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Spring/Summer 2010 Issue
49th Annual Geomatics Conference - Another Success!The 49th Annual Geomatics Engineering Conference was held on January 28-30, 2010 at the Clovis Memorial District conference facility. This annual event is organized and run by the Geomatics Engineering students. Total attendance was 250. Congratulations to conference co-chairs Dave Biswanger and Keith Ream and the entire conference staff. Especially noteworthy efforts were turned in by Pa Vang who managed a flawless registration effort, JR Gregory who generated exceptional scholarship support, Dan Cerda who organized an excellent speaker program, Jacob Andresen who attracted and managing a nice array of exhibitors and Bessie Young for generating six Bulldog sponsorships in just 4 hours. Gerry Miller provided an LSIT review on Thursday afternoon, while speaker Steve Parish covered the intricacies of Double Corners in a separate room. The Joint NCS-ACSM and SJV-CLSA dinner Thursday night featured some great Clovis barbeque. Then Steve Parish provided a wonderful talk about “Finding Corners”. Read more... Structures Lab Gets An Upgrade!
The steel surrounds for the accumulator and pipes are composed of high-strength steel plate and are bolted to the concrete walls for easy removal for maintenance and test set-up. The cover for the actuator (shown in black behind the red seismic shaker table in the photo) was fabricated from similar steel plate. To also ensure the safety of the operators and protection of the controller, the controller/computer unit was moved from the testing area into the second floor observation deck from where the operator has a very good view of the testing area while remaining safe. Several engineering firms had made donations to improve the equipment in the CE laboratories. At the initiative of Michael Jundt and other members of the CE Advisory Board, contributions of engineering firms as well as private donations (matched dollar-for-dollar by the Lyles Gift), made it possible to effect improvements in the laboratories including the structures laboratory. Thus, during the upgrading of the structures lab, and thanks to the creativity and workmanship of Steve Scherer, the CE technician, a new testing unit was recently completed. Read more... Faculty Member Receives ALTERA Corp. Grant
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Dean's Message
In Photo: Amanpreet Kaur (L), Graduate Dean's Medalist; Dr. Michael Jenkins (C), Dean; Jacob Bryan (R), Undergraduate Dean's Medalist To Do the Same or to do Less with Less? This was the dilemma of the academic and fiscal years just ended. With state budget cuts to the California State University system starting in summer 2009, drastic cuts in operating expenditures were combined with significent fee/tuition increases to students and temporary pay reductions to staff and faculty in the form of furlough days to help balance our budgets. The administration, faculty, staff and students were clever with time management to weave furlough days into the academic year with minimum disruptions in instruction. As a result, classes were still taught, students still learned, projects were still completed, homeworks were still turned in and corrected, tests were stull administered and scored, course grades were still assigned, and students still graduated. The CSU system fulfilled its educational mission thanks to the dedictation and extra efforts of students, staff, faculty, and administrators. more...
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New faces on campus!
Dr. Alma Delić-Ibukić Joined the Lyles College of Engineering at the beginning of the Fall 2009 semester as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). |
The ALTERA Corporation has granted hardware/software Electronic Design Automation tools in the amount of $86,570 to Dr. Reza Raeisi. Included in the grant package are 22 DE2 Educational Kits, 22 Quartus II FIXED PC Subscription licenses for standalone PC, IP-NIOS and ModelSim. Dr. Raeisi will utilize the tools to intensify teaching and research activities in the areas of Artificial Neural Networks Application in VLSI and SoC testing on FPGA as well as digital logic and embedded systems design. This will introduce students to typical engineering tools used extensively by industry. 
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