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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).
The history of the US Army Corps of Engineers (DIANE Publishing, 1999). online; Becker, William H. From the Atlantic to the Great Lakes: a history of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the St. Lawrence Seaway (Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1984) online.
The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers was a branch of the United States Army authorized on 4 July 1838. It consisted only of officers who were handpicked from West Point [ 1 ] and was used for mapping and the design and construction of federal civil works such as lighthouses and other coastal fortifications and navigational routes.
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Jean Zu is a Chinese-Canadian engineer and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [2] Since 2017, she has served as the dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering & Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey .
In November 2009, the US District Court for Eastern Louisiana held the US Army Corps of Engineers responsible for the flooding from the two east IHNC levee breaches (and dozens of others) because the federal agency failed to properly maintain the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). As of June 2011, the federal government has appealed the ruling.
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. [1] The White House, following recommendations from participating agencies, confers the awards annually ...
James B. Channon (September 20, 1939 [1] - September 10, 2017) [2] was a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, New Age futurologist, and business consultant. He was primarily known for authoring the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual (1979, and later editions), [ 3 ] a popular book pointing the way toward a New Age transformation in the U.S. military.