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. Hamilton reported that her impact on students included three significant learning outcomes she has attempted to foster in her courses, which included: 1) a demonstrated understanding of the the importance of economic forces in food price changes; 2) a demonstrated ability to understand the role of prices in agricultural input decisions; 3) the ability to apply to learning to real-world situations.

Dr. Hamilton continues to support student learning and progress to degree by working with students to complete their senior projects. Her particular method for this was initiated in 1999-2000 and continues to show very good results.

Dr. Hamilton served as the chair of the Departmental Curriculum Committee and was able to implement positive changes to the curriculum which now makes it easier for students to fulfill the upper-division requirement.

Professional development was a focus of this year for Dr. Hamilton, undertaking collaborative activities and endeavors in order to advance her familiarity and effectiveness with innovative modes of instruction.

Instructor

• AGB 101 : Introduction to Agribusiness
• AGB 312 : Agricultural Policy
• AGB 313 : Agricultural Economic Analysis
• AGB 314 : Fair and Fair Facility Management

Dr. Lisa Nicholson, Food Science and Nutrition Department

Dr. Nicholson's teaching philosophy is to actively involve students on a variety of levels throughout the educational experience. Her specialization is in understanding and communicating to students the complexity of health behaviors, especially in regards to nutrition.

Dr. Nicholson continues her involvement in a variety of Departmental, College and University service as Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics, faculty advisor to the student Nutrition Club, served on the CAGR Instructional Enhancement Committee, participated in organizing the Winter 2004 Mini-Conference "Reaching Generation Y - Teaching in Today's University",; served on the Community-Based Learning Committee, served on the Multicultural Pluralism in Education, and the Health Professions Committee, served as a faculty liaison for the FSN College-Based Student Fee Advisory Committee.

Dr. Nicholson received the "President's Community-Based Learning and Service" award for Significant Contribution; an award of appreciation as the Nutrition Club advisor; and a Council of Agriculture Club Advisor award.

Instructor

• FSN 415 : Nutrition Education and Communication
• FSN 416 : Community Nutrition
• FSN 417 : Nutrition Counseling
• FSN 250 : Food and Culture
• FSN 416, 462 : Senior Project 1,2

Dr. Samantha Gill, Natural Resources and Management Department

Dr. Gill has several learning objectives that she tries to achieve in her classes, some of which are: 1) to have the students become comfortable using technology; 2) to have the students hone their written and oral communication skills; 3) have the students become comfortable with applying mathematics to natural resources applications.

Dr. Gill continued her work as advisor to Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) majors. She was also a faculty advisor for the national forestry honor society and co-advisor for the Cal Poly Logging Team. She was also a scholarship coordinator for the FNR program and developed a web page listing scholarships available to FNR students. Dr. Gill was elected as the Chair of the National Inventory Working Group for the Society of American Foresters.

Along with other surveying faculty, Dr. Gill received a teaching grant to continue the development of modules for a web site on surveying equipment. She was principal and co-principal investigator in several research grants totaling over $250,000. These grants involved students in several aspects of these projects.

Dr. Gill has worked on her professional development: attended the College of Agriculture Instructor Enhancement Mini Conference, developed a teaching portfolio, which she updates quarterly, worked with other faculty to work on course effectiveness, and team taught a graduate class.

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Was an Academic Counselor for the Architecture Department.

Allowed over subscription to labs and seminars. Standard class load was sixteen students per class or seminar and Mr. Lucas allowed twenty-four students in the thesis lab and seminar, thus reducing students from being kept back from required classes.

Developed a compact disc based reader for a seminar, expanded using email broadcasts for daily communication with thesis students, and utilized the internet to review draft papers.

Committee Work and Professional Development

• Continued as a member of the General Education Committee
• Chair of the Senate United States Cultural Pluralism Committee
• Attended the Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Regional Meeting

Dr. Pamalee Brady, Architectural Engineering Department

Dr. Brady's position was funded to develop and implement an improved program of offerings for the department service courses of Construction Management and Architecture.

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Involved in the implementation of the Financial Analysis Resource Center (trading room) that makes tools available to students that are used by financial analysts in industry including Bloomberg and Reuter's data.

As lead Faculty on the Orfalea College of Business Student Investment Management Project, overhauled the SIMP senior project, including incorporation of tools from the Financial Analysis Resource Center.

Student Advising

• Advise students on opportunities with investment banks and quantitative oriented fund manager.
• Advisor/coach for the National Investment Management Competition.
• Advisor for the student club, Financial Management Association.

Dr. Kate Lancaster, Accounting Department

Advisor for the Cal Poly Accounting Club and mentor to students on career choices.

Committee Work and Professional Development

• Cal Poly Resource Use Committee
• Cal Poly Status of Women Committee
• OCOB Accounting Area Curriculum Committee
• Invited to attend The Workshop on Accounting Education
• Part of a four-member faculty team that attended the CSU Reengaged Faculty Institute.
• Attended the ten day KPMG Faculty Access program.
• Participated in Cal Poly's WINGED program.
• Attended the Accounting Information Systems Educators conference.
• Published, "Making Better Use of Information: Aiming Towards True North" International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2003

Professional Development

• Advisor to Chi-Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute - Young Professional Member
• Documentation of settlement damage to Hwy 46 after the San Simeon earthquake (12/23/03). Findings submitted to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
• Participation in High School Educational Outreach
• Co-proposed two new classes - CEx456 Seismic Principals and CEx452 Advanced Concrete Design.
• Moderator, organizer, advisor and judge of the Seismic Design Competition for the 2004 ASCE Pacific Southwest Regional Conference.

