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<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"><strong>In this edition <br /></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"><br /></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"><strong><font color="#990000"> </font><font color="#990000"><em> ♦ SDSU's Formula SAE Car Team Makes SDSU Proud <br /></em></font></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>Dr. Ponce’s Visualab Reaches Out on the Web <br /></em></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>Dr. Satish Sharma Receives NSF CAREER Award <br /></em></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>Engineering Research Center One Step Closer to Reality <br /></em></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>AIAA Student Design Team Wins 3rd Place <br /></em></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>Dr. Asfaw Beyene’s PASI Conference Draws International Leaders <br /></em></strong></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri" color="#990000"><strong> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>Dr. Ken Walsh Receives Faculty Monty Award <br /></em></strong></font></font><strong><font color="#990000"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> ♦ </font></strong>SDSU Engineers See the World – Summer 2010 Study Abroad <br /> ♦ Tracking the Dean - Highlights of the Dean's Calendar</em></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"> <em><strong><font color="#990000"> <br /> ♦ </font></strong>Research Corner-Projects Submitted & Awards Granted</em></font></font></font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong><font face="Calibri" size="2">Reminders</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri"><strong> <u>Thurs. Nov. 4 at 11 am</u></strong> is the next ALL-Faculty Informational Meeting in 423-B.<br /> </font></font><font face="Calibri" size="2"><strong><u>Tues. Nov. 9 at 10 am</u></strong> is the next ALL-Staff Meeting in the Dean's Conference Room.</font></p>
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<h2>SDSU's Formula SAE Car Team Makes SDSU Proud</h2>
<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/fsae_f1_car2-june_2010-improved.jpg" border="0" alt="Formula_SAE_Car_2010_250w" title="Formula_SAE_Car_2010_250w" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="250" height="128" align="left" /></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Aztec Racing competed with its Formula SAE AR-10 car against over 100 teams at California Speedway during the summer of 2010, finishing in 26<sup>th</sup> place for presentation –an Aztec Racing record high—and 5<sup>th</sup> place for cost report examination. The Formula SAE AR-10 car is built by SDSU’s Society of Automotive Engineers, and was entered <span> </span>into the 2010 FSAE West Competition. <span> </span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Racing was the last event of the competition and Aztec Racing chose Tyler Hauptman, SAE President, to take the wheel. <span> </span>“The team marched proudly down the pit lanes, feeling accomplished for getting farther in the competition than many past Aztec Racing teams, “ according to Nicolas Megevand, SAE Project Manager.<span> </span>Tyler was able to reach the average top lap time of 1 minute 28 seconds during his first two laps, and pushed the car to a time of 1 minute 17 seconds during the third and fourth laps before mechanical difficulties forced Aztec Racing to withdraw from the racing competition. <a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-formula_sae_car-story.pdf"" title="SDSU's Formula SAE Car Team Makes SDSU Proud">Read More</a></font></p>
<h2>Dr. Ponce’s Visualab Reaches Out on the Web</h2>
<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-ponce_headshot.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Ponce_headshot" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Ponce_headshot" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="133" align="left" />Production is under way in the CCEE Department’s Visualab as Dr. Miguel Ponce is finishing up one of his newest videos to teach students about hydrology. Working on Apple’s Final Cut Pro and using two computer screens at once, Dr. Ponce produces videos that he posts to his website as an online resource for students, and the general public. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Dr. Ponce has been producing videos for just over one year now, and has already created over thirty videos, with each taking about two weeks to complete. He was inspired by YouTube, and by the “Khan Academy,” which is a media base of over 1,800 videos created by one person to teach people about various topics. “I’m doing what Khan is doing, just on a smaller scale,” said Dr. Ponce, who focuses on creating longer videos of better quality. </font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">“We do everything from concept to posting,” explained Dr. Ponce of the production process. He does everything himself, which is no easy feat. His productions combine video, voice, music, script, still images and animation; he also works on digital design. <a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-ponce_visualab-story.pdf"" title="Dr. Ponce’s Visualab Reaches Out on the Web">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>Dr. Satish Sharma Receives NSF CAREER Award</h2>
