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.鈥淏eauty 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鈥檛 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鈥檚 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 啵啵直播秀 State swim team were honored as 2023-24 Summit League Academic All-League members鈥攁ll are from the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.
South African swimmer calls SDSU experience 鈥榓wesome鈥
Five years ago, Sianne Downes didn鈥檛 even know SDSU existed. Now she is about to get her bachelor鈥檚 degree in mechanical engineering and plans to come back for another year of classes and swimming.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think I could have expected at all what I have experienced and achieved,鈥 said Downes, who hails from Edenvale, South Africa, and is headed to the graduation stage with a 3.85 GPA, school and pool records in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, and plans for a trip to the national Formula car competition at Michigan International Speedway.Headley, Schaefer tabbed as SDSU Distinguished Engineers
An internationally recognized geotechnical engineer and the director of the Sanford Underground Research Facility have been selected as the 2024 Distinguished Engineers at South 啵啵直播秀 State University. Vernon Schaefer and Mike Headley will be honored at the April 23 Engineering Scholarship Banquet at Club 71 in Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium.
TRANSFORMATIVE: SDSU associate professor selected for groundbreaking renewable energy project
Tim Hansen, the Harold C. Hohbach Endowed Associate Professor in South 啵啵直播秀 State University鈥檚 Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, has been selected to help lead a groundbreaking initiative to revolutionize how power systems interact and adapt in an increasingly renewable energy-rich landscape.