Patrick McCafferty is a Lecturer in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and an Associate with the international design firm, Ove Arup & Partners. Upon receiving both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil and structural engineering from Cornell University, McCafferty began his career as an American Scholar in Arup's London offices in 1996. He spent an additional six years in the firm's New York practice before joining Arup's Boston office in 2005 where he leads the structural engineering design practice. McCafferty's professional experience includes engineering design and project management. He specializes in advanced non-linear structural analysis and in the design of innovative and architecturally expressed structures. A licensed professional engineer in five US States, McCafferty's broad range of project experience includes the design of museums, performing arts centers, long-span and specialty roofs, bridges, airports, stadia, commercial high rise, academic buildings, structural glass facades, and sculptural and memorial installations. In 2008, McCafferty was named by the Consulting Specifying Engineer Magazine as among the top 40-under-40 building engineers in the United States. Also in 2008, he was appointed Lecturer in MIT's Department of Architecture Building Technology within the School of Architecture and Planning and served as Technical Advisor to Cornell University's Master of Engineering (Civil) Program within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. McCafferty joined the faculty of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 2010.