Engineering in the News 2021

Mechanical Engineering Alumna Corina Lamp was awarded the Daniel P. Goodrich Award for her service to San Diego State and its student body. Corina works as an Operations Leadership Development Program Participant at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

We are proud to welcome for Fall 2021: Ignacio Sepúlveda (Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering), Gloria Faraone (Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering), and Qi Wang (Aerospace Engineering).

Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson (BSEE '85) joined President Adela de la Torre on campus for the President's Lecture Series.

Dr. Alves, director of the J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering and Management Program, recently given a 2021 Distinguished Faculty Award from the university.

Dr. Junfei Xie from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. Yan Wan from University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) co-organized the student design competition on networked computing on the edge at 2021 CPS-IoT week.

SDSU will award seven honorary degrees this year, recognizing individuals who have served the university, the San Diego community and the nation. Engineering Alumni, Massi Joseph E. Kiani and Stephen P. Doyle, will both be receiving a Doctor of Science honorary degree.

As a Black woman in engineering at San Diego State University, graduating senior Jamilla Thomas is following a career path blazed by her own mother, Amanda Thomas (’96), who earned a degree from SDSU 25 years earlier.

Apple’s decision Monday to add nearly 4,000 jobs in greater San Diego through 2026 is likely to be a boon for the county’s universities, which produce the kind of software and hardware engineers the famed company needs.

Programs in business, engineering, public health and education are among those ranked by U.S. News & World Report.

Dean Olevsky was recently featured in the San Diego Business Journal for his insights and aspirations for the SDSU College of Engineering.