Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT Scholar AFIT Documents 9-1-2019 The AFIT ENgineer, Volume 1, Quarter 3 Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.afit.edu/docs Recommended Citation The AFIT ENgineer, vol.1: Q3, 2019 (September). Published by the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by AFIT Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in AFIT Documents by an authorized administrator of AFIT Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. September 2019 I Quarter 3 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 Eglin Air Force Base, 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 2 I AFIT ENGINEER I SEPTEMBER 2019 GRADUATE SCHOOL NEWS 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.