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Dear Monte,<br>
<br>
After looking at the College Newsletter, I am surprised to see that
the no credit was given to the ECE faculty involved in the CSNE for
the $501K grant from University of Washington (CSNE). As you may
well know, the major load of the research at CSNE is on the
shoulders of the ECE faculty but they have received no credit year
after year. We have to write proposals, advise students, attend the
meetings and site visits and spend time and energy working with our
colleagues at UW. <br>
<br>
While Sam's contribution is undeniable and we all appreciate his
leadership, I think it is only fair that the contribution of the ECE
faculty involved in CSNE is recognized in the College Newsletter. <br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Ashkan<br>
<br>
<br>
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Engineering Newsletter below to learn about the recent
accomplishments of the Engineering Faculty, Staff,
Students and Alumni.</div>
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Morteza Monte Mehrabadi<br>
Dean<br>
College of Engineering<br>
San Diego State University<br>
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Fall 2016</span></td>
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from the Dean</span></p>
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width="169">We
began the Fall
2016 semester
by welcoming
773 first-time
freshmen and
250 new
transfer
students to
the SDSU
College of
Engineering!
This
represents an
enrollment
growth of 5.8%
which brings
the number of
Engineering
students in
Fall 2016 to
over 4,100. We
also welcomed
six new
outstanding
faculty, one
of whom will
begin his
appointment in
Fall 2017.<br>
<br>
The College
achieved a
record in
research
funding in FY
2016, as the
total dollar
amount of
research
proposals
awarded to
Engineering
Faculty more
than doubled
(202%) from FY
15 to FY 16.<br>
<br>
The
construction
on the new
Engineering
Interdisciplinary
Sciences (EIS)
Complex is
moving quickly
and less than
a year after
groundbreaking
on November 6,
2015, we
celebrated
with a
Topping-Off
Ceremony on
October 27, in
which the last
beam of the
EIS Complex
was placed.<br>
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construction
of the EIS
Complex will
be completed
next Fall with
expected
occupancy in
early 2018. A
live feed of
the
construction
can be viewed
at: <a
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href="http://130.191.35.82/live.htm" target="_blank">http://130.191.35.82/live.htm</a>
and for more
information on
the EIS
Complex,
please visit <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://eis.sdsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://eis.sdsu.edu</a>.<br>
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It’s an
exciting and
busy time at
the College
and I hope you
will take a
moment to read
and catch up
on all of our
student,
faculty and
community
program
accolades. <br>
<br>
Dr. Morteza
Monte
Mehrabadi <br>
Dean, College
of Engineering
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<td><span
style="line-height:120%"><strong>Dr.
Baris Aksanli,
</strong>Assistant
Professor of
Electrical and
Computer
Engineering. <strong>Areas
of
Specialization:
</strong>Energy
efficient
large-scale
cyber physical
systems, human
behavior
modeling in
the Internet
of Things, big
data for
energy
efficient
large-scale
systems, cost
and energy
aware
automation of
residential
houses, and
house/building/data
center and
electric grid
interaction.</span></td>
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<td><strong>Dr.
Joaquin
Camacho</strong>,
Assistant
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering. <strong>Areas
of
Specialization</strong>:
Combustion and
particulate
air pollution,
nanomaterial
synthesis and
characterization, renewable energy, carbon materials and chemistry,
heterogeneous
reacting flow
and aerosol
dynamics and
reacting flow
modeling. </td>
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<td><span
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Ping Lu</strong>,
Professor and
Chair of
Aerospace
Engineering. Areas
of
Specialization:
Advanced
guidance of
aerospace
systems,
autonomous
aerospace
trajectory
planning by
convex
optimization,
nonlinear
control with
applications
in aerospace
systems, and
flight
mechanics. </span></td>
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<td><span
style="line-height:120%"><strong>Dr.
Duy Nyguyen</strong>,
Assistant
Professor of
Electrical and
Computer
Engineering.
