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Endowed chair established in construction management
Nov 10Reza Akhavian, an associate professor in civil, construction, and environmental engineering at San Diego State University and an expert on the integration of innovative digital, robotic and AI systems in construction engineering, has been named the inaugural recipient of an endowed chair.
Qingqing He was selected to attend the MIT rising star in Mechanical Engineering workshop last week
Oct 31The Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop is aimed at graduate students and Ph.D holders considering future careers in academia.
Major NSF grant seeks to fill 'skills gap' in construction engineering
Sep 8Walk past a construction job site and from the outside it looks as old school as ever: bulldozers digging, cranes lifting steel and glass, mixers pouring cement. Behind the scenes, however, the building industry in many cases draws upon many of the same data-driven technologies that have transformed health care, transportation and other sectors of the world economy.
Dr. Yang Yang has won the NSF Career Grant
Jul 2This CAREER award explores a cooling-assisted additive manufacturing (AM) method to create bio inspired hybrid materials, combining lightweight properties with strength and toughness for sports, biomedical, and electronics applications.
Department Chairman, Dr. Patrick Kwon recently featured on Korean News!
Jun 27S. Korea, U.S. launch joint shipbuilding education program
The Recent 2025 CoSMIC Space Mining Competition Awards
Jun 26This competition included highly ranked NASA Lunabotics collegiate teams including Virginia Tech, University of Minnesota, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of North Dakota and others.
Alumni Eli Uva featured on KUSI News!
Jun 26Eli was recently featured in a KUSI News interview regarding the high school robotics team that I coach, as well as SDSU's CoSMIc Rover team. He got a chance to highlight the team's performance, as well as showcase SDSU engineering program.











