DR. BRIAN J. MCCARTIN

Curriculum Vita

 

 

Address

 

Department of Mathematics

Kettering University

1700 University Avenue

Flint, Michigan 48504-4898

Phone:  (810) 762-7802

Fax:      (810) 762-9796

E-Mail: bmccarti@kettering.edu

Internet: http://www.kettering.edu/~bmccarti

 

 

 

                                                                             

 

Education

 

  • Assumption School – Providence, RI – 1965
  • Central High School – Providence, RI – 1969
  • University of Rhode Island - B.S. in Applied Mathematics (with Highest Distinction) - 1976
  • University of Rhode Island - M.S. in Applied Mathematics - 1977
  • New York University (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) -

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics - 1981

  • University of Hartford (Hartt School of Music) – B.M. in Music Theory                      (Summa Cum Laude) - 1994

Experience

 

  • Kettering University - July 1993 to Present

Professor of Applied Mathematics  Teach courses, develop curriculum, perform research, and consult in Applied Mathematics.  Current focus is in Computational Mathematics with emphasis in Electromagnetics and Mathematical Biology.

 

  • University of Bridgeport - December 1992 to June 1993

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Taught courses in Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics.

 

  • Computational Mathematics Consultants - July 1992 to December 1992

Founder, President, and Chief Scientist Provided consultation services in Computational Mathematics to industrial clients.

 

  • The RPI-Hartford Graduate Center - July 1989 to July 1992

            Professor and Chairman (1989-91) of Computer Science  Established research program in

            Numerical Computing.  Taught courses in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science,

            Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.  Chaired CIS Department  (1989-91).

 

  • United Technologies Research Center - July 1989 to December 1993

            Consultant Provided consultation to Computational Mathematics Group.

 

  • United Technologies Research Center - September 1981 to July 1989
            Senior Research Mathematician  Responsible for the development and application of
            advanced numerical procedures for the solution of problems in science and engineering. 

 

  • The RPI-Hartford Graduate Center - 1984 to 1989

Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science  Courses in Stochastic Processes, Numerical Analysis, Analysis of Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, and Electromagnetics were taught.

 

  • University of Connecticut - 1985

Part Time Lecturer in Computer Science  A course in Numerical Analysis was taught.

 

  • Central Connecticut State University - 1982 to 1984

Lecturer in Mathematics Courses in Mathematical and Numerical Analysis were taught.

 

  • University of Hartford - 1982 to 1984

Adjunct Mathematics Faculty  Courses in Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, and Linear Algebra were taught.

  • Middlesex Community College - 1982 to 1983

Instructor of Mathematics  Lower division mathematics courses were taught.

 

  • Gerber Systems Technology - May 1981 to September 1981

Senior Research Mathematician  Research was focused on computational geometry.

 

  • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - April 1981

Assistant Research Scientist  Performed research in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

 

  • Pratt and Whitney Aircraft - May 1977 to April 1981

      Scientific Analyst  A wide variety of engineering problems were solved both by applying             existing numerical methods and by developing new techniques as needed. 

 

  • Manchester Community College - 1980 to 1981

Instructor of Mathematics  Lower division mathematics courses were taught.

 

  • University of Rhode Island - September 1976 to May 1977

Graduate Teaching Assistant  Courses in calculus and differential equations were taught.

 

  • University of Rhode Island - September 1974 to May 1976

Undergraduate Work-Study Program  Graded papers for courses in mathematics and mathematical economics.  Operated URI Academic Computer.

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

  • Rhode Island Honor Society – 1969.

 

  • Who’s Who Among American High School Students – 1969.

 

  • The Senator Anthony Prize for Exposition - Central High School (Providence, RI) - 1969. 
  • Herbert and Claiborne Pell Medal for United States History - Central High School (Providence, RI) - 1969.                                                                                                         
  • Edward F. McLaughlin Mathematics Award  - Central High School (Providence, RI) - 1969.

 

  • Academic Excellence Award in Mathematics - University of Rhode Island - 1976.

 

  • Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi - URI Chapter - 1976.

 

  • Invited Lecturer at the Short Course on New Problems and New Solutions for Device and Process Modelling, Dublin, Ireland, June 17-18, 1985.