Areas of
Specialization:
Adaptive
signal
processing
techniques for
communications, massive MIMO and mmWave communications, full duplex
radios, radio
frequency
energy
harvesting,
compressed
sensing in
communications
and
optimization,
game theory,
and machine
learning in
communications.</span></td>
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<td><span
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Ying-Khai Teh</strong>,
Assistant
Professor of
Electrical and
Computer
Engineering.
Areas of
Specialization:
Silicon-based
low power CMOS
analog and
mixed signal
integrated
circuit
design, energy
harvesting
integration
using
thermoelectric,
piezoelectric
and RF for
self-powered
Internet of
Things
systems, and
game theoretic
analysis
framework for
multi-source
power
management
scheme.</span></td>
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<td><span
style="line-height:120%"><strong>Dr.
Matthew
Verbyla</strong>,
Assistant
Professor of
Civil,
Construction,
and
Environmental
Engineering
(starting Fall
2017). Areas
of
Specialization:
Natural
wastewater
treatment,
water reuse,
pathogen fate
and transport,
and microbial
risk
assessment.</span></td>
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<p><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Welcome
New Senior
Director of
Development</span></p>
<p
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align="left"
height="158"
hspace="15"
width="113">Kim
DuFour joined
the College of
Engineering in
September 2016
as the Senior
Director of
Development.
Kim has worked
in higher
education for
over 30 years
with her last
position
serving as the
Director of
Academic
Advising at
California
State
University
Chico. Kim
possesses
seventeen
years of
fundraising
experience,
including
twelve years
in higher
education,
specifically
in engineering
and sciences
at California
State
University
Chico. Prior
to that, Kim
worked in
development
for Sutter
Hospitals in
Sacramento.</p>
<p
style="line-height:120%">In
addition, Kim
is a former
parent at SDSU
and University
of Oregon. Kim
graduated from
California
State
University
Chico in 1981
with a BA in
Social Work
and
Corrections.
She continued
her higher
education at
Chico State
and earned a
Master of
Public
Administration
in 1989.</p>
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Highlight</span></p>
<p
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align="left"
height="192"
hspace="15"
width="289"><strong>Alan
Dulgeroff</strong>
(’92,
Electrical
Engineering)
is a busy man,
especially
with regard to
his
involvement at
San Diego
State
University. He
is a member of
the
University’s
Career
Services
Advisory
Board, sits on
the Electrical
and Computer
Engineering
Curriculum
Advisory
Board, and for
the next year
will serve as
president of
SDSU Alumni.
In a June 15
ceremony at
the SDSU
Alumni
Advisory Board
meeting,
Dulgeroff was
symbolically
handed the
President’s
gavel by
Perette Godwin
(’86), the
Board’s
immediate past
President. He
will
officially
assume his new
position July
1, 2016. "I
want to
emphasize that
I really
appreciate the
opportunity,”
Dulgeroff
said. “I feel
privileged to
serve.”<br>
<br>
Currently
Director of
Strategic
planning for
San Diego Gas
and Electric
(SDG&E),
the 47-year-
old Dulgeroff
is a lifetime
member of the
SDSU Alumni
Association.
He has served
on its Board
in the past
four years.
One of
Dulgeroff’s
passions is
the Aztec
Mentor Program
(AMP). He has
helped forge a
link between
AMP and
SDG&E. He
also helps his
company
recruit on
campus.
Dulgeroff
estimates
approximately
10 percent of
SDG&E’s
4,000 or so
employees are
Aztec alumni.
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<p
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Joe Kiani</strong>
(’85, ’87,
Electrical
Engineering)
was featured
both in the
SDSU 360
Magazine and
SDSU
Newscenter as
one of four
"Portraits of
Courage," a
series
featuring
courageous
Aztecs who
fight to make
the world a
better place
for
themselves,
their families
and their
communities.
