Trevor Mackesey, an associate teaching professor in the Center for Leadership Education, is the Center’s director of graduate studies and director of the MS in Engineering Management (MSEM) program. He is a veteran of the financial services industry.
As a financial consultant, he delivered personalized advice and service on a variety of investment and risk management solutions, focusing on the management, preservation, and transfer of wealth for high-net-worth individuals and businesses. Mackesey combines his professional experience in finance with graduate studies in writing to develop strategies to help engineers communicate complex ideas and deliver strategic solutions to diverse audiences.
Mackesey has published research on multidisciplinary engineering teams, his short fiction has appeared in multiple journals, and his recognitions include two appointments to SunTrust Bank’s Chairman’s Team and a fellowship to travel and teach throughout Nepal. He is a member of the Whiting School of Engineering faculty senate, the Master of Engineering Management Program Consortium (MEMPC) executive committee, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Multidisciplinary Engineering division executive committee.
He received a BA from Colby College; an MLitt from the University of St Andrews; and an MFA from Indiana University.