The nation’s top-ranked undergraduate engineering faculty additionally has the nation’s No. 1 Army Reserved Officers’ Coaching Corps unit.
Rose-Hulman’s Wabash Battalion ROTC unit has earned this 12 months’s MacArthur Award as the highest program within the navy department’s seventh Brigade, together with being chosen because the Army ROTC program’s candidate for the general Division of Protection ROTC and Accomplice Establishment Excellence Award.
The 7th Brigade is a area with Army ROTC items at 38 universities and schools in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee, whereas the battalion stood out amongst 275 items nationally throughout the navy department.
Rose-Hulman’s unit is now competing in opposition to designated Navy and Air Drive ROTC finalists for the DoD nationwide honor, being introduced later this spring.
Col. Brent Clemmer, Army ROTC’s 7th Brigade commander, said, “Rose-Hulman has earned distinction for producing a few of the Army’s greatest engineers. Its cadets have distinguished themselves exceptionally effectively in the course of the previous 12 months throughout the number of standards. They constantly stand out among the many greatest cadets regionally and nationally.”
The U.S. Army Cadet Command acknowledged the unit’s achievements in the course of the 2020-21 faculty 12 months for readiness coaching and commissioning lieutenants for navy service. Award-winning applications greatest symbolize the Army’s beliefs of Obligation-Honor-Nation and the legacy of management as practiced by Common Douglas MacArthur, in accordance with Army ROTC award tips.
Professor of Navy Science Lt. Col. Benjamin Schneller stories the next Army Wabash Battalion ROTC unit accomplishments for 2020-21:
- Commissioning 35 officers, far exceeding the 19-officer requirement.
- Six cadets ranked within the high 20% nationally and earned distinguished navy graduate honors.
- 24 cadets exceeded efficiency averages in areas of bodily health, written land navigation, sensible land navigation, weapons qualification, and tactical efficiency evaluations throughout final summer time’s coaching workout routines.
- Cadets had key management roles within the “Daring Warrior”/Ranger Problem workforce that had its greatest end previously 20 years in opposition to different senior ROTC applications within the 7th Brigade area.
- 98% retention price of scholars enrolled in this system from 2020 to 2021.
Rose-Hulman President Robert A. Coons factors out that Wabash Battalion cadets put on a patch on their uniforms that spotlight “Management Excellence.”
“You may’t get management excellence with out quite a lot of onerous work,” Coons famous. “This (MacArthur Award) recognition is for all of the work you do daily to develop management excellence. It’s in regards to the onerous work you set into your research; the work you’re doing at six within the morning to arrange bodily; the additional work you set in on Wednesday evenings to be taught ways and management. However much more than that, it’s in regards to the teamwork that you just domesticate on this nice program.”
Rose-Hulman’s portion of the battalion has 31 scholarship pupil cadets and 5 different college students collaborating in unit actions. This 12 months’s senior cadets are Griffin Altmix, Nick Barr, Landen Berlin, Samuel Dickinson, Drew Gearhart, Tristen Maesch, Alec Teichmann, Samuel VanDendurgh, and Ryleigh White. They are going to be commissioned as second lieutenants within the Army throughout Rose-Hulman’s Graduation weekend Might 27-28.
“I can’t put Lt. (lieutenant) earlier than your identify till Rose-Hulman places B.S. (incomes bachelor of science diploma) after your identify,” stated Clemmer throughout a particular MacArthur Award campus ceremony March 23.
Becoming a member of Schneller in main the Rose-Hulman ROTC unit are Thom Robbins, Ethan Allen, and Rick Maples, senior navy science instructors; Max Dixon and Ari Merdler, assistant professors of navy science; Mertz Goodwin, navy science teacher; Bob Doll, recruiting operations officer; Tom Deal, human useful resource assistant; and Troy Batchelor and Gavin Brothers, Nationwide Guard liaisons.
Doll additionally was acknowledged as Recruiting Operations Officer of the 12 months for the 7th Brigade area.
Kathy Davis, government assistant to Rose-Hulman’s vice chairman for educational affairs and dean of school, acquired the Wabash Battalion’s Cash for Excellence honor in recognition of excellent help to the unit, its management and employees, and cadets.
Rose-Hulman has one of many nation’s authentic Army ROTC applications. Shortly after its founding in 1874, the school hosted a Pupil Army Coaching Corps unit and had an lively position in coaching engineers and mechanics for Army service throughout World Struggle I. An official Army ROTC unit turned lively in 1917, after ROTC was licensed by the Nationwide Protection Act of 1916, and graduated its first commissioned officers in 1922. At this time, Rose-Hulman is a part of the Wabash Battalion with Indiana State College, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods School, DePauw College, Vincennes College, College of Southern Indiana, and College of Evansville.
“You don’t need to look far lately to see that our world is stuffed with challenges,” Coons stated. “I’m very proud that for greater than a century, Rose-Hulman and the Wabash Battalion have been commissioning leaders of character for our Army, who’re prepared to fulfill these challenges head on.”
Rose-Hulman has been ranked No. 1 nationally for 23 straight years in U.S. News & World Report’s Finest School Information amongst U.S. engineering schools which might be targeted on bachelor’s and grasp’s-level schooling. The rating got here from the information’s annual survey of school engineering deans and senior school throughout America. The institute additionally has earned nationwide distinction in science and arithmetic schooling, together with being valued for its glorious return on funding. Study extra in regards to the institute’s rankings and nationwide distinction right here.