To read the
full article,
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76383"
target="_blank">visit this link</a>.</p>
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Lu</strong>
and <strong>Hua
Zhang</strong>,
Electrical and
Computer
Engineering
doctoral
students, who
work with Dr.
Chris Mi ,
Professor and
Chair,
Department of
Electrical and
Computer
Engineering,
have received
the Prize
Letter Award
for 2015 in
the IEEE
Transactions
on Power
Electronics
for their
paper: "A
Double-sided
LCLC-Compensated
Capacitive
Power Transfer
System for
Electric
Vehicle
Charging." The
selection of
this paper by
IEEE is a high
honor and
tribute to the
fine research
quality,
presentation,
and potential
impact that
the research
has to the
field.</span></td>
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Poon</strong>,
Civil
Engineering
Master’s
student,
advised by Dr.
Alicia
Kinoshita,
Assistant
Professor,
Department of
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental
Engineering,
was a
recipient of
the
prestigious
2016 NASA
Earth and
Space Science
Fellowship
(NESSF) for
his research
proposal
“Estimating
Satellite-Based
Evapotranspiration After Wildfire.” The NESSF received a total of 425
applications
in Earth
Science
Research with
Mr. Poon being
one of only 73
students who
were selected
for the award.</span></td>
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<strong>Michelle
Powelson</strong>
and <strong>Jose
Calderon</strong>,
Civil,
Construction,
and
Environmental
Engineering
students,
represented
their ENV 363
class taught
by Dr. Natalie
Mladenov,
Assistant
Professor,
Department of
Civil,
Construction,
and
Environmental
Engineering,
and presented
a summary of
their storm
water quality
project to the
entire council
of the City of
Santee as a
part of SDSU's
Sage Project.</td>
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The <strong>Baja
SAE Team</strong>
competed in
the May 2016
Baja
Competition,
in Gorman, CA.
The SDSU Baja
team placed
2nd in the
Acceleration
Event. This
was the first
time that SDSU
placed top 3
in any event
at the Baja
SAE
Competitions.</td>
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On October 22,
2016, the <strong>SDSU
Aztec Racing </strong>and
<strong>Aztec
Electric
Racing Teams</strong>
participated
in the
Southern
California
Society of
Automotive
Engineers
(SAE)
mini-preliminary
design review
(PDR) at CSU
Northridge.
The event
provided
industry
feedback to
all Southern
California SAE
teams on their
initial
designs.</span></td>
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Nine SDSU
Engineering
students from
<strong>Aztec
Racing, Aztec
Electric
Racing</strong>
and <strong>Aztec
Baja</strong>,
attended the
BMW Group
Centennial
celebration
“The Next 100
Years” at the
Barker Hanger
of Santa
Monica
Airport, on
October 16,
2016. The BMW
Group hosted
future
transportation
leaders for a
special
program that
included a
networking
reception
viewing of
multi-media
displays, and
an exclusive
preview of the
four BMW
Group’s vision
vehicles for
the mobility
of tomorrow. </span></td>
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Accolades</span><br>
<p
style="line-height:120%"><strong>Dr.
Kaveh Akbari
Hamed</strong>,
Assistant
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering,
received
$612,213 from
NSF
Directorate
for
Engineering
for NRI:
Decentralized
Feedback
Control Design
for
Cooperative
Robotic
Walking with
Application to
Powered
Prosthetic
Legs. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Robert Dowell</strong>,
Associate
Professor of
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental
Engineering,
received
$147,495, from
General
Dynamics
NASSCO, for
Full-Scale
SWAGE Panel
Structural
Testing and
Finite Element
Modeling. <br>
<br>
<strong>Drs.
