Mechanical Engineering News

A San Diego State professor is trying to find a way to soften the blow of competitive sports. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge tells us about a new foam product that could prevent concussions in football.

Mechanical engineering professor Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi talks about where her artificial intelligence research fits into the buzz.

SDSU is in collaboration with SFSU, SJSU, Laney College and Cuyamaca College to establish and operate a new Western Region Center of Excellence to serve as a Center of Excellence for DOE’s Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) Program.

Eight engineering students have won awards at the SDSU Student Research Symposium. Read more about the projects and about the awards given.

Bhalla has earned an NSF CAREER Award in the amount of $520,640 over the next five years for his research on computational fluid dynamics. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award is the NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty.

Please save the date for our Spring 2023 Engineering Design Day event which will be held in-person in Montezuma Hall, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, from 1:30pm –4:00pm.

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.

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.

What happens once an EV battery has served its original purpose?