Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2019
Abstract
In August 2018, the Air University Commander formed a task force to review the Air Force’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduate education programs that are delivered and administered through the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The study was rooted in strategies to support the 2018 National Defense Strategy, and provided the necessary technologically equipped personnel for the 21st century. The study was commonly referred to as “reimagining AFIT”. Several themes emerged from the study, which include reaching a broader community of Airmen through alternate educational modes (e.g. distance learning, short course etc.), forming strategic educational and research partnerships with top universities and government organizations, and ensuring that AFIT provides a top quality, defense focused STEM education. This study serves a critical role in the effort to re-validate, re-think, re-imagine, and re-engineer AFIT’s role in providing STEM education for the future Air Force, and will undoubtedly prove to enhance the FA 52 nuclear operations and counterproliferation officers' education as well.
Source Publication
Countering WMD Journal
Recommended Citation
Shattan, M.B. (2019,Summer). Nuclear Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology: A Unique Graduate School Experience for a Unique Set of Students. Countering WMD Journal,(19), 22-27.
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