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FALL QUARTER | NOVEMBER 20, 2015
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Campus Closed for Thanksgiving -
November 26 & 27
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ECST Family and Friends Gathering
Nov 21
| 11:30am-3:00pm @ Belvedere Park (near the Aquatic Center), 5035 E. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90022 RSVP
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ECST Faculty & Staff Holiday Celebration Dec 8
| 4:00pm to 6pm @ Cal State LA University Club
RSVP
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Faculty/Staff Focus on Student Success
A huge thank you to faculty and staff who worked at EagleFest last Saturday, greeting hundreds of potential applicants to our ECST programs. Frances Hidalgo and Evelyn Crosby from the Student Success center organized our effort, and they were joined throughout the day by faculty members Stefanie Nelson, Areezoo Khodayari, Zilong Ye, Yuqing Zhu, Masood Shahverdi and Mohsen Eshraghi.
In recent weeks many of our department chairs, faculty advisors, and staff advisors have joined forces to hold IAP advising clinics for students, to assist them with Q2S curriculum transition planning. These group sessions are a huge amount of work, but hopefully the IAP will become a permanent and useful tool for student advising. Many thanks to Darrell Guillaume, Dave Raymond, Arash Jamehbozorg, Charles Liu, Rupa Purasinghe, Elaine Kang, Yuqing Zhu, Zilong Ye, T Fox, Keith Mew, Evelyn Crosby, Frances Hidalgo, Rudy Ramirez, Candi Marsh and anyone else I missed! Thanks everyone for working together and working so hard to help students get ready for Q2S.
Faculty/Staff Spotlight
At our Fall Welcome Back event, we talked about building a greater sense of community across departments with faculty and staff. Getting to know the great individuals who make up our College is an important part of that. Starting this week, this newsletter will feature a different faculty or staff member to learn more about them. Gustavo Menezes has graciously agreed to be our first spotlight!
Wh
at is your role at ECST?
AssociateProfessor in Civil Engineering - mentoring, advising and training students.
What do you love most about your job?
I really love
my job and I cannot see myself doing anything else. I enjoy interacting with students and watch their professional and personal growth. I also love the freedom to be creative and work on projects that are challenging and exciting at the same time.
Where did you grow up?Where do you live now?
I grew up in a city called Belo Horizonte ("Beautiful Horizon"), 3rd largest city in Brazil, located in the state of Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil. Mineiros (those born in the state of Minas Gerais) are known for being reserved and prudent, but welcoming and family-focused. Currently, I live in Arcadia, CA with my wife Fabiola and my two sons Nicolas (5) and Ian (2 on 12/31).
What was your first job out of College/University?
After college, I worked for the City of Belo Horizonte as a Geotechnical Engineer and I was responsible for monitoring slope stability of landfills. A stinking job, I mean, literally.
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Talking About Research: A quick reminder that ECST has a dedicated webpage to
faculty research
where you may upload any new or ongoing research. We'd love to hear about it!
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Quarter 2 Semester News
California State University, Los Angeles is converting to semesters. The first term on the semester calendar will be Fall 2016. Q2S
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Faculty
Research
ECST faculty play a key role in developing and engaging students in interdepartmental research at Cal State L.A.. Please send us your research links so we may share it with ECST and the University on
Faculty Research
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