Dean's Weekly, Jan 23

Army Debate Beats Navy:  Army Debate Team Captains CDT Leslie Cornelius '14 and CDT Rob “Turtle” Hurd '14 participated in a public debate against representatives from the US Naval Academy debate team. They argued in favor of the resolution Resolved: Drones are a detriment to national security. CDTs Hurd and Cornelius beat Navy on a 2-1 decision by a 3-judge panel.

Journal Publication of Cadet Work:  2LTs Alex Sagues and Ben Miller published the results of their Mechanical Engineering capstone in the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. The article, entitled “Three-Dimensional Mass Fraction Distribution of a Spray Measured by X-Ray Computed Tomography”, details technical research that was sponsored, in part, by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) through the Mathematical Sciences Center of Excellence for the past 2 years.

Foreign Languages:  The Chinese-language section held their first meeting of CS490 Applied Cyberspace Linguistics – Chinese.  Spanish-language majors Aaron Skinner and Scott Williams recently departed to Florida to begin work with the 7th Special Forces Group on their proposed LN490 special project, “LREC Programs for Regionally Aligned Forces: Curriculum and Assessment for the 7th Special Forces Group.” The innovative study looks at language proficiency as an enabling skill for all members of a Regionally Aligned unit.