Retired SDSU employees provide funding for 50th, 51st endowed leadership positions
Two couples with more than a century of combined service to South Dakota State University have made financial commitments to push the university’s Bold & Blue comprehensive campaign past an important milestone. University and campaign officials established a goal to have commitments for 50 endowed positions by the end of Bold & Blue. At the campaign’s start in 2017, there were 13. That number has now grown to 51.
Break the Ice testing underway
SDSU was one of 15 groups nationwide selected as a finalist to grind and deliver 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) of concrete daily for 15 consecutive days. A variety of cameras are continuously recording the operation so NASA can verify the work, which must be done autonomously.
Exploring science around the world
While the gold has been gone from the former Homestake Mine in Lead for many years, it still holds a treasure for current and would-be scientists. One of them is Connor Matthies, an incoming sophomore mechanical engineering and computer science double major at SDSU.
Garry honored by national engineering society
Byron Garry, an associate professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Construction and Operations Management, was honored by the American Society for Engineering Education as the "North Midwest Section Outstanding Campus Representative, 2023."
Faculty Research Spotlight: Michael Puthawala
Last semester, Michael Puthawala made the 8,000-mile journey to Kigali, Rwanda, for the 11th annual International Conference on Learning Representations. Puthawala, a South Dakota State University assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the CAPITAL Services scholar in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is a relatively new faculty member at SDSU but is already making significant contributions to his academic area of expertise: machine learning.
Lohr College of Engineering welcomes new cohort of student-researchers
A new cohort of eager student researchers have descended on South Dakota State University's campus for another session of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
Wehbe named interim head of Construction and Operations Management
Nadim Wehbe, who has served as head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since May 2014, will have an additional title for the start of the coming school year.