25 and 25 FEB, the Model UN team won Best Delegation (1st place) at the Princeton International Crisis Simulation, which was designed to simulate a security crisis across North Africa. Teams from the United States, Australia, Germany, and Canada travelled to participate in a truly international conference. The West Point team had a strong showing, with 9 of 10 members winning awards in their committees.
Team members Cadets Tyler Skomp, Beverley Nordin, Brett Boyer and Amado Gonzalez (team member Brad McPherson was decisively engaged in an electrical engineering lab) stand behind their newly constructed, lightweight, concrete canoe that they will race in April against other universities as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers 2012 Concrete Canoe Competition. As part of an independent study project, “Team Revolution” has created and managed every aspect of its canoe, key elements of which include the design of a lighter than water concrete mix, design and construction of a mold, development of a construction table, and the aesthetic design. This year the team is incorporating White Portland Cement, blue integrated dye, and Red concrete stain stripes during finishing to turn the outer hull into a homage to Betsy Ross’s original stars and stripes!
The Bionic foot is a unique outcome from an intense set of cadet projects in
Civil and Mechanical Engineering. While the entire project is incredible, the individual embedded technologies are breakthroughs by themselves. Most important, advanced prosthetics for
Wounded Warriors is an area of research in which commercial industry has not shown a great deal of interest. If the cadets had not taken on this project, it would not have been accomplished!
Purposes of the CFE iPad Study are:
1.To identify the benefits of utilizing the iPad to improve cadet learning and assist an instructor in classroom management, planning, useful applications, and/or communications.
2.To identify specific applications and uses of the iPad for meeting education goals.
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From 29 May to 1 Jun, 107 students from 29 states and two U.S. Territories spent three days engaged in hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workshops taught by volunteer USMA faculty members during the West Point Center for STEM Education’s 3rd Annual West Point STEM Workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to inspire middle school students to engage in the study of and eventually pursue careers in STEM fields.
CDTS Meg-Ann Braun, Jessica Wagner, Alex Kish, and Raymond Cromartie with MAJ Merlin Anderson from the Center for Environmental and Geographic Sciences (CEGS) in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (GENE) worked with personnel from the Environmental Security Cell, U.S. Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California to characterize training area soils. The USMA team developed the initial database of in situ strength and elasticity of the various landscapes at Camp Pendleton at representative locations.