COL Philip Dacunto, Ph.D., PE Deputy Department Head Geography and Environmental Engineering philip.dacunto [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications COL Phil Dacunto is a full professor of environmental engineering who has served as an engineer officer in a variety of divisional and corps combat engineer assignments, to include engineer battalion S3 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and most recently on the I Corps staff. He teaches in the environmental program, and has been deputy department head since 2017. Ph.D. - Stanford University M.S. - Stanford University B.S. - U.S. Military Academy Research Interests Indoor Air Quality Current Research Classroom Aerosol Dispersion Selected Publications Dacunto P, Nam S, Hirn M, Rodriguez A, Owkes M, Benson M (2023) “Classroom aerosol dispersion modeling: experimental assessment of a low-cost flow simulation tool.” Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts 25: 2157-2166. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3em00356fButkus M, Pfluger A, Andino J, Starke J, Harrington G, Dacunto P, Cunningham J (2022) “Leveraging a board of advisors for continuous interaction and improvement: study of U.S. Military Academy’s Environmental Engineering major.” International Journal of Engineering Education 38(5A): 1366-1376. https://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol38-5A/14_ijee4261.pdfHirn M, Rodriguez A, Owkes M, Dacunto P, Ng A, Rogers J, Benson M (2022) “Aerosol dispersion modeling with a low-cost flow simulation tool: analysis of performance and boundary condition sensitivity.” Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, #95997, Columbus OH, 30 Oct-3 Nov 2022.Dacunto P, Ng A, Moser D, Tovkach A, Scanlon S, Benson M (2022) “Effects of location, classroom orientation, and air change rate on potential aerosol exposure: an experimental and computational study.” Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts 24: 557-566. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00434D.Dacunto P, Moser D, Ng A, Benson M (2021) “Classroom aerosol dispersion: desk spacing and divider impacts.” International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 19: 1057-1070. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03564-z