VICTOR M. PONCE

FIVE-YEAR POST-TENURE REVIEW

2009-2013 - March 2014

I. TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS

A. TEACHING LOAD/CONTRIBUTION

Over the past five (5) years of the evaluation period, Prof. Ponce has taught the following following nine (9) courses:

  1. CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society
  2. CIV E 445 Applied Hydraulics
  3. CIV E 445 Applied Hydrology
  4. CIV E 530 Open-channel Hydraulics
  5. CIV E 632 Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology
  6. CIV E 633 Environmental Hydrology
  7. CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology
  8. CIV E 638 Sedimentation Engineering
  9. CIV E 696 Advanced Topics in Water Resources

In the past five (5) years, Dr. Ponce has taught a total of 31 classes in ten (10) semesters, an average of 3.1 classes per semester. Dr. Ponce's teaching load is three (3) courses per semester, amounting to a total of six (6) courses per year. The number of class preparations is three (3) per semester. Dr. Ponce's teaching load [six (6) courses per year] is consistently higher-than-average for the Civil Engineering department, where the average teaching load per faculty member over the past five (5) years has been four (4) courses per year. Additionally, the record shows that Dr. Ponce has taught nine (9) different courses in the past five (5) years, a large number of courses by any metric.

B. NEW COURSE TAUGHT

  1. CIV E 696, Advances Topics in Water Resources, taught Fall 2013 together with Dr. Luis Parra. This is a new graduate course designed to expose water resources graduate students to the subjects of stochastic hydrology, hydromodification and online script development related to civil engineering.
C. TEACHING INNOVATIONS

  1. Since 2009, Dr. Ponce has developed an online video capability in his Visualab. A total of U.S. $30,000 have been invested in the development of this capability, including hardware and software. The hardware includes several servers to support the Visualab's extensive online activities, video and still cameras, and ancillary equipment, including teleprompter, tripod, and studio lights. The software includes Final Cut Pro for professional video editing, Squeeze for video compression, Xilisoft for video format conversion, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), and Ikan teleprompter software.

  2. In the past five (5) years, Dr. Ponce's Visualab has developed more than two-hundred (200) online videos to support the teaching of CIV E 445 Applied Hydrology and CIV E 530 Open-Channel Hydraulics online (ponce.sdsu.edu/videos2x.php), and other instructional and service applications. These videos are streamed by two Visualab media servers and posted on YouTube, for worldwide reach.

  3. Developed more than one-hundred (100) online scripts to perform hydrologic and hydraulic calculations, using the scripting language PHP (onlinecalc.sdsu.edu). These online tools are being used in CIV E 445 Applied Hydrology and CIV E 530 Open-channel Hydraulics. The Visualab's scripts are a unique resource being used on a worldwide basis.

  4. Maintained an extensive website for teaching, research, professional and service purposes (ponce.sdsu.edu). The website, among the largest individual academic websites anywhere, featuring more than 12,000 links, is used for communications with students, colleagues, correspondents, and the public at-large, with worldwide reach.

D. THESIS CHAIR, IN PROGRESS OR COMPLETED DURING 2009-2013

  1. Spring 2014: Aguilar, Rosa (in progress).
  2. Spring 2014: Geramipour, Leila (in progress).

E. SPECIAL STUDIES, COMPLETED DURING 2009-2013

  1. Spring 2013: Aguilar, Rosa.
  2. Fall 2010: Chua, Joseph.

F. STUDENT EVALUATIONS OF TEACHING PERFORMANCE

SemesterCourseClass
ave.		Dept.
ave.
Fall 2013
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-3.71
CIV E 530 Open-channel Hydraulics-
CIV E 633 Environmental hydrology-
CIV E 696 Advanced Topics in Water Resources5.00
Spring 2013
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.23
CIV E 530 Open-channel hydraulics-
CIV E 632 Surface-water Hydrology4.25
Fall 2012
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.15
CIV E 530 Open-channel hydraulics -
CIV E 638 Sedimentation Engineering4.21
Spring 2012
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.25
CIV E 530 Open-channel Hydraulics -
CIV E 632 Computational hydraulics and hydrology4.44
Fall 2011
CIV E 402 Civil engineering and society-4.09
CIV E 530 Open-channel Hydraulics-
CIV E 633 Environmental hydrology4.61
Spring 2011
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.21
CIV E 445 Applied Hydrology-
CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology4.53
Fall 2010
CIV E 401 Civil engineering and society-4.16
CIV E 530 Open-channel hydraulics-
CIV E 633 Environmental hydrology4.20
Spring 2010
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.10
CIV E 445 Applied Hydrology-
CIV E 632 Computational Hydraulics and hydrology 4.88
Fall 2009
CIV E 401 Civil Engineering and Society-4.05
CIV E 444 Applied Hydraulics-
CIV E 633 Environmental hydrology4.57
Spring 2009
CIV E 445 Applied hydrology-4.00
CIV E 632 Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology-
CIV E 634 Surface-water Hydrology4.52

II. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

A. PROCEEDINGS PAPERS

  1. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Rendimiento sostenible del agua subterránea. El Ingeniero, Revista del Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru, Consejo Departamental Puno, Año VI, Edición No. 10, 2013. p. 21-23.

