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THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT THE THE AFIT ENGINEER Air Force Institute of Technology

Graduate School Welcomes 264 New Students In August, the Graduate School welcomed a new class of 31 doctoral and 233 master’s degree students. The new group includes 41 Second Lieutenants for whom AFIT is their first duty assignment.

During an orientation briefing, Dr. Todd Stewart, AFIT Director and Chancellor welcomed the students stating, “Congratulations on volunteering for advanced education and being competitively admitted to AFIT. Your willingness to come to school shows great promise for you and the future of our Air Force.”

The students will study a variety of science, technology, engineering and math programs primarily in Electrical and Computer Engineering Lt Col Andy McQuade, Graduate School of Engineering and and Systems Engineering and Management programs. Management Dean of Students, speaks to incoming AFIT graduate students on orientation day. NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT BY DEPARTMENT

Aeronautics and Mathematics 37 Astronautics and Statistics 7 WHAT’S INSIDE 2 FROM THE DEAN’S DESK Electrical and Operational Sciences 81 Computer Engineering 42 3 GRADUATE SCHOOL NEWS

AIR FORCE IMPACTS Systems Engineering 4 Engineering Physics and Management 33 64 5 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

6 AFIT/EN OUTREACH AFIT Re-designated by NSA and DHS 7 NEWS BRIEFS The Air Force Institute of Technology research initiatives by faculty and was re-designated as a National Center students, publications, PhD student 7 NEW EN LEADERSHIP of Academic Excellence in Cyber production and research funding. Defense Research by the National 8 UPCOMING EVENTS Security Agency and the Department of AFIT has a long history of excellence Homeland Security through academic in research and education in cyber 8 FACULTY SEARCH year 2024. defense. In 2002, AFIT’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management AFIT is one of eight Ohio colleges and instantiated the Center for Cyberspace universities to earn this distinction, Research as one of AFIT’s first research joining a group of more than 275 centers. CCR’s leadership excellence in schools across the country. To obtain the field led to AFIT being designated the re-designation, AFIT demonstrated the Air Force Cyberspace Technical continued cyber defense efforts in Center of Excellence. FROM THE DEAN’S DESK

Fall Quarter Elevates AFIT’s Contagious Spirit of Excellence If you are reading this recently graduated a group of issue of The AFIT ENgineer, officers from allied nations. This following the inaugural demonstrates our academic reach issue of June 2019, I beyond the shores of America. My “This Fall Quarter, welcome you back. If recent official visit to Hurlburt Field, we are delighted this is your first reading, FL and , FL to welcome the I excitedly welcome you confirmed the great appetite for AFIT to the readership club. academic degrees among the diverse incoming cohort of This September issue population of Air Force personnel 264 new students. represents a continuation in various geographical locations We also welcome of our commitment to a in Florida. To this end, we shall be the addition of proactive outreach to all Dr. Adedeji Badiru, Dean exploring strategies to extend our our constituents, both academic programs, particularly 25 new faculty internal and external. Distance Learning (DL) offerings, through a members across satellite presence to be known as AFIT South. our six academic This Fall Quarter, we are delighted to Ditto for other locations in the USA. As this departments.” welcome the incoming cohort of 264 new idea germinates further, we shall be issuing students. With this new batch of intellectual appropriate communication via a variety of arrivals, our integrated defense-focused information platforms. Please continue to teaching and research will continue watch out for communiques from my office. unabated. These students will further energize our overall student population in Some exciting events on the horizon include the pursuit of advanced studies in many the AFIT Centennial Celebration on Thursday, technical areas germane to the needs of November 7th. That will be preceded by the EN OUTREACH the US Air Force. Although STEM is the Defense Innovation Symposium (DIS) on primary focus of our degree programs, we Tuesday, October 22nd. do collaboratively embrace complementing The AFIT ENGINEER is an studies in management-related disciplines. To reiterate previous promulgations, AFIT official publication of the With this integrative approach, we effectively is adept and responsive to the current Air Force Institute of align our programs with the prevailing and and future needs of the Air Force through Technology, Graduate future priority areas for the Air Force. education, research, and operational School of Engineering consultation. AFIT’s organizational structure and Management. We also welcome the addition of 25 new includes four schools (Graduate School of faculty members across our six academic Engineering and Management, Civil Engineer departments. Following my welcome session School, School of Systems and Logistics, and with the new faculty on September 3rd, some School of Strategic Force Studies), which all of the feedback comments cited the positive work in consonant with Civilian Institutions “contagious spirit” that exists at AFIT. This is (CI) to provide a wide span of coverage for a great characterization of what permeates advanced educational needs of the Air Force. this institution. It is that same spirit that has Please join us in celebrating the “contagious” fueled and retained my interest in AFIT since excellence of AFIT. I came here in 2006 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Ciao, Office of the Dean 2950 Hobson Way As I mentioned in the inaugural issue last Building 640, Room 302B quarter, AFIT’s academic footprint is growing WPAFB, OH 45433 rapidly across the nation and beyond. We Adedeji B. Badiru, Ph.D., PE, PMP, FIISE

