Mechanical Engineering News

What could a college senior and an engineer 31 years into his career have to talk about? Quite a bit, it turns out!

Check out the January 2023 cover for Journal of Advanced Functional Materials, featuring mechanical engineering professor George Youssef's collaborative work on elastomeric impact-mitigating foams.

Congratulations to Julia Hong on her CSU Howard C. Christiansen Endowed Scholarship! Julia Hong is a mechanical engineering student participating in Dr. Satchi Venkataraman's Aerospace Composite Structural Mechanics Laboratory through the SDSU MESA Summer Undergraduate Research Academy.

Hear from SDSU Mechanical Engineering Department alumna Corina Lard on the SDSU Career Services AMPed Life: Mentoring, Momentum, Milestones Podcast!

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, USD chatted with SDSU Engineering alumna and USD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Paulina Diaz-Montiel to hear her story about how her culture and heritage have shaped her professional trajectory.

SDSU Engineering PhD student Maricruz Carrillo talks about overcoming difficulties of being a graduate student and how she supplements her life/income with her passion project: Menos Waste.

An in-depth look at SDSU’s Aztec Baja SAE who take part in the Mexican-originated motorsport.

San Diego State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering Joaquin Camacho researches sustainable energy technologies. NewsCenter’s Susanne Clara Bard asked Camacho to explain the nuts and bolts of the state’s Flex Alert program.

Dr. Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Dynamic Systems and Intelligent Machines Lab (DSIM), was awarded a $250,000 grant from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for her project on developing a sound modeling system that enables physics-based machine learning models for sound source detection purposes.

The annual award for outstanding contributions will be presented at the All-University Convocation on Aug. 18.