Follow the links below to each College's Year End Report for Faculty Positions:

College of Agriculture
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
Orfalea College of Business
College of Engineering
College of Liberal Arts
College of Science and Mathematics

Dr. Lynn Hamilton, Agribusiness Department

Being a good academic advisor and a mentor is of great importance to me. Neal MacDougall and I wrote an Advising Handbook for the Agribusiness Department that was distributed to every faculty member. During the school year I had 64 advisees. Two-thirds of my current advisees specifically requested to switch to me.

I served my second year on the Departmental Curriculum Committee, and we were able to implement some positive changes in the curriculum, making it easier for students to fulfill the 60-unit upper division requirement.

I co-chaired the program for the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture conference, June 18-22, 2003, held here on campus. We hosted 175 agriculture professors from across the country.

Instructor

• AGB 101: Introduction to Agribusiness
• AGB 213: Agricultural Economic Analysis
• AGB 312: Agricultural Policy
• AGB 314: Fair and Fair Facility Management
• AGB 455: Advanced Fair Management Seminar
• AGB 461: Senior Project
• AGB 543: Agribusiness Policy and Program Analysis

Dr. Lisa Nicholson, Food Science and Nutrition Department

I serve as Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics for the Nutrition department. For the second year, I am the faculty advisor to the student Nutrition Club. I also serve as thee CAGR Community Based Learning representative at Cal Poly and am the Employment Equity representative to FSN.

I was honored to receive the Presidents Community-Based Learning and Service award for Significant Contribution and an award of appreciation as the Nutrition Club advisor. I was nominated for the CAGR Young Teacher of the Year award. Additionally, I am active in state and regional professional dietetics organizations as well as the American Society of Nutrition Education (this year serving as Chair to the Public Health section).

Instructor

• FSN 415: Nutrition Education and Communication
• FSN 416: Community Nutrition
• FSN 417: Nutrition Counseling
• FSN 250: Food and Culture
• FSN 461, 462: Senior Project

Dr. Samantha Gill, Natural Resources and Management Department

During the past 6 years I have been advisor to approximately 150 students in the Forestry and Natural Resources major. I have also been a faculty advisor for Xi Sigma Pi, the national forestry honor society and co-advisor for the student chapter of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) and the Cal Poly Logging Team. I am also the scholarship coordinator for the FNR program. In this capacity, I have developed a web page listing the scholarships available to FNR students (link to this from http://nrm.calpoly.edu).

Instructor

• BRAE 237: Engineering Surveying
• BRAE/FNR 247: Forest Surveying
• FNR 201: Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Management
• FNR 215: Land and Resource Measurements
• FNR 290: Intercollegiate Forestry Activities
• FNR 315: Forest Mensuration and Sampling
• FNR 318: Applications in GIS
• FNR 400: Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates
• FNR 414: Timber Management
• FNR 461: Senior Project
• FNR 532: Forestry Applications in Biometrics and Econometrics
• FNR 534: Forest Ecosystem Management and Modeling

The three learning objectives I attempt in my courses stem from my own 20 year career in architecture and in effect frame my own architectural theory I wish to pass on to students.

First, architecture entails the constructions of new realities based on the dreams and aspirations of living people, requiring a moving from self and seeing life through the other. This seemingly abstract idea engenders empathy with clients and users and raises sensitivity to cultural differences and choices.

Second, architecture entails a perceivable, irrevocable change to the land itself and requires an understanding of the geomorphology-shape and nature of the land to enable a sensitive as well as a possible significant manipulation.

Lastly, architecture entails the poetics of construction, or tectonics, a sense of being within a particular setting instead of the architectural intervention looking at a particular setting.

Committee Work and Professional Development

• Architecture Department Curriculum Committee, Practice Faculty Representative.
• College of Architecture and Environmental Design Curriculum Committee, Chair.
• General Education Committee, Member.
• Academic Senate United States Cultural Pluralism Committee, Chair.
• Attended the Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Regional Meeting, featuring over 80 papers about teaching and research within design.
• Involved with the WinGEd (Writing in General Education) program.

Dr. Pamalee Brady, Architectural Engineering Department

The Plan funded a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level to develop and implement an improved program of offering for the department service course to Construction Management and Architecture.

