[Faculty] Fwd: Engineering's Not found list for 2104 inventory June 2014

[Subrata Bhattacharjee]

Hi Monte,


 It is an open secret that even though the lottery money is strictly meant
for teaching purposes, most equipment are used for the dual purpose of
teaching and research. While most reasonable people would find nothing
wrong with that, what has been painful to watch over the years is the
misuse of state fund due to lack of accountability. Even a cursory look at
the list you sent out will show only couple of names (Meti and Greg)
associated with all the equipment. But there is a good chance that some of
these equipment may have been used for the dual purpose I mentioned. I have
been advocating for a long time that we associate a faculty name with each
piece of state funded equipment. This has some obvious benefit (holding
someone responsible for the  upkeep of the equipment, a college wide
inventory of top-of-the line equipment as a bragging right)  and very
little downside. The lack of transparency creates an impression that maybe
some people or department are receiving bigger portion of the fund than
they deserve. And this is not without basis;  as you know very well,
decisions were made quite arbitrarily at Darryl's office.

I am writing this open letter so that a discussion is started and you can
get input from other faculty to see if they consider this an important
enough issue for you to come up with a lasting solution to this problem.

Thanks,

Sooby

Subrata (Sooby) Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., ASME Fellow
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Monte Mehrabadi <mehrabadi at sdsu.edu>
wrote:

> Please check the attached "Not Found List for 2104 Inventory" and in case
> you know the whereabouts of any of these items, let our IT personnel know.
> Thank you.
>
> Monte
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lesley Bryant <lbryant at mail.sdsu.edu>
> Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:57 PM
> Subject: Engineering's Not found list for 2104 inventory June 2014
> To: Monte Mehrabadi <mehrabadi at sdsu.edu>
>
>
>  Monte,
>
> I received the latest update from Chris Bronsdon regarding the 2013/14
> equipment inventory.  8 items were located since we spoke in mid May
> leaving a total of 61 items still missing.  As you know, unless the
> equipment items are located they must be written off the inventory.  A step
> that holds us all accountable for the loss.  If there is anything more that
> your team can do to ensure the best outcome for the inventory process it
> must be done swiftly.  Business Services and the Controller must close the
> process and report the findings at the close of this fiscal year.
>
> The updated list of Engineering's missing/unaccounted equipment is
> attached.   If I can answer any questions please let me know.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Lesley
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: Fwd: Not found list for 2104
> inventory June 2014  Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:46:13 -0700  From: Christopher
> Bronsdon <cbronsdo at mail.sdsu.edu> <cbronsdo at mail.sdsu.edu>  To: Lesley
> Bryant <lbryant at mail.sdsu.edu> <lbryant at mail.sdsu.edu>  CC: Leslie
> Rutledge <lrutledge at mail.sdsu.edu> <lrutledge at mail.sdsu.edu>
>
>  Lesley:
>
> Here are the lists for the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering. I will be
> contacting each of their Dean's Office. Leslie and I may meet with one or
> both of them to discuss if any more items can be located. As we discussed
> yesterday, the Provost's Office will also need to approve the write-off of
> any lost equipment. If there is anything we can do or provide in this
> regard, please let us know.
>
> Also, Leslie's team will be following-up on the e-mail that your provided
> from College of HHS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Chris
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David DelRio <ddelrio at mail.sdsu.edu>
> Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM
> Subject: Not found list for 2104 inventory June 2014
> To: lrutledge at mail.sdsu.edu, cbronsdo at mail.sdsu.edu
>
>
>   HERE YOU GO.
>
>
>
> --
>  Christopher Bronsdon
> *University Controller*
> San Diego State University
> 5500 Campanile Drive
> San Diego, CA 92182-1617
> Phone: (619) 594-7985
> Fax: (619) 594-0177
> cbronsdo at mail.sdsu.edu
>
>
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