Scott Stanley Haraburda | |||||||||
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Born | 1963 (age 60–61) [1] | ||||||||
Spouse | Marie A.(née Stressman) (m. 2010) | ||||||||
Children | Ashlee, Beverly, Krystal, Jessica, Christine [4] | ||||||||
Alma mater | Grand Rapids Jr. Col. (AA) Central Michigan Univ (BS) Mich State Univ (MS, PhD) | ||||||||
Awards | Fellow, NSPE Hall of Fame, CMU ROTC Dist. Alumnus, GRCC | ||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||
Thesis | Transport phenomena of flow through helium and nitrogen plasmas in microwave electrothermal thrusters (2001) | ||||||||
Doctoral advisor | Martin C. Hawley | ||||||||
Military career | |||||||||
Allegiance | United States of America | ||||||||
Service/ | United States Army Chemical Corps | ||||||||
Years of service | 1981–2010 | ||||||||
Rank | Colonel | ||||||||
Commands | 472d Chem Bn 464th Chem Bde | ||||||||
Battles/wars | GWOT - Kuwait | ||||||||
Awards | Legion of Merit Meritorious Svc Med | ||||||||
Sports career | |||||||||
Sport | Judo, 2nd dan | ||||||||
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Scott Stanley Haraburda (born 1963) is an American soldier, engineer, inventor, and 2nd dan judoka. In addition to making key contributions to the development of heat exchangers and spacecraft propulsion, he led a team of military officers in 2007 to Kuwait to correct many of the contingency contracting problems identified by the Gansler Commission. He is known nationally as the president of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers who led the opposition to a state governmental panel recommendation in 2015 to eliminate licensing of engineers in Indiana.
Scott Haraburda grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he graduated from Creston High School in 1981 and then from Grand Rapids Junior College. [5] In 2017, this college named Scott its distinguished alumnus for the year. [6] [7] While living in Grand Rapids, he worked as the department store Santa for Herpolsheimer's, the same store mentioned in the 2004 Christmas film The Polar Express . [8]
Colonel Scott S. Haraburda spent nearly three decades serving in the US Army, providing significant contributions to military logistics, CBRNE defense, and military science. In 1991, while he was teaching chemistry at the United States Military Academy, the Army Astronaut Nomination Selection Board nominated Haraburda as a NASA astronaut candidate. [9] A few years later, by means of a competitive selection at the rank of Major, he served as a representative of the United States to Germany in 1995 through the Army Reserve's Foreign Exchange Program with the Bundeswehr, Germany's army. [10] In 2005, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Army Science Board, helping its distinguished members of corporate executive managers, senior academians, and retired military flag officers formulate recommendations to scientific and technological matters of concern to the Army. [11]
In late 2007, Colonel Haraburda deployed to Kuwait for a year to help correct the contingency contracting problems plaguing the war zone. The Army deployed him to Camp Arifjan to lead a small military team of logistics officers in applying the LOGCAP methods as part of the Gansler Report's second recommendation solution. [lower-alpha 1]
As the commander of the 472d Chemical Battalion from 2002 through 2004 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he integrated his units' training with civilian agencies, such as fire departments, police stations, hospitals, and non-governmental organizations (e.g., American Red Cross) to improve the Defense Support of Civil Authorities capabilities for large-scale chemical defense missions. As a result, he was the first commander selected to provide operational command and control over nearly 400 Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high- yield Explosives (CBRNE) defense soldiers in Operation Red Dragon in 2004. [15] [16] [lower-alpha 2] While commander of the 464th Chemical Brigade from 2006 to 2007, Colonel Haraburda provided command and control over the same exercise in 2006, this time commanding over 1,100 chemical, military police, and medical soldiers. [lower-alpha 3] Another major contribution he provided to CBRNE soldiers was his recommendations on ways to improve their leadership capabilities, using ideas he derived from his various military leadership assignments and theories learned as a graduate of the Army War College and the Army Command and General Staff College, military colleges that prepare officers for senior leadership assignments and responsibilities. [lower-alpha 4]
Haraburda Designs | |
Microwave Electrothermal Thruster | |
Helical-Coil Heat Exchanger |
The National Society of Professional Engineers named Dr. Scott S. Haraburda a Fellow in 2013 in recognition for long-term service with the Society, as well as to the engineering profession and the community (an honor given to less than 1% of its members). [22] [23] And from 2014 until 2015, he served as the president of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE). [24] While president of ISPE, he publicly led an effort to oppose a state governmental panel recommendation in 2015 to eliminate licensing of engineers in the State of Indiana, causing Governor Mike Pence to soon issue a statement opposing the recommendation as well. [lower-alpha 5] Furthermore, in 2001, he earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. [31]
As an inventor, he holds two United States patents and seven patent publications. One of Dr. Haraburda's patents involved a measurement system to be used in the plastics industry, which he used in a project identified by Chemical Processing magazine with its Project of the Year award in 1998 as one of the best projects in the chemical industry. [32] [33] [lower-alpha 6] In the 1990s, he worked as a plastics engineer for Bayer Corporation and General Electric Plastics. [15]
Dr. Haraburda made significant contributions into optimizing the engineering designs of spacecraft propulsion and heat exchangers. In the early 1990s, he conducted research on a Microwave Electrothermal Thruster, to which he developed a simple equilibrium based theory of space-dependent parameters for transport design equations, using helium as the monatomic gas and nitrogen as the diatomic gas. [lower-alpha 7] In the mid-1990s, Dr. Haraburda also designed Helical-coil heat exchangers for fluids with components in multiple phases (solids, liquids, and gases). [lower-alpha 8]
Dr. Haraburda directed manufacturing and engineering for Crane Army Ammunition Activity. [53]
In 1998, Scott won the Indiana Men's Master Middleweight Judo Championship title. [54] [55] Two years later, the United States Judo Association promoted him to black belt rank of Nidan (2nd dan). [56]
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A combat support battalion at the Niederauerbach Kaserne (barracks) near the French border in southwestern Germany hosted Haraburda and four other Reservists. The U.S. Army Reserve Command sponsors the exchange program. Germany and the United Kingdom are participating nations. ... Haraburda visited historical sites, including an abandoned bunker complex on the former Maginot Line. And various military installations and museums. At a maintenance facility, Haraburda sat in a submerged personnel carrier for 15 minutes during a leak test (a snorkel delivered fresh air).