Instructor

• ARCE 221: Elementary Structures
• ARCE 222: Mechanics of Structural Members I
• ARCE 226: Structural Systems
• ARCE 321: Timber Structural Systems
• ARCE 322: Steel Structural Systems
• ARCE 323: Concrete Structural Systems

Instructor

• BUS 215: Managerial Accounting
• BUS 400: Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates
• BUS 412: Advanced Managerial Accounting
• BUS 461: Senior Project
• BUS 462: Senior Project

Dr. Larry Gorman, Finance Department

In addition to publishing several papers, I received the Conferences Best Paper Award at the Business and Economics Research Conference in October of 2001.

Instructor

• BUS 342: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
• BUS 343: Quantitative Methods in Finance
• BUS 433: International Business Finance
• BUS 444: Financial Engineering and Risk Management
• BUS 461: Senior Project

Dr. Garrett Hall, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Grant and Technical Reviewer

• Earthquake Spectra, Reviewer
• Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Reviewer

Dr. Yarrow Nelson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

I received the Raytheon Excellence in Teaching and Applied Research Award in May 2003. I believe I received this award because I combine research with teaching to provide students with valuable hands-on learning experiences.

During the 2002-2003 academic year I brought to the College of Engineering approximately $200,000 in research funding which supported 14 graduate students. The majority of this funding was for five separate Unocal-funded projects at the former Guadalupe Oil Field.

Instructor

• ENGR 213: Bioengineering Fundamentals
• ENGR 581: Biochemical Engineering I
• ENGR 583: Biochemical Engineering III
• ENVE 331: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
• ENVE 421: Mass Transfer Operations
• ENVE 450: Pollution Prevention
• ENVE 472: Water Filtration
• ENVE 535: Advanced Wastewater Treatment

Dr. Diana Keen, Computer Engineering

Awards and Honors

• IEEE Outstanding Professor Award, nominated by Les Jones
• IEEE Outstanding CPE Professor of the year, voted on by CPE undergraduates

Dr. Albert A. Liddicoat, Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering Department

Awards

• Cal Poly College of Engineering Professional Achievement Award 2003
• Outstanding CPE Lab Instructor 2002-03

Dr. Aaron Keen, Computer Science Department

I was recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member at the IEEE Faculty Appreciation Dinner, February 2003.

Reviewer for "Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms," Tucker and Noonan (book). At the request of the McGraw Hill editor, I reviewed the current edition, proposed a number of modifications, and reported the many errors found to aid in the publishing of the next edition.

Instructor

• CSC 330: Programming Languages I
• CSC 330: Languages and Translators

Dr. Bryan Mealy, Electronic Engineering Department

Publication

• R. Sandige, A. Liddicoat, and B. Mealy, "Modeling, Simulating, and Implementing Clockless Finite State Machines", International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization, Banff, Canada, pp. 19-22, July 2003.

Dr. Jose Macedo, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department

Awards and Honors

• Teaching recognition by Cal Poly Engineering Student Council, Winter 2003

Dr. Lanny Griffin, Materials Engineering Department

I presented two papers at the Orthopaedic Research Society Conference in New Orleans. We have completed research on the NIH Grant, Interfacial Properties of Haversian Bone, and are working on a renewal to be submitted in February 2004.

I received the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Applied Research award for 2002-2003.

Instructor

• ENGR 213: Biology for Engineering
• ENGR 550: Biosensors
• MATE 330: Composites
• MATE 530: Biomaterials

Dr. Charles Birdsong, Mechanical Engineering Department

Summer 2003: I submitted a proposal with Peter Schuster to Ford Motor Company for a sponsored project to investigate the feasibility of an advanced Development and assessment of cost effective pedestrian pre-crash sensing and discrimination system. The proposal requests $40,000 to cover one graduate student, equipment and Schuster and my time over a two year schedule.

Instructor

• ME 212: Engineering Dynamics
• ME 318: Vibrations
• ME 326: Intermediate Dynamics

Dr. J. Scott Patton, Mechanical Engineering Department

Proposals to NSF ($100,000), Proposal to FCI ($50,000), Proposal to DARPA ($327,598), Proposal for Faculty Development ($5,000), Proposal for Jonathan's Natural Juices ($30,000)

Instructor

• ME 302: Thermodynamics
• ME 341: Fluid Mechanics
• ME 344: Thermal Engineering
• ME 346: Thermal Science Laboratory
• ME 440: Thermal System Design

Dr. Kim Ann Schollenberger, Mechanical Engineering Department

I am continuing to pursue funded research projects with Sandia National Laboratories, I plan to submit a proposal to C3RP for using air to pump water from wells, and I plan to request release time this year to research other opportunities.

Professor Patton and I submitted a proposal to NSF in fall 2002 to develop a new senior elective lecture and laboratory-based course on multiphase flows at Cal Poly. The development of a laboratory for this course would provide an opportunity to acquire diagnostics and facilities needed to begin research projects in the area of multiphase flows.

