Spectra Newsletter

For the second year in a row, more than 100 CECS alumni returned to campus for Alumni Networking Night, an informal reception that encouraged them to mingle with faculty and former classmates, rekindle friendships and establish new connections. [Read more…]

CECS scholarship donors and recipients had an opportunity to meet one another and get acquainted last May at the college’s Donor-Scholar Reception. The event served several purposes: students were able to thank their benefactors face to face and learn about the value of philanthropy—a lesson that will serve them well later in life. Donors got to see for themselves the quality of CECS students and hear firsthand about the difference their scholarship support was making in the lives of the recipients and their families. [Read more…]

Congratulations to the College’s San Fernando Valley Engineers’ Council
2013 Awardees!

Distinguished Engineering Educator Award

Professors Shan Barkataki • Nazaret Dermendjian • David Schwartz[Read more…]

Steven Stepanek has stepped down as chair of the computer science department to serve on the California State University Board of Trustees. Stepanek was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to represent faculty interests on the 25-member board, which is responsible for the oversight of the 23-campus CSU system. He is the first CSUN faculty member to be appointed to the board.

Stepanek has spent more than 40 years at CSUN, earning his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the campus in 1974 and his master’s degree in computer science in 1980. He has been working in the Department of Computer Science since 1976, first as a lecturer and then as a full-time professor, earning tenure in 1984. He served as department chair for 14 years and was a member of the CSUN Faculty Senate from 1994 to 2013, elected to its executive committee for most of those years. He spent the past eight years as a member of the CSU statewide Academic Senate and has served on several statewide committees.[Read more…]