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Dean’s Weekly Significant Activities Report

17 August 2016 The Dean’s Weekly Significant Activities Report is an internal report on all activities conducted within the

Departments, Centers & Staff. The Report is provided to the Dean for situation awareness, throughout the

organization for shared situation awareness, and to select external organizations for outreach and

communication. Portions of the Dean’s Weekly Significant Activities Report are further staffed in a report to the

Superintendent. POC for the report is MS Lesley Beckstrom at 938-5105.

Picture of the Week

EECS

From 30 JUL to 7 AUG 2016, seven cadets and six

officers participated in the BlackHat and DEFCON

cyber security conferences in Las Vegas, NV

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Department of History

COL Jason Musteen, LTC David Siry, and CPT Kyle Hatzinger led a group of cadets on the World War I staff ride. The staff ride examined both the life of soldiers involved in fighting the war, the tactics and strategies used in the conflict. It also looked at the different ways nations memorialized the war upon its conclusion. Visits to the trenches in France, and cemeteries and memorials in France and Ireland left an indelible impression on all who took part.

MAJ Richard Hutton and CPT Mathew Cohen led a group of cadets on the East Asia Staff ride to Korea and Taiwan. Cadets studied the distinct histories of the two nations and examined why both became strategically important to the United States during the Cold War.

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LTC(Ret) Ray Hrinko, MAJ Shauna Hann, and CPT Ben Griffin led cadets on the Cold War Staff Ride. Visiting Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, and Warsaw, the trip explored the origins and the end of the conflict. Interactions with locals allowed cadets to better understand what life was like behind the Iron Curtain and how individuals shaped the conflict and its outcome.

Professor Robert McDonald published his book, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in His Own Time, through the University of Virginia Press. The book explores why Jefferson stood out among his peers as the most controversial and confounding and why he served as a lightning rod for dispute throughout his life.

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Professor Robert McDonald, celebrated his promotion to full professor at the Academic Convocation with his family.

Dr. David Frey, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, was one of 18 international scholars chosen to participate in the 2016 Summer Institute on Genocide Studies and Prevention at Keene State College in Keene, NH. The weeklong institute included scholars from Indonesia, Nigeria, England, El Salvador, Ghana, and numerous post-secondary schools around the United States. The program helped create networks of scholars working on genocide studies and prevention, built inter-collegiate links, and developed curricular materials for use in university teaching around the world.

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MAJ Mark Askew and CPT Eric Smith led the West Point Summer Seminar bringing together rising military historians from a number of universities to discuss their projects. The seminar also focused on sharing methods of instruction and ideas for communicating new scholarship to students.

LTC Franz Rademacher took command of 2-16 Cavalry at Fort Benning Georgia

LTC David Siry and MAJ Ben Brands led the new instructors on a staff ride to Gettysburg. The staff ride helped prepare those instructing HI301: History of the Military

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Art for the upcoming semester and its term paper on Gettysburg, developed the instructors ability to lead a staff ride, and served as a team building exercise.

USMA LIBRARY

EXCHANGE CADET TOURS

Midshipman from the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and the US Coast Guard Academy received a tour of the USMA Library.

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Cadets from military academies of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Singapore, Germany, Austria, and Canada received a tour of the USMA Library.

On Tuesday, 9 August, Library staff members gave tours of the USMA Library to 19 exchange midshipmen and cadets from the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, and the US Coast Guard Academy, and to 29 cadets from the military academies of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Singapore, Germany, Austria, and Canada. The tours were designed to give the exchange cadets an introduction to the services and resources here at the library, and included a walking tour of the building and an overview of our website, catalog, and databases, to prepare cadets for their studies here at West Point. Laura Mosher led the tour for the US Service Academy Exchange students, and Mike Arden and Celeste Evans led the tour for the Foreign Service Academy students.

COMPANY ACADEMIC OFFICER BRIEFINGS On Tuesday, 9 August, Laura Mosher, Cadet Engagement & CME Liaison Librarian, participated in the briefings for Company Academic Officers led by Lori Houlihan of the Center for Enhanced Performance. Dr. Jim Dalton, Registrar, was also a presenter at these briefings, which were designed to support the Company Academic Officers in their roles as tutor coordinators, study room managers, and leaders in the academic pillar of their company members' lives at West Point. Ms. Mosher's portion of the briefing emphasized the role that librarians can play in saving cadets' time, by helping direct them to the appropriate resources they need for their research so they have more time for reading and writing. She also explained policies for the use of the collaborative rooms in the Library, and described some new initiatives that are rolling out to support all cadets: a Personal Librarian Program for Plebes, a BlackBoard course on Library knowledge and skills (Library Discovery for Leaders), and a brand new chat reference app on the Library's webpage.

