David Dornfeld, professor of mechanical engineering

David Dornfeld is the Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the UC Berkeley. He leads the campus’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability - LMAS (lmas.berkeley.edu) with research activities in green and sustainable manufacturing; monitoring and analysis of manufacturing processes; precision manufacturing with specialization on chemical mechanical planarization for semiconductor manufacturing; and intelligent sensors and machine interoperability for process monitoring and optimization. He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and recipient of the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 1986, Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a recipient of the 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal, member of Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of the 2005 JSPE Takagi Prize, and Fellow of the CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering). He is a consultant on sensors, manufacturing productivity, automation and process modeling and the associated intellectual property issues. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in. He blogs at http://green-manufacturing.blogspot.com/.