Dr. Daniel Jansen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Proposals Awarded

• Cement Stabilized Recycled Aggregates for Roadway Base, $48,000
• Concrete Bridge Deck Crack Sealing/Filling: an Overview of Research, $28,000

Dr. Parna Mukherjee, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Proposals Awarded

• California Central Coast Research Partnership (C3RP), $33,000
• University Services Summer Grant Program (USSGP), $2,500
• Santa Clara Valley Water District, $51,000

Dr. Ahraf Rahim, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Proposals Awarded

• Cement Stabilized Recycled Aggregate for Roadway Bases
• Concrete Bridge Deck Sealing/Filling: An Overview of Research
• Traffic Study for Bee Rock Quarry

Dr. Yarrow Nelson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Proposals Awarded

• Anaerobic Diluent Biodegradation in Laboratory Soil Columns, $49,000
• Natural Attenuation Data Analysis and Vertical Profiles, $30,000
• Microbial Activity Recovery Following Steam Injection/Extr4action, $6,000

Dr. Michael Haungs, Computer Science Department

Proposals Awarded

• Building a Testbed for Internet Applications, Internet2Mini-Grant Phase II, $4,000
• Rapid Delivery of Massive Geospatial Data over Internet2, $32,000

Dr. Roya Javadpour, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department

Professional Development and Service

• Alpha Pi Mu faculty advisor
• IME Newsletter Editor
• Member of the IME Department Awards and Recognition Committee
• Member of the University Honors Council Committee

Dr. Jianbiao Pan, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department

Proposals Awarded and Awards Won

• Reliability Study of Lead-free Solder Joints, $45,000
• Won the 2004 M Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
• Received Best Paper in Session at the IEEE/CPMT/SEMI 29th International Electronics Manufacturing Technology Symposium

Professional Development

• Research and development for an innovative new media project was accepted for presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference.
• Presented at several conferences.

Dr. Penny Osmond, Graphic Communication Department

Active in curriculum development. All courses taught required some level of curriculum development primarily because of the changing technologies inherent to the department subject matter.

Professional Development

• Presented at Seybold Conference on Digital Printing
• Presented at GraphExpo on Variable Data Printing
• Presented at GATF Variable Data Conference on VDP Workflows
• Presented at FFTAFIRST Conference on Expanded Gamut Printing

Dr. Paul Rinzler, Music Department

Professional Development

• Continued work on listening presentation software for jazz appreciation classes, contracted by Wadsworth Publishing
• Presented at the annual convention of the International Association for Jazz Education
• Adjudicator for Santa Cruz educational jazz festival
• Adjudicator for Santa Barbara High School educational jazz festival

2003-04 marked Dr. Elrod's first year as a tenured faculty member and associate professor. She has an excellent record of teaching and a strong professional development program that involves both basic research and textbook writing. Dr. Elrod served in important leadership positions including Associate Department Chair of Biological Sciences, Associate Director of Cal Poly's Center for Teaching and Learning, and Vice Chair of the Academic Senate.

Instructor

• BIO 351 : Principles of Genetics
• BIO 414 : Evolution
• BIO 447 : Bioinformatics Applications
• BIO 461 : Senior Project
• SCM 201 : Orientation to Biotechnology

Dr. Elsa Medina, Mathematics Department

Dr. Medina is beginning her fifth year at Cal Poly; her specialty is mathematics education. She is developing as an excellent teacher and has a promising professional development program. Dr. Medina is Director of the California Math Project at Cal Poly and is responsible for summer workshops for K-12 teachers and follow-up during the academic year. During summer 2004 she directed a workshop for high school and elementary school teachers. She is co-PI on a curriculum grant from NSF/AASCU.

Instructor

• EDUC 469 : Part-Time Student Teaching
• MATH 141 : Calculus I
• MATH 142 : Calculus II
• MATH 327 : Mathematics for Elementary Teaching I
• MATH 328 : Mathematics for Elementary Teaching II
• MATH E331 : Topics in Math for Teachers
• MATH 461, 462 : Senior Project

Dr. Antonio Garcia, Physics Department

Dr. Garcia is beginning his fourth year at Cal Poly. He is developing well in teaching and has established a strong field research program involving Cal Poly students. One of these student is a co-author on a published presentation abstract. Dr. Garcia has two publications and a manuscript in preparation last year. He is a resource to the community and is active in giving presentations on geology and related topics.

Instructor

• GEOL 200 : Special Problems for Undergraduates
• GEOL 201 : Physical Geology
• GEOL 203 : Fossils and the History of Life
• GEOL 241 : Physical Geology Laboratory
• GEOL 401 : Field-Geology Methods
• SS 323 : Geomorphology
• SS 462 : Senior Project
• SS 500 : Independent Study