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Department of Law

2016 Civil Rights Staff Ride Cadets Participation in Program at the U.S.

Department of Labor on the Japanese-American Internment during WWII

Cadets with Former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Commerce Norman Mineta.

2016 Civil Rights Staff Ride Cadets Participation in Program at the U.S.

Department of Labor on the Japanese-American Internment during WWII

Cadets participating in the marathon two-week staff ride which is part of Law 199, a

course in Civil Rights Law and History at the United States Military Academy (USMA)

attended a program at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, DC, for a program

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with former Secretary of Transportation and Commerce Norman Mineta, on the

imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during the WWII.

The Korematsu case dealing with the interment is a staple of both the Civil Rights Staff

Ride syllabus, and that of the Law Department’s core course in Constitutional and

Military Law. Mr. Terry Shima visited West Point in 2014 to talk about his experience as

a soldier in the U.S. Army in World War II while his family was living in an internment

camp.

On May 23 cadets attended a morning program at the U.S. Department of Labor with

former Secretary of Transportation (under President George W. Bush) and Secretary of

Commerce (under President Bill Clinton) Norm Mineta on this important subject.

Secretary Mineta was born in California in 1931 to Japanese immigrants who were not

allowed to become American citizens under the Asian Exclusion Act then in effect. After

Pearl Harbor his family was confined in an internment camp. In a program set up by Al

Goshi, USMA 1981, cadets met both Secretary Mineta and Terry Shima. The program,

hosted by Deputy Secretary of Labor and former White House Cabinet Secretary

Christopher Lu, allowed cadets to gain invaluable insight into the imprisonment of

Japanese-Americans during the War, and prepared them for their visit the internment

camp that housed many in Arkansas.

The course and the trip are interdisciplinary and were crafted to combine knowledge

and empathy to provide a first-hand “life changing” experience to cadets who had just

finished their challenging first (plebe) year.

The cadets on the Staff Ride were: Otuoze Baiye from Oklahoma, Whitney Gunderman

from Florida, Baxter Hodge from Alabama, Jack Lowe from New Jersey, Ashley

Salgado from Puerto Rico, Neon Stern from Arizona, Madeline Suba from

Pennsylvania, and Tobey Yates from Iowa. The Staff Ride was led by Dr. Robert J.

Goldstein (Department of Law) and Major Daniel Sjursen (Department of History).

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Electrical Engineering Program Sponsors 3 College Interns

This summer the EECS Department hosted three undergraduate interns for the

months of June and July. Each of them either built on last year’s Senior Design Projects

or began building the environment for future projects. The interns were mentored by

LTC Christopher Korpela, MAJ Dominic Larkin and Mr. Pratheek Manjunath. This

program was a great success as these students were provided access to hardware and

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laboratories that they otherwise would not have and they assisted in further developing

the Robotics Program at USMA.

Eadom Dessalene is a student at George Mason University preparing for the Amazon Picking Challenge. The Amazon Picking Challenge is a competition held every year by Amazon Robotics, in which robots will be autonomously grasping objects in unstructured warehouse environments. The competition is a demonstration of performance in computer vision, path planning, and grasping strategy. My work in on push grasping, where our approach blends the three stages instead of treating this process as three separate pipelines. A linear trajectory push with a humanoid hand is performed on the Baxter platform at different orientations, similar to how humans perform grasping, without the complex micro pre-grasp manipulation that humans employ. Similarly, curved trajectory pushes are executed with a humanoid hand on a Packbot by rotation in place. The resulting capture regions are collected using Motion Tracking Technology, and processed. His work this summer with Baxter established a baseline for future Cadet work and helped build the framework for future collaboration with Army Research Labs and their Baxter robot.

Ryan Harkins is a mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech. His project was to develop the Sealed Computation Hub for Autonomous Robotic Control (SCHARC), a platform agnostic networking and computing hub, to which various sensors can be attached; the initial payload was: an inertial measurement unit (IMU), 3D LIDAR, global positioning system (GPS) and, two monocular cameras. The goal is to make the cortex waterproof at less than a meter (IP67), physically IOP compliant, and run on BB-2590 batteries. His effort was in direct support to Senior Design projects in Ay2017, the hardware will be used on the ARIBO project and may be used for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC).

