Biography

University of California Irvine - Engineering

Advisor at UCI Anteater Racing
J. Michael
McCarthy
J. Michael McCarthy has over 200 publications and several books including The Geometric Design of Linkages (Springer 2000, 2nd Ed. 2010). He recently released a new book, Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms: a project based approach, in print and in electronic form. He has also published a revised printing of Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics, and Kinematics and Polynomials in Brief, both of which can be found on Apple’s iBooks system. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (2002-2007) and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (2007-2014).

His research team is responsible for the Sphinx, Synthetica and MecGen software packages, which extend computer-aided design to spherical and spatial linkage systems and integrate this process with geometric modeling. He has presented tutorials on the design of linkages and robotic systems at ASME and IEEE conferences, including the NSF sponsored 2012 Workshop on 21st Century Kinematics.

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 Accuray Incorporated to assist the transition of a robotic radio-surgery system from research to market. In 2010 and 2011, he served two terms as Chair of the Board of Governors for the Southern California Section of SAE international and is the 2012 Secretary for the Orange County Engineering Council.

Over the past 15 years at UCI he has focused on developing engineering leadership through student design and execution of major engineering projects, and is the director of UCI's Performance Engineering Program. He has introduced project engineering courses for graduate students, seniors and for freshman at UCI and provided course materials for racecar engineering courses in local high schools.