Professor emeritus in the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University. Cady's undergraduate studies were in naval architecture and marine engineering, and his doctoral research was in nuclear engineering. He worked for the Moore McCormack Steamship Company, the Shipbuilding Division of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and the engineering firm of Jackson and Moreland, Inc., before coming to Cornell in 1962. He has held several scholarships and fellowships: a Ford Foundation Pre-Induction Scholarship, a Bethlehem Steel Industrial Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship in Nuclear Science and Engineering.