Dylan Lynch is a computer science student at the University of Michigan. He has

been using the Robotics Lab in TH208 and its motion capture system (MOCAP) to

develop algorithms to control and maneuver formations of multiple quadcopters. He

used an ad hoc wireless network to stream the quadcopters’ positions to them from the

MOCAP system, providing them with high precision accuracy of their location in 3D

space and allowing them to hover at or move to any position within the room. He

implemented leader-follower behavior and synchronized movement with multiple

quadcopters, landing on a moving platform with a single quadcopter, and enabled them

to catch ball tossed in the air. Dylan not only tested but also greatly improved on last

year’s Senior Design Project called VTOL. Mush of his work will assist in next years

Unmanned Arial Capture the flag project.

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Electrical Engineering Sponsors 4 ROTC Cadets Four ROTC cadets from various universities across the country have been working in the EECS Department for approximately the past month. Last week, two of the cadets departed and returned to their respective universities and ROTC detachments; one cadet previously departed and another is scheduled to return on Monday, 22 AUG. They came to West Point as part of Cadet Command’s summer intern program. During their stay at USMA, the ROTC cadets, who are majoring in disciplines taught in the EECS Department, were given the opportunity to work on several hands-on projects. Specifically, they studied under the direction of LTC Lowrance, the Acting Robotics Lab Director, and were given several practical problems related to controlling the behavior of robotic systems using sensors and microcontrollers. Prior to their internship, none of the cadets have been exposed to the field of robotics. Overall, it was a great learning experience for the cadets who benefited from the academic projects, as well as the interaction with our superb faculty within the EECS Department.

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EECS Cadets and Faculty Attend BlackHat/DEFCON, Las Vegas From 30 JUL to 7 AUG 2016, seven cadets and six officers participated in the BlackHat and DEFCON cyber security conferences in Las Vegas, NV. The scope of the two events was immense; cadets and officers participated in a myriad of training activities, briefings, and hands-on demonstrations. Leading security professionals guided our students through everything from exploiting embedded hardware in the Internet of Things to better detecting malicious activity over computer networks. Due to early coordination and promotions with the BlackHat sales team, this year was the first year the entire team could attend all briefing sessions of BlackHat. During a web vulnerability briefing, one of CPT Michael Kranch’s papers was cited during a briefing as mitigation technique. In addition to BlackHat and DEFCON, the trip section was also able to observe the conclusion of the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. This trip was an invaluable learning experience for all involved, and the investment made will pay dividends for West Point and the Army in future academic and operational settings.

From L to R: CDT Preston Pritchard, 2LT Ryan Johnson, CDT Mary Liu, MAJ William Petullo, CDT Sean Deaton, CPT Janice Blane, LTC William (Clay) Moody, CPT Michael Kranch, MAJ Benjamin Klimkowski, CDT Robert Cobb, and CDT Zahin Ibne-Anis at BlackHat

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From L to R: Cadets Sean Deaton, Robert Cobb, Preston Pritchard, and Mary Liu at DEFCON

Department of English and Philosophy

Department of English and Philosophy/Department of Social Sciences: Mongolia AIAD This July, Cadets traveled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to work on teaching and childcare

projects facilitated by the Projects Abroad organization. Projects Abroad places

participants in volunteer projects that directly target high-need communities. This year,

cadets spent their mornings introducing Montessori games and activities to students

between the ages of 2 and 7 at Kindergarten #166. Kindergarten #166 provides state-

funded childcare in the summers, and is located in the poorer ger district, on the

outskirts of Ulaanbaatar. In the afternoons, cadets partnered with the Mongolian 4H

Youth Association to teach ESL classes to high schoolers at School #13.

In order to maximize their exposure to the people, culture, and landscapes of Mongolia,

cadets lived with homestay families and traveled to the countryside on weekends. The

AIAD was also timed to coincide with Naadam, a national holiday celebrating the “three

manly sports”: wrestling, archery, and horsemanship. Cadets watched the games

firsthand in the National Stadium, and were even featured on Mongolian television in the

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stands. Other highlights of the trip included visits to the Winter Palace of the Bogd

Khan, the home of the last king (khan) of Mongolia; a Buddhist temple in Terelj National

Park; and Blue Lake, where Chinggis Khaan was named emperor in 1189. POC is Dr.

Cassandra Nelson (cassandra.nelson@usma.edu).

Dr. Cassandra Nelson (second from left) and,

from left to right, CDT Patrick George (’17),

CDT Gunnar Carlson (’19), CDT Curtis Estes

(’17), CDT David Singh (’17), and CDT Nicole

Carter (’17) stand in front of the one of six

temples at Bogd Khan Palace Museum.

Cadets Nicole Carter, Patrick George, David Singh,

and Curtis Estes take a moment to admire the tower

they built with a 5-year-old student at Kindergarten

#166 in Ulaanbaatar.

