Biographical Sketch
ALICE MERNER AGOGINO
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Roscoe and
Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical
Engineering PI, NEEDS (National Engineering Education
Digital-library System) |
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Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and affliated faculty
at the Haas School
of Business in their Operations and Information Technology Management
Group. She directs the Berkeley Expert
Systems Technology (BEST) Laboratory, the Berkeley Instructional Technology
Studio (BITS) and is working with Dean Newton to develop a Service Learning
Media Lab and Design/Prototyping Studio in the new CITRIS building. She is currently
Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, having served
as Vice Chair during the 2004-05 academic year. She has served in a number of
other administrative positions at UC Berkeley including Associate Dean of
Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
in Educational Development and Technology. She also served as Director for Synthesis,
an NSF-sponsored coalition of eight universities with the goal of reforming
undergraduate engineering education, and continues as PI for the NEEDS (www.needs.org) and the (www.smete.org) digital libraries of courseware
in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. She has supervised 65 MS
projects/theses, 26 doctoral
dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers.
Dr. Agogino is a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in California
and is engaged in a number of collaborative projects with industry. Prior to
joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she worked in industry for Dow Chemical,
General Electric and SRI International. Her research interests include:
Intelligent learning systems; information retrieval and data mining; multiobjective
and strategic product design; nonlinear optimization; probabilistic modeling;
intelligent control and manufacturing; sensor validation, fusion and
diagnostics; wireless sensor networks; multimedia and computer-aided design;
design databases; design theory and methods; MEMS synthesis and computer-aided
design; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and
gender/ethnic equity. Dr. Agogino has authored one hundred and fifty
peer-reviewed publications
in these subject areas. She is a member of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, ASEE, ASME,
AWIS, IEEE, NAE and SWE and served as Chair of the AAAS section on Engineering
(2001-2002). She serves on the editorial board of three professional journals
and has provided service on a number of governmental, professional, and
industry advisory committees, including the NSF Advisory Committee for
Engineering, Engineering Directorate, (1991-96, Chair 1996-97); Guidance
Committee of the "Removing Barriers to Collaborative Research"
project of the National Research Council (NRC) Government-University-Industry
Roundtable (1997-98); NRC Committee on "Standards for Technology
Education," (1997-98); National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Academic
Advisory Board (1998-2002); NAE "Engineering
of the Year 2020" Planning/Steering Committee (Co-Chair of Planning,
1999-2000; Member of Steering; 2002-2005) and Executive Committeee, Digital Media Innovation Initiative,
University of California System (2000-2001), Manufacturing Engineering
Laboratory of the National
Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST; 2004-2005), JPL/Cal Tech Engineering Advisory Board
(2003-2005), National Academies Board on Science Education
(BOSE, 2005-2007) and the Women in Academic Science Engineering Committee of
the National Academies Committee
on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP; 2005-2006). She has
served on a number of university advisory boards: CMU, MIT and
Harvard/Radcliffe.
Dr. Agogino received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
New Mexico (1975), M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1978) from the
University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. from the Department of
Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University (1984). She received an NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985; Pi Tau Sigma Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 1986; Ralph R. Teetor Educator Award in 1987; SME
Young Manufacturing Engineer of the Year Award in 1987/88; Best Paper Award
(with S. Bradley) at the ASME-Design, Theory and Methods Conference in 1990/91;
Best Paper Award at the AI Applications '92 Conference; Most Outstanding
Alumnus at the University of New Mexico in 1992; elected AAAS Fellow in 1994;
Best Paper Award (with Andy Dong) at the Artificial Intelligence in Design'96
Conference (with Robert Paasch); elected to the National Academy of Engineering
in 1997; Best Paper Award (with Ann McKenna) at IEEE/ASEE FIE'97; John Wiley
& Sons Premier Award for Quality Courseware (with David Yu) in 1997; Best
Overall Paper Award at ASEE '98 (with Ann McKenna); IEEE Helen Plants Award for
"Best Non-Traditional Session" at the 1998 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in
Engineering Education Conference; and First Runner-up for the Novel Smart
Engineering System Design Award (with Ningning Zhou, Bo Zhu and Kris Pister) in
2001; Elected to European Academy of Science, 2002; Fellow, Association of
Women in Science, 2003; NSF
Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, 2004; ASME Xerox Best
Paper Award (with Shuang Song), 2004; IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
Best Paper Award at the Symposium of Micro- and Nano-Mechatronics for
Information-based Society (with R. Kamalian and Y. Zhang), 2005; elected Fellow
of ASME in 2005.
Most Recent Research Publications
- "Informal Health and Legal Rights Education in Rural, Agricultural Communities Using Mobile Devices", (J. Sandhu, J. Hey, and C. Newman), Proceedings of IEEE Technology for Education in Developing Countries (TEDC) Workshop, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2005.
- Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century , National Academy Press, 2005. ( Committee Report)
- "Microfabrication and Characterization of Evolutionary MEMS Resonators," Proceedings of the MHS2005 & Micro-Nano COE, the Symposium of "Micro- and Nano-Mechatronics for Information-based Society", (with R. Kamalian and Y. Zhang; Nov. 7-9, 2005), IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (ISBN # 0-7803-9482-8, IEEE Catalog # 05TH8845), pp. 109-114. (Won best paper award).