  2. Ponce, V. M. 2013. La isoyeta de 800 mm, Salud y esperanza --- Con mención especial al departamento de Huanuco, Peru. International Conference on Civil Engineering, Huanuco, Peru, December 5-7, 2013.

  3. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Ingeniería en línea. International Conference on Civil Engineering, Huanuco, Peru, December 5-7, 2013.

  4. Ponce, V. M., R. D. Aguilar, and S. Kumar. 2013. Estimación de parámetros de acuíferos utilizando la recesión del flujo de base. IV National Water Congress, Lima, Peru, June 13-14, 2013.

  5. Aguilar, R. D., and V. M. Ponce. 2013. Calculo de curvas de remanso utilizando pendiente crítica y calculadores en línea. IV National Water Congress, Lima, Peru, June 13-14, 2013.

  6. Ponce, V. M., R. D. Aguilar, and D. S. Smith. 2013. Efecto de la fricción de forma en la curva de gasto de sedimentos. IV National Water Congress, Lima, Peru, June 13-14, 2013.

  7. Ponce, V. M. and H. Bakoobehi. 2010. Sustainable yield of ground water. 3rd International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment, Chennai, India, January 5-7, 2010.

  8. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Sustainable yield of ground water.  International Conference of Water, Environment, and Health Sciences, Universidad de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, April 13-17, 2009.

  9. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The necropolis of Otuzco, Northern Peru.  South American Explorer, 89.

B. ONLINE PAPERS AND ARTICLES

  1. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Impacts of Soitec solar projects on Boulevard and surrounding communities, San Diego County, California. boulevarsoitec.html

  2. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Comparison of sharp-crested weirs for discharge measurement in open-channel flow. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/comparison_of_weirs.html

  3. Ponce, V. M. and N. R. Nuccitelli. 2013. Comparison of two Clark unit hydrographs http://ponce.sdsu.edu/comparison_of_two_clark_unit_hydrographs.html

  4. Ponce, V. M. 2013. La isoyeta de 800 mm: Salud y esperanza La isoyeta de 800 mm: Salud y esperanza

  5. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Creager and flood diffusion. creager_and_flood_diffusion.html

  6. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Cumulative impacts on water resources of large-scale energy projects in Boulevard and surrounding communities, San Diego County, California. boulevardenergy.html

  7. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Chow, Froude, and Vedernikov. chow_froude_and_vedernikov.html

  8. Ponce, V. M. 2013. Shu'luuk Wind Project DEIS: Comments - Water Issues. shuluuk.html

  9. Informe en linea (Online report)

  10. Ponce, V. M. 2012. Thompson Creek groundwater sustainability study. Thompson Creek groundwater sustainability study

  11. Ponce, V. M. 2012. The salinity of groundwaters. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/the_salinity_of_groundwaters.html

  12. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Unsteady flow with HEC-RAS. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/unsteady_flow_with_hec_ras.html

  13. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Sequestering all runoff. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/sequestering_all_runoff.html

  14. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Initiation of motion based on Froude number. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/initiation_of_motion_froude.html

  15. Ponce, V. M. 2011. Synthetic unit hydrographs explained. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/synthetic_uh_explained.html

  16. Ponce, V. M. 2011. El sentido incomún. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/sentido_incomun.html

  17. Ponce, V. M. 2011. La isoyeta de 800 mm anuales: Salud y esperanza. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/800_m_isoyeta.html

  18. Ponce, V. M. 2011. The 800-mm isohyet: Health and hope. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/800_mm_isohyet.html

  19. Chua, J. H., and V. M. Ponce. 2010. Drainage basin of the Altiplano. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/chua/altiplano_drainage_basin.html

  20. Ponce, V. M. 2010. The age of impermanence. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/the_age_of_impermanence.html

  21. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Is vegetation paying its own way?. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/is_vegetation_paying_its_own_way.html

  22. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Catchment wetting and water balance. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/catchment_wetting_and_water_balance.html

  23. Ponce, V. M. 2010. The source of the Missouri river. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/source_of_missouri_river.html

  24. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Milestones in global warming. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/global_warming_milestones.html

