William M. Carey (M'85-SM'91-F'96) received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Physics, and the Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Science from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, in 1965, 1968, and 1974, respectively.
He was the Editor and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Oceanic Engineering. He is also an Associate Editor for Underwater Acoustics, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Currently he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, an Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, an Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a Physicist with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Previously, he was a Physicist with the Advanced Research Projects Agency and was assigned to the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, where he taught Acoustics. He has also been a Research Physicist and Engineer at the Naval Underwater Systems Center, The Naval Oceanographic Research and Development Activity, and the Naval Research Laboratory. At the University of Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, he was an Associate Scientist and Section Manager of acoustic surveillance. He has been a consultant to both industry and government in the areas of nondestructive testing, nuclear science/environmental measurements, and applied ocean acoustics.
Dr. Carey is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a full member of Sigma Xi, a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and also a member of the Cosmos Club. In addition to being an IEEE-OES Fellow he has also received the IEEE-Oceanic of Engineering Society's Distinguished Technical Achievement Award and an IEEE Millennium Award.