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2025 Capstone Conference

    The 2025 General Donald R. Keith Memorial Capstone Conference will be held in person at the United States Military Academy on 24 April 2025. This is a regional conference of the Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering (SISE). Top papers will be published in the Society's scholarly journal, the Industrial and Systems Engineering Review. 

Projected 2024 Conference Deadlines

• Papers due:                                     14 March 2025
• Reviews back to authors:               31 March 2025
• Registration deadline:                     11 April 2025
• Final papers due:                             11 April 2025
• Capstone Conference:                    24 April 2025

    We welcome papers that describe the authors' work in a senior capstone project in the fields of systems or industrial engineering, engineering management, systems and decision sciences, data science, or operations research, with special emphasis on novel approaches, new discoveries, and innovative applications. Authors with accepted papers will present in one of the following tracks: Decision Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Applications, Process Modeling and Analysis, Project and Engineering Management, Systems Design, Systems Design for Defense Applications, General Engineering, and Honors (designated for individual student honors thesis research). Each conference track will include a panel of professional judges to select the best-in-track papers and presentations.

2025 Paper Submission                                  (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/GDRKMCC2024/Submission/Index)

Capstone Conference Registration           (To be published)

Paper Template or Latex Template

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Conference Subject Area Presentation Schedule

Conference tracks (subject area). 

Decision Analysis (DA): 

• Projects that evaluate complex non-repetitive decision opportunities by examining values, uncertain variables, preferences, and alternatives

Modeling and Simulation (MS): 

• Modeling methods and applications for representing static or dynamic characteristics of systems in order to support effective systems design or improvement.

Modeling and Simulation for Defense Applications (MSDA): 

• Modeling methods and applications for representing static or dynamic characteristics of systems in order to support effective systems design or improvement, specifically for military applications.

Process Modeling and Analysis (PMA): 

• Projects that use methods and applications addressing the modeling of partially ordered activities to achieve a goal for systems existing in the real world (process analysis) or not (processing engineering), to support effective design or systems improvement.

Project and Engineering Management (PEM): 

• Applications of engineering principles to operations, project management, and business practice. Presentations include engineering surrounding product development, manufacturing, construction design engineering, industrial engineering, technology, production, or any other field that employs personnel who perform an engineering function.

Systems Design (SD): 

• Projects from engineering and problem solving that feature significant levels of systems design. This includes notable examples of requirements specification, functional analysis, systems architecture, model-based systems engineering, or the use of modeling and simulation in the design process.

Systems Design for Defense Applications (SDDA): 

• Defense-related projects that feature significant levels of systems design. This includes notable examples of requirements specification, functional analysis, systems architecture, model-based systems engineering, or the use of modeling and simulation in the design process.

General Engineering (GE): 

• Projects that apply general engineering principles and processes to meeting operational needs and solving problems. Emphasis is on correctly defining requirements and then applying engineering principles to solve them.

Honors (H): 

• Research performed in the pursuit of an honors degree at the United States Military Academy. This includes a presentation by a single cadet as well as review of an honors thesis.

Hollis Award: 

• Presenters in this track will compete for the coveted Hollis Award for excellence in Operations Research. All submitted papers will be evaluated for the opportunity to compete for the Hollis Award.

2024 General Donald R. Keith Memorial Capstone Conference Awardees

Decision Analysis Track

Best Presentation

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

Best Paper

Drone Optimization on the Modern Battlefield

Rich Jaramillo, Jasier Marquez, Tracer Roberts, Salvatore Rasizzi, and Matthew Mogensen

United States Military Academy

General Engineering Track

Best Presentation

Design of a Rear-end Collision Prevention System (RCPS)

Turki Alharbi, Amanda Dalagan, Emma Devine, Aidan Menon

George Mason University

Best Paper

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Simulation: Usability and Evaluation Study

Jalen Caldwell, Jared Cross, Patrick Oglesbee, Brandon Thompson

United States Military Academy

Honors Track

Best Presentation

Identifying Undervalued “Playmakers” in the NHL Utilizing Passing Metrics and AAV

Jacob Felker, James Enos

United States Military Academy

Best Paper

Cultural Influence of Music and Propaganda

Noah Cillo and Jeremy Schlegel

United States Military Academy

Modeling and Simulation Track

Best Presentation

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

Best Paper

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 and Simulation for Defense Applications Track

Best Presentation

Predicting Pilot Workloads Using Physiological Measures

Valor Carlsen, Roger Emile Manzi, Simon Dellinger, Tanner Craig, Donald Koban

United States Military Academy

Best Paper

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

Project and Engineering Management Track

Best Presentation

Lean Six Sigma Cable Fabrication Tobyhanna

Gavin Abric, Ryan Rast, Taylor Puglisi, Weiling Zhang, Edmond Yoon

United States Military Academy

Best Paper

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

Process Modeling and Analysis Track

Best Presentation

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

Best Paper

Lean Six Sigma: Tobyhanna 5M540 Kitting Process 

Benjamin Berry, Riley Hoyes, Eric Huss, Carlo Octoman, and Bryan Hartman

United States Military Academy

Systems Design Track

Best Presentation

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

Best Paper

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

Systems Design for Defense Applications Track

Best Presentation

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

Ana Ratanaphruks

Columbia

Best Paper

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

The Hollis Award

Best Presentation and Hollis Award Winner

Multimodal Authentication

Tobias Hild, Mike Powell

United States Military Academy

Best Paper

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

SISE Best Paper

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Cadet Education

Conner Leggett, Maximus Marchi, McKenzie Muse, Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Mellon

United States Military Academy

SISE Second Best Paper

Predicting Pilot Workloads Using Physiological Measures

Valor Carlsen, Roger Emile Manzi, Simon Dellinger, Tanner Craig, Donald Koban

United States Military Academy

SISE Third Best Paper

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Simulation: Usability and Evaluation Study

Jalen Caldwell, Jared Cross, Patrick Oglesbee, Brandon Thompson

United States Military Academy