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Mendelsohn Elected to University Senate Three-Year Term

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Officials of the University Senate have announced that Associate Professor Dan Mendelsohn has been elected to a three-year term to the University Senate. Mendelsohn will represent the College of Engineering in a term that begins Autumn Semester 2014 and runs through Spring Semester of 2017.  In his role as a University Senator he will be invited and expected to serve on a Senate committee and to attend monthly Senate meetings and the meetings of Faculty Council. 

Leslie Alexander, Chair of Faculty Council, and Tim Gerber, Secretary of the University Senate expressed their appreciation, "Our hearty congratulations to you, Dan, and thanks for your willingness to serve in this way."

In 2012, Mendelsohn was presented the Mechanical Engineering Teaching Excellence Award by the Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board. Mendelsohn has an extensive record of service to the Department, the College of Engineering (CoE) and the University. Highlights of his service include his current duties as Associate Department Chairperson and Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Studies Chair as well as past work with the University's Council on Academic Affairs, the Research and Graduate Council, the CoE Committee on Academic Affairs, the CoE Core Curriculum and Undergraduate Services Committee and co-supervision and co-program development of the Department's graduate teaching assistant program.  Mendelsohn's varied and additional service roles date to the late 1980s when he first became involved in the CoE's Committee on Academic Affairs.
 
 
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