Calendar

June 13 - Commencement! Spanos Stadium, 10:00 a.m. Look for information on the Cal Poly University Commencement web site and click the Commencement – June 2009 link for details on the main ceremony. Individualized ceremonies for each concentration of the Orfalea College of Business immediately follow the main ceremony on the Three-Acre Lawn and surrounding areas of the college. Go to the Orfalea College of Business web site and click the Spring Commencement link for complete details and a downloadable/printable pdf map of the college ceremony locations.

June 22 - Beginning of summer term

July 3 - Academic Holiday - Independence Day observed

July 4 - Independence Day

July 29 - 30 - Student Orientation and Registration (SOAR) for the Orfalea College of Business

July 30 - 31 - Student Orientation and Registration (SOAR) for the Orfalea College of Business

August 5 - 6 - Student Orientation and Registration (SOAR) for the Orfalea College of Business

August 6 - 7 - Student Orientation and Registration (SOAR) for the Orfalea College of Business

Sept. 4 - End of summer term

Sept 15 - Orfalea College of Business College Connection Day

Sept. 15 - 19 - Week of Welcome (WOW)

Sept. 19 - WOW Block Party

Sept. 22 - Fall term classes begin

Oct. 15 - Dean's Advisory Council Dinner, The Cliffs Resort, 6:00 p.m., contact Tamara Vassey for more information

Oct. 16 - Dean's Advisory Council Meeting, Location TBD, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., contact Tamara Vassey for more information

Oct. 16 - Dean's Advisory Council Luncheon, Sage Banquet Room 12 noon, Contact Tamara Vassey for more information

Oct. 17 - Homecoming Football Game, Spanos stadium, 6:05 p.m. vs. Southern Utah

Nov. 11 - Academic Holiday - Veteran's Day observed

Nov. 25 - 29 - Academic Holiday - Thanksgiving

Dec. 4 - Last day of fall term classes

Dec. 12 - Mid-Year Commencement, End of Fall term

Dec. 13 - Jan. 3 - Academic Holiday

June 2009 E-News

2009 ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET

The Orfalea College of Business 2009 Annual Awards Banquet was held Friday, May 29th in the Chumash Auditorium. The theme selected this year was “Spotlight on Success.” Over 200 guests, including students, parents, faculty and corporate sponsors attended the evening. CPAC (Cal Poly Accounting Club) won Club of the Year and Delta Sigma Pi won Most Philanthropic Club for the academic year 2008-2009.

Pictured is the AISEC Club table, left to right is Ryan Polei, Alex Griswold, Pat Noland, Nima Salke , Colette Frayne (Int’l Business professor), Rebecca Ellis (Human Resource Mgmt professor), Mike Filice and Margo Fahey.

CPAC - 2009 Club of the Year

Pictured from left to right are CPAC members Shane Demello, Nicole Herzog, Hera Ng, Jared Grieser, Julie Eisenberg (2008-09 CPAC President), Ashley Goliti, Jessica Hahn, Juston Glass.

DELTA SIGMA PI

Most Philanthropic Club of Academic Year 2008-09

Pictured from left to right are Delta members: Back row - Ramey Dallimonti, Kara Breitbarth, Sunny Yang, Stephanie Liu, Kelsey Monken, Eddie Gutierrez, Michael Parikh, Brett Bernstein, Kyle Brockman, Vince Passanisi Front row, left to right are Andrew Flachner, Sarah Hebel, Song Yee LeBaron, Caitlin Wise, Shelayne Hammack, Steven Zupan (2008-09 Club President), Greg Wood (2009-10 Club President), Helya Naghibi, Travis Campbell, Vincent Vo, Emily Spier.

KUDOS CORNER

Students In Free Enterprise Nationals

2009 marked the 6th consecutive year that SIFE Cal Poly has competed at the national level of the SIFE Nationals. At this competition, the club presents the projects they have worked on throughout the year to a panel of judges from various SIFE sponsor companies such as, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola, KPMG, Campbells and Walgreens, among others.

Pictured from Left to Right are 2008-09 SIFE Club Members. Back Row - Mac Bernie, Amy Cagle, Josh Pile, Cameron Pangrle, Jason Linsteadt, Joshua Montoro, Steven Gonzalez. Front Row, Pictured Left to Right, YiLi Wen, Yu-Han Fu, Aren Rai, Claire Sutton, Amanda Sarley, Doug White, Melissa Markos, Samantha Biller, Holly Ritter

This year SIFE Cal Poly competed against 117 other schools in the four year division. The club’s projects are focused on seven criteria: Market Economics, Success Skills, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Environmental Sustainability, Business Ethics and Team Sustainability. This year, two of their strongest projects were their Green Team project, which was an environmental consulting group that has assisted businesses in San Luis Obispo in reducing their environmental impact, and their California Men's Colony project; a project where the SIFE team members taught inmates about to be released crucial skills for finding a job, such as resume building and interviewing skills.

Visit www.sife.org for more information on this worthy organization.

Dr. Keith Vorst

Dr. Robert Koob (Provost and VP for Academic Affairs) and Dr. Susan Opava, Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at Cal Poly, hosted a breakfast forum for the local high-tech industry on May 29, 2009 at Sage Restaurant, on campus. The forum included the program, Recent Innovation Activity – Presentations by Faculty Inventors.

Dr. Keith Vorst (Packaging, Orfalea College of Business) presented his “Isolation of Carbon Nanotubes By Chemical Functionalization and Development of an Emergency Oral Airway Device" with Ted Burdumy, MD, MBA. Dr. Vorst has participated in two patents, one provisional and one full for these inventions.

MBA NEWS

Please join us in congratulating and celebrating the success of the following Orfalea Graduate Students:

MBA student Gregg Erickson, who won first place in the Business, Economics and Public Administration category in the 23rd Annual California State University Student Research Competition recently held in Los Angeles.

MS in Industrial Technology Student Cece Reyes, who was a member of a cross-disciplinary team of Cal Poly students who competed in, and won, the annual Bank of America Low Income Housing Challenge Competition. Cece's team defeated competing teams from Stanford and UC Berkeley.

IN MEMORIUM

Our deepest condolences go out to the family and friends of Chris Meadows. Chris recently died in an accident at the Oceano Dunes over the Memorial Day weekend. Chris was honored at the Orfalea 2007 Annual Awards Banquet as the Human Resources Management Concentration Outstanding Student and was also an active member in Delta Sigma Pi. Chris graduated with honors from Cal Poly in 2007.

For more information about making a gift to Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business, visit the College's Advancement web page.