The Air Force Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering and Management has completed the academic year 2016-17 promotion and tenure (P&T) cycle. AFIT's Provost, Dr. Sivaguru S. Sritharan, recognized the seven faculty members from the Graduate School of Engineering and Management who underwent a rigorous evaluation of their teaching, scholarship and service and have received a promotion in academic rank and/or earned academic tenure. They are creative and productive scholars within their chosen fields, wholly dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge, and effective instructors who have successfully mentored many masters and doctoral students.
Dr. Brett Borghetti was promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Science with tenure. Accounting for a military assignment and a civilian faculty appointment, Dr. Borghetti has served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ENG) for approximately 8.5 years. Dr. Borghetti has contributed to 1 book chapter (MIT Press), authored 11 peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed to 21 conference papers, supported 16 funded research projects totaling over $2.1 million, and advised 23 MS (20 complete 3 in-progress) and two PhD students (in-progress). Dr. Borghetti's awards and honors include: Air Force Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Award for Outstanding Science Educator (AETC, 2014) Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Outstanding Teacher of the Year (student-selected 2014) Outstanding Military Faculty Award, Military Officer's Association of America (MOAA, 2010) and Outstanding Senior Military Scientist of the Year (AETC, 2009). Dr. Borghetti's service record to the Department, the Institute, and the electrical engineering/computer engineering professions include: Technical Program Chair, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Augmented Cognition Track (2016/2017) Faculty Advisor, HKN Electrical Engineering Student Honor Society (2016/2017) Technical Reviewer (5 Journals 2010/2015/2016/2017, 4 Conferences 2009/2015/2016/2017) Reviewer, Research Grant Proposal, AFOSR Young Investigator Program (2010) Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF) GenCyber Cyber Security Program, High School Cyber Summer Camp (2015) AFIT Exemption Determination Official, Human Subject Research Protection Program (2014-2017) and AFIT Ad-Hoc Subcommittee Member on Rotating Chairs (2016/2017). Dr. Borghetti is also an AFIT alum, earning his master's degree in Computer Systems in 1996.
Maj Benjamin Hazen was promoted to Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management with tenure. Maj Hazen joined the Operational Sciences Department (ENS) at AFIT in 2015 as an assistant professor. He graduated from Auburn University with a PhD in Management, with an emphasis in Supply Chain Management, in 2012. He then completed an interim operational tour as a maintenance operations officer at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC from 2012 to 2015. Over his career, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and 22 conference proceedings. Maj Hazen's award-winning research has been cited over 1,000 times in the academic literature. His research interests include social and environmental sustainability, big data analytics, supply chain information systems, and closed loop supply chains, to include reverse logistics and remanufacturing. His research has been funded by grants totaling over $1 million received from six different organizations. Maj Hazen has advised or co-advised the research efforts of 11 master's students. He currently serves as a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics, a senior associate editor at the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, and an associate editor at the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. Maj Hazen also served as editor-in chief of the International Journal of Logistics Management and has completed ad-hoc reviews for 23 other academic journals. Over the course of his career, Maj Hazen has successfully developed and taught 13 distinct undergraduate and graduate courses, and received the 2017 Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Faculty Excellence Award. Maj Hazen has served as the Secretary of the Faculty Council and is a member of the Faculty Research Council.
Dr. Douglas Hodson was promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Engineering with tenure. Dr. Hodson received his initial Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering appointment within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ENG) in 2011. Since being appointed as an Assistant Professor at AFIT, Dr. Hodson has contributed to two book chapters authored 28 peer-reviewed journal articles (24 in print, four under revision/review, 11 first author) contributed to 32 conference papers supported 13 funded research projects totaling over $1.9 million including over $738 thousand in personal funding and advised 11 MS (nine complete, two in-progress) and one PhD student (in-progress). Dr. Hodson's awards and honors include: the AF-level Harold Brown Award (2015 AETC Winner) AFIT Civilian Category III (2013 & 2014 Quarterly Winner), and the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Research Team Award recognizing superior contributions and service to AFIT's Department of Systems and Engineering Management. Dr. Hodson's service record to the Department, the Institute, and the electrical engineering/computer engineering professions include: ENG Awards Committee (2013-Present) ENG High Performance Computing (HPC) Representative (2015-Present) AFIT Chancellor Awards Committee (2016) Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS) Associate Editor (2012-Present) Special Issue Guest Editor (2014) and Reviewer, Program Committee, and Session Chair (2013-Present) for Winter Simulation Conference Session Chair and Associate Editor for the International Conference on Scientific Computing (2015-Present). Dr. Hodson is also an AFIT alum, earning his PhD in Computer Engineering in 2009.