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AFIT to Celebrate Anniversary IN MEMORIAM with Centennial Day Symposium Colonel Eric Unger, USAF May 27, 1968 - Aug 30, 2018 and Awards Banquet Colonel Eric Unger, PhD was born in On 10 November 1919, Colonel Thurman technical and Brookfield, IL on May Bane received authorization to begin educational 27, 1968 to Carol instruction at the Air School of Application. innovation AFIT and Jerry Unger The following year, the first class of nine faculty, staff, (both deceased.) students graduated from the newly named students, and He attended Air Services Engineering School. Now, alumni have Northwestern 100 years later, the Air Force Institute of accomplished. University, obtaining a bachelors Technology has grown into a premier A keynote presentation by AFIT alum degree in mathematics and economics educational institution, awarded over Dr. Billy Mullins, SES will discuss the Air while enrolled in the ROTC program. 21,000 degrees, and more than 500,000 Force level perspectives on deterrence Eric was then stationed at the Los people have gone through its continuing strategy and future directions, followed by Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, education courses! a presentation by AFIT faculty on AFIT’s CA as the Lead Cost Analyst for support of the national deterrence strategy. the Titan IV missile project. In 1997 To honor this milestone, AFIT will celebrate Additional talks will cover AFIT space he worked at the Pentagon as a its anniversary with a Centennial Day research, using virtual reality and artificial Weapon System Cost Analyst. Eric Symposium and Awards Banquet on intelligence in a learning environment, and then received a Masters Degree in 7 November 2019 with the theme delivering cross-functional education to the Acquisition Management from the “A Century of Education Excellence: total force. Air Force Institute of Technology in Inspiration to Innovation.” Dayton, OH. Eric was next promoted During the evening awards banquet, AFIT to Chief of Cost Estimating for the Morning presentations will include a alum and keynote presenter Maj Gen Carl MILSATCOM Joint Program Office, keynote from alum Maj Gen William Cooley Schaefer will help present AFIT-level awards managing a $40 billion portfolio. He on the AFRL 2030 Strategy, a conversation for Innovation, Leadership, Mentorship, transformed the Air Force cost analysis on the Wright Brothers legacy with Ms. and Wingman, and three AFIT Foundation department making it more accurate, Amanda Wright Lane, Great Grandniece sponsored awards for Distinguished Alum, responsive and transparent. In 2007, of Orville and Wilbur Wright, and a panel International Alum, and Young Alum. Eric earned a PhD in Policy Analysis presentation of seven AFIT alumni who from Pardee RAND Graduate School became NASA astronauts. For more information, contact after which he was named Director of [email protected] or visit the webpage the Graduate Cost Analysis Program at Afternoon presentations will highlight the at https://www.afit.edu/CENTENNIAL/ the Air Force Institute of Technology. There, Eric taught graduate level courses to the next generation of ANNUAL BURGER BURN TRADITION professional analysts throughout the Armed Forces. At the young age of AFIT hosted its annual Burger Burn on 42 Eric attained the rank of Colonel. 29 August 2019 to welcome the new He returned to the Los Angeles Air students. More than 600 faculty, staff Force Base in 2012 and was made and students enjoyed an afternoon of Division Chief of cost estimation at the food, friends, and dunk tanks. Space and Missile Systems Center. His remarkable life and stellar career were tragically cut short by opioid addiction stemming from a surgical procedure. He died August 30, 2018. Contact [email protected] for memorial information.

