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Galactic Unite through the efforts of Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut Scott Borden has awarded a grant to the SDSU Aerospace Engineering Dept. to support a scholarship program. The Department has awarded twelve $1,600 scholarships for the 2018-19AY.

Ms. Sarah Gomez, pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as a Brooke Owens Fellow in the Class of 2019, and will be interning at The Spaceship Company.

The SDSU Society of Women Engineers (SWE) collaborated with the SDSU Mechatronics team to host a workshop during the Fall 2018 semester in which sixteen Junior Girl Scouts had the opportunity to earn their badges in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics.

In January 2019, Ahmed Atallah, a Ph. D. Aerospace Engineering student in the Joint Doctoral Program, won the John V. Breakwell Student Travel Award from the American Astronautical Society (AAS) Space Flight Mechanics Committee.

Ms. Michelle Davis Vargas, Quality Engineer Manager at Illumina Inc., mentored three SDSU MESA/College of Engineering female students during the Fall 2018 semester.

Dr. Luciano Demasi, Professor in the SDSU Aerospace Engineering Department, was formally honored and inducted as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) on January 7, 2019.

Novel repeater units and a clever layout of ferrite plates helps this new wireless power transfer system simultaneously deliver power to 10 devices. This new design was developed by Dr. Chris Mi, Professor & Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. and his colleagues.

191 students from local colleges and high schools with a MESA program were matched to STEM professionals at 21 difference companies for the annual MESA STEM Shadow Day, held on November 15, 2018, making it the largest STEM Shadow Day in its 30 plus-year span.

The Brazil Program has supported Environmental Engineering, Assistant Professor, Dr. Matthew Verbyla's successful efforts to secure a 3-year, $300K NSF Grant for SDSU student and faculty research in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

When Christy and Tiffany Dykstra each applied for SDSU faculty positions, the result was a family reunion.