COL Brad McCoy

COL McCoy is a 2001 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, where he majored in civil engineering. He was commissioned as an engineer officer and later spent 8½ 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 brigade executive officer of the 2nd Armored Brigade and commander of the brigade’s rear detachment (Dagger Mission Command Element-Riley) at Fort Riley, Kansas.

COL McCoy served in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (now the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) from 2011 to 2014 and rejoined the faculty in 2019. As associate dean for research, he leads the Academy’s Academic Research Division and serves as the Dean’s lead for all research engagements while managing and synchronizing resources across the research enterprise at the Academy.

COL McCoy teaches in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and has research experience in concrete materials, construction, sustainable infrastructure development and engineering education. He also serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability and is chair of ASCE’s Sustainable Infrastructure Development Standard Committee.