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Dean’s Weekly, February 15

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Cadets and “Flight Line of the Future”:  Cadets and “Flight Line of the Future”Sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Cadets Mark Maley, Chris Pawlik, Ariana Mankus, and Alicia Phillips represented SE403 and SE450 Systems Engineering capstone teams as they visited Nellis Air Force Base as part of a "Flight Line of the Future" competition with the United States Air Force Academy.  The four Systems Engineering students had the opportunity to view F-22 Raptor and unmanned aerial systems flight and maintenance operations as well as engage with maintenance personnel. They gained insight into technologies currently used to sustain fleet readiness as well as assess the readiness for future technology insertion into flight line processes. Overall, six USMA teams are competing in the competition.

Trip Section to AT&T Global Network Operations:  Sociology Majors from PL482: Armed Forces and Society received a tour from the Stony CDC from Ms. Gene Wright as part of learning about Military Families with Instructor MAJ Sharon Edens (far right).41 Cadets from EECS visited the AT&T Global Network Operations Center in Bedminster, NJ. The cadets participated in the tour of the Network Operations Center as well as a demonstration of the latest technology being developed for market by AT&T. This new technology included interactive advertising screens that use facial recognition to interact with their views. In addition, the cadets received a briefing about the global capabilities of AT&T's network and their efforts to monitor and predict world events affecting their network and customers. Their capabilities include a large component dedicated to Cyber operations, as well as helping law enforcement agencies respond to Cyber attacks.

Guest Lecture – Dr. Michael Brennan ’66:  Dr. Michael Brennan ‘66 speaks to cadets in EV376.The Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations (CSCMO) sponsored a lecture for EV376 (The Geography of the Middle East) by Dr. Michael Brennan '66, a respected physician, international envoy and a past President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He spoke about his experiences working in the region to improve education and training of medical staff and medical/health care systems in concert with military organizations to bring about positive change in the Civil-Military realm. He gave cogent examples of successes achieved in operations in Iraq, Japan and Haiti and also related some of the challenges to make greater impacts in Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. He left cadets with a great lifelong example of the premise Be, Know, Do, and demonstrated how important relationships are in breaking through cultural gaps as a military professional and world citizen.

Department of Mathematical Sciences:  The Department of Mathematical Sciences, with funding from the Center for Leadership and Diversity in STEM, hosted the second speaker in a series entitled “Women of Color in the Mathematical Sciences.” Dr. Syvillia Averett, Assistant Professor at Central State University in Ohio, spoke on “The RePresentation of Me: Learning Math, Living Math and Loving (almost) Every Moment.” This speaker series aims to increase the presence of underrepresented minority faculty in STEM by providing a venue where cadets can meet and interact with minority women mathematicians from a variety of universities.

Cadet Development-PL482: Armed Forces and Society:  Sociology Majors from PL482: Armed Forces and Society received a tour from the Stony CDC from Ms. Gene Wright as part of learning about Military Families with Instructor MAJ Sharon Edens (far right).Cadets from PL482: Armed Forces and Society visited the Stony Child Development Center on post as part the class topic on Military Families. This trip let cadets see a CDC and better understand some of the rules and considerations they should know when they become Second Lieutenants and lead Soldiers who have children.

WPNP-Faculty Outreach-SEALS Training:  BS&L's Negotiation Project ran a two-day training seminar for 46 Navy SEALs sponsored and funded by the Naval Special Warfare Platoon Leaders Course, at Norfolk, VA. The West Point Negotiation Project is a USMA faculty effort to improve the ability of military leaders to negotiate and is an activity within BS&L's West Point Leadership Center.  Among the mobile training team were Cadet Andrew Oswald '14 and Cadet James Garner '14. 


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