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  • SDSU a NASA finalist … again! Engineering students develop design for crater-exploring rover

    Please provide a story summary.Building on the tradition of past student entries in NASA contests, another group of South Dakota State University engineering students has advanced to the finals of a NASA contest.
    This year’s group of five mechanical engineering students will appear before NASA judges to present their idea and prototype of a rover that can explore rugged and permanently shadowed lunar south pole craters searching for water, ice and other volatiles. They are one of 14 teams nationwide that will be in Cocoa Beach, Florida, June 10-12.

  • Engineering Expo to feature student projects

    South Dakota State University’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering invites the public to the Raven Precision Agriculture Center to view engineering students’ innovative project designs. The public is welcome to attend Tuesday, April 23, from 9-10 a.m. and noon-3 p.m. with an award ceremony to follow. This event features 39 teams presenting their senior design projects.

  • SDSU research recognized at construction engineering and management conference

    SDSU assistant professor Phuong Nguyen's research was recognized at the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2024 Construction Research Congress.

  • Building a seed-planting drone on a tight budget

    Johnny Appleseed became an American legion in the first half of the 19th century for his apple tree-planting endeavors. In the first half of the 21st century, a group of nine SDSU engineering students are hoping to make tree planting a viable high-tech operation anywhere in the world.
    They form a senior design team that is creating a seed pod drone and dispenser that is sponsored by Jerry Natzel of Owatonna, Minnesota.

  • Pi Day 2024

    Please provide a story summary.“Beauty is in the Pi of the Beholder" reads the T-shirt of Elizabeth Elsen, a sophomore math and data science major from Yankton. Elsen submitted the winning entry for this year's shirt design. She poses by a quilt made of former Pi Day shirts. Because SDSU was on spring break for actual Pi Day on March 14, the event was observed by the Math Club on March 19.

  • Robotics club builds autonomous sprayer

    Connoisseurs say a good wine can’t be rushed. Perhaps the same could be said about a good autonomous vineyard sprayer.
    Since spring 2022, the SDSU Robotics Club has been working on a project for alum Jerry Natzel of Owatonna, Minnesota, to build an autonomous sprayer for his vineyard. The project’s history predates that. But by late April, the club hopes to have all the bugs worked out of this bug-spraying machine.

  • SDSU engineers dominate all-league swim team selections

    Please provide a story summary.Five members of the South Dakota State swim team were honored as 2023-24 Summit League Academic All-League members—all are from the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.