COL Scott Katalenich, Ph.D.

COL Scott M. Katalenich serves as the deputy head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His military schooling includes the Engineer Officer Basic Course; Armor Captain’s Career Course; Command and General Staff College Intermediate Level Education Common Core and Air Command and Staff College Advanced Operations Courses; Battalion and District (Army, Engineer and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Pre-Command Courses; Joint Engineering Operations Course; Counter Explosive Hazards Planner Course; Cold Weather Orientation Course; Air Assault; Airborne; Sapper; and Ranger.

He has served in mechanized, Stryker and echelon-above-brigade engineer units, including multiple tours to the Joint Readiness Training Center and the National Training Center, and a deployment to Iraq as a brigade engineer and Stryker company commander. As a battalion and brigade S3, he planned, resourced and directed missions in geospatial operations; underwater dive operations; explosive ordnance clearance; vertical and horizontal construction; survey and design; maintenance; and Logistics Support Vessel and harbormaster operations across the Pacific.

As a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district commander, he led civilian and military professionals in delivering engineering design, planning, construction, real estate, regulation, flood risk management, hydropower, lock operations, recreation and environmental services within the Great Lakes region.

COL Katalenich is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Alaska. He holds the academic rank of associate professor and has taught numerous engineering courses.