Aerospace Engineering News

NASA has recently selected nine space technologies for flight testing to advance innovations that addressmission needs for both the agency and the commercial space industry.

Graduate student Thomas Ridgeway has been selected as one of the 30 student recipients nationwide to receive the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program (a Selective mentorship and internship program inspiring the next generation of commercial spaceflight leaders).

Master of science in aerospace engineering graduate Ryan Callan is the inaugural awardee of the MSAE Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

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.

Four SDSU faculty members have been ranked among the Top 2% of Aerospace & Aeronautics engineering authors worldwide.

San Diego State University Rocket Project celebrates ribbon cutting ceremony for the Dr. Richard Woodcock Rocket Project Student Laboratory on October 28th.

SDSU Engineering PhD student Maricruz Carrillo talks about overcoming difficulties of being a graduate student and how she supplements her life/income with her passion project: Menos Waste.

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.

The Design Build Fly competition last Spring was held at Wichita, Kansas. A total of 16 SDSU DBF students drove there by car to participate in the competition. The event proved to be a great experience for the entire team.