Professor and M.S. Co-Coordinator
Expertise: Medical devices, biodegradable polymers, mechanical behavior, applications of CAD/CAM. Director of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center.
Biodegradable polymers, mechanical behavior of polymers, applications of CAD/CAM and process simulation.
Dr. Stephen McCarthy is a faculty member of the Plastics Engineering Department at UMass Lowell. He is currently the Co-Director of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center at U. Mass Lowell and U. Mass Worcester and Director of the Biodegradable Polymer Research Center where he is conducting reasearch into Biodegradable Polymers and Blends. He is the Editor for the "Journal of Polymers and the Environment." He received his B.S. from Southeastern Massachusetts University, a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. He worked as an Advanced Engineer in R&D for Owens Corning Fiberglas in Granville, Ohio
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