Ernesto Diaz, MS
Ernesto Diaz holds Engineering degrees in Electronics from the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, as well as in Industrial Engineering Professional Certification for the European Union from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain. He completed graduate work at the Executive Program at UC Berkeley - Haas School of Business, and at Dominican University of California. Diaz has also received academic awards for both his undergraduate and graduate theses. He has over seventeen years of experience in engineering and business management roles in the telecommunications and software industries. During that time, Diaz worked worldwide on developing wireless and broadband data technologies for ten years at Bell Laboratories, where he received the Bell Labs President's Silver Award for outstanding innovation and technical excellence. On product and business management roles, he was responsible for a wide variety of projects ranging from the development of strategic technical plans for product lines worldwide, to the implementation of wireless networks in Asia, Latin America and Europe. In the Software Industry, Diaz directed, marketed and managed the product lines of the Infrastructure Solutions Division at Autodesk Inc., representing approximately US$200M in yearly revenues worldwide in desktop software products based on AutoCAD. His current focus is in teaching Mathematics and research on Mathematics history and epistemology at the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of Dominican University of California.
Adjunct Professor
Email: ernesto.diaz@dominican.edu
Phone: (415) 482-3770, Ext. 7
Academic Area
Mathematics
Educational BackgRound
- BSEE w/minor in Biotechnology, 1987, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
- E.U. Industrial Engineering Professional Certification, 1991, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Matriculation in General & Organic Chemistry, 1997, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
- Executive Program, 2000, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Single Subject Teaching Credential, Mathematics, 2005, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
- M.S., Education, 2006, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
Teaching and Research Interests
Current research interests include the areas of History of Mathematics and Science in the XVI through XVIII centuries; cognition and epistemology, the nature of mathematics problem solving, and the design of instruction in the mathematics field.
Current teaching interests include lecturing at the Mathematics Department, as well as at the Business Department and the MBA program in different topics regarding International Business and Product Management.
Awards & Honors
- Bell Labs President’s Silver Award, for outstanding innovation and technical excellence, March 2000
- Dominican Scholar 2007 for distinguished academic achievement. This is the highest academic award granted by Dominican University of California. April 2007
- National Prize for Best Thesis in the Telecommunications Area, 1986
Other Interests
Cooking, Reading, Cinema, Martial Arts; Active member of the International Aikido Federation (Tokyo, Japan) since 1992, and currently holding the rank of Nidan.
