Michael Gerard Pecht (born 1952) is an American mechanical engineer known for his works in the reliability of electronic packaging including the physics-of-failure approach. He leads the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Education and career Pecht studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his BS in physics in 1978, MS in electronic engineering in 1979, and PhD in engineering mechanics in 1982. His doctoral thesis was on the humidity-stress-strain interactions in polymers, which was supervised by Millard W. Johnson, Jr. He joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983 as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Since 1985, he is the director of CALCE at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Honors and awards Pecht became an IEEE fellow in 1992, and an ASME fellow in 1995. In 2008, he received the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2016, Pecht received the IEEE Rao R. Tummala Electronics Packaging Award.
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