[Faculty] [Staff] Appointment of Dr. Janusz Supernak as permanent Chair of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

[Mark Bruno]

Congratulations Janusz!

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 9:46 AM Eugene Olevsky <eolevsky at sdsu.edu> wrote:

> DATE:     May 20, 2019
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> TO:          The SDSU College of Engineering, Faculty, Staff, and
> Engineering Dean's Advisory Board
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> FROM:    Eugene A. Olevsky, Dean
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>                SDSU College of Engineering
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> It is with great enthusiasm that I announce the appointment of Dr. Janusz
> Supernak as permanent Chair of the Department of Civil, Construction, and
> Environmental Engineering, effective July 1, 2019. This decision is based
> on an overwhelming majority vote of the departmental personnel
> committee comprised of all tenured and tenure-track faculty in the
> department.
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> To the permanent role, Dr. Supernak brings extensive knowledge and
> experience in administrative oversight and decision making, his leadership
> will be of great importance during the upcoming review by the Accreditation
> Board for Engineering and Technology.
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> After joining SDSU in 1984, Dr. Supernak was promoted in 1988 to Full
> Professor, elected Department Chair in 1992, continued at this post for 18
> consecutive years, and since 2014 he has been CCEE Interim Department
> Chair. He has lectured at 26 universities, such as Oxford University, Kyoto
> University, Delft University of Technology, Nanyang University, Hong Kong
> University or IIT Chennai. He was PI on the SD Defense Conversion Project;
> Capacity Building World Bank Project for Nangarhar University, Afghanistan;
> currently, he coordinates CivE and ConE programs at SDSU-Georgia. As PI, he
> has secured over $4M in external funding and was instrumental in obtaining
> philanthropic support for 7 endowments for his Department, worth $10M+,
> also contributing his own $50K+ endowment donation to SDSU. For the last 27
> years he has been Faculty Advisor to the Student Chapter of ASCE, hosting a
> record six international, national or regional Civil Engineering
> competitions at SDSU, and receiving virtually every year national
> recognition for his Chapter and/or himself as Advisor. For his work as a
> professor and for his public activities Prof. Supernak has received
> numerous awards including the prestigious, second highest in its category,
> Officer Cross Medal of Merit from the President of Poland, Aleksander
> Kwasniewski in 2002, for promoting American-Polish collaboration.
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> Please join me in congratulating Dr. Supernak in his appointment.
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>
> Eugene A. Olevsky
>
> Dean and Distinguished Professor
> SDSU College of Engineering
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