Michael McGetrick is adjunct associate professor of Design and a former fellow of the Image & Communications Project within the Department of Art at Brooklyn College. He has taught in the department for over 18 years. He is a fellow of the Excite Energy research committee on design and renewable energy and was a member of the art and design sub-panel for Pervasive Information Systems at Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET).
He has authored numerous papers on the intersection of design, data analysis and pervasive information systems including "A Designer's Approach to Pervasive Information Systems" at PICMET '06.