College pursuing student recruitment in India
While 3+1+1 is an awfully simple equation for an engineering student, Dean Sanjeev Kumar hopes the answer brings SDSU’s enhanced global footprint and increased enrollment to the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering and SDSU.
Searching for solutions to America's infrastructure problem
Infrastructure—like roads, bridges, dams and airports—form the backbone of society and are essential to economic development. In 2021, the United States earned a "C-" grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers for its infrastructure. One of America's most critical sectors—roadways—earned a "D." It was a troubling sign that the country's key lifeline is crumbling.
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.