Dr. Chassiakos Named
Acting Associate Dean
On June 20, 2004 College of Engineering Dean Michael Mahoney announced
the appointment of CSULB Electrical Engineering Professor Anastasios
Chassiakos as Acting Associate Dean for Research and Administration.
Dean Mahoney said "Dr. Chassiakos has an outstanding overall
record. His major duties as Associate Dean will include
promoting research and stimulating new contract and grant activity.
He will work closely with the Associate Vice President for Research
and will handle the contract and grant approval process in the
college. Dr. Chassiakos will also oversee faculty hiring
and the scheduling of classes across the college, and he will
work with others on curriculum and ABET issues."
Dr.
Chassiakos' appointment will begin on August 1, 2004. He
will move into room ECS-617 in the Engineering dean's suite.
A nationwide search for a permanent Associate Dean will be conducted
during the 2004-05 academic year. A permanent Associate
Dean should be in place by summer 2005.
Dr.
Anastasios Chassiakos earned his BS degree in Engineering from
the National Technical University of Athens in Greece and his
MS degree from Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Southern California and while
he was there he also earned MS in Applied Mathematics.
Dr.
Chassiakos has been a professor in the College of Engineering
at CSULB since 1988. From 1998-2001 he worked at the CSU Chancellor's
office as director of the California Pre-Doctoral Program. He
served as Chair of the Engineering Technology Department for two
years.
Dr.
Chassiakos has an outstanding record of nearly 60 publications
with more than 250 citations of his journal articles. He also
has co-edited a 3-volume publication on the topic of "Structural
Control" that has received more than 500 citations from the scientific
community.
Dr.
Chassiakos has received more than $1,000,000 of external grants
and contracts from private industry and government agencies such
as NSF, NASA, and the Department of Transportation. He has also
received over $1.7M of external matching and equipment grants.
Dr.
Chassiakos' research work spans many engineering areas including
publications and projects on robotics, neural networks, transportation
and the next generation space telescope. One paper that Dr. Chassiakos
co-authored in 1997 titled "Structural Control: Past, Present
and Future," received the best paper of the year award from the
American Society of Civil Engineers. It was selected from among
the 2,500 papers published during that year. In addition, in 1999
that same society honored him as the co-recipient of the Norman
Medal, its oldest and most prestigious award given each year for
the last 131 years to the author(s) of a paper which had a significant
contribution to engineering science.
Among
several other awards, Dr. Chassiakos received the CSULB "Outstanding
Professor Award" in 1994 and the CSULB "Distinguished Scholarly
and Creative Activity" Award in 2003.
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