Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Marconi, Tide detergent, US copyright law and hovercraft patent
by Alice Agogino
closeAuthor: Alice Agogino
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 (149) · December 12th, 2007 · Add a Comment
Today in History – December 12, 1901 – Marconi sends first transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp heard the faint clicks of Morse code this day, signifying the first reception of transatlantic radio signals. This experiment in “wireless telegraphy” at a global dimension eventually transformed radio into a major form of communication in the twentieth century. Photo citation (left): Guglielmo Marconi with his assistant George Kemp pictured with a 10-inch induction coil spark transmitter and a Morse inker during the 1901 transatlantic test at Signal Hill. Center photo: Marconi’s antenna system at Poldhu, Cornwall. Right photo: BBC article and audio file.
Readers may be interested in our related resources on Marconi, telecommunications and our Electrical Engineering Education Community site.
Also on this date, Tide detergent introduced by Proctor and Gamble in 1946, the U.S. copyright law amended to include computer programs in 1980, and first prototype of hovercraft patented by British Engineer Christoper Cockerell in 1955.
Tags: Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering · Computer Engineering · Computer Science · Computing · Electrical Engineering · General Engineering, Engineering Science · Information Systems · Information Technology · Mechanical Engineering
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