AFIT ENGINEER I SEPTEMBER 2019 I 3 AIR FORCE IMPACTS

Cyber Research Project Evolves into Innovative Training

By Stacey Geiger and our graphics expert, Stacy Burns, 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs to fashion something that our newest generation of Airmen would find exciting To have an agile Air Force, Airmen and engaging.” readiness is paramount and a new revolutionary education hub that can Dever said to his knowledge, the deliver the most current, relevant and education hub is the first application in interactive training just might be the way the Air Force that is natively built onto the AFIT Offers Systems of the future for the warfighter. cloud whereas others are moved to the cloud. Having a layout similar to Netflix Engineering “Created as a research project at the Air or YouTube, Reith and Dever said the Force Institute of Technology, the genesis familiarity of the two makes it easier for Certificate Program of the educational hub was born in 2017 a user to navigate and use the hub. The By Stacey Geiger at the Air Force CyberWorx located at the hub offers videos on a vast array of topics 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Air Force Academy when to view. And instead of making the hub the task was assigned to come up with organization specific, the hub is developed The Department of Systems innovative ideas on how we can better to be topic specific. Engineering and Management at the educate our Airmen,” said Matthew Dever, Air Force Institute of Technology offers Air Force Cyberspace Technical Center of “Unlike the Advanced Distribution Learning tuition waived systems engineering Excellence, Assistant to the Director. Service where the training is curated programs for the military and civilian and information requires vetting before workforce. The programs range it can go on the from certificates up through doctoral site, the hub can degrees. provide up-to- date job specific Certificate and master’s courses information,” said are offered both on-line and in- Reith. “It creates a residence. Further, the certificate more flexible and courses can be directly applied agile workforce.” towards the completion of a Systems Another benefit Engineering master’s degree. The to the hub is Air Force Materiel Command has that Airmen are made investments to open additional empowered to offerings of the Systems Engineering contribute. Reith Certificate program. said Airmen have Retired Lt. Col. Mark Reith, who was the the ability to comment on videos and Areas of study in SEC are model-based Center for Cyber Research director at the create their own topic specific videos. systems engineering with systems time and now an Assistant Professor of modeling language, agile software Cyber Systems, took that opportunity as a “The hub gives Airmen a huge sense of development including cyber security research project for his graduate students discovery and autonomy,” said Reith. “They engineering and resilience, system at AFIT. “Lt. Landon Tomcho and Capt. are really powerful motivators to learning architecture development, and analysis Seth ‘Data’ Martin, both graduate students and when you feel like you are in control, of current challenges in defense at the time, were key leaders shaping the you actually learn!” acquisition and engineering. look, feel and functionality of the Cyber Education Hub,” said Reith. “They worked closely with our program manager, Rob CONTINUE READING AT: CONTINUE READING AT: Roseman, our senior developer, Rick Kroll, http://bit.ly/cybereducationhub http://bit.ly/ENVprogram

