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Dr. Joseph Bordogna
Deputy Director and
Chief Operating Officer
National Science
Foundation
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Joseph Bordogna is Deputy Director and Chief Operating
Officer of the National Science Foundation. Complementing
his NSF duties, he has chaired Committees on Manufacturing
and Environmental Technologies within the President's
National Science and Technology Council, was a member
of the Federal Government's Technology Reinvestment
Project team (TRP), and served on the Partnership
for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) Committee
and the U.S.-Japan Joint Optoelectronics Project.
He received the B.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania and the S.M. degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As well
as his assignment at NSF, his career includes experience
as a line officer in the U.S. Navy, a practicing engineer
in industry, and a professor.
Prior to appointment at NSF, he served at the University
of Pennsylvania as Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of
Engineering, Director of The Moore School of Electrical
Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and
Applied Science, and Faculty Master of Stouffer College
House, a living-learning student residence at the
University.
He has made contributions to the engineering profession
in a variety of areas including early laser communications
systems, electro-optic recording materials, and holographic
television playback systems. He was a founder of PRIME
(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.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Society
for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the
International Engineering Consortium. He also served
his profession globally as president of the IEEE.
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