- "Resonant Accelerometer with a Two-stage Microleverage Mechanisms Fabricated by SOI-MEMS Technology," (with Su, S.X.P., H.S. Yang and A.S. Hou), IEEE Sensors Journal, Dec. 2005.
- "Evolutionary Synthesis of Micromachines Using Supervisory Multiobjective Interactive Evolutionary Computation", (with Kamalian, R., Y. Zhang, H. Takagi) to appear In Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligences, Springer-Verlag Publishers.
Selected Disciplinary Research Publications
- A. M. Agogino, O. Nour-Omid, W. Imaino and S.S. Wang, "Decision-Analytic Methodology for Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Diagnostic Testers," Transactions of the IIE, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1992, pp. 39-54.
- K. Ramamurthi and A. M. Agogino, "Real-Time Expert Systems for Fault Tolerant Supervisory Control", ASME Transactions, Journal of Systems, Dynamics and Control, Vol. 115, June 1993, pp. 219-227.
- P. Jain and A. M. Agogino, "Global Optimization Using the Multistart Method," ASME Trans. Journal of Design, Vol. 115, No. 4, Dec. 1993, pp. 770-775.
- F. Nadi, A. M. Agogino and D. Hodges, "Use of Influence Diagrams and Neural Networks in Modeling Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes," IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 4, No. 1, Feb. 1991, pp. 52-58.
- N. Michelena and A. M. Agogino, "Formal Solution of N-type Taguchi Parameter Design Problems with Stochastic Noise Factors," ASME Trans., Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 501-507.
- R. K. Paasch and A. M. Agogino, "A Structural and Behavioral Reasoning System for Diagnosing Large-Scale Systems," IEEE Expert, Vol. 8, No. 4, Aug. 1993, pp. 31-36. (Won best paper award).
- S. R. Bradley and A. M. Agogino, "An Intelligent Real Time Design Methodology for Catalog Selection," ASME Trans., Journal of Mechanical Design, Dec. 1994, Vol. 116, pp. 980-988. (Won best paper award).
- A. Dong and A. M. Agogino, "Text Analysis for Constructing Design Representations," Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Vol. 11 (2), pp. 65-75, 1997. (Won best paper award).
- S. Song and A. M. Agogino, "An Analysis of Designers' Sketching Activities in New Product Design Teams," Proceedings of DETC'04, ASME 2004 Design Engineering Technical Conference, Design Theory and Methods track, Paper # DETC2004-57474, CD ROM, ISBN # I710CD. (Winner of the 2004 ASME Xerox Best Paper Award in Mechanical Design).
- W.H. Wood and A.M. Agogino, "Decision-Based Conceptual Design: Modeling and Navigating Heterogeneous Design Space," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 127, Issue 1, Jan. 2005, pp. 2-11.
Selected Publications on Engineering Education
- A. M. Agogino and M. C. Linn, "Retaining Female Engineering Students; Will Early Design Experiences Help?", Viewpoint Editorial, NSF Directions, National Science Foundation, Vol. 5, No. 2, May-June 1992, pp. 8-9.
- A. M. Agogino, "Integrating Design and Manufacturing Education within Broader Societal Goals," Testimony to the House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, May 12, 1992. (Published in the Congressional Record).
- S. Hsi and A. M. Agogino, "The Impact and Instructional Benefit of Using Multimedia Case Studies to Teach Engineering Design," Journal of Educational Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 3, No. 3/4, pp. 351-376.
- Wood, W.H. and A. M. Agogino, "Engineering Courseware Content and Delivery: the NEEDS Infrastructure for Distance-Independent Education," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 47, No. 11, 1996, pp. 863-869.
- A. McKenna and A. M. Agogino, "A Web-based Module for Teaching Middle School Students Engineering Design with Simple Machines," Journal of Engineering Education, Oct. 1998, pp. 437-444. (Won Best Paper Award at FIE '97; thirteen papers out of 400 submitted were selected for this award.)
- D. Yu and A. M. Agogino, "Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio," CD ROM, Synthesis Coalition, 3112 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley (Sampler on the NEEDS Database, 1997 v. 1. (Winner of a 1997 Premier Courseware Award for instructional software, 1997.)
- F. McMartin, E. Van Duzer and A. M. Agogino, "Bridging Diverse Institutions, Multiple Engineering Departments, and Industry: A Case Study in Developing an Assessment Plan for the Synthesis Coalition," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 157-163.
- A. McKenna and A. M. Agogino, "Integrating Design, Analysis and Problem Solving in an Introduction to Engineering Curriculum for High School Students." Engineering Education: Contributing to U.S. Competitiveness; Proceedings of ASEE '98, ASEE, June 28-July 1, 1988, CD ROM, Session 1280, pp. 1-14. (Won 'overall best paper award' for ASEE '98). An updated version of this paper was published as: "Supporting Mechanical Reasoning with a Representationally-Rich Learning Environment", (with A. McKenna), Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp. 97-104, April 2004.
- A. Dong, J. Wu, S. Song and A. M. Agogino). "Design Principles for the Information Architecture of a SMET Education Digital Library," Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 314-321. (Nominated for the JCDL 2001 Vannevar Bush award.)
- C. Dym, A.M. Agogino, O. Eris, D.D. Frey,and L.J. Leifer, "Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning", Journal on Engineering Education, ASEE, Jan. 2005, v. 94, no. 1, pp. 103-120.
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