In The News

The five founding members of SDSU’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers return for a club meeting to celebrate forty years of SHPE and to share their experiences and wisdom with current students.

Octavio Martínez’s (BSEE ‘92) immersion into semiconductors as a San Diego State University student led to a successful career in the field, and a recent high-profile involvement in the binational semiconductor chip agreement between the United States and Mexico.

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.

We congratulate student recipients and thank our donors and industry representatives at the Fall 2022 MESA Scholarship Reception!

Aerospace and mechanical engineering students in Dr. Venkataraman's aerospace engineering lab get the chance to get up close and personal with new aircraft composite materials in research projects having to do with building stronger parts.

Donald Mensah (BSAE '19) participated in SDSU's MESA Program, DBF (Design Build Fly), and the National Society of Black Engineers while an undergraduate student. Now working at Lockheed Martin, he gives back to the programs that gave him so much by donating to the MESA Engineering Fund.

Alumni Highlight: This Spring, Daisy Galeana ('98, '22) earned a joint doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from San Diego State University and UC San Diego.

Students from local colleges and high schools with a Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) program shadowed engineering and science professionals virtually through Zoom or Microsoft Teams on November 18, 2021.

Students from local colleges and high schools with a Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement (MESA) program shadowed engineering and science professionals virtually through Zoom or Microsoft Teams on November 19, 2020.

MESA asked and our alumni responded overwhelmingly! More than 20 SDSU MESA Alumni participated in MESA's Virtual Alumni Chat series for Fall 2020.

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce that Alfredo Aldrete (BSEE 97’) and Sandra P. Aldrete (BSME 97’) have made a gift to establish the “Alfredo Aldrete and Sandra Pulido Aldrete MESA Endowed Scholarship” for Engineering.

For Alex Mora his introduction to MESA came when he attended a workshop put on by the MESA program during his second year at San Diego State University.

10 students from the SDSU Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program attended the 8th Annual Solar Turbines Training Academy on October 11, 2019.

Daisy Galeana, 1998 BSME, current Ph.D. student and Regional Technical Manager Latin America for Solar Turbines and Theresa M. Garcia, 1991 BSFCOB, 2009 MACOE and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, have made a joint gift to the College of Engineering.

Alex Mora, a 2004 ME graduate has made a $50,000 gift to establish an endowed scholarship for engineering students who participate in the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) program with a preference for Mechanical Engineering majors.