Given the terrible California budget, SDSU has a much reduced group of new faculty this year, and is especially pleased to be able to introduce 12 new faculty members to campus, including one new faculty member in the College of Engineering.

College of Engineering

Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Thais Alves, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley 2005) Alves is a civil engineer specializing in construction management and project-based production systems. Her areas of interest include the application of lean production/construction concepts, principles, and tools to improve the performance of production systems and products in different stages of their life-cycle and supply chains. For more than 10 years, she has been teaching, advising students, researching and collaborating with construction companies towards the dissemination and implementation of lean especially in the field of production planning and control at construction sites. She is currently investigating the innovations companies develop to sustain lean implementation and the application of lean in office activities.

Other new faculty members by college:

• College of Education
• College of Health and Human Services
• College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
• College of Sciences