Early Life, Career and Academia
James Dooge was born in Birkenhead, England in 1922. He was educated in Liverpool before moving to Dún Laoghaire and was educated by the Christian Brothers there. Dooge's father was an engineer and so were other relatives and at school Dooge convinced the authorities to bring in an Applied Mathematics teacher in to tutor him on the subject.
He went on to University College Dublin (here he was awarded the Pierce Malone Scholarship in Theory of Structures and Strength of Materials) and qualified as an engineer. In 1942 he obtained a job with the Office of Public Works and in 1946 he began working with the Electricity Supply Board. Between 1954 and 1956 he was research associate at the Department of Civil engineering at University of Iowa and obtained a masters. Back working for the ESB in Ireland in 1956, he worked on a number of projects on the River Shannon. In 1958 Dooge became Professor of Civil engineering at University College Cork. In 1970 he became a Professor at University College Dublin. Between 1984 and 1987 Dooge worked at the Department of Engineering Hydrology at University College Galway. From 1988 he worked at University College Dublin at the Centre for Water Resources Research.
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