Portrait of LTC Hood in front of an American flag.

LTC Karoline Hood

Academy Professor, Assistant Professor

karoline.hood@westpoint.edu

Biography

Currently leading the Advanced Math Program (MA153 & MA255).

LTC Hood has held several leadership positions, including serving as a platoon leader deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and as a company commander deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Additionally, she served in the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where she supported a FEMA mission in response to the 2014 Oso Landslide as an on-ground engineer to assist search and rescue efforts. In addition, she was a project engineer at Johnson Space Center in the astronaut office and in the vehicle integration testing office. She is a Professional Engineer (licensed in Missouri), Project Management Professional, and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design in New Construction. She holds a private pilot license for fixed wing single engines.

Publications & Presentations

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
• Hood, K., Wilkins, B.D., Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, H.D., Boucher, R., (2017) “Development of an Earthen Dam Break Data Base,” The Professional Geologist, 53:1, 10-11
• Wilkins, B.D., Flowerday, N., Kratch, A., Greenberg, J., Redmond, B., Baily, A., Hromadka II, .B., Hood, K, Boucher, R., McInvale, D., “A Computational Model of Groundwater Mound evolution using the Complex Variable Boundary Element Method and generalized Fourier Series,” (2017) Professional Geologist, 54:1, 1-15.
• Hood, K., Allen B. (2017), “5-080-S-Space Flight Recolonize,”
• Hood, K., Kuiper, P. (2018) “Improving Student Surveys with Natural Language Processing.” Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEE) International Conference on Semantic Computing (ISCS)
• Goethals, P, Hood, K, (2017) June 2018 at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference “Classifying the Engineering Mathematics Student: An Investigation of Trends in Learning.”
• Kuiper, P., Hood, K. “Applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Improving Classroom Learning Experiences Using Student Surveys.” (2018) Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence.
• Garrett, M., Kuiper, P., Hood, K., Turner, D. (2018) “Leveraging Mutual Information to Generate Domain Specific Lexicons.” Submitted to Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation.
• Moglen, G., Hood, K., Hromadka II, T.V., (2018). “Examination of Multiple Predictive Approaches for Estimating Dam Breach Peak Discharges.” American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
• Hood, K., Perez, R.A., Cieplinski, H.E., Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, H.D., (2018). “Development of an Earthen Dam Break Data Base,” Journal of American Water Resource Association (JAWRA).
• Hood, K., Ashcraft, J., Watts, K., Hong, S., Choi, W., Heymsfield, SB., Gautam, RK., Thomas, DM., (2019) “Allometric scaling of weight to height and resulting body mass index thresholds in two Asian populations” Nutrition and Diabetes.
• Abiodun, K., Hood, K., Cox, J., Newman, A., Zolan, A. (2023) “Estimating the value of concentrating solar power in the ancillary service market” Applied Energy.
• Hood, K., Walsh, M., Zolan, A., Jackson, G., Newman, A., (2024), “Characterizing and improving the performance of molten-salt-and-steam heat exchangers in concentrating solar power plant” Energy Conversion and Management.
• Hood, K., McMiller, O., Nock, D., Grymes, J., Newman, A., (Submitted, 2024), “Cost, resiliency and emissions trade-offs for microgrids in varying socioeconomic settings,” Applied Energy.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

  • Hood, K., Perez, R.A., Cieplinski, H.E., Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, H.D, Presented at the Spring 2017 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: Connecting the Dots: The Emerging Science of Aquatic System Connectivity on “Development of an Earthen Dam Break Data Base.”
  • Hood, K., Perez, R.A., Cieplinski, H.E., Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, H.D, Presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2017 Conference: Emergency Management: Risk Reduction, Response, & Recovery on “Development of an Earthen Dam Break Data Base.”
  • Kuiper, P, Hood, K. (2017) Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) in January 2018: MMA Session on Mathematical Experiences and Projects in Business, Industry, and Government (BIG): “Improving Student Surveys with Natural Language Processing,” International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) conference 2018.
  • Hood, K, Goethals, P. Present through a FRF Grant at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) in January 2018: The Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Ordinary Differential Equations on “Inspiring Engineers to Study ODEs with Open-ended Modeling Problems.”
  • Kuiper, P, Hood, K. (2018) Presented a paper at the Joint Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) for semantic robotics on “Improving Student Surveys with Natural Language Processing.”