East Los Angeles College

New Engineering Web Site

    Professor Terry Foley has designed an ELAC Engineering Department Web site.  The new Web site is still under construction and can be reached at

  http://EastLA.Engineering.Homepage.com.

 The Engineering Web site has information about ELAC Engineering & Technology Programs, course offerings, university 2+2 transfer, Professor biographies, and links to many other Web sites. Professor Foley has also designed an Engineering Club Web site, which can be located at

  http://Terry-Foley.Tripod.com.

  The Club site has information about how to become an Engineering Club member, upcoming events, SHPE membership and many other topics such as photographs of recent club field trips and activities.

    Summer Internship Awards went to Carmen Frias who spent the summer working with the National Science Foundation in Washington DC. During her stay in Washington, Carmen had the opportunity to visit the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she was given a special tour and even met Senator Kennedy. When asked about her overall experience, Carmen said, “it was really worth it because the people were amazing and I learned a great deal.” Ericka Lieberknecht was awarded the IBM New York Summer Internship. Ericka spent the summer in New York working at IBM designing state of the art computer chips. During her stay, Ericka was very active and participated in many activities with IBM including sky diving and river rafting. The Loyola Marymount Research Internship went to Martin Leal. He spent the summer doing research on new Aluminum Alloys for the U.S. Navy. He gained experience in working with CNC machines and developed his leadership skills. Martin said, “I was very proud to represent ELAC. “

The following ELAC students received scholarship awards in May, 2000:

ELAC-CSULA Engineering Dean’s $500 Scholarship to Elmer Cedillo

ELAC-USC Engineering Dean’s $6000 Scholarship to Edwin Garcia

ELAC-USC Engineering Dean’s $6000 Scholarship to Ericka Lieberknecht

ELAC-CSULA Engineering Dean’s $500 Scholarship to Marie De La Cruz

ELAC-CSULA Engineering Dean’s $500 Scholarship to Alexandra Briseno

ELAC-USC Engineering Dean’s $6000 Scholarship to Si Lun Wu

    In addition, many other Engineering students received $1000 to 2000 grants from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

    ELAC Engineering students and their guests are invited to an open house at California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) on Monday, November 27, 2000. The open house will be from 5:00pm to 6:30pm. CSULA will provide busses, that will depart from the front of East Los Angeles College at 4:40 p.m. and return at 6:50 p.m.  Students will be viewing CSULA’s “state of the art” remodeled Engineering and Technology Building and labs. ELAC students will receive a pizza dinner.  The many upgrades of the new $31 million facility includes:

·         High Tech Computer Wing

·         Modern Manufacturing Tech Wing

·         New Environmental Eng. Lab

·         Expanded Electronics Comm. Lab

·         New Controls Laboratory

·         Expanded Research Facilities

·         New School Projects Lab.

And much more! To sign up to attend the Cal State Open House simply see Prof. Stevenson or Carmen Frias in the Engineering Department office, G8-127.

    The Engineering Club is very active and has new officers. The new President is Martin Garibay, Vice-Presidents Keung Wong and Alejandro Guerra, Treasurer-William Rosales, Secretary-Carmen Frias, Historian-Miguel Perez, Public Relations-Nery Moreno, Web site Master-Barbara Rodriguez, SHPE Representative-Guillermo Monay, and Business Administrator-Luis Garcia. The Club has many planned activities for the upcoming semester. To join the club, attend one of the regular meetings which is held every Thursday at noon in room G8-131.  For evening or working students, you may attend an abbreviated club meeting every Monday night at 5:00 p.m. in room G6-108.

    On October 27-29^th, 2000, 35 Engineering Club members attended the West Coast Career Conference which was held in Ventura, California. Students had the opportunity to visit and meet with representatives of many companies and had great interaction.

MESA Engineering News             Armida Avila, Director

The MESA center has a new look with a fresh coat of paint, furniture reorganization, and new venetian blinds. We have seven additional computers in the lecture area for typing papers and lab reports. Alan Khuu, our new computer technician, rebuilt and updated the computers.

Eighteen ELAC students attended the CSULA Summer AMP (Alliance for Minorities Participation) Program. The students received a $500 stipend and a TI-85 calculator for attending mathematics, chemistry, or physics workshops.