Sahar
Ghanipoor
Machiani and
Xianfeng Yang</strong>,
Assistant
Professors of
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental
Engineering,
along with
Drs. Atsushi
Nara and
Ming-Hisang
Tsou,
Department of
Geography,
received
$449,202 from
NSF
Directorate
for
Engineering
Integrated
Stage-Based
Evacuation
with Social
Perception
Analysis and
Dynamic
Population
Estimation. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Gustaaf Jacobs</strong>,
Professor of
Aerospace
Engineering,
received
$207,637, from
NSF
Directorate
for
Engineering
Collaborative
Research:
Shock
Interaction
with a Complex
Hydrodynamic
Medium;
$315,992 for
the first year
of a
three-year
award from the
Air Force
Office of
Scientific
Research for
Simulation of
Particle-Laden
Blast Waves
with
Inter-Scale
Coupling and
Uncertainty
Quantification;
and $24,000,
from
California
Space Grant
Consortium,
STEM Research
Academy and
Outreach. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Samuel
Kassegne</strong>,
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering,
received
$501,914, from
University of
Washington,
for
Engineering
Research
Center for
Sensorimotor
Neural
Engineering. <br>
<br>
<strong>Drs.
Alicia
Kinoshita,
Natalie
Mladenov and
Tom Zink</strong>,
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental
Engineering
Faculty,
received
$543,500 from
San Diego
River
Conservancy
for
Restoration of
Alvarado Creek
Upper Reach 1.
<br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Ping Lu</strong>,
Professor and
Chair of
Aerospace
Engineering,
was on the
team that was
given the
Innovation
Group
Achievement
Award by the
Director of
NASA Johnson
Space Center
in September
2016, “for
exceptional
work in
pioneering the
development of
a fully
numerical
predictor-corrector
entry guidance
algorithm for
the
atmospheric
entry of space
vehicles.” <br>
<br>
<strong>Drs.
Karen
May-Newman and
George Youssef</strong>,
Mechanical
Engineering
Faculty,
received
$75,000 from
The San Diego
Foundation for
Bioengineering: a pathway to interdisciplinary STEM at SDSU. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Chris Mi</strong>,
Professor and
Chair of
Electrical
& Computer
Engineering,
received
$200,000 from
Nanjing Golden
Dragon Bus
Manufacturing
Company Ltd,
for Joint
Laboratory
Development
and Training;
and $444,325
from the
University of
Michigan, GATE
Center for
Electric Drive
Transportation. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Fletcher
Miller</strong>,
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering,
received
$383,947, from
University of
San Diego for
Hybrid Solar
Converter with
Integrated
Thermal
Storage. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Khaled Morsi</strong>,
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering,
received
$344,517, from
NSF
Directorate
for
Engineering,
for Pressure
"Unassisted"
Processing of
Fully-Dense
Nanocomposites
through Novel
Nano/Micro-Structural Design. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Eugene Olevsky</strong>,
Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering,
received
$337,824 from
Matsys, Inc.
for Modeling
and Simulation
for
Manufacturing
Powder
Metallurgy
Structural
Components. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Victor Miguel
Ponce</strong>,
Professor of
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental,
received the
SDSU Alumni
Association
Award for
Outstanding
Faculty
Contribution
to the
University for
2016-17. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Mahasweta
Sarkar</strong>,
Associate
Professor of
Electrical
& Computer
Engineering,
received
$60,000, from
ViaStat Inc.
for
Investigation
Into a High
Quality
Customer
Experience on
a WiFi Network
on a
Commercial
Airliner via
ViaStat’s
Ka-band High
Throughput. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Satish Sharma</strong>,
Professor of
Electrical
& Computer
Engineering,
received
$469,555, from
DOD Office of
Naval Research
for Quasi-
Far-Field
System Upgrade
for Millimeter
Wave (mmw)
Frequency
Expansion; and
$30,000 from
Broadcom
Corporation
for Multi-
Band GNSS
Antenna
Research
Proposal. <br>
<br>
<strong>Dr.
