FEATURE

Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering

By Cassie Myers

Stories that highlight experiential learning


An Exoskeleton for Every Body


CHiPPing Away at the Future


A Study Abroad Program With an Engineering Twist


Engineering a Bridge From Internship to Career

Consistently ranked among nationally renowned programs, the Davidson College of Engineering is the leading provider of engineering talent to Silicon Valley. Strategic priorities include creating innovative and experiential learning environments and strengthening community partnerships. Learn more about the amazing hands-on experiences available to faculty, staff, students and alumni alike.

Video courtesy of Mojtaba Sharifi.

An Exoskeleton for Every Body

Take a step — just one. The amount of muscles, nerves, cells, joints and countless other interactions that have to proceed successfully in order to take that one step are enormous — but if you’ve had full mobility all your life, you most likely took that step for granted.

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CHiPPing Away at the Future

Danitza Hernandez, ’25 Materials Engineering, could hardly believe it: just two years ago, she’d been sleeping in a restaurant next to a grease trap while attending community college, and now here she was, working in the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Here she was, in a clean room in full gear (including a suit, hairnet, mask and gloves) cutting silicon wafers and spin coating them with polypeptoids in order to help make electronic chips smaller and more efficient.

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Danitza Hernandez, ’25 Materials Engineering, working on her CHiPPS project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Photo courtesy of Ricardo Ruiz.

Students in the Global Technology Institute (GTI) program journey to Jyväskylä, Finland to take short courses on engineering, leadership, psychology and business. Photo courtesy of Maiken Pardon.

A Study Abroad Program With an Engineering Twist

When you start an engineering degree program at San José State, you probably don’t imagine that part of your curriculum will include being whisked away to the land of the midnight sun to study robotics and psychology, jet ski and visit a sauna company.

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Engineering a Bridge From Internship to Career

Engineering students get a taste of industry in the Jabil Scholars program, working on interdisciplinary senior design projects for school credit and hands-on, real-world experience.

The transition from college to the “real world” is often a difficult one — the gap between classroom knowledge and workplace knowhow can be significant, even for the most dedicated students. The Jabil Scholars Program at San José State University hopes to bridge this gap, allowing engineering majors to get a taste of what work is like at a major company.

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A Jabil scholar hard at work on her project. Photo courtesy of Heri Herrera.

Top photo courtesy of Mojtaba Sharifi.

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