Joshua Tarbutton PhD PE

Josh studied Mechanical Engineering earning his BSME at Georgia Tech and his MSME and PhD ME at Clemson University. After an industry postdoc through the National Science Foundation and American Society for Engineering Education, he took a role as a tenure-track professor at the University of South Carolina. After five years, he moved to UNC Charlotte where he earned tenure. He taught nearly every class in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, graduated PhD and MS students, completed millions of dollars of funded research and published 53 papers mainly focused on sensing, signal processing, design and manufacturing.

Josh has always loved working on and solving hard problems and began consulting early in his career. In 2018, he co-founded Bravo Team with Jordan Burch and Cody Orlovsky to help people design machines and products. In 2021, he left academia to work at Bravo Team full-time. Bravo Team has experienced dramatic growth based on a strong foundation of core values, a culture of creativity, openness and vulnerability, zero tolerance for ego or bureaucratic waste, and the sheer delight of engineering. Dr. Tarbutton is an active member in the Entrepreneur Organization and mentor for their accelerator program. Josh is a licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina.