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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s ExpandAI program last week awarded San Diego State University a $2.8 million, four-year grant to enhance the existing artificial intelligence infrastructure, education and research capacity and prepare students for careers in AI.

San Diego State University College of Engineering seniors are prepared to envision, design, and build a better world. During the 2024 Senior Design Day, held May 1 at Viejas Arena, senior design teams presented innovative engineering projects to upwards of 2,300 attendees. In the intensive, two-semester Senior Design Course, students collaborate as an engineering team to identify and solve real-world problems, from conception to implementation. With support from sponsors, mentors, advisors, and faculty, the students put their technical knowledge, communication, and collaborative skills into practice. The students showcased various projects from growing plants on the moon and designing non-invasive health monitoring sensors to developing power line wrapping technology to prevent wildfires.

Engineers at SDSU and several other universities are making it easier to customize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for responding to wildfires, monitoring crops or conducting safety inspections in difficult-to-reach areas.

Q&A with engineer Saeed Manshadi, whose team uses artificial intelligence to calculate fire risk and help utilities decide when to shut off power.

Environmental engineering faculty Christy Dykstra is working with other San Diego State University researchers on a DARPA-funded project to design bacteria that extract rare earth elements.

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.

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.

SDSU Electrical and Computer Engineering alumna Shideh Naderi (‘16) designs programmable magnets for NASA with the goal of making it easier for astronauts to transfer fuel on space missions.

Theses and dissertations investigate questions from the genetics of PTSD to gravity on the moon.

Once the lifeblood of the local Kumeyaay people, urbanization has transformed the San Diego River. SDSU researchers are helping to address the problems that ensued.

The faculty members have been chosen in recognition of their outstanding research, scholarship and creative endeavors. Each fellow received $25,000 to support their research activities.