2024 Annual General Donald R. Keith Memorial Capstone Conference

2024 GDRKMCC AWARDS

AWARD PRESENTATION CEREMONY

Track

Best In Track Paper

Best In Track Presentations

Decision Analysis

Drone Optimization on the Modern Battlefield
-Rich Jaramillo, Jasier Marquez, Tracer Roberts, Salvatore Rasizzi, and Matthew Mogensen
United States Military Academy

Design of the Next Chesapeake Bay Crossing: An Opportunity for Energy Efficiency, Transportation Equity, and Carbon Reduction
Carolyn Vaseghi, Jose Zorrilla, Richard Collie, Fatima Alarcon, Naif Al-Harbi
George Mason University

General Engineering

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Simulation: Usability and Evaluation Study
-Jalen Caldwell, Jared Cross, Patrick Oglesbee, Brandon Thompson
United States Military Academy

Design of a Rear-end Collision Prevention System (RCPS)
Turki Alharbi, Amanda Dalagan, Emma Devine, Aidan Menon
George Mason University

Honors

Cultural Influence of Music and Propaganda
Noah Cillo and Jeremy Schlegel
United States Military Academy

Identifying Undervalued “Playmakers” in the NHL Utilizing Passing Metrics and AAV
Jacob Felker, James Enos
United States Military Academy

Modeling and Simulation

Developing a Model-Based Systems Engineering Tool for Cybersecurity Risk Management of Micro-Electronic Devices
James Leland IV, Brett Schraeder, Collin Chilton, James Walliser, Sathyamurthi Sadhasivan
United States Air Force Academy

Modeling Energy Systems for Peak Resilience and Sustainability
Ryan Chi, Timmy Kipfmiller, Melissa Rankel, Harding Rhyne, David Sang, Atef Sikazwe, Erden Ucok, Frederick Davidson, Jacob Lueders, Scott Katalenich
United States Military Academy

Modeling and Simulation for Defense Applications

Efficient Airspace Scheduling for Military Exercises: A 3D Bin Packing Approach
Sydney Day, Darin Fang, Lindsey Weber, Ryan Messer, John Miller, and Brian Lemay
United States Air Force Academy

Predicting Pilot Workloads Using Physiological Measures
Valor Carlsen, Roger Emile Manzi, Simon Dellinger, Tanner Craig, Donald Koban
United States Military Academy

Project and Engineering Management

A Predictive and Scalable Capital Investment Risk Model (CIRM) for the Department of Veterans Affairs
Montrel Jackson, Michael Ruggieri, Christian Sarlitto, John Szalankiewicz, and James Schreiner
United States Military Academy

Lean Six Sigma Cable Fabrication Tobyhanna
Gavin Abric, Ryan Rast, Taylor Puglisi, Weiling Zhang, Edmond Yoon
United States Military Academy

Process Modeling and Analysis

Lean Six Sigma: Tobyhanna 5M540 Kitting Process
Benjamin Berry, Riley Hoyes, Eric Huss, Carlo Octoman, and Bryan Hartman
United States Military Academy

Improve End Item Delivery Impacting Frozen Performance to Promise Metric
Jacob Felker, Trevor Kelly, Camden O’Gara, Kaitlin Palaian, Jacques Schold, Jeremy Schlegel
United States Military Academy

Systems Design

Vehicle Routing Problem Approach for Improving Fuel Delivery Scheduling to Austere Test Sites
Sophie Allen, Jack Heller, Gentry Lamb, Kate Leonard, Jared Stewart, and Brian Lemay
United States Air Force Academy

Vehicle Routing Problem Approach for Improving Fuel Delivery Scheduling to Austere Test Sites
Sophie Allen, Jack Heller, Gentry Lamb, Kate Leonard, Jared Stewart, Brian Lemay
United States Air Force Academy

Systems Design for Defense Applications

Securing the Skies: A Value-Centric Approach to Modernizing the FAAD C2 System
Htut Khaung Oo, Matthew Dove, Joshua Lawrence, Robert Barrie, and Sam Yoo
United States Military Academy

To CQB or Not to CQB: Designing a Tactical Training Range Tool Utilizing a Human Factors Approach
Ana Ratanaphruks
Columbia University

Hollis Award

A Generative Artificial Intelligence Methodology for Automated Zero-Shot Data Tagging to Support Tactical Zero Trust Architecture Implementation
Charles Barzyk, Joseph Hickson, Jerik Ochoa, Jasmine Talley, Mikal Willeke, Sean Coffey, John Pavlik, and Nathaniel D. Bastian
United States Military Academy

Multimodal Authentication
Tobias Hild, Mike Powell
United States Military Academy



Best Paper Award By the Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering

SISE Third Place paper award

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Simulation: Usability and Evaluation Study

Jalen Caldwell, Jared Cross, Patrick Oglesbee, Brandon Thompson
United States Military Academy

SISE Second Place paper award

Predicting Pilot Workloads Using Physiological Measures

Valor Carlsen, Roger Emile Manzi, Simon Dellinger, Tanner Craig, Donald Koban
United States Military Academy

SISE First Place paper award

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Cadet Education

Conner Leggett, Maximus Marchi, McKenzie Muse, Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Mellon
United States Military Academy