Instructor

• ME 236: Thermal Systems
• ME 302: Thermodynamics
• ME 313: Heat Transfer
• ME 344: Thermal Engineering

Dr. Peter Schuster, Mechanical Engineering Department

Technical Reviewer for the Body and Safety Committees of the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE).

Received three patents:

• "Wiper pivot" (6,568,023)
• "Pedestrian impact energy management device with seesaw elements" (6,554,332)
• "Pedestrian protection leg spoiler" (6,513,843)

Research and Publications

• On Digital Rhetoric. The Sam Dragga Special Series on Technical Communication. Allyn and Bacon Publishing Company. Publication expected in Fall 2003.
• “Making the Most of Interactivity Online.” Co-authors: Debbie Andrisani, Anna Gaal, Sherry Steward. Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication. Volume 48, Number 3, August 2001, pp. 309-23.

Dr. Penny Osmond, Graphic Communication Department

A majority of students in the GRC department are women. Currently, I am the only full-time tenure-track female faculty member. I serve as a role model to all female students in my classes to be successful in a career in graphic Communication.

I presented web-based training options to the Association of Graphic Arts Trainers (AGAT) in Chicago.

Publications for the year include an article comparing web-based training to on-site training in the Visual Communications Journal 2002 (“Graphic Communication Industry Training: A Critical Comparison of Knowledge Gained and Satisfaction of Learners Between On-Site Delivery and Web-Based delivery”).

I was the CLA Senator for the University-Wide Academic Senate

Instructor

• GRC 201: Electronic Publishing Systems
• GRC 203: Electronic Prepress
• GRC 337: Consumer Packaging
• GRC 357 Screen Printing
• GRC 377: Desktop Publishing for Print and the World Wide Web

Dr. Paul Rinzler, Music Department

I've served as President of the SLO Jazz Federation Board of Directors and a member of the Cal Poly Academic Senate, the Cal Poly Arts Board of Directors, and the Faculty Dispute Committee.

Instructor

• MU 104: Musicianship I
• MU 106: Musicianship II
• MU 170/370: University Jazz Band I
• MU 171/371: Jazz Combo
• MU 208: Musicianship III
• MU 221: Jazz Styles
• MU 259: Beginning Jazz Improvisation
• MU 260: Intermediate Jazz Improvisation
• MU 336: History and Theory of Jazz
• MU 351: Jazz Arranging

I am currently serving as associate chair of the Biological Sciences Department and vice-chair of Cal Poly’s Academic Senate. I received a grant from CSUPERB to equip the bioinformatics computer lab. I also led the enhancement of lecture and laboratory facilities in BACT 333 to MCRO 433. I co-authored with Chris Kitts and 3 Cal Poly students a paper in the journal FEMS Microbiology Ecology. I also have 2 publications and 4 patents as a result of collaboration with colleagues from previous position prior to joining the Cal Poly faculty.

I serve as an Academic Senator, member of the Academic Senate Curriculum Committee, member of the WINGed Advisory Board, co-organizer of Biotech Days, chair of the Biotechnology Faculty Advisory Committee, leadership role in the Center for Teaching and Learning, and College of Science and Mathematics’ Commencement Marshall.

Dr. Elsa Medina, Mathematics Department

In March 2003, I offered the workshop "See the Light Through Mathematics" at the Expanding Your Horizons Conference in San Luis Obispo.

Instructor

• MATH 118: Pre-Calculus Algebra
• MATH 206: Linear Algebra I
• MATH 300: Technology in Mathematics Education
• MATH 327: Technology in Mathematics Education
• MATH 328: Mathematics for Elementary Teaching I
• MATH 329: Mathematics for Elementary Teaching II
• MATH 461: Senior Project
• MATH 462: Senior Project
• EDUC 469: Part-time Student Teaching
• EDUC 479: Student Teaching

Dr. Antonio Garcia, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department

I authored a new course proposal, GEOL/ERSC 401: Field-Geology Methods, and a Geology minor (offered through the Physics department).

Grants

• Cal Poly Faculty Development Grant (2002) to pay for radiocarbon dating of samples collected in east-central Nevada (Pine County): $1,900
• Cal Poly Faculty Development Grant (2002) to support research conducted by myself and a student in east-central Nevada (White Pine County): $3,937
• Cal Poly Faculty Development Grant (2001) to support research in east-central Nevada (White Pine County) and coastal California (Cambria, SLO County): $2,359