Michael E. McCormick is Corbin A. McNeill Professor Emeirtus of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at the
U. S. Naval Academy. He is one of the pioneers of modern
wave energy
Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC).
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research.
He began his career in 1958 as a hydrodynamicist at the U. S. Navy's
David Taylor Model Basin
The David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB) is one of the largest ship model basins—test facilities for the development of ship design—in the world. DTMB is a field activity of the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center.
Hist ...
. His early work there
was in the area of hydroelasticity, working with Dr. David A. Jewell. Later, in 1964 his work was in the area of boundary-layer induced vibrations, working with Dr. Mark Harrison and Dr. Gabriel
Boehler. In 1961, he
left DTMB and joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Swarthmore College with a one-year appointment. He returned to Swarthmore in 1976 as visiting scholar in engineering. His teaching and
research continued at the Catholic University of America, Trinity College (Hartford), the U. S. Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins University. He was at the Naval Academy for 27 years, and at Johns Hopkins as a research professor of civil engineering for 10 years.
Prof. McCormick’s research efforts also resulted in electrolytic drag reduction of marine vehicles, analysis of ocean wave energy conversion systems and wave-powered desalination of sea water using hinged-raft systems (working with Dr. Peter McCabe in Ireland). He was also fortunate to work with Prof. Rameswar Bhattacharyya in co-editing two book series and the journal ''Ocean Engineering''.
Education
B.A. (Mathematics & Physics) American University,
M.S.E. (Engineering Mechanics) Catholic University of America,
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) Catholic University of America,
Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) Trinity College, Dublin,
Sc.D. (Engineering-Science) Trinity College, Dublin
Books
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External links
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Living people
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Catholic University of America alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)