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Dean’s Weekly, January 25

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Department of Systems Engineering:  The Department of Systems Engineering sent cadets from both the SE403 year-long capstone and SE450 semester capstone project to Fort Campbell to meet with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR).The Department of Systems Engineering sent cadets from both the SE403 year-long capstone and SE450 semester capstone project to Fort Campbell to meet with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). There are six separate group projects these cadets are working under the general category of “Designing the Flightline of the Future” which are all sponsored by Lockheed-Martin. Since the 160th SOAR has one of the most advanced Army flightlines, these cadets were able to see what new technologies are being used and where improvements should be focused in the future to increase efficiency and maximize performance.

NSC First Brownbag Lunch for the Semester:  Cadets Hanafee and Maki along with Dr. Bill Pulleyblank gave the first brown bag lunch talk for the semester last week. The group presented the work they have completed in the initial phase of their research in a talk, “Data Analytics and Army Football”.  Cadets, faculty, and staff from several departments enjoyed hearing how they are using a data analytic program, Virtual Gold, to study Army football statistics and look for significant statistical anomalies from both an offensive and defensive perspective.  The research team hopes to be able to build a tool that would offer the coaches a new way look at game statistics. While this phase of their research is interesting to Army football fans, this research has further reaching implications to the Army in terms of being able to analyze force-on-force scenarios.

Cadets and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE): LTC Todd Woodruff and his students at the NYSE.Eighteen BS&L Management Majors spent an afternoon with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Chairman and 1962 USMA graduate, Marshall Carter, participating in a discussion of leadership and ethics across multiple domains (government, business, non-profit, academia, and the military). After the leadership discussion, cadets toured the NYSE board room and the NYSE trading floor where they interacted with the floor management and traders to learn about the exchange system. Cadets appeared briefly on Fox Business News, which broadcasts from the NYSE floor, and gave a big “Go Army” shout-out from the NYSE floor. Cadets will use knowledge gained during this event in their accounting, marketing, and strategic management courses this semester.

Cadet Academic Achievement:  CDT Vince Schuele '13 had his paper titled "Semantic Network Analysis to Gauge Sentiment Among Young Muslims: A Pilot Study," accepted for presentation at 27th National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Annual Conference that will be hosted at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in April.  The paper is based on an Advanced Individual Academic Development (AIAD) in Qatar last summer sponsored by the Minvera Program.

Cadet Input:  Cadets provided their input for the future iPad textbook, The West Point History of Warfare. The cadets discussed the interactive features for the new e-textbook with the four companies tasked with creating the book. The first four chapters will be ready for HI301 STAP on 21 May 2013. The Class of 2014 will take MilArt on the iPad delivered text starting in August 2013.

German:  Cadets from theGerman Language Forum will present the colors at the 53rd Annual Quadrille Ball in NYC this weekend.  German Language major, CDT Caleb Magnuson, and Austrian Exchange cadet, CDT Marcel Taschwer, became an overnight youtube.com sensation with their video of releasing a mouse “into the wild” of Trophy Point. The video, posted by CDT Taschwer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyQipO4miw, has received nearly 4.5 million hits to date.


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