USNA TO OPEN CENTER FOR ENERGY SECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE

  POSTED ON: Monday, April 22, 2024 9:44 AM by mediarelations@usna.edu

The U.S. Naval Academy is launching an interdisciplinary Center for Energy Security and Infrastructure Resilience (CESIR) program that will focus on developing new curricula concentrating on energy security, climate adaptation, and infrastructure resilience as it relates to national security. 

“The dual challenges of energy security and the impact on critical infrastructure resulting from climate change are important issues that our midshipmen will face in their careers as Navy and Marine Corps officers,” said Provost Samara Firebaugh. “The primary mission of the Center is to prepare midshipmen to meet these challenges.”

The program will begin later this spring and will be located throughout existing academic areas. Midshipmen, faculty, and staff in both academic and non-academic departments are all open to participate in combined efforts of research. 

The initial primary goal of CESIR is to focus on integrating relevant material into existing classes offered to midshipmen. Eventually, the goal is to include new elective courses available in the Naval Academy’s course catalog. Topical special lectures will also be offered on a regular basis.

CESIR will provide additional professional training opportunities for midshipmen and  generate opportunities for enhancing midshipmen and faculty research through collaborations with U.S. government agencies, other universities, and industry.

Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy today is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen. U.S. News and World Reports has recognized the Naval Academy as a top five undergraduate engineering school and a top 20 best liberal arts college. Midshipmen learn from military and civilian instructors and participate in intercollegiate varsity sports and extracurricular activities. They also study subjects such as leadership, ethics, small arms, drill, seamanship and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, and military law. Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 26 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of exciting and rewarding service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps. 

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