COL James Bluman, Ph.D., PE

COL James E. Bluman serves as the research program director and associate professor for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York. Previous assignments and positions included serving as the director for the Center for Innovation and Engineering and associate professor in the former Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering.

Before joining the USMA faculty, COL Bluman served in the operational Army as an aviation officer and as an Acquisition Corps officer, with a Level III DAWIA certification in program management. He served as an assistant product manager for the Armed Scout Helicopter Project Office, as well as various command, staff, and platoon leader positions as an Army aviator. 

COL Bluman is a senior Army aviator and holds ratings in the OH-58D helicopter and the C-12 fixed-wing aircraft, as well as FAA commercial, instrument, and rotorcraft ratings. 

He earned a Professional Engineer license from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and he is a recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering’s Donald N. Zwiep Award for Innovation in Education as well as USMA’s 2024 Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Scholarship Excellence.