<div dir="ltr">Will do. Thanks, Andy! <div><br></div><div>Monte</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Szeto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aszeto@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">aszeto@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I agree with Allen Plotkin that we should discuss the issue of choosing the Outstanding Engineering Graduate through proper channels and thus avoid repeating this episode yearly.  Perhaps Dean Monte Mehrabadi can lead us by making this an action item for next year or have ExCom discuss it and present it to the faculty for ratification.  At issue are the following questions:<br><ul><li>What do we mean by the "Outstanding Engineering Graduate?"</li><li>How can we achieve a wider faculty participation and interest in the selection of this, our most significant award?</li><li>What criteria shall we use to make our selection?  GPA only or service to the college and community also?  What about admission to our JDP?<br></li><li>Is impersonal e-mail voting okay or should we incorporate this into one of our College of Engineering Faculty meetings?  Adding action items and affording opportunities to vote on major and minor issues can give greater significance (beyond hearing a status report from our Dean) to these faculty meetings?<br></li></ul></div>As faculty, we are somewhat powerless outside of our classroom.  Choosing our Outstanding Graduate (college-wide and departmental) is one of the few prerogatives granted to us.  Let's not waste it.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Andrew Szeto<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Allen Plotkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aplotkin@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">aplotkin@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We have a year to discuss this through proper channels.  Apparently we didn't make very good use of this past year since the same comments surfaced after the last election.  It is time to congratulate this year's winner and put this email chain to rest.<span class="m_5227228374747895391HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="m_5227228374747895391HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Allen<br></font></span></div><div class="m_5227228374747895391HOEnZb"><div class="m_5227228374747895391h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Satish Sharma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ssharma@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">ssharma@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Department Chairs and Dean's can easily make a plan that whoever is highest in the COE should automatically be chosen for this without voting as a procedure. If something is quantified there should be no scope for subjectivity. It can also be made as some score be given to GPA over a given units taken by the students plus some score for their overall behavior, etc. There may be several ways, it can made more reasonable. Just a thought.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_5227228374747895391m_6479613734673136377h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Ashkan Ashrafi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashrafi@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">ashrafi@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    I agree with Andy. It would be utterly discouraging and
    disappointing to our hard working student who has a GPA of 3.97 to
    find out that the selected valedictorian has a significantly lower
    GPA (3.81).  <br>
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    What kind of message are we sending to our students?! <br>
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          If you desire to have greater participation in the voting
          process, you might wish to allow more than 41 hours for the
          faculty to read your message and vote.  E-mail voting, by its
          very nature, results in low turn-outs.  Furthermore, I presume
          that you gave the Chairs adequate time to solicit their
          faculty for nominees and to also compose accurate descriptions
          of them.<br>
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          This whole process seems a bit rushed.  In the past, we
          actually did this in person in a regular College of
          Engineering Faculty meeting to award which student (after 5
          years of very hard academic work) deserved the honor of being
          the Outstanding Engineering Student.<br>
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                  I'm always interested to hear recommendations on ways
                  to increase participation in this voting process as it
                  has been a reoccurring issue. As for the faculty
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                            Donovan,<br>
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                            It is interesting that the student with the
                            lowest GPA among others has been selected as
                            the valedictorian by the vote of less than
                            1/3 of the CoE faculty. This raises a lot of
                            question marks above the whole process.<br>
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                            Best,<br>
                            Ashkan<br>
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Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor
Director, Signal Processing Research Laboratory

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr., E-410A
San Diego, CA 92182-1309
Tel: <a href="tel:%28619%29%20594-3703" value="+16195943703" target="_blank">(619)594-3703</a>
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                                    This honor is the College
                                    Outstanding Graduate, but we
                                    internally use the term
                                    Valedictorian as a more recognizable
                                    label for students and to
                                    differentiate it as a higher honor
                                    than the Outstanding Graduates at
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                                              PM, Andrew Szeto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aszeto@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">aszeto@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span>
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                                                    Can you please
                                                    clarify?  To most
                                                    people, the honor of
                                                    being the
                                                    Valedictorian is
                                                    different from being
                                                    the "Outstanding
                                                    Engineering
                                                    Graduate."  What
                                                    exactly is this
                                                    honor?  Thanks.<br>
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                                                    Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at
                                                    12:41 PM, Donovan
                                                    Geiger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgeiger@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">dgeiger@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span>
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                                                          <div>COE
                                                          Faculty: <br>
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                                                          Please join me
                                                          in
                                                          congratulating
                                                          Victor Ortega
                                                          as our
                                                          Engineering
                                                          Class of 2017
                                                          Valedictorian!
