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Many people struggle with finding a way to incorporate both their profession and their hobbies into their lives. With two degrees and a teaching credential from San Diego State University, Doug Fronius was able to do both.

Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Scott Shaffar has been recognized for the dedicated work toward QL+'s projects over the past academic year.

Led by professors Marta Miletić and Mahasweta Sarkar, SDSU Engineering hosted a month-long outreach and workforce development workshop for local high school students this summer. Generous funding from The San Diego Foundation allowed for the workshop to bring Engineering to our next generation of potential engineers, scientists and researchers.

A new hybrid nanomaterial created by engineers at SDSU will allow neuroscientists to measure both electrical and chemical brain activity at once.

Summer Internship: A Day in the Life of Louis Dos Santos, a Construction Engineering major at SDSU. Louis is interning as a field engineer with Sundt Construction, one of the top leaders in safety amongst general contractors in the nation.

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.

The 2022 Robotics camp was supported by Junfei Xie's NSF CAREER award and the SDSU Talent Search Program. The event proved to be a great success among high school participants.

Summer Internship: A Day in the Life of Andrew da Cunha, a Mechanical Engineering major at SDSU. Andrew is interning this summer as a test engineering intern at Rivian, an electric vehicle automaker and automotive technology company focusing on electric sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.

Aztec Electric Racing (AER) members Kyle McCoy, Juan Rojas, Shaunt Malloian, and Clint Panian reflect on their summer competition in Michigan.

Spider-Man enthusiast Francisco Botello combines his love for his favorite superhero and his mechanical engineering major through his research on spider silk.

Summer Internship: A Day in the Life of Carlos Guerrero Valdez, Electrical Engineering major at SDSU. Carlos is interning on the Virgin Hyperloop, a company making sustainable cargo transport a reality.

Summer Internship: A Day in the Life of Eduardo Nunez, Helix Electric, a Civil Engineering major at SDSU. Eduardo is interning at Helix Electric, an electrical subcontractor.

Marisol Rivas is a rising senior civil engineering student who is spending the summer at The City of San Diego, Engineering and Capital Projects (E&CP), Architectural Engineering & Parks Division (AEP) as a Student Engineer.

Civil engineering student Andrew Mosqueda researched tsunami hazard assessments through numerical modeling and coding in his course with coastal engineering professor Ignacio Andrés Sepúlveda Oyarzún.

Our SDSU team utilized SolidWorks for design, ANSYS for CFD analysis, and a spiral development methodology that included both lab and flight testing. Part of this team's design innovation included internal structural optimization that resulted in the shape depicted in the attached picture of the tail boom design.