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Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Club Video Contest, Women’s History Month, Robotaxis, and more!

March 7, 2024

Aburva Govindarajan Sangeetha, a graduating senior majoring in Engineering Technology with a minor in Business Administration at San Jose State University. Congratulations to our e-week contest winners. As we celebrate Women's History Month, it's only fitting that we take a moment to recognize the remarkable contributions of Edith Clarke.

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Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Club Video Contest, Black Engineer Award, SJSU Basketball, Cyber Security, and more!

February 29, 2024

Tram Do, a fourth-year student at San Jose State University. Thank you, everyone, for your fantastic video submissions! Bessie Coleman – First black woman to get a pilot’s license in 1921 and Kamora Freeland – Youngest black female to get a private pilot’s license in 2023.

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Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Club Video Contest, Black Engineer Award, SJSU Basketball, Exploring AI, and more!

February 22, 2024

Meet Jason Corona: A senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University. As we welcome Engineering Week, we are hosting our annual video contest. Ken Washington has recently won the 2024 Black Engineering of The Year award (BEYA). Professor Banafa interviews with Fox on the implications of OpenAI's latest breakthrough, Sora.

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Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Club Video Contest, Black History Month, Exploring AI, and more!

February 15, 2024

Muskaan Kapoor, a senior at San José State University (SJSU), embodies the essence of resilience, determination, and community engagement. As we welcome Engineering Week, we are hosting our annual video contest. Black Student Day at Hewlett Packard. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world, touching every aspect of our lives from healthcare and finance to transportation and entertainment.

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Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Black History Month, Exploring AI, and more!

February 8, 2024

Meet Matthew Khoa Hung, a first-year graduate student in M.S. Mechanical Engineering at San José State University. Black History Month celebrates a trio of inventions. Exploring the Challenges and Progress in AI Alignment.

David Parent demonstrates engineering concepts to Gavilan Community College Students as part of Project Engineering Success

Spartan Engineers: Student Profile, Spartan Racing, Helping Low-Income Students Succeed, and more!

February 1, 2024

Meet Indigo Ramey-Wright, a senior at San Jose State University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. SJSU is Part of the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Project – Giving Hispanic and Low-Income Students a Hand Up! Black History Month Celebrates Lanny Smoot of The Walt Disney Company.

Clots reveal anomalous elastic behavior of fiber networks

January 10, 2024

The adaptive mechanical properties of soft and fibrous biological materials are relevant to their functionality. The emergence of the macroscopic response of these materials to external stress and intrinsic cell traction from local deformations of their structural components is not well understood. 

Prof. Anand Ramasubramanian and Prof. John Lee were contributors to the paper.  

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We’re #1! SJSU is the Top Public University in the West for Best Value in New U.S. News and World Report Rankings

September 18, 2023

Nationally, the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering remains a powerhouse, ranking #6 among public universities — and #12 overall (up three spots from 2023 rankings) — on the Best Undergraduate Engineering Program – Non-Doctorate list.

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10 Best Colleges For Robotics Engineering in California

September 2, 2023

In recent years, the field of robotics engineering has witnessed significant advancements, making it one of the most promising and sought-after career paths. California, known for its innovation and technological developments, is home to several prestigious colleges that offer exceptional programs in robotics engineering.

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By the numbers: College degree earning potential

June 21, 2023

NBC Bay Area - Who needs an expensive college degree? If you’re getting a tech job in the Bay Area, it’s all about proximity. New numbers show that San Jose State grads make just as much money, if not more.

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Climate change could be creating more turbulence on flights, research shows

June 6, 2023

ABC7 News - Professor Fred Barez, Chair of the Aviation and Technology department joined the conversation with the abc7News on Tuesday, June 6 to add his insights to the studies. He demonstrated the research conducted in the Aviation lab when changes in atmospheric temperature create wind shear. As the Earth warms up, it radiates hot air and as the hot air moves up into the atmosphere it triggers what is known as clear air turbulence.

 Solar-powered automated transit would be above the ground-floor level. (Credit: Arturo Millan/RODZ+)

Hail a Ride on Overhead Solar Transit

April 3, 2023

SolarToday Magazine - We are designing a solar powered, grade-separated, automated transportation network system we call the Spartan Superway

Black History Month at SJSU

SJSU aims to increase number of Black engineers to help create diverse, worldwide solutions

February 16, 2023

ABC7 News - San Jose State University aims to increase the number of Black engineers to help create diverse, worldwide solutions.

Professor Folarin Erogbogbo and Black History Month

SJSU professor leads effort to support Black engineering students

February 19, 2023

CBS Bay Area - A San Jose State University professor is leading an effort to find mentors for Black science/engineering students. Devin Fehely reports.

Prof. Laura Sullivan-Green

SJSU Environmental Engineering Professor discusses likely storm impacts

Jan. 4, 2023

CBS Bay Area - Ryan Yamamoto interviews SJSU Prof. Laura Sullivan-Green about possible mudslides from arriving storm (1-4-2023)

Anil Kumar, Farzan Kazemifar and Crystal Han

SJSU Poised to Contribute to Cleaner, More Cost Efficient Energy Work Within Manufacturing Sector

June 13, 2022

SJSU’s Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering recently won a $1.4 million in federal grant funding as part of a new Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Program. Engineering students will be integral to the work that will be accomplished with the award.

Ahmed Banafa

Google Engineer Claims Piece of Software Has Feelings - NBC Bay Area

June 13, 2022

San Jose State University Professor Ahmed Banafa featured in article. 

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The Passing of the College’s Namesake

March 26, 2021

Remembering Alumnus and Generous Friend, Charles W. Davidson 1930-2021

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CIM Lab in 194 is “Abuzz” with Robotic Activity

March 8, 2021

New Hornet Robot Donated to College by Omron

Diagram of Comparison of the stream lines around the two pods

Improving the Hyperloop with Studies and Fins

February 19, 2021

SJSU Mechanical Engineering Student and Professor Publish Rare Paper

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How San Jose State College and its Department of Engineering Launched State School Accreditation

January 4, 2021

San Jose State University and its College of Engineering’s challenge against certain restrictions in 1953 created a watershed in the development of the state university system’s role in California education

SJSU Materials Engineering Designs Shine at Technical Meeting

April 8, 2020

Materials Engineering undergraduates from San Jose State University participated in a virtual technical presentation at the November joint technical meeting hosted by the Santa Clara Valley chapter of ASM International and the Northern California chapter of SAMPE, the world’s largest associations of metals and composites-centric materials engineers and scientists.

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SJSU Professor Badawy is Enlightening Photovoltaic Convertors

April 10, 2020

How would you like your residential solar photovoltaic system to operate at maximum efficiency, regardless of whether shade hits your solar panels? SJSU Electrical Engineering professor Mohamed Badawy and his students have created a differential power-processing architecture for a partially shaded photovoltaic string that could increase the extracted amount of solar energy by 15-30% compared to conventional systems.

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New MS program in Artificial Intelligence Coming in Fall 2020

April 10, 2020

The Davidson College of Engineering is launching a new Masters of Science program in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in fall 2020. The first cohort of the MSAI program will be offered through Engineering Extended Studies with one of the College of Engineering’s off-campus corporate partners.

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New Study Presents Mathematical Models to Pre-empt Gerrymandering

April 8, 2020

The unfair and non-competitive political redistricting process known as gerrymandering could be solved using new mathematical models and computer implementation, according to a recent study by a San Jose State University research team that appeared in Computers & Industrial Engineering, an Elsevier publication.