Satchi
Venkataraman</strong>,
Professor of
Aerospace
Engineering,
received
$199,800 from
the N&R
Engineering
Uncertainty
Quantification
of Test
Derived Model
Parameters for
Life
Prediction of
Composite
Bolted Joints
in an ICME
Framework; and
$68,681, from
University of
California at
San Diego for
Baseline and
Residual
Strength
Characterization
of Composite
Laminates
Under Bearing
and Bypass
Loading.</p>
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& Outreach</p>
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Lead the Way
(PTLW)
California and
the Society of
Women
Engineers
(SWE) SDSU
Student
Chapter</strong>
hosted 66 high
school girls
from 16 local
high schools
and their
parents to an
afternoon
focused on
Women in STEM,
on Saturday,
October 8,
2016. The
event kicked
off with an
all-female
Q&A panel
followed by
students
participating
in 5 rotations
of hands-on
activities
hosted by The
Physics Girl
and 3 SDSU
student
organizations
- SWE SDSU,
SDSU's
Chemists
Without
Border, and
SDSU's Aztec
Electric
Racing.
Parents
attended
several
workshops to
learn more
about Project
Lead the Way
courses and
resources. The
day wrapped up
with awards
and raffle
prizes for the
students.<br>
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select group
of San Diego
State
University
students
proved they
have what it
takes to be
leaders in
STEM careers
during a
special
invitation-only
conference. <strong>The
13th Annual
Mathematics,
Engineering,
Science
Achievement
(MESA) Student
Leadership
Conference</strong>,
themed “The
New Face of
STEM,” was
held October
14-15, 2016 at
the Santa
Clara
Marriott.
Students
engaged in a
number of
creative
activities
designed to
sharpen their
professional
skills. They
competed in an
elevator pitch
challenge
styled after
the hit show
“The Voice.”
Audience
members voted
by live
polling during
this PG&E
hosted
competition.
SoCalGas led a
team- building
Lego
Challenge. And
a networking
social event
included
improv games
geared toward
enhancing
social and
emotional
skills.
Students also
participated
in mock
interviews,
connected with
industry
representatives,
listened to
guest speakers
and attended
workshops.
This focus on
so-called
“soft skills”
is a key to
shaping
well-rounded
STEM
professionals.<br>
<br>
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Women’s
Transportation
Seminar (WTS)
Student
Chapter at
SDSU</strong>,
was featured
in the online
SDSU Daily
Aztec on
October 5,
2016. WTS,
founded in
November 2014,
by Professor
Nensi Lakrori,
Civil,
Construction
and
Environmental
Engineering
Department,
focuses on the
advancement of
women in the
transportation
industry. The
goal of the
chapter is to
bridge the gap
between
academia and
working
professionals
and provide a
support system
of mentors,
advisors, and
industry
leaders to
college
students and
recent
graduates. As
the fourth
official WTS
Student
Chapter, and
the first one
in California,
the Chapter
has the goal
of
establishing a
college based
student
community
focusing on
advancing
women in
transportation
through
professional
workshops,
networking,
and community
service.</p>
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to the College
of Engineering</span></p>
<p
style="line-height:120%">Recognizing
the importance
of
interdisciplinary
research to
advances in
engineering,
San Diego
State
University
(SDSU) is
currently
constructing a
new 85,000
square foot
facility, the
Engineering
and
Interdisciplinary
Sciences (EIS)
Complex, a key
initiative in
the
university's
drive to
become a
top-50 public
research
university.
Not only will
it enhance the
university's
current
teaching and
research
capacities,
the EIS
Complex will
also boost San
Diego State
University’s
ability to
attract the
best and
brightest
researchers
and graduate
students. </p>
<p
style="line-height:120%">To
learn more
about giving
to the College
of
Engineering,
in particular,
about the
naming
opportunities
available in
the new
Engineering
and
Interdisciplinary
(EIS) Complex,
please
contact: Kim
DuFour, Senior
Director of
Development,
College of
Engineering, <a
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