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San José State University
Campus Overview
San José State University is the Silicon Valley’s metropolitan university,
located on 154 acres in downtown San José. Students at SJSU are offered the
best of both worlds: a large, multicultural campus and personal attention from faculty
members in the smaller setting of the university’s eight colleges. San José
State University is the oldest of the CSU’s 23 campuses, dating back to 1857. Today,
the university provides more graduates in business, science and engineering to the area
than any other school in the nation. In addition, SJSU has been ranked among the top
public universities in the west among those providing bachelor’s and master’s level
programs. San José State University is located just over an hour south of San
Francisco and 40 minutes from the California coastline.
www.sjsu.edu
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Area Information
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Guna Selvaduray
San José State University
Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Dr. Guna Selvaduray, Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering is the
recipient of one of the three highest awards given to faculty at San José
State University, the President's Scholar Award.
Over his career, Selvaduray has gained national and international professional
recognition in the areas of assembly and interconnection of microelectronic
devices and earthquake hazard reduction. As a faculty member since 1978, he
has attracted more than $2 million in research grants and contracts from a
wide variety of outside sources. His work in earthquake hazard reduction
provides a well-recognized model of public, private and university collaborative
partnerships in the United States.
Selvaduray serves as executive director of the Collaborative for Disaster
Mitigation, an organization he founded to forge greater ties between the
university and the community. Now in its sixth year of operation, CDM has
made significant strides in demonstrating the effectiveness of mitigation
to avoid or lessen damage due to natural disasters. In this vein, Selvaduray
has served as chair and co-chair of several regional and international
onferences, which have assisted corporations in disaster mitigation.
In addition, Selvaduray has authored more than 90 publications, presented
100 professional presentations, and mentored more than 60 students through
the senior project and master's of science degree thesis process. Ten of his
students have earned the SJSU Research Award and three have won the prestigious
CSU Research Award.
Selvaduray holds a Ph.D. in extractive metallurgy from Stanford University,
an M.S. in materials science and engineering, and a bachelor's degree in
mechanical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also
speaks five languages including Japanese.
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