He began his career in 1958 as a hydrodynamicist at the U. S. Navy's David Taylor Model Basin.
In 1961, he left DTMB and joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Swarthmore College with a one-year appointment.
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.
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