Dr. David Jacques was promoted to Professor of Systems Engineering within the Department of Systems Engineering and Management. Dr. Jacques joined the AFIT faculty as a military member in 1999 and became a civilian faculty member in 2004 upon retirement from active duty in the Air Force. In prior military assignments he served in various capacities associated with development planning, research and development, developmental test, and intelligence analysis of foreign weapon systems. Dr. Jacques' research interests include effectiveness of wide area search systems, cooperative behavior and control of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) and munitions, and early application of Systems Engineering for concept definition and requirements definition.
Dr. Jacques has taught a total of 19 different graduate courses in 67 class sections, plus an additional 27 offerings of independent study courses for master's and doctoral students. Many of the courses he teaches are interdisciplinary in nature and routinely attract students from multiple programs and academic departments. As a research advisor, he has successfully graduated 10 PhD students and well over 100 AFIT master's students.
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of his research interests, his thesis advisement at AFIT has spanned seven academic programs and two academic departments. As a faculty researcher, he has served as a principal investigator on 32 funded research proposals at AFIT, and collaborated on 28 others. The total value of these 60 proposals is approximately $4.7 million in external funding. The research projects Dr. Jacques has been involved in have addressed critical problems and applications spanning the DOD and other government agencies. To date he has documented his research results in 26 archival journal publications, seven book chapters, one Systems Engineering case study, four magazine articles, 61 refereed conference papers, and numerous technical presentations and invited talks.
Dr. Jacques' service contributions to AFIT have been numerous and continuous throughout his time at AFIT. He served as a deputy department chair (2001 -2002), interim Associate Dean (2002), Activation Team Chief for the AF Center for Systems Engineering (CSE) (2002-2003). Division Chief for the CSE (2003-2005), Systems Engineering Program Chair (2003-2014), Faculty Council President (AY 2013), Academic Standards Committee chair (AY 2001), and Department Doctoral Program Chair (2010-present). He sought and obtained faculty council approval for a new doctoral program in Systems Engineering in 2007, and headed up the effort to establish and gain approval for AFIT's first full master's program offered via distance learning. Recently he has been building lab infrastructure and leads the UAS Flight Test efforts at AFIT this interdepartmental effort involves establishing and maintaining a school wide process for flight test approval and maintaining current air worthiness certificates for all vehicles. He currently maintains Military Flight Releases (MFRs) for 7 different vehicle types, covering a total of over 20 fixed wing and multi-rotor vehicles at AFIT. Dr. Jacques is also an AFIT alum, earning his master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1989 and his PhD in Systems Engineering in 1995.
Dr. Brian Lunday was granted academic tenure within the Department of Operational Sciences. Dr. Lunday served on AFIT's faculty as an Army military Assistant Professor of Operations Research from 2013 to 2016, and as a civilian Associate Professor of Operations Research since 2016. Prior to serving at AFIT, Dr. Lunday was an Instructor and then an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the U.S. Military Academy from 2001-2004 and from 2010-2013.
During his time at AFIT, Dr. Lunday has directly advised 11 master's students through graduation, and is currently advising 5 master's students and 3 PhD students on operations research topics. He has published 21 archival journal articles and 3 conference publications. His research grants exceed $300 thousand and encompass research in support AF and joint military efforts. He has also shared his research with the operations research community with 18 invited and 12 contributed presentations at national conferences. Dr. Lunday's research has led him to being recognized with the 2016 Outstanding Young Member OR/MS Award by the Cincinnati-Dayton Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Since 2013, Dr. Lunday has designed (or re-designed) and taught nine distinct courses at AFIT in the fields of optimization and/or game theory as well as a seminar-format operational analysis course. His teaching has been recognized with the 2013 Dr. Leslie M. Norton Teaching Excellence Award by the AFIT Student Association and with the 2014 Professor of the Year Award by the Advanced School of Air Mobility (ASAM) program. In 2016, Dr. Lunday also designed and taught a short course on Game Theory to 20 scientists from the Joint Warfare Analysis Center.