  25. Ponce, V. M. 2010. The facts about river basin salinity. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/the_facts_about_river_basin_salinity.html

  26. Ponce, V. M. 2010. La relacion de Lane modificada. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/la_relacion_de_lane_modificada.html

  27. Ponce, V. M. 2010. Comments to the DSEIS, Campo landfill project http://ponce.sdsu.edu/comments_to_dseis_100505.html

  28. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Uncommon sense: The sense behind global warming http://ponce.sdsu.edu/uncommon_sense.html

  29. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The science of global warming: Good, bad, or ugly? http://ponce.sdsu.edu/global_warming_science.html

  30. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" revisited. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/tragedy_revisited.html

  31. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Escorrentía sostenible para el balance de sales. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/escorrentia_sostenible_para_el_balance_de_sales.html

  32. Ponce, V. M. 2009. El problema de las sales en la irrigación. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/el_problema_de_las_sales_en_la_irrigacion.html

  33. Ponce, V. M. 2009. La función natural de los ríos. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/la_funcion_natural_de_los_rios.html

  34. Ponce, V. M. 2009. El balance de nutrientes bajo el pulso de inundación. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/el_balance_de_nutrientes_bajo_el_pulso_de_inundacion.html

  35. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Nutrient balance under flood pulse. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/nutrient_balance_under_flood_pulse.html

  36. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The Reynolds number revisited. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/reynolds_number_revisited.html

  37. V. M. Ponce. 2009. Estudio de impacto ambiental del proyecto de control de inundaciones en el río La Leche. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/tarea5_eia_parte2_090724a.html

  38. V. M. Ponce. 2009. Environmental impact assessment of the La Leche river flood control project. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/task5_eia_part2_090724a.html

  39. Khoury, F. and V. M. Ponce. 2009. History of the Froude Number. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/froude_history.html

  40. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Intelligent video. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/intelligent_video.html

  41. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The human experience: A vector-raster roller coaster. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/the_human_experience

  42. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Cascade and convolution: One and the same. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/cascade_and_convolution.html

  43. Ponce, V. M. 2009. A general dimensionless unit hydrograph. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/general_dimensionless_unit_hydrograph.html

  44. Ponce, V. M. 2009. Sustainable runoff for basin salt balance. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/sustainable_runoff_for_basin_salt_balance.html

  45. Ponce, V. M. 2009. The natural function of rivers. http://ponce.sdsu.edu/the_natural_funtion_of_rivers.html

C. INVITED LECTURES AND SHORT COURSES

  1. 06 December 2013 -- Invited Lecture, Internacional Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru: Hydraulic Engineering Online  (720 participants).

  2. 05 December 2013 -- Invited Lecture, Internacional Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru: Hydraulic Engineering in the 21st Century  (720 participants).

  3. 28 October 2013 -- Invited Lecture, October 2013 Meeting, AWWA Student Chapter: Water Quality  (10 participants).

  4. 11 October 2013 -- Invited Lecture, EDIFICA 2013, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México: El Agua Frente al Cambio  (420 participants).

  5. 21 June 2013 -- Invited Lecture, Cesar Vallejo University, Chiclayo, Peru: Water in view of change  (300 participants).

  6. 17 June 2013 -- Invited Lecture, National University Herminio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru: Water in view of change  (200 participants).

  7. 11-12 June 2013 -- Keynote Lecture, IV National Water Congress, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Water in view of change (240 participants).

  8. 11-12 June 2013 -- Lecturer, Two-day short course, IV National Water Congress, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Sedimentation Engineering (40 participants).

  9. 10 June 2013 -- Invited Lecture, National Hydraulics Laboratory, Lima, Peru: Online Hydraulic Engineering  (12 participants)

  10. 10 June 2013 -- Invited Lecture, National Hydraulics Laboratory, Lima, Peru: Unsteady flow in open channels  (12 participants)

  11. 20-22 February 2013 -- Lecturer, Three-day short course, Doctoral Program in Water Resources, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Advanced environmental hydrology (16 participants).

  12. 19 February 2013 -- Invited Lecture, National Hydraulics Laboratory, Lima, Peru: Water Engineering  (8 participants)

  13. 16 February 2013 -- Invited Lecture, National University Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru: Hydraulic Engineering  (60 participants)

  14. 8 December 2012 -- Project technical presentation: Estudio del Componente Arenas en el Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico  (10 participants)

  15. 6-10 August 2012 -- Short course, National Hydraulics Laboratory, Lima, Peru: Water 2012  (20 participants)

  16. 18-19 May 2012 -- Short course, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India: Hydrology online  (17 participants)

  17. 29 March 2012 -- Invited lecture, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Cuajone, Peru: Research and work online  (10 participants)

  18. 26 August 2011 -- Invited lecture, Third National Meeting, Federación Mexicana de Colegios de Ingenieros Civiles, Tijuana, Baja California, México: Online resources for hydraulic engineering  (200 participants)

  19. 17 June 2011 -- Invited lecture, Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica, Unidad Culhuacan, Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Online resources for teaching and research  (10 participants)

  20. 1 June 2011 -- Invited lecture, Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico: Online resources for teaching and research (30 participants).

