09/10/2026
The Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering welcomes Eric MacDonald, Ph.D., as a full professor. 🎉
He received his education at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with his doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2002. After working at IBM and Motorola, MacDonald co-founded a CAD software startup that was acquired by a Silicon Valley firm in 2003. At IBM, MacDonald worked on the Nintendo GameCube, the PlayStation 3, and the Apple Macintosh before he started his career in higher education.
At the University of Florida, he is excited to continue his research exploring metals, ceramics and complex geometries in a variety of applications.
“I’m really excited to come to Florida for different reasons,” said MacDonald. “One would be 3D-printed sand to do disposable molds for casting metal. I’m planning to work with several people in mechanical engineering, the art department and certainly Industrial and Systems Engineering. Another area would be ceramics, looking at semiconductor packaging and electronics, where you can use the complex geometries for electromagnetic purposes or thermal management in ways that you couldn’t do before.”
📰 Read the full story here: https://ise.ufl.edu/2026/09/eric-macdonald-joins-ise-faculty-to-advance-additive-manufacturing-research/
