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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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