2025 College of Engineering News

Disability Pride, Cyber Warriors, Spartan Racing Grit, Reset-Reinvent-Rise & Self-Driving Surprises!
July 29, 2025
Disability Pride Month is celebrated every July. A Day in the Life of a Cybersecurity
Advisor. Spartan Racing Contest.

Pride Month Spotlight, Aerospace Dreams & AI Ethical Dilemmas
June 24, 2025
From Wrenches to Rockets: Gavilan Alum Soars into SJSU’s Prestigious Aerospace Engineering Program. Silicon Valley cities hit with records requests for residents’ emails to train controversial AI – featuring Prof. Ahmed Banafa.

Top 10 in Coding Talent, ME Awards Highlights, and more!
May 20, 2025
CoE Software Engineering Ranked in Top 10 Nationwide in CodeSignal’s 2025 Report.
ME Awards Celebration. Why AI fails.

San Jose State University's engineering program leaps into top 10 in new ranking
May 13, 2025
San Jose State University is one of the top 10 universities to get an engineering degree, according to a new report.

Meet an SJSU Rocket Leader and Banafa’s Report on the Magnificent Seven!
May 6, 2025
Student Profile – Aashna Gajaria. Tech investing playbook

April 29, 2025
Student Profile – Fernando Sánchez López. Cloudathon. Grad Slam Winner.

From New Delhi to Design, CoE Showcase, Rechargeable Batteries, and more!
April 22, 2025
Student Profile – Udayveer Singh Grewal. API & SWANA Heritage Month – Rachid Yazami.
SJSU College of Engineering 2025 Showcase Kicks Off Research Week.

Full Throttle to The Future, ASD 2025 Highlights, Go Program Ends, and more!
April 15, 2025
Student Profile – Clarence Choi. Excitement in the Air as Admitted Spartans Visit the College of Engineering. API & SWANA Heritage Month – ATM Machine.
Health Tech Passion, BME Conference, API/SWANA Heritage Month, and TikTok Ban Extension!
April 8, 2025
Student Profile – Abel Atsbaha. Biomedical Conference Recap. API & SWANA Heritage Month.

Empowering Women in STEM, Highlights from WiE 2025, and 23andMe Data!
March 25, 2025
Student Profile – Aleeza Huraira. Inspiring 2025 WiE Conference. Prof. Ahmed Banafa
– 23andMe Data Deletion.

Beyond the Comfort Zone, Six Triple Eight, Silly Putty, AI Regulations, and more!
March 18, 2025
Student Profile – Bhavagyna Vegunta. Women History Month – 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. CommUniverCity Campus Tour.

Fixit Clinic’s Impact, Women in STEM, AI with Human Senses!
March 11, 2025
SJSU Day of Giving. Student Profile – Caroline Glaser. Women’s History Month. Human-Machine Interaction.

New College Magazine, SJSU Day of Giving, SOLES Event and more!
March 4, 2025
SJSU Day of Giving. Student Profile – Christian Alonso Catano. SOLES Event. Women’s
History Month.
New College Magazine, Lucid Student Internship, The “First” Black Figures, and more!
February 25, 2025
Student Profile – Alexander Wiley. Black History Month. AI Talks with Silicon Valley
Expert: $500B Stargate, Tech Hiring & Future! Ft. Dr Ahmed Banafa!
Scholarship to Master’s, Keeping the Locomotion in Motion, and AI Stops Thieves!
February 18, 2025
Student Profile – Alec Jaculina. Elijah McCoy was a Canadian-American engineer whose
ingenuity transformed the railroad and manufacturing industries. SWE members gathered
for their Gearring Making Socials event.

Tech for the People, the Black Top Gun, Cybersecurity
February 13, 2025
Student Profile – Sofia Silva. Lt. Col. James H. Harvey III was a trailblazing U.S.
Air Force officer and one of the Tuskegee Airmen. A year and a half ago, Hayward City
suffered a cyber attack.

Environmental Safety, Invisible Black Heroes, Quantum Computing Advancement, and more!
February 6, 2025
Student Profile – Joshua Bermea. Charlie Cheathem was a Black aerospace engineer, who worked at North American Aviation in Downey in the 1960s during the Apollo missions. Quantum computing is no longer just a futuristic concept—2025 marks the year it moves from theory to real-world impact.

Students Athlete, Deepseek, and more!
January 30, 2025
Student Profile – Genevieve Larkin. New Chinese AI app Deepseek impacting stock prices of Bay Area tech companies (KPIX) featuring Prof. Ahmed Banafa