SDSU, a federally designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI), provides unique a skill set, earned and optimized by through its role as the flag-ship campus of the education and service-oriented California State University (CSU) system. SDSU has been on the forefront of designing and implementing innovative public-private-academic clusters, targeted at bridging the lab-to-life gap in industries as diverse as energy, defense, homeland security, biotech and high-tech.