The ACSESS program helps build expertise in key, industrially important areas. By making excellence in research and commitment to interdisciplinary work primary criteria for the hiring of faculty, SDSU is growing a unique interdisciplinary faculty base. Out of this wide base of expertise, advisors that fit the specific industrial problem quite closely can be found.

The list below presents fields of research deemed strategically important to industry yet fit well with our mission goals. In these fields, we currently have expertise in the various departments within the College of Sciences, and have an opportunity to establish a national presence. All of these fields are characterized as playing a prominent role in computation, as well as by their simultaneous relevance to a number of traditional industrially important disciplines. Furthermore, these fields have excellent funding opportunities, not only with national agencies such as the National Science Foundation, but also with the private sector. The various areas of science encompassed by these fields are listed in parentheses.

	Fluid Dynamics (Engineering, Astrophysics, Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Geology)
	Materials Science (Chemistry, Physics, Engineering)
	Biophysics (Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics)
	Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Pattern Formation (Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Engineering, Economics)
	Environmental Science (Biology, Physics, Geology, Engineering)
	Computational Biology (Computer Science, Biology, Math, Physics)
	Bioinformatics (Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry)