Name: Ganapathy Mahalingam

Title/Rank: Associate Professor

Educational Background & Registration Data:

Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Florida, 1995.
M. Arch, Iowa State University, 1986.
B. Arch., University of Madras, 1984.
Registered Architect, India (No. CA/84/08805)

Honors & Awards

• Walter B. Booth College Excellence Fund Award from the College of Engineering & Architecture at North Dakota State University in 2002.
• Fellow of the Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning, North Dakota State University in 2001-2002.
• Awarded the Tau Sigma Delta Faculty Award in 2001.
• Awarded the Student Award for Leadership and Exemplary Service by the India Cultural and Education Center of Gainesville, Florida in 1995.
• One of the team leaders in a research team that won one of the First Annual Awards for Architectural Research presented by the Progressive Architecture magazine in 1994 for the project "Listening to Buildings."
• Awarded the John Michael Stratton Award for the Most Outstanding Member of the Student Senate at the University of Florida in 1993.
• Awarded the President's Annual Recognition Award for Outstanding Students at the University of Florida in 1993.
• Elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges from the University of Florida in 1992.
• Citation from the Secretariat of the King Fahd Award and the International Commission for the Preservation of Islamic Cultural Heritage for the design entry in the first King Fahd Awards (1986) - an international design competition. The design has become a part of the permanent archives of the Commission at Istanbul, Turkey.

Administrative Experience

Architecture Program Director (Fall 2002-present)
Program Director for the Architecture program at North Dakota State University. Responsibilities include curriculum review, coordinating teaching assignments and preparation for accreditation including the preparation of the academic program report.

Organizational Experience

2001-03: President, Association for Computer-Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA).
1992-93: Student Senator, University of Florida Student Government.
1991-92: President, Indian Students Association, University of Florida.
1988-89: Founding Chairman of the Madras Metro Round Table (Madras, India)

Academic, Professional & Public Service

Member, NDSU Research IT Advisory Group (RITAG) (2006 - present)

Member, North Dakota State University Honors Council (2000-present)

Faculty Advisor, NDSU Cricket Club (2004-present)

Member, Computing and Information Technology Planning Committee (CITPG), North Dakota State University(2004-2006)

Member, NDSU Wireless Task Force (2004-2005)

Member, Senate Executive Committee, University Senate, North Dakota State University (2000-2002)
Senator, University Senate, North Dakota State University (1999-2002)

Parlimentarian, College of Engineering & Architecture, North Dakota State University (2005-present)

Member, College of Engineering and Architecture Dean Search Committee (2004)

Chair, College of Engineering & Architecture Computer Committee, North Dakota State University (1997-2002)

Editor, InForm, magazine of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (2002-present)
Chair, Creative Means Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (2003-present)
Chair, Publications Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2002-present)

Chair, Search Committee, Computer Services Specialist position, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (2004)

Chair, Computer Implementation Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (1993-1998)
Chair, Education Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (1997-1998)
Chair, Supplementary Education Committee, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, North Dakota State University (1995-1996)

Member, Elections Committee, Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), U.S.A. (2005)

Design Juror, Far Eastern Digital Architectural Design Award (FEIDAD), annual international digital design competition: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

Member, Technical Review Committee of the following conferences: ACADIA 2002, CAAD Futures 2003, CAADRIA 2003, ACADIA 2003, SIGraDi 2003, G-CAD 2004, CAAD Futures 2005, CAADRIA 2005

Invited Text Book Reviewer, Passive and Active Control for Buildings, McGraw-Hill, 2002

Member, Northern Plains Ethics Institute

Member of the Advisory Committee for Exhibitions, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota. (1997-1999)

Professional Memberships

Member, Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), U.S.A.

Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), U.S.A.
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (2001-2003)