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                                                          The vote tally
                                                          was: <br>
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                                                          10 Ortega<br>
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                                                          6 West<br>
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                                                          2 Reyes<br>
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                                                          1 Akers<br>
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                                                          Thank you, <br>
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                                                          As the
                                                          departmental
                                                          outstanding
                                                          graduates have
                                                          been selected,
                                                          voting for
                                                          Engineering <span><span class="m_5227228374747895391m_6479613734673136377m_-2997631224863849625m_-5491384166898621524m_-1810495923293812078m_1757997921480475058m_4252802314814537380m_-4917528076557377506m_-6157320070498995471gmail-m_1263097075174002923gmail-il">Valedictorian</span></span>
                                                          will now take
                                                          place. Please
                                                          select one and
                                                          email your
                                                          choice to me
                                                          by<b> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><u>12:00pm, Wednesday April,
                                                          12th.</u></span></span></b><br>
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______________________________<wbr>____________<br>
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                                                          <b>Joseph
                                                          Akers<br>
                                                          Major GPA
                                                          3.93, SDSU GPA
                                                          3.95<br>
                                                          Environmental
                                                          Engineering<br>
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                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">I
                                                          am a Marine
                                                          Corps Veteran.
                                                          I was living
                                                          in San Diego
                                                          since 2010 at
                                                          MCAS Miramar.
                                                          I chose the
                                                          major I wanted
                                                          about a year
                                                          before I left
                                                          the military.
                                                          During my
                                                          research, I
                                                          learned that
                                                          an ABET
                                                          accredited
                                                          school was
                                                          going to be as
                                                          important to
                                                          me as an
                                                          Environmental
                                                          Engineer as
                                                          learning how
                                                          to be an
                                                          Environmental
                                                          Engineer. I
                                                          found several
                                                          schools that
                                                          fit the bill
                                                          but after a
                                                          few searches
                                                          where google
                                                          filled in the
                                                          blank after
                                                          SDSU with
                                                          "best party
                                                          schools" I
                                                          knew that I
                                                          would at least
                                                          have a few
                                                          years of fun
                                                          if I couldn't
                                                          cut it. San
                                                          Diego State
                                                          actually
                                                          became my
                                                          favorite
                                                          choice really
                                                          quickly.
                                                          Everything
                                                          about it just
                                                          made sense
                                                          such as the
                                                          location and
                                                          the teacher
                                                          reviews. But
                                                          it was
                                                          February.
                                                          Admissions
                                                          were full and
                                                          I was going to
                                                          be stuck
                                                          waiting a year
                                                          or so to get a
                                                          spot. Looked
                                                          like I was
                                                          going to Ohio
                                                          State.</span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br>
                                                          </span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">There
                                                          was a Marine
                                                          Corps Program
                                                          called the
                                                          Leadership
                                                          Scholar
                                                          Program that
                                                          allowed me to
                                                          get into SDSU
                                                          where my only
                                                          competition
                                                          for admission
                                                          was other
                                                          Marines. The
                                                          spots were
                                                          actually
                                                          filled but
                                                          through sheer
                                                          luck of
                                                          someone
                                                          dropping out
                                                          of going to
                                                          SDSU and with
                                                          my Marine
                                                          Corps
accomplishments, I was able to get a spot to start school in fall 2013.
                                                          I quickly
                                                          joined the
                                                          Student
                                                          Veterans
                                                          Organization
                                                          and even
                                                          helped start
                                                          their
                                                          intramural
                                                          sports teams.
