Alice M. Agogino Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty Assistant in Educational Development and Technology to the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost at the University of California at Berkeley. She directs the Berkeley Expert Systems Technology (BEST) Laboratory, the Berkeley Instructional Technology Studio (BITS) and the BITS Multimedia Classroom. She 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) digital library of courseware in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (www.smete.org). She has supervised 52 MS projects/theses, 19 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, graphics, multimedia and computer-aided design, design databases, artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems. Dr. Agogino has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed publications in these subject areas. She is a member of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, ASEE, ASME, IEEE, NAE, SME , and SWE and serves as Chair of the AAAS section on Engineering (2001-2002). She serves on the editorial board of four 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 (1998-2001); and NAE "Engineering of the Year 2020" Planning Committee (Co-Chair, 1999-2000). 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 A. Dong) at the Artificial Intelligence in Design'96 Conference; elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997; Best Paper Award (with A. McKenna) at IEEE/ASEE FIE'97; John Wiley & Sons Premier Award for Quality Courseware (with D. Yu) in 1997; Best Overall Paper Award at ASEE '98 (with Ann McKenna); and IEEE Helen Plants Award for "Best Non-Traditional Session at the 1998 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference.