The Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department Personnel Committe has evaluated the materials that you have submitted for promotion to associate professor. I am pleased to inform you that the Committee recommends that you be promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

The Committee considers your teaching effectiveness to be excellent. Your students have a very high regard for your ability to be an effective teacher. You have demonstrated time and again that you are knowledgeable and able to impart this knowledge in an effective way. You have now engaged one Ph.D. student and several Masters's thesis students, which is proof of your continued progress in developing and sustaining an effective research program.

The Committee considers your professional growth to be very good to excellent. Your research into closed-form solutions of structural problems is highly commendable. The record shows that you have published five journal papers in the past three years. The papers have been published in well recognized and prestigious journals in your field, such as Engineering Structures, ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, and the PCI Journal. This substantial level of productivity attests to your outstanding capabilities as a teacher-scholar.

The Committee considers your service to be very good to excellent. Your service as a member of the Joint Doctoral Program in Structural Engineering is highly commendable. In addition, your membership in departmental and college commmitees is also recognized.

In summary, the Committee finds your teaching effectiveness to be excellent, your professional growth to be very good to excellent, and your service to be very good to excellent. The Committee congratulates you on your efforts, and looks forward to your continued progress.

You have the right to submit a response or rebuttal in writing to this letter of recommendation. If you choose to submit a written response, it must be delivered to the departmental office by October XX, 2011 using the response/rebuttal form available from the Faculty Affairs website (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~facaff/newrtp.html)

Sincerely yours,

Victor M. Ponce

Chair, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department Personnel Committee

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