                                                          I met some
                                                          good friends
                                                          through there
                                                          but decided to
                                                          try more
                                                          professional
                                                          organizations
                                                          like Engineers
                                                          Without
                                                          Borders and
                                                          American Water
                                                          Works
                                                          Association. </span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">School was
                                                          challenging
                                                          but I
                                                          benefited
                                                          greatly from
                                                          the GI Bill
                                                          which paid for
                                                          my schooling
                                                          and gave me
                                                          the freedom to
                                                          keep my grades
                                                          up.
                                                          Unfortunately
                                                          for me, I had
                                                          to start with
                                                          classes like
                                                          Precalculus
                                                          and would be
                                                          playing catch
                                                          up to My Map.
                                                          Engineering
                                                          requires a
                                                          couple more
                                                          credits than
                                                          other degrees
                                                          so I would be
                                                          here for a few
                                                          summer
                                                          sessions as
                                                          well. There
                                                          were some
                                                          challenging
                                                          teachers, some
                                                          unorganized
                                                          ones and some
                                                          amazing ones
                                                          like Professor
                                                          Smith and
                                                          Professional
                                                          Mladenov.
                                                          Overall it was
                                                          a great
                                                          experience.</span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
                                                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">During
                                                          my time
                                                          at SDSU I have
                                                          become a Big
                                                          Brother
                                                          volunteer for
                                                          Bigs of San
                                                          Diego and I
                                                          have been the
                                                          recipient of
                                                          several
                                                          scholarships,
                                                          including the
                                                          Sinegal
                                                          Veterans
                                                          Scholarship. I
                                                          am currently
                                                          working with
                                                          SPAWAR because
                                                          of San Diego
                                                          State's
                                                          veteran's
                                                          programs in a
                                                          research
                                                          fellowship. I
                                                          can only look
                                                          back and thank
                                                          SDSU for the
                                                          experience
                                                          granted.</span></p>
                                                          <br>
______________________________<wbr>___________<br>
                                                          <b><br>
                                                          Victor Ortega<br>
                                                          Major GPA
                                                          3.81, SDSU GPA
                                                          3.91<br>
                                                          Aerospace
                                                          Engineering</b><br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div><br>
                                                          <span>Victor
                                                          Ortega
                                                          graduated <span class="m_5227228374747895391m_6479613734673136377m_-2997631224863849625m_-5491384166898621524m_-1810495923293812078m_1757997921480475058m_4252802314814537380m_-4917528076557377506m_-6157320070498995471gmail-m_1263097075174002923gmail-il">valedictorian</span>
                                                          from Monte
                                                          Vista High
                                                          School in
                                                          Spring Valley
                                                          before being
                                                          admitted to
                                                          SDSU’s
                                                          Aerospace
                                                          Engineering
                                                          program in the
                                                          Fall of 2013.
                                                          He will be
                                                          earning his
                                                          B.S. in
                                                          Aerospace
                                                          Engineering
                                                          with a 3.919
                                                          cumulative GPA
                                                          this May. He
                                                          has shown a
                                                          dedication to
                                                          helping other
                                                          students
                                                          succeed
                                                          through being
                                                          one of the
                                                          first to
                                                          participate in
                                                          Monte Vista’s
                                                          peer tutoring
                                                          program as a
                                                          math tutor and
                                                          later working
                                                          as a college
                                                          advisor at an
                                                          inner city
                                                          high school in
                                                          City Heights.
                                                          As a
first-generation college student and son of immigrants who originally
                                                          attended
                                                          school in City
                                                          Heights.  </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Since
                                                          2016, he has
                                                          been working
                                                          as an
                                                          undergraduate
                                                          research
                                                          assistant
                                                          looking at
                                                          resin
                                                          injection
                                                          methods of
                                                          repairing
                                                          internal
                                                          delamination
                                                          in carbon
                                                          fiber
                                                          laminates in
                                                          the Aerospace
                                                          Engineering
                                                          Department. He
                                                          has been
                                                          accepted to
                                                          the SDSU-UCSD
                                                          Joint Doctoral
                                                          Program in
                                                          Structural
                                                          Engineering
                                                          and awarded a
                                                          5-year
                                                          fellowship by
                                                          UCSD.</span><b><br>
                                                          </b><br>
______________________________<wbr>_________<br>
                                                          <b><br>
                                                          Karl Reyes<br>
                                                          Major GPA
                                                          3.87, SDSU GPA
                                                          3.93<br>
                                                          </b></div>
                                                          <div><b>Mechanical
                                                          Engineering <br>
                                                          </b></div>
                                                          <div><br>
                                                          Karl is a
                                                          senior
                                                          mechanical
                                                          engineering
                                                          student, and
                                                          will be
                                                          graduating in
                                                          May 2017. As a
                                                          student at
                                                          SDSU, he was a
                                                          member of
                                                          numerous
                                                          organizations,
                                                          including the
                                                          American
                                                          Society of
                                                          Mechanical
                                                          Engineers
                                                          (ASME),
                                                          Design/Build/Fly
                                                          (DBF), and Tau
                                                          Beta Pi – The
                                                          Engineering
                                                          Honor Society.
