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  • SDSU announces ’24 Distinguished Alumni

    From finance to food, six graduates who have risen to the top in their respective fields have been selected for the 2024 Class of Distinguished Alumni by the South Dakota State University Alumni Association.

  • The South Dakota workforce of the future

    South Dakota State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering hosted industry professionals, higher education leaders, researchers and policymakers at the 2024 IEEE-USA IWRC Dakotas to bridge the gap between research and commercially viable products in light of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.

  • SDSU enters into partnership with Maguire Iron

    South Dakota State University's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering has entered into a partnership with Maguire Iron to develop a computer-based program to efficiently design and estimate the cost of water towers.

  • Offroad continues to improve in Baja SAE contest

    The SDSU entry in Baja SAE continues to score more points in the annual contest overseen by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
    This year at Baja SAE Williamsport hosted by Pennsylvania College of Technology at Montgomery, the team earned 360.95 points and placed 47th overall out of 110 college teams (57th percentile) from the United States, Brazil and Canada from May 15-19.
    Last year the team ranked 49th out of 86 teams (43rd percentile) with 311 points.

  • Jackrabbit in the spotlight—Allea Klauenberg / A story of trials, triumphs and determination

    Allea Klauenberg long thought her career would be in engineering. As a child growing up on an acreage near Ogden, Iowa, 30 miles west of Ames, she played with Tinkertoys and Legos, not Barbies.
    “I always knew I wanted to do engineering. I just didn’t know the focus,” Klauenberg, who choose mechanical because she was told it was the broadest field of engineering. So broad, it could take her into the field of aerospace and give her an opportunity to be a leader in South Dakota State University’s Space Trajectory project.

  • So close: SDSU comes up just short for quarter-scale tractor threepeat

    By the narrowest of margins — two points out of more than 2,000 — the SDSU Quarter Scale Tractor Team came up just short of winning its third consecutive national title. Competing at the 27th annual International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition at the Expo Gardens Fairgrounds in Peoria, Illinois, the South Dakota State University team placed third out of 21 teams.

  • SDSU rover design places third in NASA’s RASC-AL contest

    Competing against the best and the brightest, a South Dakota State University engineering team finished third overall in a NASA contest and again was awarded for building the best prototype. The SDSU students were one of 14 teams selected from 75 higher education entries to compete in the finals of the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition June 10-12 in Cocoa Beach, Florida.