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Life is a little sweeter for SCU students according to this report.

Feeding the growing need and interest in understanding and solving environmental problems around the world, the School of Engineering announces a new master's degree program in sustainable energy

At just 19 years old, computer engineering sophomore Diane Keng is already a serial entrepreneur.

Ed Maurer has a well-earned reputation as an expert on sustainable water resources development.

$1.3 million gift from alumnus helps create some of the country's top students in the field of renewable energy.

Civil Engineer contributes to climate change research.

Come and witness the future of engineering as our seniors present their capstone projects. All are welcome.

In March, the Engineering Education Service Center ran a "Sing the Song of Engineering" Contest. Of 32 submissions, 3 of the 7 winning entries came from SCU's freshman class taking our Introduction to Engineering course, ENGR 1!

Patrick Neill won first place with his band Infinity Squared and their song "Ode to Engineers." Brian Hammond, Robert Golterman, and Robert Ross took third place for their song chronicling great engineering innovations over time. And the band, Mech Attack, featuring Arturo Nunez Perez, Jasper Adamek-Bowers, and Victor Ojeda, received an honorable mention for their tribute to engineering.

Freshmen were offered the chance to submit an entry in the contest as one of a number of options they could choose from for their final project, reports Ruth Davis, associate dean of undergraduate programs. “We were very impressed with the talent exhibited by our engineers,” she said, “and we’re delighted the students performed so well in the competition.”

Find the songs and lyrics here.

The complexity of today's global engineering problems requires the use of both sides of the brain to devise technologically-innovative and ethical solutions. School of Engineering Dean Godfrey Mungal explores how engineering schools are changing curricula to educate ethical, compassionate, and innovative engineers.

The School of Engineering celebrates National Engineers Week, Feb. 20-26, 2011, with lots of great activities! See our website for full details: www.scu.edu/engineering/eweek

Mechanical Engineering Professor Terry Shoup was honored by the Silicon Valley Engineering Council at a banquet during National Engineers Week, February 24. Read his acceptance speech here.

On Friday, Nov. 18 at 5:24 pm PST, an Air Force rocket is scheduled to launch from Kodiak Alaska, deploying four satellites that are part of the SCU Robotics Systems Laboratory (RSL) program, announced RSL Director, Christopher Kitts.

The first satellite, O/OREOS, is a NASA Ames Research Center biological sciences spacecraft that SCU students will control for one year. The second, NanoSail-D2, is a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center test of solar sail technology which SCU students will monitor for about two weeks. The last two satellites, FASTRAC A and B, are student-designed satellites created in collaboration with colleagues and students at UT Austin; all of the flight computers on board FASTRAC are SCU designed.  FASTRAC will demonstrate several satellite formation flying technologies.

The NASA satellites will be controlled from SCU's Satellite Mission Control Room in the School of Engineering, using an antenna suite on top of the Bannan Engineering Building which includes two parabolic dishes and a dual Yagi antenna suite. In addition, automated receive-only communication stations installed across the country will relay satellite status data back to SCU mission control via the Internet. 

"It is worth noting," said Kitts, "that SCU is the only university in the country that provides comprehensive mission control and distributed communications network services to NASA with a student operations team. The student operations team consists of students ranging from freshman to doctoral candidates, and students operating the spacecraft are trained and certified by enrolling for academic credit in a novel 'Satellite Operations Laboratory' course (which includes the control of a real NASA satellite as the lab exercise!).  Student involvement beyond operating the satellites includes engineering development of the control network, ranging from undergraduates working on senior capstone projects to graduate students working on thesis research." Kitts also notes that while NASA is supporting students to perform some of this work, much of the engineering infrastructure the Lab uses for this purpose has been funded through grants ranging from internal support from SCU's Technology Steering Committee to external research projects funded by the National Science Foundation.

Barring a launch delay, the  Lab plans to hold a launch party on Friday evening starting around 5 pm in the Mission Control Room area; live video from the launch site will be available for monitoring activities.  For the NASA missions, the Lab maintains two public 'dashboards' providing information on the status of the spacecraft and their experiments.  Over the past week alone, these dashboard web pages have received more than 36,000 page views:

O/OREOS Dashboard

NanoSail-D2 Dashboard

Read more.

One year after Santa Clara University won third place in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon, the award-winning, solar-powered house is finally going up permanently.

Read Brian Reeves' testimonial on Facebook.

The School of Engineering is now offering a Renewable Energy Certificate for graduate students.

The Bioengineering Program is seeking a tenure-track faculty member. See details here.

U.S. News ranks SCU No. 2 in the West and School of Engineering climbs to No. 17 nationally.