                                                          In Spring
                                                          2015, Karl
                                                          worked with a
                                                          team to design
                                                          and
                                                          manufacture a
                                                          wall-mounting
                                                          mechanism of
                                                          an all-terrain
                                                          vehicle for
                                                          the ASME
                                                          Student
                                                          Professional
                                                          Development
                                                          Conference
                                                          (SPDC) student
                                                          design
                                                          competition.
                                                          In Spring
                                                          2016, he
                                                          contributed to
                                                          the
                                                          manufacturing
                                                          of a prototype
                                                          aircraft as a
                                                          manufacturing
                                                          team member
                                                          for the
                                                          American
                                                          Institute of
                                                          Aeronautics
                                                          and
                                                          Astronautics
                                                          (AIAA)
                                                          Design/Build/Fly
                                                          competition.
                                                          Currently, he
                                                          is an officer
                                                          in Tau Beta Pi
                                                          California Xi.
                                                          Outside of his
extracurricular activities, Karl has also had internship experience with
                                                          Solar Turbines
                                                          Incorporated,
                                                          where he was a
                                                          Mechanical
                                                          Engineering
                                                          Intern in the
                                                          Combustion
                                                          Department. He
                                                          has accepted a
                                                          position with
                                                          Northrop
                                                          Grumman, and
                                                          will be
                                                          working as a
                                                          Mechanical
                                                          Engineer in
                                                          the Vehicle
                                                          Engineering
                                                          Department
                                                          after
                                                          graduating in
                                                          May.
                                                          <p>______________________________<wbr>___________<b><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Stephen West <br>
                                                          Major GPA
                                                          3.97, SDSU GPA
                                                          3.94</b><b><br>
                                                          Electrical
                                                          Engineering </b><br>
                                                          </p>
                                                          <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">We
                                                          nominate
                                                          Stephen West
                                                          as our
                                                          outstanding
                                                          graduate for
                                                          his top 3.94
                                                          GPA that
                                                          includes 97
                                                          units taken at
                                                          SDSU.  Faculty
                                                          who had the
                                                          privilege to
                                                          teach him in
                                                          EE430 and
                                                          other courses
                                                          recall West to
                                                          be a quiet
                                                          studious,
                                                          smart, and
                                                          respectful
                                                          student. He
                                                          has involved
                                                          in student
                                                          organizations
                                                          and
                                                          extracurricular activities.
                                                          <br>
                                                          </span></div>
                                                          <br>
______________________________<wbr>____________<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div>Once
                                                          again, the
                                                          deadline to
                                                          vote is this
                                                          Wednesday,
                                                          April 12, at
                                                          noon. <br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          </div>
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                                                          regards, <br>
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                                                          <div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><b>Donovan Geiger, MBA</b></span><br style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">
                                                          <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Student
                                                          Affairs</span>
                                                          Officer<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
                                                          <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">College
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                                                      list<br>
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                                                        Professor and
                                                        IEEE Fellow<br>
                                                        Dept. of
                                                        Electrical &
                                                        Computer
                                                        Engineering<br>
                                                        San Diego State
                                                        University<br>
                                                        5500 Campanile
                                                        Drive  MC 1309<br>
                                                        San Diego, CA.
                                                        92182-1309<br>
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Professor and IEEE Fellow
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive  MC 1309
San Diego, CA. 92182-1309
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