Mechanical Engineering News

This 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.

Eli 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.

California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability.

Dr. George Youssef has been selected as the Innovation awardee for the 2025 SDSU Outstanding Faculty RSCA Awards. This honor comes with a $2,000 prize as well as recognition at the 2025 Albert W. Johnson Award Ceremony on March 12th, 2025, from 3 pm – 6 pm at the Tula Community Center. Click here to read more.

The Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Devices (AMED) Lab in the College of Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU), led by Dr. Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, has been featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials (Article Number: 2418331). This cover image highlights a significant breakthrough in the utilization of organic conducting polymers for thermoelectric devices, showcasing SDSU’s contributions to cutting-edge materials research.

Dr. Amneet Pal S. Bhalla was awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering award at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Portland, Oregon on November 19, 2024.

Dr. Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi has received an Early Career Award of $990, 000.00 from the Army Research Office and another award of $519, 815.00 from the ONR Science of Autonomy program.

Mark Melikian was selected as the sole SDSU representative to the Western Association of Graduate Schools/ProQuest annual awards competition. This is the first year SDSU has participated, and Mark was chosen over all the applicants from SDSU in all STEM fields, not just engineering. Mark's Master's thesis, entitled "On the Modeling of Carbon Particle Oxidation and its Effect on Temperature Distribution in a Small Particle Solar Receiver," represents a significant advance in the predictive capability of a high-temperature solar receiver model that has been under development for a little over a decade in the Combustion and Solar Energy Laboratory directed by Prof. Fletcher Miller.

The SDSU Baja Racing team is excited to share our experiences from this year's competitions, marking a significant milestone as we unveiled our brand-new vehicle. In May, we traveled to Gorman, California, where we achieved a commendable 19th overall finish.