FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Joe Bordogna, former deputy
director of the National Science Foundation, will speak on “The University in a
Changing Universe: Anticipating the Future,” at 2:30
p.m. Tuesday, March 14, in Engineering Hall Room 209.
Bordogna’s address,
a part of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, will focus on a
university’s roles and responsibilities in the modern high-velocity and complex
world. He will discuss the challenges of universities becoming more inclusive,
innovative, integrative, adaptable and connected, while also anticipating the
changes on the horizon and their consequences. Likewise, Bordogna will outline
the role of the learned and learner in taking on the critical roles required
for sustaining a prosperous and successful nation.
Bordogna is
currently the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering at the University
of Pennsylvania. He has also served
as director of The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, dean of the School
of Engineering and Applied Science,
and resident faculty master of Stouffer College House, a living-learning
student residence at the University
of Pennsylvania. Prior to his academic
career, he was a line officer in the U.S. Navy and an engineer in industry at
RCA. He was a founder of the Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities
to Engineering and served on the board of the Philadelphia Partnership for
Education, community coalitions providing, respectively, supportive academic
programs for K-12 students and teachers.
From 1991 to
2005, he served at the National Science Foundation, first as head of the directorate
for engineering, then as deputy director and chief operating officer.
Complementary to these tasks he was a member of the President's Management
Council and chaired committees on manufacturing, environmental technologies,
and automotive technologies in the President's National Science and Technology
Council. He also served on the President's Committee on the National Medal of
Science, the U.S.
government's Technology Reinvestment Project, the U.S.-Japan Joint
Optoelectronics Project, the NSTC Committee on Environment and Natural
Resources, and the NSTC Committee on Technological Innovation.
He has made
contributions to the engineering profession in a variety of areas including
optical and radio communications, electro-optic recording materials,
holographic video playback systems, educational innovation, and management of
technological innovation. He was awarded
a commendation as Operations Officer of the Flagship of the naval unit that
achieved the world's first space capsule recovery and was a member of the team
that built the first laser diode optical communication system that operated at
room temperature.
Bordogna holds Bachelor
of Science in Electrical Engineering and
a doctoral degree from the University
of Pennsylvania and a master’s
degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During 1998, he served
as worldwide president of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.