The Army went from supporting one Kuwait base camp in 2002 to supporting eight in 2007. Contracts increased from $150 million in 2002 to nearly $1 billion in 2006, and are forecast to reach $1 billion in 2007, according to the secretary. While 20 military and civilian Army employees have been indicted on charges of contract fraud, Sec. Geren said the vast majority of Army contracting professionals fulfill operational requirements every day for soldiers serving in harm's way.
[on page 5, the second key improvement needed was to] Restructure organization and restore responsibility to facilitate contracting and contract management in expeditionary and CONUS operations.
When Secretary Geren visited the Kuwait contracting office in September 2007, he was so impressed with the requirements generation process of the LOGCAP-Kuwait office that he directed that it be used for all requirements within Kuwait. In essence, the LOGCAP process was identified and directed as a management control in the contracting process. ... Colonel Scott S. Haraburda is the lead logistics support officer in the LOGCAP-Kuwait office.
[Colonel Haraburda] began his military career as an enlisted soldier in March of 1981. ... From 2002 through 2004, Colonel Haraburda served as the Battalion Commander of the 472nd Chemical Battalion for over 800 soldiers throughout Indiana and Illinois. ... From 2005 through 2006, Colonel Haraburda was mobilized to the Pentagon to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Army Science Board. ... From 2006 through 2007, Colonel Haraburda served as the Brigade Commander of the 464th Chemical Brigade for over 2,000 soldiers throughout five states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware. ... From 2007 through 2009, Colonel Haraburda deployed to Kuwait to serve as the Senior Logistics Support Officer for the LOGCAP program.
Red Dragon began as a small exercise at Fort McCoy in 2004 with 400 Soldiers, who were mostly with chemical organizations ... The exercise grew to 800 Soldiers last year helping to respond to a chemical incident scenario that occurred on the installation. About 1,100 Soldiers from medical, military police, chaplain, and chemical units were included in the exercise this year.
Colonel Haraburda is a USAR officer and the Commander of the 464th Chemical Brigade. He previously commanded the 472d Chemical Battalion and participated in the first Red Dragon exercise.
About 3,000 Soldiers are expected to participate in Red Dragon 2009 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, 13–27 June. ... This year's exercise will involve interactions with first responders, including ten civilian hospitals, from four metropolitan areas in Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Madison, Lacrosse, and Fort McCoy.
The purpose of this visit for the Canadian contingent was to bring back new ideas and help reinvigorate Canadian CBRN doctrine for the 21st century.
Management and leadership skills are key to success, whether developing and running a large-scale training exercise; decontaminating a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-explosive (CBRNE) contaminated area; installing an innovative measurement system in a hazardous-chemical manufacturing company; installing new production equipment for a large international foreign company; or planning a family vacation.
Scott S. Haraburda, president of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers, is concerned about the panel's suggestion that the state stop licensing engineers. He said that a century ago 'anyone could work as an engineer without proof of competency' but every U.S. state currently regulates the practice of engineering to ensure public safety. 'If the recommendations are implemented, Indiana will be the only state that fails to license and regulate its engineers, a dangerous risk that Hoosiers cannot afford to take'
Scott S. Haraburda says if the committee's recommendations are implemented it would pose 'a dangerous risk that Hoosiers cannot afford to take.
Spencer resident U.S. Army Colonel (ret.) Dr. Scott S. Haraburda has been quoted in recent media coverage from New York to California following preliminary findings by the Indiana Jobs Creation Committee. ... Haraburda is concerned about the lack of licensing for engineers, especially.
'The governor believes it is a mistake not to license engineers and will make sure the recommendation to do so does not stand,' said Kara Brooks, spokeswoman for Pence.
Online reheometer checks quality: Processes certified correct 99.999+% of the time, winning a CP award for project team. ... The project team used the GE 'Design for Six-Sigma Process' to develop, design and implement the project, according to Scott S. Haraburda, the manufacturing project leader.
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