{"id":13,"date":"2005-10-24T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T10:48:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-06T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T14:38:40","slug":"dale-henderson-earns-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Dale Henderson Earns Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>LTC&nbsp;Dale Henderson<\/strong> successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Arizona in Systems &amp; Industrial Engineering.&nbsp;His research is in the field of nonlinear optimization,&nbsp;titled <em><strong>Heuristic and Exact Techniques for Solving a Temperature Estimation Model<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Congratulations, Dr. Henderson!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Dale is now assigned to the Department of Systems Engineering at USMA.&nbsp; <\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>I recently asked him about his studies and his current job and he responded with the following.&nbsp; <strong>Dale writes:<\/strong>&nbsp; <em>I love teaching at USMA. It is the best job in the Army (for me). I teach non-majors a soft course, so it is really different than my research areas, and these cadets are very different from what I was like &ndash; they are forced to take an engineering sequence. <\/em><em>It is very hard work. I&rsquo;m not sure it is anything like being on the faculty of a civilian university. We work harder at teaching and we do less research.<\/em> <\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>On civilian graduate studies:<\/strong>&nbsp; <em>I probably have a unique perspective on the process. I went to military school twice before I went for the PhD, and in the military schools your path is laid out pretty clearly. When you go for a PhD at a civilian school there are a sequence of steps, and requirements, but the path you follow is very much up to you and your advisor. It is extremely hard to &ndash;finish-. The academic world is far different than the military (or business I imagine) world. People take a long time to do things. On the other hand, there really is nothing like having several years to really do nothing but think about a particular problem and a narrow field of study.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Research interests:<\/strong>&nbsp; <em>I am interested in applied optimization. Especially in looking at optimization problems that people have formulated and can&rsquo;t solve (due to complexity issues) and helping to reformulate or apply some different approach to them to make them solvable.&nbsp;<\/em> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTC&nbsp;Dale Henderson successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Arizona in Systems &amp; Industrial Engineering.&nbsp;His research is in the field of nonlinear optimization,&nbsp;titled Heuristic and Exact Techniques for Solving a Temperature Estimation Model.&nbsp; Congratulations, Dr. Henderson!&nbsp; Dale is now assigned to the Department of Systems Engineering at USMA.&nbsp; I recently asked him about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}