Engineering News Winter 2016

Over the past year, the debate over inclusivity has heated up on a number of fronts, particularly in regard to marriage, border control, and most recently humanitarianism. Here, Dean Godfrey Mungal shares how the School of Engineering champions inclusivity.

A conversation with Tokunbo Ogunfunmi

In celebration of Black History Month and National Engineers Week, Aldo Billingslea, SCU’s associate provost for diversity and inclusion, sat down for a chat with the School of Engineering’s first black professor, electrical engineering’s Tokunbo Ogunfunmi.

Pizza may be the draw initially, but students keep coming back to the award winning IEEE student chapter meetings for the innovative and creative programs, field trips, career workshops, camaraderie, and so much more.

Allison Kopf ’11, led SCU’s 2011 Solar Decathlon team to its Third Place win. Now she and her business partner took the $50,000 grand prize in TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield for their software deemed the "Google Analytics for Greenhouses."

Assistant Professor Prashanth Asuri is not only equipping SCU students to enjoy successful careers in bioengineering and biomedical science, he’s also inspiring high school students to consider these paths through his new enterprise, SE3D Education.

Bioengineering senior Mohit Nalavadi, a member of our student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, shares his experience of bringing labor-saving technology to a village in Rwanda in this account that first appeared on washingtonpost.com.

With over 600,000 computing job openings nationwide, but less than 40,000 computer science students graduating into the workforce, our country desperately needs to feed the K-12 pipeline, and Associate Professor Dan Lewis is working tirelessly to do just that.

Terry E. Shoup, Ph.D., mechanical engineering professor and former dean of the School of Engineering, has been awarded Honorary Membership in ASME in recognition of his distinctive career contributions as a researcher and educator, and service to the engineering profession.