Prof. Miodrag Micic
Prof. Miodrag "Mickey" Micic, Sc.D., Ph.D., M.T.M., CSWE., C.F.I.
Professor and Department Chair, Dept of Engineering Design Technology
Fall 2026 Office Hours: Mon, 2:45--4:00pm; Tue: 5:15:-6 pm in in PST224.
Office number: PST 225/224
Phone number 1 - 562 - 860 - 2451 x 2910
E-mail address : mmicic@cerritos.edu
Schedule of classes, Fall 2026 :
- ET102: Electronics for Engineering Technology,T, TR, 3:00pm-5:15pm
- ENGT103: Introduction to Engineering Design Using Autodesk Inventor, W 5:00pm-9:50pm
- ENGT237: Statics and Strength of Materials with Simulations, M, 4:00pm-8:50pm
- ENGT 259: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS, T,TR, 6pm-8:30 pm
Schedule of classes, Spring 2027 :
- ET 103: Introduction to Process Control, M,W, 3:00pm-4:50 pm
- ENGT103: Introduction to Engineering Design Using Autodesk Inventor, W 5:00pm-9:50pm
- ENGT 259: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS, T,TR, 3pm-5:50 pm
- ENGT 260: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS, T,TR, 6pm-8:50 pm
Southern California SOLIDWORKS Users Group Meetings : TBA.
Prof. Miodrag Micic is Professor of Engineering Design Technology, Engineering Technology, New Products Development and Plastics Manufacturing at Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA. His research interests includes medical devices and life science instrumentation and methods development, microelectromechanical systems, rapid prototyping and colloid and surface chemistry. He is teaching variety of engineering design technology, engineering technology and plastics manufacturing courses. He is recognized SOLIDWORKS Champion, Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert, and SWUG leader (SOLIDWORKS Users Group) Leader for Southern California SOLIDWORKS Users Group.
Prof. Micic is also a consultant or member of the board of several life sciences, medical devices and additive manufacturing companies, and was a co-founder of Labratfinder.com an AI-based tool for marketing of life sciences products. Prof. Micic was a Chief Marketing Officer of Gojira Fine Chemicals LLC, Chief Marketing Officer; Vice President for Research and Development at MP Biomedicals LLC, and Senior Application Scientist/Product Manager at Veeco Instruments Inc Metrology Division in Santa Barbara (nowdays Bruker Nano Surfaces Division) . He was also an Adjunct Project Scientist at BioMEMS Lab, Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-Irvine. Prof. Micic was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, an US DOE facility operated by Battelle Memorial Institute.
Prof. Miodrag Micic holds Ph.D. and M.S. in chemistry from University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; M.T.M. from Washington State University - Tri-Cities Campus, Richland, WA; and Sc.D., and M.Sc. in physical chemistry from University of Belgrade Faculty of Physical Chemistry; B.Sc./ B.Ed. in physics and fundamentals of engineering education and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Physics, and B.Sc. in mechanical (naval architecture) engineering from Polytechnic College of New Belgrade, Yugoslavia (nowdays Academy of Applied Technical Studies Belgrade). Mickey is also one of the first graduates of the Associate of Science of Artificial Intelligence from Mira Costa College, CA. He is an inventor with issued four US patents, which are all currently in production. Prof. Miodrag Micic is also a pilot, and he holds FAA issued Commercial Pilot certificate - single engine and multi engine airplane, and he is Certified Flight Instructor with Airplane, Single Engine ratings, and an Advanced Ground Instructor.
He is an author or co-author of over 75 publications most of them in leading scientific journals, with a more than 3,350+ citations as of Fall 2026. Dr. Micic is an editor of the reference books M.Micic, (Ed), "Nanotechnology at Interfaces, Springer 2027, and M.Micic,(Ed) "Sample Preparation Techniques for Soil, Plant and Animals Samples", Springer 2015, and is an invited contributor to the reference work "Wiley's Encyclopedia of Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation" and he was a guest editor of Elsevier's Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces journal,Special issue "Supramolecular Chemistry Applied to Interfaces".
Mickey's hobbies are aviation, scuba diving, travelling and exotics animals. His father, Zivorad Micic was well-known Yugoslavian competitive cyclist and WW2 Yugoslavian partisan.