 

  • Invited Lecturer at Special Session on PDE Methods for Electromagnetics,

1988 URSI Meeting, Syracuse, New York.

 

  • Invited Chapter in Progress in Electromagnetics Research - V.II, 1989.

 

  • Elected to Electromagnetics Academy: Institute for Theory and Computation - 1989.

 

  • Listed in Who's Who in Electromagnetics.

 

  • Music Theory Award – Hartt School of Music –1992.

 

  • Honor Society of Alpha Chi - University of Hartford Chapter - 1993.

 

  • Honor Society of Pi Kappa Lambda (Music) - Hartt School Of Music - 1994.

 

  • Invited Plenary Lecturer at Workshop on Numerical Wave Propagation, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota,  September 19-23, 1994.

 

·         Invited Lecturer and Participant at Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center,

June 12-16, 1995.

 

·         Distinguished Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 1997.

 

  • Honor Society of Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics) - URI Chapter – 1997.

 

  • American Men and Women of Science – 1998, 2002.

 

  • Honor Society of Kappa Mu Epsilon (Mathematics) - Kettering University Chapter - 1998.

 

  • Who’s Who in the Midwest - 1998/99.

 

  • Supervised 1999 Harley Anderson Award Winner (Michael W. Fisackerly) for Best Thesis - $600 Prize.

 

  • Who’s Who in Science and Engineering – Millenium Edition; 2002-2003; 2004-2005; 2006-2007, 2008-2009.
  • 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century.

 

  • Outstanding People of the 20th Century.

 

  • Who’s Who In America – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

 

  • Who’s Who In the World – 2000, 2001.

 

  • Dictionary of International Biography – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

 

  • 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century.

 

  • 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century.

 

  • Kettering University Outstanding Researcher Award – 2000.

 

  • Who’s Who in the 21st Century – First Edition.

 

  • 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century – First Edition.

 

  • 2000 Outstanding People of the 21st Century – First Edition.

 

  • Delta Tau Delta – Epsilon Iota B Chapter – 2001.

 

  • Kettering University Outstanding Teaching Award – 2001.

 

  • Kettering University Outstanding (Greek) Chapter Advisor – 2001.

 

  • Kettering University Robot Society, Honorary Member – 2001.

 

  • International Scientist of the Year – 2002.

 

  • Delta Tau Delta – Good Delt Award – June, 2002.

 

  • Kettering University Graduation Marshal – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

 

  • Kettering University Outstanding (Greek) Chapter Advisor – 2002.

 

  • 2000 Outstanding People – 2003.

 

  • Who’s Who in American Education – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

 

  • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers – 2004, 2005.

 

  • 2004 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

 

  • Keynote Speaker at 2006 Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition Awards Day.

 

  • Supervised 2006 Applied Mathematics Award Recipient (Matthew F. Causley) for Best Undergraduate Research.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of Applied Mathematical Sciences – 2006.

 

  • Kettering University Outstanding Teaching Award – 2006.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of The Open Applied Mathematics Journal – 2007.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of The Open Applied Mathematics Letters – 2007.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of The Open Applied Mathematics Reviews – 2007.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Advisory Board of SJI Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Allied  Fields -2007.

 

  • Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy – 2007.

 

  • Asian/American Who’s Who: Vol. V – 2008.

 

  • Invited Plenary Lecturer at WSEAS American Conference on Applied Mathematics, Harvard University – 2008.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of International Journal of Computers – 2008.

 

  • Appointed to Editorial Board of International Journal of Systems Applications, Engineering & Development – 2008.

 

  • Leading Scientists of the World – 2008.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

1.               The Power Method and Some of its Ramifications, University of Rhode Island, 1977 (M.S. Thesis).

 

2.               Duct Acoustics Program, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, TDM-2469, October 1977.

 

3.               Image Processing System, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, TDMS-T0268, October 1978.

 

4.               Multilevel Adaptaive Techniques for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1978.

 

5.          Software Concepts Useful for Industrial Image Processing, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Chicago, IL, August 6-8, 1979, pp. 653-659.                                                                                                                             

6.         A Survey of Parallel Processing, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1979.                                                

7.        On Curves and Surfaces, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1979.

 

8.        Numerical Computation of Exponential Splines, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, TDM-2519, October 1980.