4 I AFIT ENGINEER I SEPTEMBER 2019 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Graduate School Faculty Receive Academic Promotion The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and “Being granted promotion and tenure in an academic institution is an Management completed the academic year 2018-19 promotion and tenure (P&T) affirmation of the high intellectual caliber of the faculty. AFIT is fortunate to cycle. Six faculty members underwent have this year’s cadre of exceptional scholars, who demonstrate the art of a rigorous evaluation of their teaching, teaching what is researched and researching what is taught.” scholarship and service resulting in a promotion in academic rank. -Dr. Adedeji Badiru, Dean, Graduate School of Engineering and Management Cumulatively, the six faculty members have more than 552 publications, advised more than 173 AFIT students, and earned Dr. Steven Fiorino was taught more than 32 graduate course nearly $40M in sponsored research funds. promoted to Professor sections containing 325 students and 16 of Atmospheric Physics special studies courses. He developed the Dr. Darryl Ahner was within the Department Human Systems specialization in systems promoted to Professor of Engineering Physics. engineering, Human Factors specialization of Operations Research Fiorino teaches in Engineering Management, and the within the Department graduate courses in Human Systems Certificate, which rely on of Operational Sciences. meteorology, and more a common set of core classes. This activity Dr. Ahner came to AFIT recently, in space surveillance. He has included the development of four new in 2010 as a military successfully advised 32 master’s theses courses and instruction of four additional faculty member and and four doctoral dissertations. courses. Additionally, he helped to joined the civilian faculty upon his develop AFIT’s Autonomy Certificate. He retirement from Army active duty in Dr. Seong-Jong has advised 5 doctoral students and 25 2012. A 1990 graduate of the United Joo was promoted master’s students. He has also served on States Military Academy at West Point, to Professor of the committees of 28 additional students his academic studies include Rensselaer Logistics and Supply in Systems Engineering and Management Polytechnic Institute, where he earned a Chain Management or Computer Science. M.S. in applied mathematics and a M.S. with tenure within in operations research and statistics, and the Department of Dr. Christine Schubert Boston University where he earned his Operational Sciences. Kabban was promoted doctoral degree in systems engineering as Joo began his academic career as a to Professor of Statistics a Draper Fellow. UPS foundation post-doctoral fellow within the Department in February 2003 after serving in the of Mathematics and Dr. Benjamin Akers Republic of Korea Air Force for 21 years as Statistics. She teaches was promoted a supply officer. He taught various courses graduate courses on to Professor of in logistics and supply chain management many statistical topics Mathematics within as an Assistant or Associate Professor including regression, general linear models, the Department of from 2004 to 2016 before joining AFIT. theory of probability, categorical data Mathematics and He has taught courses in logistics and analysis, and nonparametrics. Her research Statistics. Akers teaches supply chain management at AFIT as an interests include classification methods and graduate courses Associate Professor since 2016. performance, information fusion and big in numerical methods for differential data, structural health monitoring, network equations, numerical linear algebra, and Dr. Michael Miller was analysis, and epidemiological topics. numerical analysis. His research interests promoted to Professor include numerical differential equations of Systems Engineering with an emphasis on the modeling of within the Department capillary waves. Prior to joining the AFIT of Systems Engineering faculty in 2011, he served as a Research and Management. FIND COMPLETE BIOS AT: Assistant Professor at the University of He joined the AFIT http://bit.ly/facultypromotions Illinois at Chicago. faculty in 2010 and has

AFIT ENGINEER I SEPTEMBER 2019 I 5 AFIT/EN OUTREACH

Advanced Cyber Education (ACE) Program Develops Cadets’ Cybersecurity Skills By John Van Winkle coding, and this is something new and 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs interesting that I want to do. I wouldn’t get the chance to learn this in college.” Forty-five Air Force and Army ROTC cadets completed the Air Force Institute In addition to the Air Force ROTC of Technology’s Advanced Cyber cadets, the class roster also had 16 Education program July 29 through Army ROTC cadets, including Cadet August 2. The Advanced Cyber Education Timmy Oshinbanjo, from the University program, better known as ACE, covers of Dubuque. Oshinbanjo, a computer a wide variety of cybersecurity related information systems major, went straight

