Breaking into top tier in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
SDSU engineering students are competing against the best of all possible competition to build a product to operate in the worst of all possible conditions.
Project Jack Drop: Turning a great idea into a workable product
Project Jack Drop is tethering its hopes in a NASA contest to a helium-filled balloon in a remote South Dakota field. The project is one of three entries submitted by SDSU teams that have advanced to the finals of three different NASA contests.
ANTS crew anxious to compete
ANTS, short for Artemis Navigating Transporter System, is one of 15 finalists in the 2023 RASC-AL competition, which is short for Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage. Five mechanical engineering majors and their adviser, associate professor Todd Letcher, built a lunar surface transporter vehicle. There were four different RASC-AL challenges this year, and SDSU was one of four finalists selected in the lunar vehicle contest.
South Dakota State recognizes student work at URSCAD
South Dakota State University held its annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Day April 20 in the University Student Union’s Volstorff Ballroom.
Basu Lab awarded grant to continue work on fluid mechanics of cancer
The Basu Lab, housed in South Dakota State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and headed by assistant professor Saikat Basu, has been named the recipient of a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the fluid mechanics of transport in dense cancerous tumors.
Faculty, staff honored at Engineering Banquet
Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering had an opportunity to honor its own during the annual awards banquet April 26 in Club 71 at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium.
SDSU celebrates patent, program that encourages innovation
South Dakota State University’s Rich Normality Design Collaborative (RNDC), a multiprogram collaboration at the university, celebrated a patent-signing event on campus April 19. The patent was issued in April 2022 for a connector device that promotes children’s building skills, and the event was used to highlight RNDC’s evolution at State and how the initiative helps build a pipeline of creative and innovative thinkers.