COL Philip Dacunto, Ph.D., PE Department Head Civil & Environmental Engineering philip.dacunto [at] westpoint.edu About Education COL Phil Dacunto is the head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He is a professor of environmental engineering.COL Dacunto has served as an engineer officer in a variety of divisional and corps combat engineer assignments, including engineer battalion S3 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and most recently on the I Corps staff.