[Staff] 2010-2011 Senate Distinguished Professor Awards Ceremony Invitation/College of Engineering

[Cindi McClain]

To Engineering Faculty and Staff,

 

The invitation below is forwarded to you at the request of the University
Senate.  We hope you will all plan to attend; this is a special honor for
Dr. Valdes and for the College!

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The SDSU University Senate is proud to honor the 2010-2011 Senate
Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering senator, Dr. Julio Valdes,
and five college awardees for 2010-11.
 
This is the only award that San Diego State University confers upon its
Faculty solely to recognize the importance of the teaching mission of the
university.  According to Brian Spitzberg, Chair of the Senate Faculty and
Awards Committee, it is also the only Senate award that adds a significant
honorific to a professor's official title.  The SDSU Senate Excellence in
Teaching Awardee becomes a "Senate Distinguished Professor," representing a
very selective achievement, and an indication of the value placed on the
art, science, and craft of instruction that is so central to the
teacher/scholar model.

Please join us to honor our senator from 10 a.m. to noon on Monday, April
25, in Casa Real, as we recognize these outstanding colleagues.  Breakfast
will be served.

Dr. Julio Valdes, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental
Engineering, College of Engineering, is the 2010-11 Senate Distinguished
Professor.  Julio will be giving a lecture titled, "Clastic Soil Mechanics."

Dr. Valdes will introduce physics-based definitions by which soils are
classified and treated as engineering materials.  Emphasis will be placed on
the results of experimental studies that seek to identify emergent phenomena
and behavior alterations caused by clastic action, i.e., the breakage of
grains.

Julio Valdes is an associate professor in the Department of Civil,
Construction and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State University.
He received a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering, with an emphasis
on geomechanics from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002.  That year
he joined the SDSU faculty as an assistant professor.  Dr. Valdes directs
the SDSU Geo-Innovations Research Laboratory.  He has co-authored numerous
publications with SDSU students on various topics including controllable
filtration, wave-based experimental methods, and granular media behavior.

The college awardees are:

Christianna Alger - College of Education
Andrew Cooksy - College of Sciences
Joseph Price - College of Sciences
Ming Tsou - College of Arts and Letters

If you wish to attend the ceremony, please RSVP to Allison Bobrow, senate
coordinator at senate at mail.sdsu.edu by Wednesday, April 20. 

Thank you.


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