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SDSU’s NIH-funded Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) and Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Programs jointly hosted a series of professional development and networking opportunities during Fall 2020, which leveraged the knowledge and experiences of SDSU alumni across a variety of disciplines.

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the SDSU Women in Engineering (WE) Program and the College of Engineering Femineer® Program hosted their first STEM Talk of the Fall semester and third of the series to 21 attendees, featuring TRC Companies to a combination of high school and undergraduate students.

Our 12 SDSU Women in Engineering full-time faculty and 2 staff came together to collaboratively submit a proposal, titled “WE (Women in Engineering) Inspire: Reimagining Engineering Diversity (WIRED)” for the Equality Can't Wait Challenge, to address glaring gender disparities that remain in engineering fields.

SDSU College of Engineering alumna, Peggy Johnson, BSEE 1985, has been named CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap is a spatial computing company building the next computing platform.

Researchers at San Diego State University and CSU San Marcos have been awarded funding that will help the state of California manage microplastics, the small pieces of plastic found ubiquitously in the environment that are of increasing concern due to their potential impacts on wildlife and human health.

On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, the SDSU Women in Engineering Program and the College of Engineering Femineer® Program hosted the first WE Chat of the Fall semester, to more than 20 participants, featuring Dr. Tara Welborne.

Our SDSU Mechatronics placed 5th in Team Video and 4th Overall in the virtual 2020 International RoboSub Competition. The 23rd RoboSub Competition was held online, due to the in-person event being cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The SDSU College of Engineering is pleased to announce that Peggy (BSEE 1985) and Eric Johnson (MSEE 1986) have made a $3,100,000 gift to name and endow the fred harris Chair in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).

These fellowships supplement external funding to support 80 highly accomplished research scholars.

Our SDSU Mechatronics placed 5th in Team Video and 4th Overall in the virtual 2020 International RoboSub Competition.