disciplines to develop original thinkers from field training with Army ROTC Photo U.S. Air Force and technical leaders who will be to the AFIT ACE course to better his Dr. Timothy Lacey, director of Information prepared to solve real-world problems in chances of being selected for the Army’s Technology for AFIT’s Center for Cyber- the area of cybersecurity. Military Occupational Specialty of Cyber space Research, with ROTC Cadet Dawson Operations Officer. Godby during the 2019 ACE program. Twenty-nine cadets were from Air Force ROTC units, including Cadet Deanna The objective of the ACE program is to what we teach our graduate students – a Meyer from Virginia Polytechnic Institute develop the next generation of cyber- small subset of our graduate program in and State University. security leaders through an intense cyber operations,” said Dr. Timothy Lacey, program that immerses students in the director of Information Technology for “I find ACE interesting. We’re learning how cybersecurity discipline while educating AFIT’s Center for Cyberspace Research. to actually do cybersecurity here, and them on becoming future military leaders. Students who complete the ACE course that isn’t something I’ve really learned in often return to AFIT for graduate study, school,” said Meyer. “I’ve learned a lot of “What we’re doing in ACE is a subset of he added.

Professor Attends Global Forum Presentation at DE-JTO Dr. Marina Ruggles-Wrenn, Department of Aeronautics and The Center for Directed Energy (CDE) presented information at the Directed Energy-Joint Transition Office (DE-JTO), Astronautics, attended the 2nd Global Forum on Advanced Modeling and Simulation Technical Area Working Group Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Development (M&S TAWG) offsite meeting 20-21 Aug 2019 at White Sands in Toronto 21-26 Jul 2019 and presented a paper entitled Missile Range NM. CDE leads university/academia DE-JTO “Static Fatigue of Hi-NicalonTM-S Fiber at Elevated efforts to transition DE technologies in the areas of Temperature in Air, Steam and Silicic-Acid-Saturated M&S—with AFIT-developed models such as HELEEOS Steam,” and chaired an opening session of the and LEEDR—and Atmospheric Propagation with Symposium on Advanced CMCs: Processing, atmospheric measurement and sensing guidelines Evaluation, and Applications. for HEL field testing and employment.

Petrosky Serves as Chair at Hypersonics Briefing Sandia National Laboratories Lt Col Jeffrey Komives, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Dr. James Petrosky, Department of Engineering Aeronautics and Astronautics, briefed at the National Physics, traveled to Kirtland AFB to chair the NNSA Defense Industrial Association’s Hypersonic Capabilities CREST Program Review board (Red Team) at Sandia Conference, held at Purdue University on 25 Jul 2019. He National Laboratories on 6 Aug 2019. Dr. Petrosky gave the presentation on “Hypersonics in the Indo-Pacific” continues to serve as chair of the nine-member panel at the request of US Indo-Pacific Command. focused on Combined Radiation Environments for Survivability Testing.

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Lunday Receives Distinguished Award DELTA System to Support Research Dr. Brian Lunday, Associate Professor of Operations Research The Center for Directed Energy (CDE) within the Department of Operational Sciences, received the took delivery of a state-of-the-art DELTA 2019 Air Force Lessons Learned Senior Civilian Professional Turbulence Sensor system on behalf of of the Year award for leading graduate operations research AFLCMC/XZM (Staff Meteorology). The curriculum realignment to improve PhD research at AFIT and DELTA system will be used to support meet Air Force capability requirements. USAF Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) high energy laser (HEL) testing at Fort Sill, OK in Oct 2019, Finalists in OWDA Grant Competition and later in OCONUS locations where the Air Force will test Faculty in the AFIT Department of Systems Engineering and HELs in contested airspace. CDE research is at the forefront of Management have proposed to create a new generation of establishing methods to use HELs in the operational battlespace. water treatment systems that are powered by light-emitting diodes (LEDs), low-cost, light-weight, nonhazardous devices that can be easily incorporated into water treatment systems. NEW EN LEADERSHIP Dr. Willie Harper, Dr. Michael Miller, and Lt Col John Stubbs have submitted a proposal to the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) to design and develop LED-driven Graduate School Names Giles systems that can be used to produce clean, recyclable water. They envision LED-based systems being incorporated into as Executive Associate Dean water reclamation systems across a wide range of sizes and for Strategies applications. Their AFIT proposal was short-listed for oral presentation, and on 8 Aug 2019, Dr. Harper appeared before Dr. Nancy Giles earned a BS in the OWDA grant committee in Columbus, Ohio to discuss the Physics from The University of North project. The OWDA Board of Directors will decide the grant Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1981 and a PhD winners in September 2019. in Physics from North Carolina State University in 1987. In 1989, Dr. Giles joined the faculty in the Department of Physics at West Virginia University, AFIT-USAFA Collaboration where she was appointed as Graduate Department of Engineering Physics faculty member Lt Col Faculty during her first year. Dr. Giles Samuel Butler collaborated with USAFA/DFCEDFCE (Col Sloan) received the highest teaching and and USAFA/DFP (Capt Ullom) to measure retroreflective optical research faculty awards at WVU. In 2009, Dr. Giles was scatter of certain runway paint materials. The DOD currently hired as Department Head and Professor of Physics in the spends about $10M-$20M/year on runway paint (cost fluctuates Department of Engineering Physics at AFIT. She served as with material pricing). Department Head from 2009-2018 while keeping an active research program.

