On many college campuses, after listening to conversations around the coffee pot, you begin to notice a trend in faculty comments: students aren’t prepared in math and physics, they spend too much time on ______ (fill in whatever the latest technology of the day is), and are not motivated to understand the way the world behaves using 500-year-old equations with arrows, dots, crosses, etc. Nevertheless, teachers always want to inspire students to learn...

Read more about IMPACT LA...

Cal State LA has been selected to participate in the nationwide Battery Workforce Challenge, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at advancing electric vehicle technology and combating climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy and Stellantis recently launched the competition to address the unprecedented demand for a domestic EV/Battery workforce.

Read more about the Battery Workforce Challenge...

Our ECST motto, “Commit to Excellence. Engage in Community,” is personified in three of our recent alumni who went on to receive doctoral degrees at UCLA, UCSD, and Purdue and are now returning to our Cal State LA community as assistant professors in 2023/24! We hope you enjoy learning more about these new faculty members and what motivated them to return to Cal State LA. Read more about our new faculty...

ECST has been working with partner community colleges to ensure common learning outcomes for courses that transfer between the institutions, develop clear roadmaps of the courses students need to take at their community college and at Cal State LA, and provide peer-mentoring to support students before and after they transfer. Read more about STAR...

A new ECST project titled "Additive Manufacturing on the Moon: Exploring the Potential of Laser Wire Directed Energy Deposition for Metallic Component Fabrication" has been selected to receive $900K from NASA's MUREP Space Technology Artemis Research (M-STAR) program to pursue research, educational, and outreach activities on Metal 3D Printing for potential implementation on the Moon. Read more about the additive manufacturing on the Moon grant...

The grant project, “Diversifying Student Pipelines in STEM: Environmental Pollution Reduction Inspired by Planetary Science,” involves collaborators from Cal State LA, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and

Cal Poly Pomona. The two-year grant was awarded through NASA’s Bridge Program, designed to boost diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within the NASA workforce and the U.S. science and engineering community. Read more about the Diversifying Student Pipelines in STEM grant...

ECST's MESA Center proudly hosted its 19th annual MESA STEM Day in Partnership with Boeing on October 21st, 2023. This enduring collaboration between the ECST MESA Program and Boeing has become an important regional Fall event that encourages local middle and high school students to attend college and pursue a STEM degree. Read more about MESA STEM Day 2023 with Boeing...

Dr. David Blekhman is one of only four faculty and one staff member in the 23 CSU campuses to be selected this year. The award honors faculty and staff for unwavering commitment to student achievement and advancing the system’s mission through excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Read more about Dr. Blekhman...

Dr. J. Chris Bachman is passionate about promoting the growth of the next generation of exceptional critical thinkers and takes great pride in seeing students make big impacts in industry, government, and academia. Read more about Dr. Bachman...

The four-year grant from the NIH Support for Research Excellence program will support research on computer-aided drug design. Five students will work on the project each year. Student research assistants will help design and develop a hybrid computational model. They will also clean, optimize, and organize data.

Read more about the NIH Support for Research Excellence Grant...