SUMMARY VITA – Gary Haywood
McDonald, Ph.D., P.E.
UC Foundation Associate
Professor
Years on the Faculty: 18 (original appointment
Degrees:
Ph.D. in Engineering;
M.S. in M.E.;
B.S. in M.E.;
Other
Related Experience:
Director
of Freshman Engineering and Advising 2000-present.
1991, 1990, 1988,
1987 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow,
Principal Publications of the Last Five Years:
Benefits of Offering
Modern Engineering Labs, Charles V. Knight & Gary H. McDonald, ASEE
Proceeding of the 2002 Southeastern Section Meeting,
A Modern Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Charles V.
Knight & Gary H. McDonald, ASEE Proceedings of the 2001 Southeastern
Section Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, April 2001. Mechanical
Engineering Unit – refereed paper.
Renovating a Mechanics of Materials Laboratory using
Data Acquisition with LabVIEW, Gary H. McDonald and
Charles V. Knight, ASEE Proceedings of the 2000 Southeastern Section Meeting,
Modernization of a
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory using Data Acquisition with LabVIEW, Charles V. Knight and Gary H. McDonald, Proceedings
of the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education,
Seattle, Washington, June 1998. – refereed paper.
A Mechanical Engineering
2000 Laboratory, Charles V. Knight and Gary H. McDonald, ASEE Proceedings of
the 1998 Southeastern Section Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 1998. –
refereed paper.
Data Acquisition Case
Study, Charles V. Knight and Gary H. McDonald, Laboratory Focus – Insights
for the Laboratory Professional, Fall 1997, pp. 5-6.
New Measurements - Data
Acquisition Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Charles V. Knight and Gary H.
McDonald, Virtual Instrumentation in Education Conference Proceedings,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Modernization of a
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory using Data Acquisition with LabVIEW, a poster, Charles V. Knight and Gary H. McDonald, 1997
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 15-18, 1997, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
New Measurements - Data
Acquisition Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Charles V. Knight and Gary H.
McDonald, ASEE Proceedings of the 1997 Southeastern Section Meeting,
Innovative Engineering for the Next Century; April 13-15, 1997, Marietta,
Georgia. Twenty minute presentation given to the Mechanical Engineering Unit
Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
ASEE
ASME
NSPE
Honors and Awards:
Engineering Student
Service Award
‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded during UTC Faculty
Honors Day ceremony, December 1998
Outstanding Engineering
Faculty Award
- voted by engineering students for outstanding faculty member & awarded
during the
Cole Outstanding
Engineering Teacher Award ‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded
during UTC Faculty Honors Day ceremony, September 1995
Norbert Koch
Professional Service Award - voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded
during the UTC Faculty Honors Day ceremony, December 1993
UC Foundation
Professorship
- selected by the UC Foundation Board of Trustees for dedication of teaching,
scholarship, and public service, May 1992
UTC Student Government
Association Outstanding Professor Award - nominated by students and voted by the SGA
for teaching excellence; awarded during UTC Honors Day, April 1992
Outstanding Engineering
Faculty Award
- voted by engineering students for outstanding teaching and awarded during the
Cole Outstanding
Engineering Teacher Award ‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded
during UTC Faculty Honors Day ceremony, November 1991
Cole Outstanding
Engineering Teacher Award ‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded
during UTC Faculty Honors Day ceremony, November 1990
Engineering Student
Service Award
‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded during UTC Faculty
Honors Day ceremony, November 1990
Cole Outstanding
Engineering Teacher Award ‑ voted by the faculty of UTC Engineering and awarded
during UTC Faculty Honors Day ceremony, November 1989
Young Engineer of the
Year ‑
awarded by the
Institutional Service in the Last Five Years (committee
assignments, etc):
1999 – 2002 Financial Aid
Appeals Committee
1999 – 2000 SACS Instructional
Effectiveness Subcommittee
1998 – 2000 Classroom Technology
1995 – 1998 UTC Curriculum Committee
College of Engineering & Computer Science
Committees Served
ABET 2000 Accreditation
Mechanical Engineering Subcommittee member
ABET 2000 Accreditation
Sub-Committee – Fundamentals Chair – 2001 – present
Engineering Rank &
Tenure Sub-Committee to update Rank & Tenure criteria - Chair
Engineering Dean Search
Committee – 1997-1998 – search yielded Dr. Robert Desmond
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Search – 1998 – search yielded Dr. Rob Bailey
Civil Engineering
Faculty Search – 1998 – Chair – search yielded Dr. Joseph Owino
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Search – 1997 – search yielded Dr. Ron Goulet
Professional Service in the Last Five Years:
1986
– 2003 Mathcounts – a National 7th
& 8th grade math contest – coordinated the
1987 – present Order of the Engineer – Coordinate the
Chattanooga Link Order of the Engineer ring ceremony for graduating engineering
seniors each Fall and Spring.
2001 (summer) Adventures
in Computers, Engineering and Space (ACES) –
a week-long program to encourage 7th and 8th grade young
women to enter the fields of engineering and computer science. I coordinated
the Mechanical-Civil Engineering session (two-days).
Professional Development Activities in the Last Five Years:
Attended the ASEE Southeastern Meeting in