San Jose State has about 1,600 faculty members, 87 percent of which hold doctorate degrees.Research collections located at SJSU include the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and the Martha H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Research.SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, the Cisco Networking
Laboratory, and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.It is also home to various institutes, such as the Mineta
Transportation Institute. Since 2001, the university has operated the Survey and Policy Research Institute (SPRI), which conducts the quarterly,
high-profile Silicon Valley Consumer Confidence Survey and other research projects.
Noted faculty members
- Elbert Botts -- chemist,
inventor of the epoxy used to secure Botts dots.
- Mark Fruin -- expert on
Japanese business
- Alejandro L. Garcia
[12] -- physicist, author of Numerical Methods for Physics
- Larry Gerston --
political commentator, expert on California politics and co-author of
Recall: California's Political Earthquake
- Daniel Goldston --
mathematician, develops methods for proving that there are arbitrarily large primes that are unusually close together
- Kevin Jordan -- psychologist,
works closely with NASA in developing the Human Factors Research and Technology Program
- Tom Layton -- archaeologist,
documented origin of the shipwreck "Frolic" off the Mendocino coast, for which he has received national media attention
- Rudy Rucker -- computer science professor and science fiction author
- Randall Stross -
author of eBoys, Microsoft Secrets and Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
- Yosh Uchida -- head coach, SJSU
Judo Team, 1964 U.S. Olympic Judo Team (also an alumnus --
BS Biology, 1947)
- Donald West -- chemist,
co-author of Analytical chemistry, an introduction, the standard first year textbook in the field