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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).
William T. Schwendler (1904-1978) – co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Robert Seamans (1918–2008) – engineer, NACA and NASA administrator; William R. Sears (1913–2002) – flying wing designer; Ernest Edwin Sechler (1905–1979) – researched thin-shell structures
1886 - Chief inspector and inspector of machinery (r.adm and captain), fleet engineer (cdr), and staff engineer (senior lieutenant). 1903 - Standard executive rank titles with an "engineer" prefix. 1956 - "Engineer" prefix and rank branch distinction cloth removed finally making engineers indistinguishable from seaman officers.
Captain; topographical engineer; worked with Robert E. Lee to survey the border between Ohio and Michigan in 1835 [4] Andrew A. Humphreys: 1831 Major general; American Civil War; topographical and hydrological surveyor of the Mississippi River Delta; Chief of Engineers (1866–1875); an incorporator of the United States National Academy of ...
Besides providing the command leadership and engineering skills needed by the Naval Construction Force (NCF), the CEC made a major contribution to the war effort. CAPT. John N. Laycock created the Seabee's "magic box". [4] Today's Navy lighterage pontoon is a direct descendant of his creation. LVT-2 doodlebug going through tests on Saipan.
Royal Engineers Warfare Wing (Founded in 2011 and split between Brompton Barracks, Chatham and Gibraltar Barracks at Minley in Hampshire, this is the product of the amalgamation between Command Wing, where Command and Tactics were taught and Battlefield Engineering Wing, where combat engineering training was facilitated.)
Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain in the U.S. Navy. Lead SeaBee program and managed the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze. Don Walsh – captain, submarine officer, navy diver, oceanographer and marine policy specialist.
William L. Maxwell – Andrew Schultz Jr. Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Cornell University; Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center; Francesco Merloni – Italian industrialist and politician; Captain Henry Metcalfe – American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist