Engineers Week, held this year from February 16-23, is dedicated to raising public awareness of the positive contributions engineers make to our quality of life. Each year, Engineers Week reaches thousands of schools, businesses, and community groups across the U.S. to promote recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy.

Much of Engineer week is geared toward sharing information about the STEM career fields while motivating young people to pursue engineering careers to provide a dynamic engineering workforce.

“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.” — Nathan W. Dougherty, American civil engineer

During Engineer Week, the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command celebrates its engineers in the Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure career field (CEI-CF) as well as those serving as Engineers and Scientists (Non-Construction). Most of SDDC’s CEI-CF workforce can be found in the G4 logistics engineering directorate at headquarters, assigned to the Departments of Public Works at terminals, and in S4 logistics shops at SDDC brigades and battalions. Additional Engineers and Scientists serve in the command’s Transportation Engineering Agency.

SDDC has 32 civilians working in the CEI-CF. These engineers contribute to a wide variety of requirements, including planning, environmental, facility management and real property accountability, construction, programming and justification of the capital program, traffic management, and geographical information system management.

Many of SDDC’s engineers lead coordination with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and Navy Facilities Engineering Systems Command, ensuring successful planning, design, and maintenance of SDDC’s managed infrastructure.

SDDC’s Engineers and Scientists in Non-Construction related fields contribute to certifying that commercial, state, and locally owned infrastructure within the Continental U.S. continues to meet miliary needs in support of U.S. Transportation Command’s fort-to-port requirements. In addition, they study infrastructure capabilities both in the U.S. and overseas and make recommendations that support the ability to meet warfighting throughput requirements.

This week we recognize their many significant contributions and thank them for their contributions to both the command and to the warfighter.

“Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that has never been” — Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist