John MacCarthy

Adjunct Faculty

B.A., Physics, Carleton College
M.S., Systems Engineering, George Mason University

Ph.D., Physics (Program in Biophysics and Biochemistry), University of Notre Dame

Dr. MacCarthy has over 20 years of systems engineering leadership experience with Northrop Grumman and TRW.  He has led systems engineering activities associated with a variety of large, complex programs. This experience includes serving as manager of TRW’s Waste Acceptance, Storage and Transportation Systems Engineering Department for DoE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Yucca Mountain Program; as deputy director of TRW’s Center for Advanced Technology; and as a senior technology, technical management and policy advisor. He has extensive experience in all aspects of systems engineering, systems architecting, and systems engineering management as well as in the development of a variety of hardware, software, and communications systems and systems of systems.

Dr. MacCarthy’s teaching experience includes graduate courses in systems engineering and in communications at UMBC and UMUC as well as five years as an assistant professor of Physics at Muhlenberg College. Dr. MacCarthy’s principal areas of academic interest include decision theory, computational science, modeling and simulation, software engineering, communications engineering, sensor and C3 systems, theoretical biology, system and system of systems architectures, and all aspects of systems engineering.

He is a member of IEEE, INCOSE, APS, AAAS, and AFCEA.