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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Esteemed Members of Engineering Faculty, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>I have extended the deadline to submit your suggestions/changes/corrections to the draft policy file. The new deadline is September 29, 2017. Our committee will meet the first week of October to discuss the suggestions. My email about the online forum is below. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>As promised during the Fall retreat we have created an online forum to promote discussions on college of engineering constitution and bylaws document. The forum entitled </span>"Policy and Bylaws Document Discussion" under College of Engineering Policies has been created by Dr. Paolini on the server <a href="http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/">http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To take part in the discussions please register as a member on the server <a href="http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/">http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/</a> to view current threads, reply to messages in a thread or create new discussion threads.? Any questions about the server and registration please contact Dr. Chris Paolini or his team. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>We will appreciate if you can provide comments/suggestions/corrections and openly discuss the policy file presented to you by constitution and bylaws committee. I already created a thread </span> <a href="http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/showthread.php?tid=1">http://engineering.sdsu.edu/mybb/showthread.php?tid=1</a> and posted the working draft version of the policy file as an attachment. <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br><br><span style='background:white'>If you subscribe to this forum, you will be informed via email on the changes. </span><br><br><span style='background:white'>This forum will be active until September 29, 11:59 PM for your input. The current draft file is attached to this email. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Yusuf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>