CDT Curtis Estes and Munh-Naran, a three-

year-old student at Kindergarten #166,

practice stringing beads. This activity is

designed to help Munh-Naran build the

strength and dexterity she will need to begin

writing.

CDT Gunnar Carlson collects leaves and

plants with a three-year-old student at

Kindergarten #166 on a field trip to a

nearby mountain. The ger district (as

yurts are commonly called in Mongolia)

can be seen in the background.

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Department of English and Philosophy/ Department of Social Sciences: Cross-Cultural Solutions in Tanzania CPT Becky McGilley led a group of cadets on established AIAD 13846 to Tanzania in

cooperation with the Department of Social Sciences as an opportunity for cadets to

develop their cross-cultural competency through an intensive 3-week immersion

experience in Tanzania. As the implementing organization for this AIAD, Cross Cultural

Solutions (CCS) provided a structured program and in-country support for the West

Point team participating in this AIAD. In Tanzania, CCS offers a number of different

programs where volunteers can work in nursery schools teaching children from two and

half years old to 18 years old, in the medical sector or juvenile corrections facilities.

Since the focus of this AIAD was on cultural immersion, the group split into groups so

that no more than two cadets were placed in each school. This allowed cadets reach

out of their comfort zones, to teach multiple grade levels of Tanzanian children, and to

experience different schools in the Kilimanjaro/Moshi area. CCS provided a superb

schedule of activities to introduce the team to Tanzanian culture, such as Swahili

classes, a Batik painting class, and a dance class. The cadets took a trip into the town

of Marangu near the base of Mount Kilimanjaro where they visited a local blacksmith,

Cadets and faculty pose for a

portrait with their ESL students

and partners from Projects

Abroad and Mongolian 4H at

School #13. On the last day,

students received certificates

acknowledging their successful

completion of the program.

Dr. Nelson (second from left) and, from left to

right, CDT Patrick George (’17), CDT Gunnar

Carlson (’19), CDT Nicole Carter (’17), CDT

Curtis Estes (’17), and CDT David Singh (’17),

stand in front of the Parliament building in

Chinggis Khaan Square.

Dr. Nelson (second from left) and, from left

to right, CDT Patrick George (’17), CDT

Gunnar Carlson (’19), CDT Nicole Carter

(’17), CDT Curtis Estes (’17), and CDT

David Singh (’17), stand in front of the

Parliament building in Chinggis Khaan

Square.

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explored the caves of the Chagga tribe, and made their own coffee from start to finish

with local beans. While in Tanzania, the cadets also had the opportunity to experience a

three-day Safari. The point of contact for this AIAD is Becky McGilley, DEP

(rebecca.mcgilley@usma.edu)

Ready for a safari, cadets Samuel Mahle,

Kacie Heinz, Andrew Walther, Sydney

DeWees, and Arran Rounds stand beside

their safari vehicle on the way to

Ngorongo Crater National Park

From left to right, the West Point team in

Tanzania, Sydney DeWees (’18), Arran

Rounds (’18), Kacie Heinz (’18), CPT Becky

McGilley, Andrew Walther (’17), and Samuel

Mahle (’17) try on Massai Shukas while

visiting a local tribe in Arusha on July 24,

2016.

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

UPCOMING EVENTS:

September 23-24: State of the Book Conference

Combating Terrorism Center

The Combating Terrorism Center’s April report, The Caliphate’s Global Workforce: An

Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighter Paper Trail, was recently featured in

an article by the Associated Press. Written by Aya Batrawy, Paisley Dodds, and Lori

Hinnant, the AP article examines the type of recruits the Islamic State receives and cites

the CTC’s analysis in its investigation. The piece was subsequently picked up by

national and international news outlets.

Cadets Arran Rounds, Samuel Mahle, Andrew Walther and Sydney Dewees celebrate

finishing an exhausting hike up Mount Kilimanjaro to Mandara Basecamp, elevation 2720

meters, in Tanzania on July 30, 2016.

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Two CTC cadets and one former CTC cadet (and newly minted 2LT) attended the

prestigious Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the Marshall Center in

Garmisch, Germany, this summer. 2LT Anna Gulbis (’16) not only briefed her CTC

capstone project to senior NATO officers in the beginning of the summer, but she was

asked to come back in August to brief it again. CDTs Jordan Isham ('18) and Ekaterin

Gjonaj ('18) also participated in the program.

