As Executive Vice President of WTEC, Mike DeHaemer’s  focus is on the WTEC mission:  assessment operations with the goal of providing valuable and timely information for Federal research agencies about engineering and scientific research activities abroad to stimulate more effective research and new research initiatives.  He is also the principal staff liaison for interagency collaboration to define and support assessment studies. 

Mike returned to WTEC and Baltimore in 2003, after previously having been with WTEC and JTEC from 1992 until 1996, when it was located at Loyola College, and he was a member of the Sellinger School faculty.  He was the Director of WTEC and JTEC for 1995-1996.Overall he has managed 25 international assessment studies. 

During 1996 to 2002 Mike was Managing Director of ASM International, headquartered near Cleveland, Ohio.  ASM International is the largest professional society for materials scientists and engineers, noted for its handbooks, technical publications, and journals; serving nearly 30,000 members in over 100 chapters worldwide.  He also served as the Executive Director of the Heat Treating Society, an organization promoting the engineering and science of thermal processing of materials.

 His first career was in the U.S. Navy and nuclear powered submarines.  Captain DeHaemer, USN, commanded the USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN 641), a fleet ballistic missile submarine, for six deterrent patrols, and a major ship overhaul and conversion to the Trident Missile System.  While in command he conducted a major operational test of the missile deterrent system, launching two test missiles down the Atlantic test range.  Following command Captain DeHaemer was the Anti-submarine Warfare Operations Officer for the U.S. Second Fleet and then served as the Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the Navy ROTC Unit at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Captain DeHaemer received three meritorious service medals for his services.  

Following retirement from the Navy, Dr. DeHaemer joined the faculty at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.  He served as Department Chair for Information Systems and Decision Sciences, taught strategic use of information technology, human factors in computing, artificial intelligence, and founded and directed the Lattanze Center for Human-Computer Interface Research. 

Dr. Michael DeHaemer
Executive Vice President

Dehaemer@ScienceUS.org