Keith Doyle
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Head of the Engineering Management Program
PRONOUNS he/him/his
- Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona
- MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Swarthmore College
Department of Mechanical Engineering
BIO
Keith has spent his entire career involved in the development of advanced technology for commercial, aerospace, and defense applications. This has included working in a variety of roles including as a practicing engineer, business development as a consultant, being a partner in a small business, program manager, and holding positions in line and senior management. His technical background is in the field of optomechanical engineering with expertise in solid mechanics and structural dynamics with extensive management and business experience in leadership, organizational behavior, operations, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He earned his BS degree in Civil Engineering from Swarthmore College, MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Engineering Mechanics with a minor in the Optical Sciences.
Keith was born and grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. Following high school he attended Swarthmore College. After obtaining his BS degree, he took a position as a junior engineer at Itek Optical Systems where he discovered his passion in the field of optomechanics. He pursued this new-found passion, attending Northeastern University and then the University of Arizona. Following his Ph.D., he began his long association with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the Department of Defense. He started as a Technical Staff member in the Optical Systems Engineering Group. After five years, he took a position at Optical Research Associates as a Senior Systems Engineer providing optical engineering consulting services for an array of clients across three continents. After five years, he left to become a partner at the company Sigmadyne, where he served as a consultant and supported the development of SigFit, an engineering software package that enables the performance modeling of optical systems.
After six years, Keith returned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a Senior Staff member where he supported the development of several advanced technology prototypes. Keith spent the next ten-years serving as a program manager for several programs including the development of a $100M airborne electro-optical payload. He then became a Group Leader in the Engineering Division where he created the Structural & Thermal-Fluids Engineering Group where he expanded several labs and test capabilities that grew to over 70 members. During this time, Keith participated in several Laboratory wide IR&D leadership roles including leading the group in the development of several novel technologies resulting in new business opportunities. For the past four years, Keith has been an Assistant Head of the Engineering Division. In this role, he partners with a three-person team to lead a 500-person workforce leading eight functional engineering groups focused on developing advanced technology prototypes for national security and science applications.
Keith enjoys sharing his work and advancing the field of management, leadership, and optomechanical engineering. He has been an adjunct professor at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona and the Grenon School of Business at Assumption University. He actively participates in the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) symposia where he co-chairs the biannual Optomechanical Engineering conference, is a SPIE Fellow, and a recipient of the SPIE Technical Achievement Award. He has authored or co-authored over 40 technical papers, annually teaches several short courses, is the lead author of the book Integrated Optomechanical Analysis and wrote two chapters in the second edition of the Handbook of Optomechanical Engineering. He and his wife, Julie, have three children – Ian, Kiera, and Kyle - and his hobbies include biking, swimming, running, kayaking, gardening, cooking, nutrition, health, and fitness.
Courses
- EMGT 3051 — Engineering Project Management
- EMGT 2041 — Engineering Economics
- ME 3990 — Capstone Design ME 4010
Awards and Achievements
Fellow, SPIE International Society of Optics and Photonics
SPIE Technical Achievement Award, SPIE
Area(s) of expertise
Management: operations, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership
Technical: Solid mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, optomechanics
Bio
Keith has spent his entire career involved in the development of advanced technology for commercial, aerospace, and defense applications. This has included working in a variety of roles including as a practicing engineer, business development as a consultant, being a partner in a small business, program manager, and holding positions in line and senior management. His technical background is in the field of optomechanical engineering with expertise in solid mechanics and structural dynamics with extensive management and business experience in leadership, organizational behavior, operations, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He earned his BS degree in Civil Engineering from Swarthmore College, MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD from the University of Arizona in Engineering Mechanics with a minor in the Optical Sciences.
Keith was born and grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. Following high school he attended Swarthmore College. After obtaining his BS degree, he took a position as a junior engineer at Itek Optical Systems where he discovered his passion in the field of optomechanics. He pursued this new-found passion, attending Northeastern University and then the University of Arizona. Following his Ph.D., he began his long association with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the Department of Defense. He started as a Technical Staff member in the Optical Systems Engineering Group. After five years, he took a position at Optical Research Associates as a Senior Systems Engineer providing optical engineering consulting services for an array of clients across three continents. After five years, he left to become a partner at the company Sigmadyne, where he served as a consultant and supported the development of SigFit, an engineering software package that enables the performance modeling of optical systems.
After six years, Keith returned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a Senior Staff member where he supported the development of several advanced technology prototypes. Keith spent the next ten-years serving as a program manager for several programs including the development of a $100M airborne electro-optical payload. He then became a Group Leader in the Engineering Division where he created the Structural & Thermal-Fluids Engineering Group where he expanded several labs and test capabilities that grew to over 70 members. During this time, Keith participated in several Laboratory wide IR&D leadership roles including leading the group in the development of several novel technologies resulting in new business opportunities. For the past four years, Keith has been an Assistant Head of the Engineering Division. In this role, he partners with a three-person team to lead a 500-person workforce leading eight functional engineering groups focused on developing advanced technology prototypes for national security and science applications.
Keith enjoys sharing his work and advancing the field of management, leadership, and optomechanical engineering. He has been an adjunct professor at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona and the Grenon School of Business at Assumption University. He actively participates in the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) symposia where he co-chairs the biannual Optomechanical Engineering conference, is a SPIE Fellow, and a recipient of the SPIE Technical Achievement Award. He has authored or co-authored over 40 technical papers, annually teaches several short courses, is the lead author of the book Integrated Optomechanical Analysis and wrote two chapters in the second edition of the Handbook of Optomechanical Engineering. He and his wife, Julie, have three children – Ian, Kiera, and Kyle - and his hobbies include biking, swimming, running, kayaking, gardening, cooking, nutrition, health, and fitness.
Courses
- EMGT 3051 — Engineering Project Management
- EMGT 2041 — Engineering Economics
- ME 3990 — Capstone Design ME 4010
Awards and Achievements
Fellow, SPIE International Society of Optics and Photonics
SPIE Technical Achievement Award, SPIE
Areas of Expertise
Management: operations, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership
Technical: Solid mechanics, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, optomechanics
Publications
Publications
- Over 40 papers in conference proceedings - See CV
- Books
- Integrated Optomechanical Analysis, 2nd Edition, Doyle, K. B., Genberg, V. L., Michels, G. J., SPIE Press, Nov., 2012. (First edition, 2002).
- Two chapters in the Handbook of Optomechanical Engineering, editor, Anees Ahamd, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Baca Raton, Florida, 2017.