Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Will C. Hall Family Professor of Engineering, University of California - Berkeley
David Dornfeld received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 in the area of Production Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the study of the fundamentals of abrasive machining. He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1977 and is presently Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. He holds the Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering and currently serves as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He served as Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Engineering. He holds an appointment as Special Division Deputy, Engineering Division, Ernst Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is past-Director of the Engineering Systems Research Center in the College of Engineering. In 1982 and 1992 he was Directeur de Recherche Associe, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, Paris and Invited Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers - ENSAM, Paris, respectively.
Dornfeld leads the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS) (lmas.berkeley.edu) with research in green and sustainable manufacturing; monitoring and analysis of manufacturing processes (e. g. burr formation and micromachining); precision manufacturing; and intelligent sensors, machine interoperability and data analytics for process monitoring and optimization. He has published over 400 papers in these fields, authored three research monographs, contributed chapters to several books and has seven patents based on his research work. He is a consultant on green and sustainable manufacturing, mechanical design, manufacturing productivity, sensors, automation and process modeling and the associated intellectual property issues. He writes a blog on green manufacturing.
Professor Dornfeld is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and past Technical Editor, Trans. ASME, Journal of Engineering for Industry (now J. Mfg Science and Eng’g). He received the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 1986 and 2010 ASME William T. Ennor Award and will receive the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME in Fall, 2015. He received the AMT Charles F. Carter Advancing Manufacturing Award in 2012. He is a Fellow and past-Director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a recipient of the 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal and 2013 NAMRI/SME Outstanding Lifetime Service Award, member of Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of the 2005 JSPE Takagi Prize, recipient of the 2014 ISFA Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award in Flexible Automation, Fellow, School of Engineering - University of Tokyo, Japan, and member of American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE). He is past-President of the Board of Directors and a member of the Scientific Committee, North American Manufacturing Research Institute (NAMRI/SME). He is a Fellow of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), Vice-President Elect of CIRP and Chair of the Working Group on Energy Efficiency and Resource Effectiveness.