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Oliver McGee

Visiting Professor 1995-1998 Associate professor of civil and aerospace engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology
Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Oliver McGee III is an associate professor of civil and aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds an SB in civil engineering (1981) from the Ohio State University. He went on to earn an MS in civil engineering (1983) and a PhD in engineering mechanics and aerospace engineering (1988) from the University of Arizona. In 2004, McGee earned an MBA in business administration and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Interests

McGee specializes in computational mechanics, coupled finite element and boundary element methodologies, aerothermomechanics of aircraft engines, and interdisciplinary design optimization of civil and aerospace structural systems. His first teaching position was at Ohio State as an assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics. He later became the first African-American full professor and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering & Geodetic Science in Ohio State’s 125-year history. In 1992, McGee became associate professor of civil and aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. While at MIT as an MLK Visiting Professor, McGee was appointed senior policy adviser in the Clinton White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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