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FALL QUARTER | October 14, 2015
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I hope everyone took some relaxation time this summer and you've had a successful start to the academic year - our last year on academic quarters! Our enrollment has us stretching at the seams and many of you have fit extra students into your classes. We've made some great strides in the past year, and I know this year will be no different. I am especially looking forward to implementing initiatives and programs that support our strategic plan commitments and that boost student success, help facilitate a more balanced workload, and build a stronger community within our College. You can find our strategic plan at
http://www.calstatela.edu/ecst/ecst-strategic-plan
I hope you'll take a moment to scroll through these newsletters as they come to you each week - you'll read about your own successes and those of your colleagues and our students; and you'll learn about opportunities or deadlines you'll want to be aware of. I hope throughout the year you will continue to provide me with your feedback and ideas through our n
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Thank you once again for your hard work and dedication to ECST. I look forward to another great year ahead!
-Emily
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NASA Day! Friday, October 16
Faculty lunch with NASA 11:30 AM,
RSVP
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ECST Open House Sponsored by Boeing and Sempra, Saturday, October 24, 9-3. For more information about volunteering, showing your lab or mobilizing students to help, contact Thelma Federico
TFederico@calstatela.edu
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Kudos to the following PIs and co-PIs for successfully funded proposals which have been awarded over the summer:
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Adel Sharif (ME), co-PI (with PI Oscar Bernal in Physics) "Program for Research and Education in Materials," NSF - $3.3M.
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Mark Tufenkjian (CE), PI, "Naval STEM Program at Cal State LA," DoD - $581K.
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Tona Rodriguez-Nikl (CE), PI, "MRI: Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art Shake Table System to Enhance Teaching and Research at California State University, Los Angeles," NSF - $279K
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Nancy Warter-Perez (EE), co-PI with PI from CSUN, "Liberal Arts in Engineering Education Planning Grant," Teagle Foundation, $9K.
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Mark Tufenkjian (CE), PI, "Non-Contact Geophysical Methods to Predict Near-Surface Seafloor Soil Properties," ONR - $514K.
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Jane Dong (Associate Dean), co-PI with PI from SJSU, "First in the World," DoEd - $600K sub-award (of $3M grant total).
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David Blekhman, PI, "Support for EcoCAR3 Project," South Coast AQMD - $100K.
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The Cal State LA Hydrogen Fueling & Research Facility welcomed Toyota to fill-up its new Mirai week as it continues to explore alternative energy options.
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CE Professor Hassan Hashemian, assisted by CE Dept Coordinator Donna Melendez, hosted 52 middle school and 57 high school students in the Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at Cal State L.A. over the summer. According to Professor Hashemian, "students participated in a number of exciting, competitive group activities such as constructing and testing pop bottle rockets, building bridges, and even flying an actual airplane at the Flabob Airport in Riverside as part of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Career Education (ACE) Academy. By their program graduation, students had a whole new set of career opportunities to consider."
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John Shamma, CE Lecturer, was awarded the Cal State LA outstanding lecturer for 2015-16. An engineer at the
Metropolitan Water District, Mr. Shamma runs the Civil Engineering Senior Design program.
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Quarter 2 Semester News
California State University, Los Angeles is converting to semesters. The first term on the semester calendar will be Fall 2016. Q2S
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