Ed Carryer

Consulting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Design Division
Director, Smart Product Design Laboratory (SPDL)

Phone: 650-723-9146 | Fax: 650-723-3521 | Email: carryer@cdr.stanford.edu

Degrees

B.S.E. Illinois Institue of Technology - Education and Experience in Engineering (1975)
M.S. University of Wisconsin - Bio-Medical Engineering (1978)
PH.D. Stanford University - Mechanical Engineering (1992)

Research Interests

Dr. Carryer's industrial experience varies wildly, from designing water treatment facilities for coal and nuclear power plants for Sargent & Lundy to designing the electronic controller for an Arctic Heated Glove under contract to NASA. He spent eight years in the Detroit area working in and about the auto industry. During that time He worked for Ford, GM and AMC on electronic engine control systems, predominantly for turbo-charged engines. He has an active design consultancy that has tackled such varied projects as an engine controller for an outboard motor manufacturer, an automated blood gas analyzer, and a turbo-charger boost control system for a new type of turbo-charger.

In the summer of 1994 Dr. Carryer organized the first Workshop on Mechatronics Education. This workshop brought together 43 Mechatronics educators from around the world to discuss the issues related to teaching in this new field.

Recent Publications

Dr. Carryer maintains a web site, SPDL-Info, that attemps to present his approach to teaching Mechatronics, a snap-shot of how the Mechatronics courses at Stanford are taught as well as a number of the resources that we have found useful.

Projects

Most of my time these days are consumed by a combination of teaching ME218 , ME118 and administering the SPDL