Engineering Education Blog: Theodore W. Richards wins Nobel Prize in chemistry
by Alice Agogino
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Name: Alice Agogino
Email: agogino@berkeley.edu
Site: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/agogino/
About: Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated faculty at the Haas School of Business in their Operations and Information Technology Management Group. Her research interests include: community-based design; sustainable engineering; 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/NEMS synthesis and computer-aided design; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and gender/ethnic equity.
She has served in a number of administrative positions at UC Berkeley, including Chair of the Faculty Senate, Associate Dean of Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost in Educational Development and Technology. Prof. Agogino 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 SMETE.ORG digital libraries of courseware in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Prof. 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). Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she worked in industry for Dow Chemical, General Electric and SRI International. She has authored over 150 scholarly publications; has won numerous teaching, best paper and research awards; and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). At NAE she served on the Committee on Engineering Education, working on the Technologically Speaking and the Engineer 2020 projects. She is currently a member of the National Research Council's Board on Education and the Women in Academic Science Engineering Committee. She has supervised 66 MS projects/theses, 26 doctoral dissertations and numerous undergraduate researchers.See Authors Posts (604) · November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Today in History – November 12, 1914 – Theodore William Richards was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1914 “in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements”.
Although his original work concerned oxygen and copper, Richards later developed a new technique for the determination of halide ratios and did much towards improving methods of weighing that he eventually applied to determining, with the highest accuracy, the atomic weights of over thirty important elements. In his later years he was to play an important part in the determination of the atomic weight of isotopes, laying the foundation for our modern understanding of the atom.
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Tags: Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering · Chemistry · Nuclear Engineering
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1 Susan Kircher // Sep 6, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I have a scrap album of artwork done by TWR
dated 1875-81
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