The Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department Personnel Committee has evaluated the materials that you have submitted for promotion. I am pleased to inform you that the Committee has decided to recommend your promotion to the rank of professor.

The Committee considers your teaching effectiveness to be good to very good. Your teaching evaluations show substantial improvement over the previous year, yet the Committee sees still some room for improvement. You have developed several new courses, and the Committee commends you for this effort.

The Committee considers your professional growth to be very good. In the past year, you have published three papers in leading and reputable journals in your field, which attests to your creative scholarship and research productivity. You have received the Rufus Chaney Research Excellence Award, which shows the broad geographical impact of your research.

The Committee considers your service to be very good. Specific mention should be made of your leadership as Director of the Environmental Engineering Program. Your service in relation to the ABET accreditation visit in 2008 and in the University Academic Planning and Policy Committee (2009-2012) are worthy of mention.

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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