2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Lora Oehlberg University of California, Berkeley [biography]

   Lora Oehlberg is a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley Institute of Design. She received a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (2006). Her doctoral research is on how designers use personal design information tools during collaborative new product development projects. Her background includes both corporate product design and development and human–computer interaction research.

2. Alice Merner Agogino University of California, Berkeley [biography]

   Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and affiliated faculty at the Haas School of Business in their Operations and Information Technology Management Group. She directs the Berkeley Expert Systems Technology/Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies (BEST) Laboratories, the Berkeley Instructional Technology Studio (BITS) and is working to develop a Service Learning Media Lab and Design/Prototyping Studio in the new CITRIS building. She served as Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate in 2005-06, 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 (http://www.needs.org/) and the (http://www.smete.org/) digital libraries of courseware in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. She has supervised 81 M.S. projects/theses, 33 doctoral dissertations, and numerous undergraduate researchers.

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