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Xufei Yang, a South Dakota State University assistant professor and Extension environmental quality engineer, is developing a novel method for assessing surface water quality through drone imagery and smells.

Moving trucks won’t be needed when the new head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University moves into the third-floor executive suite in Crothers Engineering Hall. Guanghui Hua will only have to move a few doors down the hallway when the environmental engineering professor becomes department head June 22. Hua was notified Feb. 7 by Sanjeev Kumar, dean of the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, that his candidacy was successful.

Ideas expressed by a South Dakota State University sophomore for advancing sustainable practices within the concrete industry has earned him a $2,000 scholarship from an industry partner. Jakob Burckhard, a concrete industry management major from Brookings, was one of five essay winners selected by CarbonCure, a Canadian-based carbon solutions technology firm for concrete.

Sushant Mehan, assistant professor and South Dakota State University Extension water resource specialist, is conducting a research project that will utilize satellite imagery to assess water quality in eastern South Dakota.

Ice cores analyzed by South Dakota State University researchers revealed that five major volcanic eruptions occurred in the 13th century, helping trigger a multi-century cooling period known as the "Little Ice Age."

South Dakota State University will serve as the host of a new National Science Foundation-backed Research Experiences for Undergraduates site aimed at disrupting the illicit economy.

Today Brock Aleshire is a field engineer with the heavy civil engineering contractor Kraemer North America drawing a salary his parents could only imagine. A year ago, he was a senior at South Dakota State majoring in construction management. The step from collegian to contractor is a big one, but not insurmountable, certainly not with the assistance of the SDSU Office of Career Development. Aleshire, now of Casselton, North Dakota, began using the free services of the Office of Career Development in his sophomore year and doesn’t regret the early start.

Some day the manual labor of harvesting chili peppers may be replaced by instructions in a computer manual. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to teach robots how to perform traditionally manual tasks such as planting, weeding and harvesting of specialty crops like berries, peppers and other fruits and vegetables. A team within South Dakota State University’s Machine Vision and Optical Sensor Lab in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering is studying that technology for three varieties of chili peppers. Assistant professor Pappu Yadav leads the lab and directed the 2024 study “AI-Driven Computer Vision for Detection and Pose Estimation of Chili Peppers for Robotic Harvesting.”

Sungyong Jung, professor and head of South Dakota State University's McComish Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is developing a system that will enable real-time monitoring of water quality in South Dakota's lakes, rivers and streams.

First impressions weren’t misleading for Delaney Baumberger, a first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering at South Dakota State University. When she visited campus as a senior at Blair High School just north of Omaha, Nebraska, the school wasn’t as distant as the 216 miles would suggest. Her dad, Patrick Baumberger, and several uncles had graduated from the SDSU engineering program, “so I grew up hearing about its strong reputation. When it came time to tour colleges in the Midwest, SDSU was an obvious choice to check out.” One experience in particular helped her realize that attending Dad’s alma mater made sense.