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Presenter: Dr. Robert Rabb, Mechanical Engineering Department Chair
Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Location: Harbor Breeze at Patriots Point Mt. Pleasant Tickets: $25 per person/Register Online Robert Rabb is a retired Army officer, currently serving as the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at The Citadel. He retired in 2013 after 25 years of military service. He deployed early in his career in Desert Shield and Desert Storm where he oversaw construction of 400 mile of roads in Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq. He later deployed to Bosnia and assisted in the planning and execution for 11,000 vehicles to cross the Sava River in 1996. After serving as an instructor at the United States Military Academy to teach Mechanical Design, he served in Iraq in one of the initial entry forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He later returned to the United States Military Academy to teach Controls Engineering. Upon completion of this teaching assignment, he was selected to serve in the newly formed AFPAK Hands Program. He participated in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) as a staff engineer with the Special Operations Command where he integrated facilities master planning valued at over $225 million and civil humanitarian construction projects valued at $43 million. He was later embedded as a Strategic Partner at the Ministry of Energy and Water in Kabul, Afghanistan. In this capacity he advised the Afghan Ministry on military mission priorities and assisted in capacity development within the Ministry. He prepared the National Energy Supply Program for the Ministry of Energy and Water with their planning staff, resulting in $9 billion of energy projects, tripling the domestic electricity capacity in Afghanistan over the next decade. He provided expert instruction during Capacity Development and Project Management Courses at the Ministry, resulting in standard project management techniques. His experiences as an AFPAK Hand were specifically cited by the Defense Language Institute on several occasions. Upon redeploying, he assumed duties as the Plans Officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division in Winchester, Virginia.
s Department Chair, he is responsible for the ME curriculum, the development of 39 courses and five focus areas in the undergraduate and graduate programs, and integration with other departments. He and the mechanical engineering faculty have overseen nearly $1.5 million invested in new construction, upgrades, and new laboratory support for the undergraduate mechanical engineering program in less than four years.
Robert Rabb has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, a master’s degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His military education includes the Army’s Command and General Staff College. He is also a Professional Engineer.
He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society. He currently serves on the NCEES committee to develop Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam questions for mechanical engineering.
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ASHRAE Newsletter February 2020.pdf