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2LT Anna Gulbis (’16) briefs her CTC capstone project at the Marshall Center

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CDT Jordan Isham (’18) during the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies

at the Marshall Center

CDT Ekaterin Gjonaj ('18) during the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the Marshall Center

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Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

1. Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Session. On 5-6 August, Dr. Brock Barry (CME), LTC(P) Rich Melnyk (CME), and LTC(P) Jeff Starke (GEnE) attended a problem-writing session for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Over 50 people from academia and industry meet every quarter at the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) headquarters in Clemson, SC to write problems for upcoming FE exams. POC is LTC(P) Rich Melnyk at richard.melnyk@usma.edu.

Dr. Brock Barry (CME), LTC(P) Jeff Starke (GEnE), and LTC(P) Rich Melnyk (CME) take a break from

exam writing to pose for a photo in front of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and

Surveying (NCEES) Headquarters.

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Faculty and Graduate Publish in American Journal of Sports Medicine. Dr. John Rogers, 1LT Justin Felix USMA Mechanical Engineering 2014, and collaborators from Keller Army Community Hospital published Comparison of the Suture Anchor and Transosseous Techniques for Patellar Tendon Repair: A Biomechanical Study, issued in print August 2016. This publication describes work done on the strength of pig tendons which was conducted in 2013 in Mahan Hall. Link to the article: http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/44/8/2076 Citation: Lanzi JT Jr, Felix J, Tucker CJ, Cameron KL, Rogers J, Owens BD, Svoboda SJ, Comparison of the Suture Anchor and Transosseous Techniques for Patellar Tendon Repair: A Biomechanical Study, Am J Sports Med. 2016 Aug;44(8):2076-80. doi: 10.1177/0363546516643811 Point of Contact is Dr. John Rogers, phone (845) 938-4179, or john.rogers@usma.edu

2. Faculty Presentation at “Dynamic Walking” Conference. On 4-7 June 2016 Dr. John Rogers attended the Dynamic Walking conference in Holly, MI. The conference web site is: http://www.dynamicwalking.org/index.php/dw/2016 The conference venue was Ohiyesa YMCA camp, and the conference schedule was sprinkled with camp activities such as archery and swimming. Presentations were wide ranging with an emphasis on robotic walking mechanisms and algorithms. Dr. Rogers presented “Metabolic power of muscle groups in stance and swing while running” in a one-minute lightning talk and as a poster. The presentation was about simulation work using OpenSim software. 2LT Julie Dillon, USMA Mechanical Engineering, class of 2015 is a co-author, but was not able to attend. Point of Contact is Dr. John Rogers, phone (845)938-4179, email john.rogers@usma.edu

1LT Justin Felix prepares pig

tendon samples for testing. (CDT

at time of photo)

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Dynamic Walking 2016 in the Camp Ohiyesa Dining Hall

Faculty Attendance at “Presenting Data and Information” Course. On 23 June 2016 Dr. John Rogers attended a one-day course by Dr. Edward Tufte in New York City. Course web site: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses This one-day course covered visual presentation of data. Practices are based on the exquisite ability of humans to pick out what is important from a document that contains lots of information. An example is below, and additional examples may be found at this link: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00040Z

The course was enjoyable and it provoked the development of new ideas for teaching. Included with the course was a set of four books by Dr. Tufte. They are in Dr. Rogers’

This clip from Tufte’s book Envisioning Information illustrates the impact of attention to

graphic details. On the left is the original: gray title background, heavy borders with gaps

between blocks dominate, lack of color, whiskers illustrate illuminated signal lamps. On

the right is the graphic redesigned by Tufte: the important bits--the lamps and motion

arrows--stand out with sparing use of vivid color in contrast to the subtle gray silhouette,

the sans serif type has good proportion, and the overwhelming heavy borders have been

tuned down to subtle gray lines proper to their relatively unimportant function.

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office available to browse through. Highly recommend is the section in the book Visual Explanations about the data presentation by the Morton-Thiokol engineers on the night before the 1986 cold-weather Challenger launch. Point of Contact is Dr. John Rogers, phone (845)938-4179, email john.rogers@usma.edu Student Publication in Proceedings of NCUR, the National Council on Undergraduate Research. On 7-9 April 2016 Cadets William Watson, Class of 2016 Electrical Engineering, and Michael Kushnak, Class of 2016 Mechanical Engineering presented work at the NCUR conference in Asheville, NC. Their presentation Running Augmentation Using Hip Actuation was selected for publication in the conference proceedings. An abstract can be found by searching here: http://www.ncurproceedings.org/ The proceedings are expected to be published after 30 November 2016 at this site: https://www.cur.org/ncur_2016/account/?search=true Dr. John Rogers was the faculty advisor. Point of Contact is Dr. John Rogers, phone (845)938-4179, email john.rogers@usma.edu