Miguel Cavique is Professor at the Naval Academy in Naval Engineering, in the field of Mechanics.

He received the diplomat Engineer from the IST (now part of the Lisbon University) in 1983, the Master from the IST in 1991 and the Ph.D. from the New University of Lisbon in 2011.

During his lifelong, he always maintained an academic career parallel to the industrial activity. In the 80s, he worked at the gas network of Lisbon, then part of the Electricity of Portugal (EDP), running the department of network design. Thus, changed to IBM as system engineering where he gave support to bank customers on relational databases. In a similar period, he was Assistant at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon and Auxiliary Professor at the Lusiada University until 1996 in the fields of Mathematics and Statistics. In the Polytechnic of Setubal (1991-2015), he dedicated his work to the areas of gas networks and air conditioning, giving consultancy on air conditioning design and energy auditing of buildings. Moreover, he owned and industrial enterprise was founder of a consultancy enterprise on building energy auditing, and of a commercial one on air conditioning systems, which maintains until now. He is a specialist on air conditioning by the chartered association of engineers in Portugal, life member of the commission of the air conditioning specialization of the same entity, and member of the BOG of the Portugal Chapter of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air- Conditioning Engineers).

The aim of investigation of Prof. Miguel Cavique is the use of Axiomatic Design theory to design and discuss complex systems, namely building and naval systems. His most recent areas of research are: the decision based on limited data; and total failure of complex systems.