Rate My Professor Carr Everbach

E. Carr Everbach is the Isaiah V. Williamson Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Swarthmore College, where he has been a faculty member in the Engineering Department since 1989. He advanced through the ranks from Assistant Professor (1989-1996) to Associate Professor (1996-2006) and full Professor since 2006. Everbach served as Chair of the Engineering Department from 2013 to 2018 and currently chairs the Environmental Studies Committee since 2019. His academic background includes a B.A. in the Division of Applied Sciences, specializing in Applied Mechanics and Acoustics, from Harvard College in 1982; an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University in 1986; and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale in 1989, with his dissertation titled "Tissue Composition Determination via Measurement of the Acoustic Nonlinearity Parameter."

Everbach's research focuses on acoustics, with particular emphasis on biomedical ultrasound, acoustic cavitation, sonothrombolysis, microbubble dynamics, ultrasound bioeffects, lithotripsy, and nonlinear acoustics. He has authored numerous publications, including the highly cited "Cavitational mechanisms in ultrasound-accelerated thrombolysis at 1 MHz" (Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2000), "Bioeffects considerations for diagnostic ultrasound contrast agents" (Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2008), "Correlation of ultrasound-induced hemolysis with cavitation detector output in vitro" (Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 1997), and the invited tutorial "Diagnostic Ultrasound" (Physics Today, 2007). Among his honors are the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship (1992-1997), Fellowship of the Acoustical Society of America (2001), and the F.V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship (1989-1990). Everbach has held leadership roles such as Chair of the Biomedical Ultrasound technical committee of the Acoustical Society of America (1999-2002) and has been principal investigator or co-investigator on grants from the NIH, NSF, and American Heart Association supporting research on ultrasound applications in medicine and environmental acoustics. His contributions extend to undergraduate research supervision, public policy advising on noise issues, and expert testimony in acoustics.