Scott Haraburda Explained

Scott Stanley Haraburda
Birth Date:[1]
Spouse:[2] [3]
Children:Ashlee, Beverly, Krystal, Jessica, Christine[4]
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Alma Mater:Grand Rapids Jr. Col.(AA)
Central Michigan Univ (BS)
Mich State Univ (MS, PhD)
Thesis Title:Transport phenomena of flow through helium and nitrogen plasmas in microwave electrothermal thrusters
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/304703595
Thesis Year:2001
Doctoral Advisor:Martin C. Hawley
Awards:Fellow, NSPE
Hall of Fame, CMU ROTC
Dist. Alumnus, GRCC
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Chemical Corps
Serviceyears:1981–2010
Rank: Colonel
Commands: 472d Chem Bn
464th Chem Bde
Battles: GWOT - Kuwait
Awards: Legion of Merit
Meritorious Svc Med
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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.

Early life

Scott Haraburda grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he graduated from Creston High School in 1981 and then from Grand Rapids Junior College. In 2017, this college named Scott its distinguished alumnus for the year.[5] [6] 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.

Career

Military

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.[7] 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.[8] 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.

Military Logistics

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.

CBRNE Defense

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.[9] 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. 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.

Engineering

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).[10] [11] And from 2014 until 2015, he served as the president of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE).[12] 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. Furthermore, in 2001, he earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from Michigan State University.[13]

Plastics

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.[14] [15] In the 1990s, he worked as a plastics engineer for Bayer Corporation and General Electric Plastics.

Aerospace

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. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Haraburda also designed Helical-coil heat exchangers for fluids with components in multiple phases (solids, liquids, and gases).

Munitions

Dr. Haraburda directed manufacturing and engineering for Crane Army Ammunition Activity.[16]

Personal life

Judo

In 1998, Scott won the Indiana Men's Master Middleweight Judo Championship title.[17] [18] Two years later, the United States Judo Association promoted him to black belt rank of Nidan (2nd dan).[19]

Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Copyright Public Catalog (for Scott S. Haraburda) . US Copyright Office . 19 September 2015.
  2. Web site: staff . Colonel Haraburda Inducted Into University's ROTC Hall Of Fame: Spencer's Colonel Scott Haraburda Inducted For Distinguished Service . Spencer Evening World . 28 February 2011. 84 . 169 . 1 . 7 July 2015.
  3. Web site: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database: Marriages: 1958–2012 . . 19 September 2015.
  4. Book: Haraburda, Scott S. . Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth . Meaningful Publications . 2013 . 978-0-9886072-0-0 . registration . iv.
  5. Grand Rapids Business Journal . Change Ups: WMU Cooley Law School associate dean inducted into alumni ROTC Hall of Fame. 5 May 2017 . 26 August 2017.
  6. Nixon, Leah . Army Col. Scott Haraburda named GRCC's 2017 Distinguished Alumnus. Grand Rapids Community College . Grand Rapids, Michigan . 19 April 2017 . 26 August 2017.
  7. Glen D. . Skirvin . Captain Scott S. Haraburda . Army Astronaut Nomination Selection . https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Army_Astronaut_Candidate_Nomination_Haraburda.pdf . 29 May 1991 . Department of the Army .
  8. Burbach, Mike . In step with an ally: Reservist eats, sleeps and trains with German army as part of exchange program . Army Reserve Magazine . 41 . 1 . 20–21 . 1996 . 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)..
  9. Schuette, Rob . Red Dragon tests disaster response . Triad . Fort McCoy, WI . 8 September 2006 . 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.. 26 July 2015.
  10. Web site: Complete List of NSPE Fellows . National Society of Professional Engineers . 10 June 2015 .
  11. Web site: Peske, Thomas . Crane Army Employee Receives Engineering Society Honor . United States Army . 3 July 2013. 10 June 2015 .
  12. Web site: staff . Haraburda Named 69th President Of Society Of Professional Engineering . Spencer Evening World . 27 May 2014. 87 . 231 . 1 . 10 June 2015.
  13. Ph.D. . Haraburda, Scott S. . Transport phenomena of flow through helium and nitrogen plasmas in microwave electrothermal thrusters . Michigan State University . 2001 . .
  14. Tjahjadi . Mahari . Janssen . Joseph . Fischer . George . Ye-Gan Ling, Safrat Tadros, Galina Georgieva, Scott Haraburda . 2002 . Scaleless On-Line Rheometer Device . US . 6405579 .
  15. Chemical Processing magazine's 1998 Project of the Year Awards: Three companies won accolades, but everyone could benefit . Chemical Processing . 61 . 11 . 60–62 . 1998 . 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..
  16. News: LSS Project Helps CAAA with Manufacturing Overtime Management . U.S. Army . 26 March 2013 . 28 September 2018 .
  17. News: Scoreboard – Hoosier State Games, Judo Championships. The Evansville Courier. Evansville, IN. 4 July 1998. C3.
  18. News: Pearce,Dave. Mount Vernon family members claim gold medals at State games. Mount Vernon Democrat. Mount Vernon, IN. 4 November 1998. 3B.
  19. USJA Promotions. USJA Coach. Spring 2000. 21 . 19 August 2017.

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