COL Brad McCoy Associate Professor Associate Dean for Research Civil and Mechanical Engineering Dean's Staff Office of Research brad.mccoy [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Colonel McCoy is a 2001 graduate of the U.S. Military where he majored in civil engineering. He was commissioned an engineer officer and later spent 8.5 years as an infantry officer. He has served in a variety of assignments in engineer and infantry units with his most recent operational assignment as the Brigade Executive Officer of 2nd Armored Brigade and Commander of the Brigade’s Rear-Detachment (Dagger Mission Command Element-Riley), at Fort Riley, KS. Colonel McCoy served in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering from 2011-2014 and again rejoined the faculty in 2019. As the Associate Dean for Research, he leads the Academy’s Academic Research Division and is the Dean’s lead for all research engagements while managing and synchronizing resources across the research enterprise at the Academy. Colonel McCoy teaches in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and has research experience in concrete materials, construction, sustainable infrastructure development, and engineering education. He also serves on ASCE’s Committee on Sustainability and is the Chair for ASCE’s Sustainable Infrastructure Development Standard Committee. Ph.D. - NC StateM.S. - NC StateB.S. - USMA Research Interests Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Concrete Materials and Construction, Engineering Education Current Research Improved Protective Structures, USACE Lock and Dam Component Design and Standardization, Sustainable Infrastructure Standards Development, Project Based Learning in Engineering Curricula Selected Publications Blackwell, R., Evans, A., Lee, P., Panlasigui, C., Russell, D., Wells, K., Davidson, T., McCoy, B., and McCarthy, S. (2021) “Increasing Energy Resilience Across Army Installations and Communities,” Proceeding for the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2021.Callahan M., Romsland, R., McCoy, B., and McDonald, K. (2021) “Galvanic Corrosion Mitigation for MF-FRP Applications,” Proceeding for the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2021.B.C. McCoy, Z. Bourara, G.W. Lucier, R. Seracino, and M. Liu (2020). “Prestressed MF-FRP: An Experimental Study of a Rapid Retrofit Solution for Deteriorated Prestressed C-Channel Beams,” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. Vol. 35, No. 1, 17 pages, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0001536).B.C. McCoy, Z. Bourara, R. Seracino, and G.W. Lucier (2019). “Anchor Bolt Patterns for Mechanically-Fastened FRP Plates,” Journal for Composites in Construction. Vol. 23, No. 4, 16 pages, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000951.B. C. McCoy, R. Seracino, G. L. Lucier, and T. W. Langerhans (2018). “DIC Strain Field Measurement of FRP Plates with and without Holes,” Proceeding for the 9th International Conference on Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Engineering. Paris, France, pp. 675-683.Fleaher, C., Kirk, G., Pisacane, P., Suwanakeree, D., McCoy, B., and Hill, A (2021). “Project-based Learning in a Persistent-COVID Environment,” Proceeding for the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA, July 2021.Marshall, R., McGhee, D., Ngeme, L., Price, J., Arnett, K., Hill, A., and McCoy, B. (2021) “Teaching STEM to K-12 Students: Undergraduate Students Engaged in Engineering Pedagogical Development in a COVID-persistent Learning Environment,” Proceeding for the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA, July 2021.Ramos, L., Yoshii, H. Beyer, K., Corliss, M., Hill, A., Arnett, K., and McCoy, B. (2021) “Design Review: A Teaching Tool for Project-Based Learning,” Proceeding for the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, July 2021.