Dr. Cynar Named Acting Associate Dean for Instruction

On August 11, 2004 College of Engineering Dean Michael Mahoney announced the one-year appointment of CSULB Computer Engineering and Computer Science Professor Sandra Cynar as Acting Associate Dean for Instruction.  Dean Mahoney said "Dr. Cynar has been associated with this college for more than 40 years as a student, lecturer, professor and department chair.  She in strongly devoted to the welfare of the college and will do everything she can to help us progress this upcoming year."

Dr. Sandra Cynar has a tremendous overall record of service and excellence. She earned her BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at CSULB, and earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC Irvine. She won the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award and the collegewide TRW (now Northrop Grumman) Teaching Award in 1992. She chaired the CECS department for nine years during a period of great expansion and hiring and she regularly ran a budget surplus. She created and has run the Center for Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) associated with Cadence Design Systems over the past 3-4 years.  Dr. Cynar's leadership has helped us get millions of dollars in donations of servers, software, scholarships and internships from Cadence and related companies. Our CECS and EE departments now use Cadence tools in several of their required classes.

Acting Associate Dean Cynar's major duties will include overseeing the Admissions and Advising Center and working with people across campus on issues of recruitment, advising and retention. Dr. Cynar will also chair the College Curriculum Committee. She led the effort to create four new programs (one BS, two minors, one certificate) in 2003-04. She will also work together with Associate Dean Chassiakos, the chairs and others on ABET issues.

Dr. Cynar's acting appointment will begin on August 23, 2004, the first day of the Fall 2004 semester. She will be a half-time Acting Associate Dean.  A search for a permanent Associate Dean for Instruction will be conducted during the 2004-05 academic year.

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