Building Leaders and Growing Engineers

摘要

On March 16, 1802, Congress permanently established the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and with it, the nation's first engineering school, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Since that time, Army engineers have built coastal fortifications, mapped and surveyed the West, managed inland waterways and ports, constructed much of our nations infrastructure, even built iconic landmarks in Washington, D.C. USACE and the Engineer Regiment have answered the nation's call to solve difficult challenges in times of exploration and development, war and peace, epic disaster and economic expansion. Today we face a growing number of critical and divergent challenges, from aging infrastructure to sustaining the environment to resource competition. The nation requires leaders and teams of innovative civilian and military professionals imbued with a value of service to solve our greatest challenges now and for generations to come.