  21. 19 January 2011 -- Invited lecture, Colegio de Ingenieros del Peru, Consejo Departamental Arequipa, Peru: The earth slope slides in the Vitor valley, Arequipa, Peru (65 participants).

  22. 13-15 January 2011 -- Lecturer, Three-day short course, Doctoral Program in Water Resources, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Advanced environmental hydrology (15 participants).

  23. 6-7 January 2011 -- Lecturer, Two-day short course, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Loja (Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja), Loja, Ecuador: Environmental hydrology (74 participants)

  24. 29 November 2010 -- Invited lecture, Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Mecanica y Electrica, Unidad Culhuacan, Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Hybrid teaching with webvideos  (15 participants)

  25. 10 March 2010 -- Invited Lecture, Faculty of Engineering of Natural Resources, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal: Water and Territory (20 participants).

  26. 15-16 January 2010 -- Lecturer, Two-day short Course, Doctoral Program in Water Resources, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Advanced environmental hydrology (25 participants).

  27. 7 January 2010 -- Invited Lecture, Proyecto Especial Olmos-Tinajones, Lambayeque, Peru: Environmental impact analysis for the La Leche river flood control project (15 participants).

  28. 19-21 October 2009 -- Lecturer, Università degli studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy: Workshop on web-based computation in hydraulics and hydrology (20 participants).

  29. 02 October 2009 -- Invited Speaker, Colloquium to strengthen comprehensive water resources planning in the Guadalupe valley, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico: Hydrology of El Barbon Creek, Guadalupe River Basin (45 participants).

  30. 8 June 2009 -- Invited Speaker, Day of the Architect, College of Architects, Lambayeque, Peru: Global Warming and Architecture (250 participants).

  31. 19-21 March 2009 -- Invited Speaker, First National Congress on Water, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Hydraulics Online (500 participants).

  32. 18 March 2009 -- Lecturer, One-day seminar, on conjunction with the First National Congress on Water, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru: Computational hydraulics (30 participants).

  33. 15 January 2009 -- Invited Lecture, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru: Hydraulic Engineering Online. (80 participants).

  34. 15-17 January 2009 -- Three-day short course, Doctoral Program in Science, Technology, and Environment, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru: Sustainable management of water.   (25 participants)

E. HONORS AND AWARDS

  1. 2013:    Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru.

  2. 2013:    Honorary Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru.

F. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CONTACTS

Maintained active links with faculty and colleagues at the following educational institutions, which led to short courses and invited lectures:

  1. Universidad de Alcala (Alcala de Henares, Spain)
  2. Università degli studi di Salerno (near Naples, Italy)
  3. Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
  4. Universidad Nacional Herminio Valdizan (Huanuco, Peru)
  5. Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (Lima, Peru)
  6. Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Peru)
  7. Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca (Cajamarca, Peru)
  8. Universidad Cesar Vallejo (Chiclayo, Peru)
  9. Universidad Nacional del Altiplano (Puno, Peru)
  10. Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ESIME-Culhuacán (Mexico City, Mexico),
  11. Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Loja, Ecuador),

III. SERVICE

A. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Developed the website http://ccee.sdsu.edu, which is the current Civil and Environmental Engineering Department website. The website has a portal and nine (9) native subportals. Dr. Ponce is training Allison Johnson, the departmental administrative support assistant, to help maintain the website in the future.

B. COMMITEE SERVICE

  1. 2009-13: Member, Personnel Committee, SDSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
  2. 2010-11: Member, Finance Committee, SDSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
C. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

  1. 2009-13: Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Environmental Studies, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
  2. 2009-13: Member, Editorial Board, Hydraulic Engineering in Mexico, Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

D. INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES
  1. 2009: U.S. Trade and Development Agency: De Leon Consulting Engineers, Los Angeles, California.
  2. 2012: World Bank: National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India.

E. IN-STATE CONSULTANCY SERVICES

  1. 2010: Backcountry Against the Dump, Boulevard, California.
  2. 2011: URS Corporation, San Diego, California.
  3. 2012: Old Coach Estates Association, Poway, California.
  4. 2013: Protect Our Community Foundation, Boulevard, California.