Engineering in the News 2020

  • Covid-19 Research

    Tackling Coronavirus From Every Angle

    Faculty from all seven of SDSU's colleges have rose to the occasion during the global COVID-19 pandemic. In dozens of projects, researchers are analyzing how COVID-19 operates and spreads, how the pandemic affects our mental health and how communities are coping in the midst of crisis.

  • STEM Talk with Motorola

    STEM Talk with Motorola

    The SDSU Women in Engineering Program and the College of Engineering Femineer® Program kicked off International Day of the Girl week with a STEM Talk featuring Motorola Solutions. The STEM Talk was held on October 9, 2020, and engaged over 40 participants consisting of high school and college-level students, educators, and Motorola engineers.

  • George Parker

    "Where Are They Now?" Donor Story: George Parker

    A native of Victorville, CA, George Parker came to San Diego State College to study Engineering. He graduated in January of 1962 with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering. That degree set him on a very rewarding career path.

  • SDSU Alumni

    SDSU Alumni Return to Mentor Current Students

    SDSU’s NIH-funded Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) and Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Programs jointly hosted a series of professional development and networking opportunities during Fall 2020, which leveraged the knowledge and experiences of SDSU alumni across a variety of disciplines.

  • STEM talk with TRC

    STEM Talk Day with TRC

    On Friday, September 25, 2020, the SDSU Women in Engineering (WE) Program and the College of Engineering Femineer® Program hosted their first STEM Talk of the Fall semester and third of the series to 21 attendees, featuring TRC Companies to a combination of high school and undergraduate students.

  • WE Community Building

    Equality Can't Wait Challenge - WE Inspire: Reimagining Engineering Diversity (WIRED)

    Our 12 SDSU Women in Engineering full-time faculty and 2 staff came together to collaboratively submit a proposal, titled “WE (Women in Engineering) Inspire: Reimagining Engineering Diversity (WIRED)” for the Equality Can't Wait Challenge, to address glaring gender disparities that remain in engineering fields.

  • Peggy Johnson

    SDSU Alumna Peggy Johnson Named CEO of Magic Leap

    SDSU College of Engineering alumna, Peggy Johnson, BSEE 1985, has been named CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap is a spatial computing company building the next computing platform.

  • Dr. Natalie Mladenov

    Dr. Natalie Mladenov Awarded Microplastic Research Funding to Assist State of California

    Sep 11

    Researchers at San Diego State University and CSU San Marcos have been awarded funding that will help the state of California manage microplastics, the small pieces of plastic found ubiquitously in the environment that are of increasing concern due to their potential impacts on wildlife and human health.

  • Dr Tara Welborne WE Chat

    WE Chat with Dr. Tara Welborne

    On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, the SDSU Women in Engineering Program and the College of Engineering Femineer® Program hosted the first WE Chat of the Fall semester, to more than 20 participants, featuring Dr. Tara Welborne.

  • Peggy (BSEE 1985) and Eric Johnson

    Johnsons Make Gift to Endow fred harris Chair in DSP

    The SDSU College of Engineering is pleased to announce that Peggy (BSEE 1985) and Eric Johnson (MSEE 1986) have made a $3,100,000 gift to name and endow the fred harris Chair in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).