2021 Annual General Donald R. Keith Memorial Capstone Conference

Papers listed by Presentation Tracks

TRACK DETAILS

Track 1: Decision Analysis

Track 2: General Engineering

Track 3: Honors Projects

Track 4: Hollis Award

Track 5: Modeling and Simulation

Track 6: Modeling and Simulation for Defense Applications

Track 7: Project and Engineering Management

Track 8: Process Modeling and Analysis

Track 9: Systems Design

Track 10: Systems Design for Defense Applications


Track 1: Decision Analysis
Modeling Knowledge Management Systems to Increase Utility in Mobile Applications
- Perry Fulton, Beau Guffey, William Navin, Catherine Norman, and Stephen McCarthy
Design of a Carbon-Free Urban Air Mobility System
- Mohamed Elgendy, Tarek Jarrouje, Andrew Richardson, Asadullah Yousuf, and George Donohue
Streamlining Success: Modeling the Efficiency of the Special Forces Qualification Course
- Connor Cerda, Bruce Knill, Jonathan Liu, Frank Rose, Evan Taber, and Joshua Eaton
Preventing Accidents in Long-Haul Truckers
- Nicole Emma, Sean Erickson, Travis Holman, Angela Lagnese, Quinn Tesauro, Trent White, and Kenneth McLeod
Air Transportation Pandemic Control - A Stochastic Nonlinear Complex Adaptive System
- Charles Wang, Michael Strain, Dongwan Lim, and Bryan Kurt Fabela
Evaluating a Maintenance Free Operating Period for Future Vertical Lift
- Mitchell McHugh, Patrick Oursler, NaVonte Dean, Dominic Distefano, Andrew Bellocchio, Kathryn Pegues, and Eugene Lesinski

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Track 2: General Engineering
Learning With Intrinsic Motivation Enhancement (LIME)
- Bonvie Fosam, Spencer Glazer, Annmarie Narvaez, William Smith, Evan Walker, and Randal Hickman
Long Jump Performance Improvement System
- Aaron Gearhart, Zerak Haider, Nour Hameedalden, Ramy Hassan, and Nadine Shihadeh
Design of a Decision Support Tool for Developing EV Fleet Transition
- Evan Anderson, Khiem Duong, Hein Naing, Rebecca Quintero, and Lance Sherry
Flood Risk Management Project Prioritization and Decision Support
- Tyler Fleagle, Lukas Strickler, Pierce Tarry, Jeffrey Vollenweider, and James Schreiner
Prototyping a System of Cost-Effective Autonomous Guided Vehicles
- Yuhan Bae, Eduardo Gomez, Alexis Haywood, Julio Lazo, Peter Whitson, and Yong Wang

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Track 3: Honors Projects
A System Dynamics Analysis of the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip
- Tyler Skidmore and James Schreiner
Engineering Design for Policy: Generating Value-Focused Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies at West Point
- Tyrese Bender and Arthur Middlebrooks
The Effects of Increasing the Size of the Infantry Squad
- William Webber and Vikram Mittal
Subjective Human Appearance Perception Evaluation (SHAPE)
- Bonvie Fosam, Matthew Dabkowski, and Erin Williams
Fenwick and Corsi in Army Hockey, Incorporating “Shot-Zones” and Rebounds into Weighted Shots
- Mason Krueger and James Enos
Equipment Turn-In and Transfer Process Modeling
- Rebecca Morel and Vikram Mittal
Exploring the Causal Relationship between Factors Affecting US Army Recruitment
- Graham Ungrady and Matthew Dabkowski
Analyzing the Relationship Between the Systems Decisions Process and Artificial Intelligence: A Machine Vision Case Study
- Mitchell McHugh and John Case

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Track 4: Hollis Award
Data Analytics Development from Military Operational Data
- James Downey, Zachary Ellis, Ethan Nguyen, Charlotte Spencer, and Paul Evangelista
Tobyhanna Sheet Metal Repair Process Lean Six Sigma Project
- Abigail Burris, Liam Caulfield, Robert Deyoung, Sebastian Houng, Christopher Kubitz, and James Enos
Leveraging Publicly Available Information to Analyze Information Operations
- Antonio Avellaneda-Ruiz, William Bagley, Taylor Brown, Nico Manzonelli, and Ian Kloo
Technology and Policy: System Acquisition in a Complex Operational Environment
- Jackson Brownfield, Gabriel Lajeunesse, Ryan Leach, Christopher Sharfin, and Arthur Middlebrooks

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Track 5: Modeling and Simulation
Modeling Supply Chain Disruptions During a Pandemic: A System Dynamics Approach
- Patrick Oursler and Arthur Middlebrooks
Shrinkage Compensation for FFF Printing for PLA, ABS, and PETG Thermoplastics
- Ariel Weiser, Brandon Kipp, Matthew Dillon, Shawn Ralph, Kyle Rodriguez, Andrew Young, Deshaboina Saikumar, and Christopher Greene
Simulating Alternative Models to Reduce Service and Wait Times in the United States Military Academy Mess Hall
- Greyson Olep and Samuel Herbert
Biomedical Machine Maintenance Scheduling
- Danielle Katz, Serena Kim, Alexandra King, Elisha Palm, John Dulin, Justin Hill, and Greg Steeger
Design of Campus COVID-19 Testing Using Modeling and Simulation
- Craig Campbell, Jason Coleman, Steven John, Andrew Szuchy, Marton Tozser, and Soongeol Kwon
Design of a University Pandemic Response Decision Support System
- Demosthenes Kaloudelis, Ahmed Abdulwahab, Ayman Fatima, and Zaid Yasin

