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Alice M. Agogino

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Product Design Concentration Founder and Head Advisor, MEng Program
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering (7/1/2008-12/31/20221)

Blum Hall 200E
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
agogino@berkeley.edu
(510) 666-3704

For more information see: Best Lab
Current Classes Taught

Click here to view Professor Agogino’s biography, and here to view her CV.


Research Description:

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 CAD; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; gender equity.

 

Key Publications:

Click here for a list of Professor Agogino’s publications.

David M. Auslander

Professor of the Graduate School

Professor of the Graduate School

5120 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
dma@me.berkeley.edu
(510) 642-4930

For more information see: Current Classes Taught

Research Description:

Automatic control system design, mini-microcomputer system bioengineering, modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, process control.

David B. Bogy

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Computer Mechanics Laboratory

Professor of the Graduate School
Director, Computer Mechanics Laboratory

6103 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
dbogy@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-2570

For more information see: Computer Mechanics Lab
Current Classes Taught

Research Description:

Mechanics in computer technology: tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations. Static and dynamic problems in solid and fluid mechanics.

Robert Dibble

Professor of the Graduate School

73 Hesse Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
rdibble@berkeley.edu
(510) 406-0031

For more information see: Combustion Research Laboratory
Current Classes Taught

Professor R. W. Dibble is the principal investigator of the Combustion Analysis group. His main area of research is the internal combustion engine. He is also the leading scientist behind the development of the Argon Power Cycle technology.


Research Description:

Laser diagnostics in turbulent reactive flows, generation of “green” fuels from biomass, including ethanol and bioDiesel mitigation of greenhouse gases, highest efficiency and lowest pollution combustion of fuels derived from biomass, combustion issues related to global warming, conversion of waste heat to power via Organic Rankine Cycle ( ORC ), spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, turbulent combustion, optics and electronics. Combustion in turbine engines, combustion of oxygenates and biodeisel fuel in diesel engines. Combustion in new engine concept of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI).

 

Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Professor of the Graduate School
Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Endowed Chair (7/1/2009-6/30/2020)

6105A Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
ferpello@me.berkeley.edu
(510) 642-6554

For more information see: Combustion Fire Processes Laboratory
Current Classes Taught

To view Professor Fernandez-Pello’s CV, please click here.


Research Description:

Ignition and fire spread; smoldering and transition to flaming; spacecraft/aircraft fire safety; wildland fire propagation and wildland fire spotting; liquid fuel pool burning; self heating and ignition; small-scale energy generation; biofuels combustion

 

To learn more about Professor Fernandez-Pello’s research, please visit the Combustion Fire Processes Laboratory website. Also, for a list of Professor Fernandez-Pello’s research activities, please click here.

 

Key Publications:

For a list of Professor Fernandez-Pello’s publications, please click here.

Ralph Greif

Professor of the Graduate School

6165 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
greif@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-6462

For more information see: Current Classes Taught

To view Professor Grief’s CV, please click here.


Research Description:

Heat and mass transfer, micro scale transport, fuel cells, cooling at the chip level, semiconductor wafers, materials processing, laser surface interactions, nuclear reactor safety, phase change, buoyancy transport, bio heat transfer, reacting flows, deposition

 

Key Publications:

For a list of Professor Greif’s publications, please click here.

George Leitmann

Professor of the Graduate School
Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science

320 McLaughlin Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1700
gleit@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-3984

For more information see:

To view Professor Leitmann’s CV, please click here.


Research Description:

Economics, planning, dynamics systems, control theory, optimal control, dynamic games, & robust control, applications engineering, mechanical systems, business administrations, biological systems

 

Key Publications:

To view a list of Professor Leitmann’s publications, please click here.

Boris Rubinsky

Professor of the Graduate School

6124 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
rubinsky@berkeley.edu
(510) 725-5845

For more information see: Current Classes Taught

To view Professor Rubinsky’s CV, please click here.


Research Description:

Heat and mass transfer in biomedical engineering and biotechnology in particular low temperature biology, bio-electronics and biomedical devices in particular micro and nano bionic technologies and electroporation, medical imaging in particular electrical impedance tomography and light imaging, biomedical numerical analysis in particular genetic and evolutionary algorithms and fractal techniques.