Within the disciplinary community, Dr. Lunday is an Editorial Board Member for the journal Military Operations Research. He has served as a journal reviewer for 6-8 manuscripts per year for the past four years for a variety of journals. While in the U.S. Army, he also served from 2013-2016 on a committee to recruit, select, identify, and assign uniformed Army analysts to attend graduate school, chairing the endeavor in 2015-2016. Dr. Lunday served as a session chair at the INFORMS Annual Meeting for five of the past seven years. Within AFIT, Dr. Lunday is currently serving on both the Academic Standards Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Rotating Department Chairs. He has served as a Dean's Representative for three PhD dissertations defenses. In his spare time, Dr. Lunday has been serving as a Boy Scout Assistant Scout Master for the past four years, accumulating 63 nights of camping and countless hours of mentoring youth leaders-in-the-making.
Dr. Jeffrey Ogden was promoted to Professor of Logistics Management. Dr. Ogden joined the Operational Sciences Department at AFIT in 2006 as an assistant professor and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2009. He graduated from Arizona State University with a PhD in Business Administration with an emphasis in Supply Chain Management in 2003 and was an assistant professor at the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University from 2003 to 2006. He is the co-author of an internationally popular supply chain management textbook and has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and 25 conference proceedings. Dr. Ogden's award-winning research has been cited over 1,200 times in the academic literature.
His research interests include purchasing strategies, buyer supplier relationships, insourcing, supply chain management, quality management and information technology systems management. His research has been funded by grants totaling over $1.5 million received from eight different DOD organizations. Dr. Ogden has advised, or co-advised, the research efforts of nine doctoral students and 28 master's students. In order to help AFIT educate more individuals in the logistics and maintenance career fields, Dr. Ogden led the establishment of a distance-learning logistics master's degree and currently serves as its program manager. This degree program had its first graduates in fall of 2016, and will start its fourth cohort of students in spring 2017.
In previous years, Dr. Ogden served as the program manager of AFIT's remote Advanced Studies of Air Mobility (ASAM) program. Dr. Ogden currently serves on the Associate Editor's Board of Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal and on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He also serves as a reviewer for many other top supply chain management and operations management journals.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Ogden has successfully developed and taught nine distinct graduate courses, three undergraduate courses, and has received four teaching awards including AFIT's 2014 Professor Ezra Kotcher award. Dr. Ogden has chaired or served on many college-level and department-level committees and has served as one of AFIT's Institutional Review Board Exemption Determination Officials for many years. Dr. Ogden has also been active in serving on various committees and boards of national organizations and has served as a track chair, session chair, or reviewer for many national and regional academic conferences.
Maj James Rutledge was promoted to Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering with tenure. Maj Rutledge is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics since August 2011. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2002 at which time he was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force. He then earned his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. During this time, Maj Rutledge conducted research in the field of gas turbine heat transfer, continuing in a field he entered as an undergraduate research assistant. He spent the next two years working as the lead thermal analyst at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, where he advanced the state of the art in reentry vehicle thermal protection systems and spacecraft thermal management. He then pursued a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering at AFIT where he returned to gas turbine heat transfer research, completing the degree in 2009. Maj Rutledge then worked at the National Air & Space Intelligence Center until he joined the faculty at AFIT.
At AFIT, Maj Rutledge has taught 13 offerings of five different courses primarily within the fields of fluid dynamics and heat transfer and has received some of the highest student evaluations in the department. He has advised five graduated master's students and has additionally co-advised one PhD student and another master's student, both of whom have graduated. He has also served as a committee member for 26 other graduated master's students.
As an AFIT faculty member, Maj Rutledge has continued his work in gas turbine heat transfer. In 2016 he was issued a patent for an experimental technique he developed in support of this work. His research has been published in 18 peer-reviewed journal articles and two more accepted articles are in press. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited 123 times, giving rise an h-index of 6. Maj Rutledge has demonstrated versatility in his ability to conduct and lead research by applying his expertise in heat transfer and propulsion to tackle a broad set of DOD relevant problems to include rocket nozzle cooling, combustion, spacecraft thermal management, scramjet ignition, and the thermal effects of nuclear weapons. The total research funding allocated to Maj Rutledge is $297 thousand since joining the AFIT faculty.
Maj Rutledge is also active in service to the profession. As a participant in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Gas Turbine Institute, he has attended six Turbo Expo conferences and was elected to the ASME's Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Committee in 2014. He has authored 16 papers that have been presented at Turbo Expo and eight papers presented at other conferences (primarily the American Institution of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). With well-regarded qualifications in the aforementioned fields, he has reviewed papers for Turbo Expo and four journals. He has served as a session co-chair at Turbo Expo and a session chair at the AIAA Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium (DCASS). Additionally, he has served on the planning committee for DCASS every year since 2012. He has also served AFIT in various ways, including through membership on the Curriculum and Degree Requirements Committee and as his department's Division Chief for Faculty & Research Operations.
