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Dare Mighty Things: Planets align for mechanical engineer Amanda Gates
From sunny San Diego to the windswept Martian landscape, Amanda Gates ’16 (BS/BA) is charting her own path. A nuclear research engineer with the…
Influencer Marketing with Heart and Humility
Before “influencer” became a household word, Baxter Box ’06 and his wife, Amber Venz Box, had a vision for channeling her fashion in…
Pandemic Lessons Learned: A Student's Perspective
As hard as times may be, there is always a light we can look towards. That was what pushed me through this past summer and into the present day past t…
Starpoint Accelerator: Rewarding Student Innovation
As the sun broke out from behind wispy clouds revealing a crisp blue San Diego skyline, nine innovative student entrepreneurship teams were queuing up…
SMSE Celebrates Women’s History Month: Challenging the Status Quo
The Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering (SMSE) asks current and past women engineers and computer scientists to share how their experiences within USD…
Venkat Shastri, PhD Named Engineering Spotlight Award Recipient
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." — Albert Ein…
Black Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science
In honor of Black History Month, we talked to three successful engineering alumni and asked them to share their thoughts on the importance of supporti…
Black History Month: Celebrating Diversity, Leadership and Community
Black History Month is a national annual celebration, held throughout the month of February, to recognize critical events and important achievements b…
Picture This: Eliott Watson's Focus is Off-Road Racing, Success in Engineering
The University of San Diego was just one of then high school student Eliott Watson’s college choices when it happened. He was participating in a…
Candid Snapshot Conversations with Latinx Alumni
As we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month from September 15 - October 15, we reached out to USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering alumni to share thei…
USD Rugby's Mickey Miller ‘20: Anxious to Get Back on the Pitch
The Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering reached out to recent electrical engineering alumnus and USD rugby player, Michael (Mickey) Miller ‘20, …
Journey Around My Room Video Series: Elisa Lurkis, Director of Development and Alumni Relations
Based on USD's Humanities Center's video series, USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering faculty, staff and students take us on a journey around the…
In Good Company Video Series: Nicholas Menz '22
Based on USD's Humanities Center's video series, USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering faculty, staff, and students share creative pieces (music, …
Journey Around My Room Video Series: Susan Lord, PhD
Based on USD's Humanities Center's video series, USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering faculty, staff and students take us on a journey around the…
Career Development Center Debuts Faculty Recognition Awards
The University of San Diego has outstanding faculty members throughout its academic schools. Students know it. Administrators, fellow faculty and staf…
Journey Around My Room Video Series: Sam Przywitowski
Based on USD's Humanities Center's video series, USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering faculty, staff and students take us on a journey around the…
A Conversation with 2020-21 Associated Student Government Vice President-Elect, Justin Daus
With student government elections behind him, Justin Daus looks forward to fulfilling his role as Associated Student Government (ASG) Vice President i…
In Good Company Video Series: G. Bryan Cornwall, PhD, PEng
Based on USD's Humanities Center's video series, USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering faculty, staff, and students share creative pieces (music, …
For Alumnus Adam Krebs '15, Failure is Not an Option
Join us for a Q & A with mechanical engineering alumnus Adam Krebs ‘15. Krebs currently serves as a manufacturing and mechanical engineer fo…
USD Underdogs Prevail
An unprecedented two Industrial and Systems Engineering teams from the University of San Diego were winners in this year's Simio Student Simulation Co…
Steve Saxer Named Engineering Spotlight Award Recipient
“If you break something, you have to fix it.” Words to live by in the Saxer household, when USD’s Mechanical Shop Manager Steve Saxe…
USD Alumni Dominick, Kim Graduate Astronaut Training Program with Eye on Travel to the Moon... and Beyond
As recent graduates of NASA's Astronaut Training Program, Matthew Dominick ’05 and Jonny Kim ’12 are now members of a very exclusive commu…
Susan Lord, PhD, Named Engineering Spotlight Award Recipient
“I was always well suited to be an engineer,” admits Susan Lord, chair and professor of integrated engineering and professor of electrical…
Dressed for Success
Get up close and personal with electrical engineering alumnus Baxter Box ’06, CEO of rewardStyle — a monetized platform for fashion, beaut…
Into the E-Maelstrom
Late in 1988, a college student named Robert Morris wrote a program designed to propagate across the network of computers and terminals that was yet t…
Arica Christensen Rises to the Challenge
This summer, Arica Christensen, a rising senior at the University of San Diego studying Industrial and Systems Engineering, was one of 400 interns sel…
Deep Bedi '11: Engineering Alum, former SIBC President Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Asia
Intrapreneurship is the ability to be an entrepreneur within a large organization. But spend five minutes with Deep Bedi, and you’ll quickly see…
Computer Science Graduate Makes the Most of Her Years at USD
Computer science senior Taylor Wong is president of USD’s Association for Computing Machinery. She’s also an Industry Scholar, member of M…
John Glick, PhD Named Faculty Spotlight Award Recipient
Professor and Chair of Computer Science at USD’s Shiley Marcos School of Engineering did not start out his academic journey in the field of comp…
USD: Home Away From Home
As the crow flies, the distance between Saudi Arabia and San Diego is 8,366 miles — roughly an 16-hour flight. For a 17-year-old venturing out a…