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This office defines policy and guidance, and it plans direction for the organizations within the Corps. The Chief of Engineers is currently a lieutenant general billet but in the past has been held by field grade officers as low as major. Civilian oversight of the Chief of Engineers is provided by the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Not applicable: Major General Jason E. Kelly [130] U.S. Army: Great Lakes and Ohio River Division: Commanding General, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Major General
Jean G. van Bladel (July 24, 1922 – January 24, 2018) was a Belgian electrical engineer, physicist and academician, who was a Professor Emeritus at Ghent University. He was best known for his contributions to electromagnetics and antenna theory.
Thomas Paul Bostick [1] (born September 23, 1956) [2] was the 53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [3] [4] Since the creation of West Point in 1802 as the Nation's first engineering school, Bostick is the only African American graduate of the academy to serve as the Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S ...
The Flood Control Act of 1965 (FCA 1965), enacted after Hurricane Betsy flooded large sections of New Orleans, mandated the US Army Corps of Engineers as the Federal agency responsible for levee design and construction. Among other projects and studies, FCA 1965 authorized the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana Hurricane Protection Project.
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". [2] He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
The hospital also had a wing for women vets, women that served in WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), Women's Army Corps and Army nurses. For returning Vets, 800 beds were used for debarkation medical work. The first commander of the hospital was Col. Alvin C. Miller, from the US Army's Pearl Harbor Army hospital. Chief of ...
In 1969, IEEE awarded him the renowned Edison Medal for "fundamental contributions to the arts of communication, computation and control; for leadership in bringing mathematical science to bear on engineering problems; and for guidance and creative counsel in systems engineering", [1] a tribute that eloquently summarized the wide spectrum of ...