr. Elisa Torresani, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. John Kang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are Investigators on the DMERF grant “Accelerating the Adoption of Sintering-Assisted Additive Manufacturing Using Integrated Experiments, Theory, Simulation and Data Science”.

The Experimental Mechanics Laboratory received a research award of $301K from the National Science Foundation (NSF, Award No. 2035663) to study the effect of density gradation and the auxetic behavior of elastomeric foams.

Dr. Richard Woodcock has made a gift of $300,000 to the College of Engineering with $150,000 targeted to support innovation and patent applications in the Mechanical Engineering capstone program, $100,000 to support Aztec Electric Racing, and $50,000 to support the Rocket Project.