<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-sharma_headshot.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Sharma_headshot" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Sharma_headshot" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="133" align="left" />Dr. Satish Sharma, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for $400,000 to conduct research on novel aperture antennas. NSF bases CAREER awards on the transformative quality of research and the uniqueness of educational plans. Dr. Sharma received the award in August 2009, and his project is expected to go through July 2014. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Research supported by this award will explore novel reconfigurable aperture antennas and arrays, which can provide compact multifunctional antenna solutions. He hopes his research will lead to novel, compact and reconfigurable aperture antennas for wireless communications and radar systems providing multi-functionality. His proposed innovations have the potential to allow for hardware minimizations, simplify complex antenna implementations, and provide enhanced performance antenna solutions. <br /><a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-sharma_career_award-story.pdf"" title="Dr. Satish Sharma Receives NSF CAREER Award">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>Engineering Research Center One Step Closer to Reality</h2>
<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-erc_logo.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-ERC Logo" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-ERC Logo" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="300" height="55" align="left" />SDSU’s College of Engineering, along with the University of Washington (UW) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a $40 million, 10-year grant which would support the creation of an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">A team of fourteen researchers and supporters representing the College of Engineering recently traveled to the University of Washington-Seattle campus for a NSF ERC site visit, an important step in the award process. SDSU, UW, and MIT are one of just eleven teams of universities selected for a site visit. Out of those eleven, five or six will be awarded funding for an ERC. This is significant because SDSU is now on a very short list of universities that will possibly receive center funding. <br /><a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-erc-nsf_site_visit-story.pdf"" title="Engineering Research Center One Step Closer to Reality">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>AIAA Student Design Team Wins 3rd Place</h2>
<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/resized/res200x133-aiaa_team-thumbnail2.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct_AIAA team-thumbnail" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct_AIAA team-thumbnail" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="133" align="left" />Congratulations to SDSU’s American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) students for taking 3rd place in the 2009-2010Undergraduate Space Transportation Design Competition! Their design was entitled Human Exploration and Reconnaissance of a Massive Extraterrestrial Space-born Object (HERMES). Approximately 10-15 universities entered the competition. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The contest required teams to design a space transportation architecture capable of sending two or more astronauts from Earth to a Near Earth Asteroid, and return them safely. The system was designed with an initial operation capability in 2020 and a 10-year operational lifetime. <a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-news-2010aiaa_student_design_competition-story.pdf"" title="AIAA Student Design Team Wins 3rd Place">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>Dr. Asfaw Beyene’s PASI Conference Draws International Leaders</h2>
<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/resized/res200x134-news_2010_sept_oct-beyene-headshot_thumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-beyene-headshot_thumbnail" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-beyene-headshot_thumbnail" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="134" align="left" />Leaders from all over the world gathered for the Energy, Water, and Global Climate Change as a Regional Agenda of the Americas Conference this summer, a 10-day international conference hosted by Dr. Asfaw Beyene and Dr. Walt Oechel of SDSU’s Biology Department. Dr.’s Temesgen Garoma and Mirat Gurol were also on the conference’s organizing committee. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The conference was a Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) project and was funded by the National Science Foundation. The first five days of the conference took place in San Diego, and the last five in Ensenada, Mexico. <a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-asfaw_beyene-pasi_conference-story.pdf"" title="Dr. Asfaw Beyene’s PASI Conference Draws International Leaders">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>Dr. Ken Walsh Receives Faculty Monty Award</h2>
<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-walsh_monty.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Walsh_Monty" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Walsh_Monty" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="133" align="left" />Dr. Ken Walsh was honored at the all-university convocation in August 2010 with Faculty Monty Award for the College of Engineering. Dr. Walsh has worked tirelessly to design, launch and grow the J. R. Filanc Construction Engineering and Management Program degree and has built its endowment to more than $4 million. </font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Dr. Walsh was surprised and pleased to learn that he had been chosen to receive the award. “There are a lot of great faculty in the college, so to be the one recognized and to be amongst the great people that have won in the past is really special to me,” he said. <a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-walsh_faculty_monty_award-story.pdf"" title="Dr. Ken Walsh Receives Faculty Monty Award">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>SDSU Engineers See the World – Summer 2010 Study Abroad</h2>
