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Professor J. Michael McCarthy is the Henry
Samueli Professor and Director of the Center for Engineering Science in
Design at the University of California, Irvine,
which supports the design and execution of team engineering projects
across the School
of Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University,
and has taught at Loyola Marymount University
and the University
of Pennsylvania
before joining UCI’s Mechanical Engineering Department in 1986.
He has over 150 publications and three books
including The Geometric Design of Linkages (Springer 2000). His research team is responsible for
the Sphinx and Synthetical software packages, which extend
computer-aided design to spherical and spatial linkage systems. He has presented tutorials on the
design of linkages and robotic systems at ASME and IEEE conferences.
He is an industrial
consultant in the area of machine and robotic system design, and
provides testimony on intellectual property and product liability. He served as Chief Technical Officer
of Accuracy Incorporated to assist the transition of a robotic
radio-surgery system from research to market, and returned to UCI with
a commitment to developing leadership through student design and
execution of major engineering projects. His student teams have built 10
racecars of various types, and his 2009 Formula Hybrid team was fifth
out of thirty teams at the New Hampshire Speedway in May 2009. His teams’ Formula SAE racecar took
first place in fuel economy at the 2010 FSAE California event in June
2010. He is currently Chair of
the Board of Governors of the Southern California Section of SAE
international.
His contributions in teaching were recognized
by the 2009 Faribor Maseeh Teaching Award from the Henry Samueli School
of Engineering at UCI. He is a
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has
received the 2008 ASME Outstanding Service Award and the 2009 ASME
Machine Design Award.
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