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Track 6: Modeling and Simulation for Defense Applications
Fire Support Next: Achieving Air Freedom of Maneuver
- Devon Hartsell, Alexander Lee, Zachary Lindsay, William Webber, and Benjamin Morales
Leveraging Aviator Training Next to Select Higher Quality Aviators
- Marie Docken, Jennifer Gervais, Blake Watson, Vince Wilkinson, Collin Winstead, and Clay Woody
Simulating Aircraft Block Modification Processes
- Annabel Benoit, Jeffrey Demarest, Jacob Dotson, Rebecca Morel, and Kevin Yanoschik
UAS Swarm: Identifying Chemical Plume Attacks Using an Autonomous System
- Matthew Blejwas, Nicholas Finke, Bartlomiej Grzybowski, Dennis Kirby, Keegan Leth, Justin Robinson, Karlee Scott, Jackson Thomsen, Zachary Whitton, Steven Henderson, Mark Lesak, Pratheek Manjunath, and Dawn Riegner
Co-Travel Algorithm Development
- Aaron Jones, Adam McElligott, Bonnie Romeo, Eric Whiteman, and Erin Williams
A Comparative Analysis Supporting Risk-Based Cost Contingency Planning for Army System Development
- Fred Cooper, Marvin Flewellen, Joshua Heiman, and Daniel Pryor

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Track 7: Project and Engineering Management
Applying Lean Six Sigma: Personnel Reliability Program
- Mason Krueger, James Nichols, Greyson Olep, Andrei Rosu, and Brandon Thompson
Using Business Process Re-engineering to Find Solutions for the Most Common Improper Payment Errors in the Defense Travel System Trip Planning Process
- Thomas Haskell, Stephen Kimatian, Christopher Meno, Franklin Sun, John Dulin, and Jesse Pietz
UHS Wilson Revitalization
- Matthew Castellucci, Kiana Cyrus, James Durkin, Madeline Propis, and Deanna Summa
Forecasting Demand for an Overseas Beverage Company
- Blake Watson and Samuel Herbert

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Track 8: Process Modeling and Analysis
Soldier Readiness: Multiscale Entropy Analysis on Physiological Signals
- Raheim Baxter, Brynna Johnson, and Joshua Eaton
Applying Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Overrun Hours at Tobyhanna Army Depot
- Ryan Hetrick, Breana McDonald, Joshua Park, John Zimmerman, and Courtney Razon
Test Equipment Transportation Using the Traveling Salesman Problem
- Donna Borer, Winnie Chen, Michael Leonard, Alana Tallman, and Johnathon Dulin
TRADOC Accessions Information Environment Simulation
- Ryan Hall, Michael Gerber, Max Scheps, Andrew Posch, Jonah Hodge, and Timothy Elkins
Cobotics in Automated Pharmacy Solutions
- - Zachary Calabrese, Francesca Cassano, Shazid Khan, Daniel McGrath, Robert Nicosia, and Christopher Greene
Roadmap to Implement Artificial Intelligence in Course of Action Development & Effect of Weather Variables on UH-60 Performance
- Michael O'Donnell, James Hunter, John Hough, Benjamin Wilt, and Edriece Patterson

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Track 9: Systems Design
Roadmapping the Human Machine Interface between Autonomous Systems and Special Forces Operators
- Theodore Dachenhausen, Garrett Dolan, Collin Grosse, Steven Strange, and Vikram Mittal
Design of a Vertiport Traffic Flow Management System
- Furat Allawi, Parul Chhabra, Betelhem Kebede, Toavina Ratolojanahary, and Lance Sherry
Modeling Immersive Virtual Environments for a University: A Case Review
- Brian Calatrava, Luis Villacres, Juan Vizuete, and Eddy Armas
Drone-Based Parking Enforcement
- Solomon Barer, Lucy Benack, Jordan Congdon, Alexandra Rizopoulos, Irene Yuan, and Yong Wang
MITRE Sensor Package Value Model
- Bryce Milton, John Blodgett, Thomas Aldhizer, Noah Wallace, and Timothy Elkins
Squad with Autonomous Teams
- Madison Teague, Luke Carpenter, Joshua Campi, and Rich Morales

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Track 10: Systems Design for Defense Applications
Improvement of the U.S. Army's At-Platform Automatic Test Systems (APATS)
- Eldon Davis-Picou, Juliana Galvan, Matthew Gray, Matthew Martin, and Jace Taliaferro
Optimizing Multi-Domain Operations at the Brigade Combat Team Level
- Joshua Hensley, Brody Monigal, Saben Strode, and Hise Gibson
Creating an Enlisted Development Strategy for Countries in the USINDOPACOM Area of Responsibility
- Rahmeel Cook, Kevin Kurth, Brian Patterson, Lexi West, and Samuel Herbert
Command and Control Anomalies: A Framework for Identifying Potential Malware
- Katherine Baumeister, Anastasiya Joyner, Charles Harrington, Brenden Shutt, and Steven Henderson
Measuring the Return on Investment for AFRICOM’s African Enlisted Soldier Development Efforts II
- Tyrese Bender, Reilly McGinnis, Tyler Skidmore, Emily Torres, Graham Ungrady, and Matthew Dabkowski
AFRICOM Illicit Drug Trade in South and East Africa
- Jeremy Spencer, Jessica Rawls, Tommy Upton, Ike Nawa, and Dereck Kennedy

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