<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-panama_group.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Panama Group" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Panama Group" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="200" height="85" align="left" /> <strong>Panama City, Panama <br /> Pisa, Italy <br /> Coimbatore, India </strong></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><strong> Panama City, Panama - </strong>Five students and faculty advisors Dr. Julio Valdes and Mr. Tom Zink stayed at the "City of Knowledge" technological campus adjacent to the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal for an outstanding 5 week study abroad experience beginning June 1. Students took two courses: Canal Engineering and History of the Panama Canal, taught by Dr. Valdes and Mr. Zink. Along with VIP presentations and site visits from canal authorities, the group visited canal dams, locks, and excavation sites for the canal expansion program. Weekend trips to the mountains and islands, exploring the city and becoming SCUBA certified while in Panama rounded out the experience for the students. Dr. Valdes said, “the trip was a great success.” He and Mr. Zink plan to take a larger group of approximately 15 students for the summer 2011 program. <br /><a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-study_abroad_trips-story.pdf"" title="SDSU Engineers See the World – Summer 2010 Study Abroad">Read More</a></font></font></p>
<h2>Tracking the Dean - Highlights of the Dean's Calendar</h2>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" width="600" align="center" style="background-color: #cccccc; border: #000000 1px solid"><tbody><tr style="height: 2px"><td style="width: 65px"><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Oct. 28-29</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Dean Hayhurst will travel to the <em>Frontiers in Education</em> Conference and make a presentation on Troops to Engineers, Arlington VA</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 1</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will attend the Order of the Engineer Board of Governors Meeting in Phoenix, AZ</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 4</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will participate in the Veterans Center Grand Opening on campus</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 4 & 5</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will meet with Dr. Don Heller, from Penn State University's Center for the Study of Higher Education</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 5</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will meet with Steve Doyle, President, Brookfield San Diego Builders</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 5</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will visit the calling floor for SDSU's Annual Fund Drive</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 9-10</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will travel to San Jose for a series of development/fundraising meetings and events</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 11</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will have lunch with Admiral Ken Slaght, Vice President and General Manager, General Dynamics Information Technology, and Dean's Advisory Board Member</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 12</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will participate in a video conference with Karl Kriebes of K5 Corporation</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 15-16</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will travel to Arlington VA to participate on an NSF Proposal Review Panel</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 17</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will attend the Scholarship Donor Appreciation Luncheon on campus</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 18</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will attend the CONNECT Workforce Partnership Presentation of Robert Reich</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 19</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will meet with Irwin Zahn, CEO of Autosplice, and several members of the Dean's Advisory Board</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 19</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will have lunch with Mike Reed, President and CEO of Electronic Systems, Inc., General Atomics</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 22</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will attend the Campaign Initiatives Meeting on campus</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Nov. 29</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will participate in the CONNECT Board of Directors meeting</font></font></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px"><td><p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">Dec. 3</font></font></p></td><td><font size="2"><font face="Calibri">The Dean will have lunch with Maria Fischer, CEO of Bientech International and Dean's Advisory Board member.</font></font></td></tr></tbody></table><p><table border="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<h2>Research Corner - Projects Submitted & Awards Granted</h2>
<p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-proposals_and_awards_pdf_chart.pdf"" title="Research Corner-Projects Submitted & Awards Granted">Click Here For Sizable Chart</a></font></font></p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-proposals_and_awards_chart_may-sept.jpg" border="0" alt="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Proposals_and_awards_chart_May-Sept" title="NEWS_2010_Sept_Oct-Proposals_and_awards_chart_May-Sept" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="600" height="805" /></div><p style="margin: 0.2in 0.2in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"></font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><a href=""http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/engineering/images/news_2010_sept_oct-proposals_and_awards_pdf_chart.pdf"" title="Research Corner-Projects Submitted & Awards Granted">Click Here For Sizable Chart</a></font></font></p>
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