Michael Schmiechen, Berlin

Biography

• 1932.03.22 born at Reinbek near Hamburg,
• 1958.12.23 married to Susanne, born Loeper,
• 1959-1966 children Catharina, Henriette, Johanna, Carl Philipp born.

Education

• 1942-1952 Sachsenwald-Oberschule at Reinbek,
• 1952-1954 Mechanical Engineering at Technische Hochschule Braunschweig,
• 1954-1958 Marine Engineering at Technische Universitaet Berlin,
and practical training at


• Hanseatische Motorengesellschaft at Hamburg-Bergedorf,
• Deutsche Werft at Hamburg-Finkenwerder,
• De Schelde at Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and
• on board MS 'Duisburg' and SS 'Hoechst' of Hamburg-Amerika-Linie.

Qualification

• 1958/59 Post Graduate studies in Boundary Layer Theory,
Heat Transfer and Combustion at Imperial College London
under Prof. D. B. Spalding on a stipend of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes,

• 1964 Doctorate at TUB on Motions of Bodies in Fluids,
• 1970 Habilitation for Hydromechanical Systems at TUB,
• 1975 academic degree of apl. Professor awarded,
1997 released of the duty to lecture.

Occupation

• 1959-1992 Scientific Officer, Head of Theoretical Hydromechanics Group,
  Head of Development Department,
• 1992-1997 Deputy Director for Research and Development,
  at times Acting Director at Versuchsanstalt fuer Wasserbau und Schiffbau
  VWS: the Berlin Model Basin,

and on private terms, 'after hours',


• 1970-1975 Privatdozent at ISM/TUB,
• 1975-2011 Lecturing on Hydromechanical Systems at ISM/TUB.

Research posts

• 1968/69 Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  at Cambridge Mass., sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation.
  Post Doctoral studies on Systems Identication,
• 1973 Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Dai-gaku,
  sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
  Research on State Space Models and their applications to hydromechanical systems.

Delegation

• 1969-1975 Secretary of the Executive Committee of
  the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC),
  Editor of the Proceedings of the 13th ITTC in Berlin and Hamburg 1972,
• 19xx-19xx Secretary of the Hydrodynamics Committee of STG
  Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft,
• 1975-1996 Member of the ITTC Information Committee,
  later Symbols and Terminology (SaT) Group,
  Editor of the SaT List, Version 1993,
  1993/96 Secretary of the SaT Group.

Publications

The website www.m-schmiechen.de
maintained since 1998 contains

• complete bibliographies of papers

and since about 1990
• texts and presentations of recent papers
  on general subjects, on mechanics in general and
  on the motions and the propulsion of bodies in fluids.

Opus magnum

Schmiechen, M.: Newton's Principia and related 'principles' revisited.
Classical dynamics reconstructed in the spirits of Goethe, Euler and Einstein.
Elementary Mechanics from an advanced standpoint and vice versa.
Second edition of work in progress in three volumes.
Berlin, Summer 2009.


• Volume 1: Meta- and proto-mechanics.
  As paperback: ISBN 978-3-8370-5307-4,
  and as e-book: ISBN 978-3-8391-6000-8.


• Volume 2: Elementary and local mechanics.
  As paperback: ISBN 978-3-8370-5308-1,
  and as e-book: ISBN 978-3-8391-5996-5.


• Volume 3: Global and propulsion mechanics.
  As paperback: ISBN 978-3-8370-5309-8,
  and as e-book: ISBN 978-3-8391-6001-5.

Copyright Michael Schmiechen Berlin 2009.
Herstellung und Verlag:
Books on Demand GmbH
Norderstedt near Hamburg.

Teaching

• 1969/1997 on 'Professional Problem Solving, Hydromechanical Systems in general
  and Propulsion and Motions of Marine Vehicles' at TUB as Privatdozent,
  since 1974 as apl. Professor until 1997, continued until 2011,
• 1973 on 'Professional Problem Solving' at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• 1996 on 'Professional Problem Solving' at China Ship Scientific Research Centre
  as Visiting Professor, sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme
• 2003 on the 'Rational Theory of Ship Hull-Propeller Interaction
  and its Applications' in a course on Marine Propulsion,
  organised by the Advanced Product Design and Prototyping Cell (APDAP)
  at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
  held at the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory, Visakhapatnam,
  
• 2004 on the 'Rational Theory of Ship Hull-Propeller Interaction
  and its Applications'
held at the Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC), Shanghai,
with participants from the Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute (SSSRI),
the China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) at Wuxi and
the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Memberships

• Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI),
• Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft (STG),
• Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Awards

• Silberne Gedenkmuenze der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft (STG)
  fuer Verdienste um den deutschen Schiffbau 2009.
• Selected for Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering since 2008-2009.

Contacts

Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Michael Schmiechen
Bartningallee 16
D-10557 Berlin
Germany

+49 30 392 71 64
m.schm@t-online.de
www.m-schmiechen.de