Dr. Giles is the co-author of two book chapters. She Research Center Open House has authored 198 journal publications, has an h-index The Center for Space Research and Assurance (CSRA) held of 36, and has over 5000 citations. Her experimental its annual open house 17-18 Jul 2019 to reach the broader research interests are characterization of atomic- WPAFB community, attract and inform prospective students scale defects in optical and electronic materials using and research partners, and build esprit de corps within the photoluminescence, electron paramagnetic resonance, interdisciplinary center. CSRA welcomed attendees from the absorption, and thermoluminescence spectroscopies. following organizations: AFRL, AFLCMC, Current research includes wide bandgap materials for power NASIC, and AFRC. Additional attendees electronics, scintillator and radiation detection materials, included a University of Dayton intern, photorefractives, and nonlinear optical materials of interest an AFIT cyber course student, and an to AFRL/RX. out-of-town guest from NY ANG. CSRA In her new position in the Graduate School of Engineering continues to field follow-up requests and Management, she will provide strategies for AFIT/EN from interested parties as a result of this to provide increased opportunities for STEM education for year’s open house. all Airmen.

AFIT ENGINEER I SEPTEMBER 2019 I 7 UPCOMING EVENTS

OCTOBER 2019 AFIT Graduate School Fall Quarter Classes Begin AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 1 Oct 2019 AFIT FACULTY SEARCH

Air University Board of Visitors AFIT Subcommittee Meeting AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 21-22 Oct 2019

2019 Defense Innovation Symposium Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH 22 Oct 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 AFIT Centennial Day Celebration AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH For more information about research 7 Nov 2019 areas and AFIT faculty members, please visit us online at AFIT Official 100th Anniversary www.afit.edu/BIOS 10 Nov 2019 and click on the new Faculty Expertise Search Button DECEMBER 2019 AFIT Graduate School Fall Quarter Classes End AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 7 Dec 2019 STAY CONNECTED

AFIT Holiday Ball Hosted by the AFIT Spouses Association Graduate School of Wright-Patterson Club, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH Engineering & Management 7 Dec 2019 www.afit.edu/EN (937) 255-3025 AFIT Graduate School Fall Graduation Degree Conferral AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH Office of Research & 20 Dec 2019 Sponsored Programs www.afit.edu/ENR JANUARY 2020 [email protected] AFIT Graduate School Winter Quarter Classes Begin (937) 255-3633 AFIT Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 2 Jan 2020 Office of Alumni Affairs www.afit.edu/ALUMNI [email protected] 2019 Faculty Excellence Showcase Coming Soon Watch for updates on the release of the Graduate School 2019 Faculty Excellence Showcase coming this fall. 2018 Faculty Excellence Showcase AFIT Graduate School of Engineering & Management 1