 

9.        Time Dependent Analysis of Relaxation Schemes, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1980.

 

10.    A Finite Volume Method, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1980.

 

11.    Theory, Computation, and Applications of Exponential Splines,  Courant Mathematics and Computing Laboratory Research and Development Report DOE/ER/03077-171, October 1981 (Ph.D. Dissertation).

 

12.    Math: The Common Denominator of UTRC, The Researcher, Vol. 3., No. 10, Nov. 1982, p. 4.

 

13.    Discrete Mathematics, Proceedings of the First United Technologies Numerical Methods Symposium, 1982.

 

14.    Applications of Exponential Splines in Computational Fluid Dynamics,  AIAA J., Vol. 21, No. 8, August 1983, pp. 1059-1065; Translated into Russian: Aerospace Technology 2(4), 1984, 13-20.

 

15.    Model Trust Region Algorithms, Proceedings of the Second United Technologies Numerical Methods Symposium, 1983.

 

16.    Steady State Numerical Analysis of Single Carrier Two Dimensional Semiconductor Devices Using the Control Area Approximation, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits, pp. 185-190,  Boole Press, 1983.

 

17.    Notes on Iterative Methods, United Technologies Research Center, 1984.

 

18.    Control Region Approximation, Proceedings of SIAM Spring Meeting, 1985, p. A26.

 

19.    Discretization of the Semiconductor Device Equations, New Problems and New Solutions for Device and Process Modelling, pp. 72-82, Boole Press, 1985.

 

20.   Solution of the Discrete Semiconductor Device Equations, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits, pp. 411-416, Boole Press, 1985.

 

21.   Control Region Approximation: Preliminary Report, American Mathematical Society Abstracts, Vol. 6, No. 3, June 1985, p. 266.

 

22.    Generalized Control Region Approximation: Preliminary Report, American Mathematical Society Abstracts, Vol. 6, No. 4, August 1985, p. 316.

 

23.    Numerical Integration on Arbitrary Domains: Preliminary Report, American Mathematical Society Abstracts, Vol. 6, No. 6, November 1985, p. 486.

 

24.    A Model-Trust-Region Algorithm for the Solution of the Discretized Semiconductor Device Equations, Proceedings of SIAM Fall Meeting, 1985, p. A6.

 

25.    Solution of Complex Helmholtz Equations in Arbitrary Geometries, Proceedings of SIAM National Meeting, 1986, p. A82.

 

26.    Numerical Computation on Arbitrary Lattices of Points, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1986, p. LXXI.

 

27.    Application of the Control Region Approximation to Electromagnetic Scattering, Proc. URSI Radio Science Meeting, 1987, p. 185.

 

28.    Short Course on Two-Dimensional Electromagnetic Scattering, Sikorsky Aircraft, 1987.

 

29.    A New Look at the Asymptotic Boundary Conditions for Differential Equation Approaches to Solving Open Region Scattering Problems, Proc. URSI Radio Science Meeting, 1987, p. 251.

 

30.    Application of Control Region Approximation to Guided Wave Computation, Proceedings   of SIAM Annual Meeting, 1988, p. A58.

 

31.   Computational Electromagnetics, Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration of the American Mathematical Society, 1988, p. 43.

 

32.    Application of the Control Region Approximation in Conjunction with Absorbing Boundary Conditions to the Direct Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering Problems, Proc. URSI Radio Science Meeting, p. 14, 1988.

 

33.    Three Dimensional Electromagnetic Scattering Calculation Using the Control Region Approximation, Proc. URSI Radio Science Meeting, p. 181, 1988.

 

34.    Application of the Control Region Approximation to Two Dimensional Electromagnetic Scattering,  Chapter 5 of Differential Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering, M.A. Morgan (ed), Elsevier 1988. (also UTRC87-42)

 

35.    Wanted:  Industrial Mathematician - Versatility Required, Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences,  Issue No. 95, Nov. 1988, pp. xii-xiii.

 

36.    3D Information from 2D Analyses, Progress in Elec