Scott Stanley Haraburda (born 1963) is an American soldier, engineer, inventor, and 2nd dan

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. In addition to making key contributions to the development of

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and

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, he led a team of military officers in 2007 to

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to correct many of the contingency contracting problems identified by the

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. 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

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Early life

Scott Haraburda grew up in

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, 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. While living in Grand Rapids, he worked as the department store Santa for

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, the same store mentioned in the 2004 Christmas film ''

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''.

Career

Military

Army Science Board Meeting February 2005

Colonel Scott S. Haraburda spent nearly three decades serving in the

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, providing significant contributions to

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, CBRNE defense, and

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. In 1991, while he was teaching chemistry at the

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, the Army Astronaut Nomination Selection Board nominated Haraburda as a NASA astronaut candidate. A few years later, by means of a competitive selection at the rank of Major, he served as a representative of the

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in 1995 through the ''Army Reserve's Foreign Exchange Program'' with the

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, Germany's army. In 2005, he served as the Executive Secretary of the

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, helping its distinguished members of corporate executive managers, senior

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ns, and retired military

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s formulate recommendations to scientific and technological matters of concern to the Army.

Military Logistics

In late 2007, Colonel Haraburda deployed to

for a year to help correct the contingency contracting problems plaguing the war zone. The Army deployed him to

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to lead a small military team of logistics officers in applying the

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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

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hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

s, and

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(e.g.,

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) 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. 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

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, military colleges that prepare officers for senior leadership assignments and responsibilities.

Engineering

The

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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). And from 2014 until 2015, he served as the president of the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE). 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

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, causing Governor

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to soon issue a statement opposing the recommendation as well. Furthermore, in 2001, he earned a doctorate in

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from

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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

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, 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

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. In the 1990s, he worked as a plastics engineer for

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and

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Plastics.

Aerospace

Dr. Haraburda made significant contributions into optimizing the engineering designs of

and

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s. 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

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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 Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA) in Crane, Indiana produces and provides conventional munitions requirements in support of United States Army and Joint Force readiness. It is one of 17 installations of the Joint Munitions Command and one of 2 ...

Personal life

Judo

In 1998, Scott won the Indiana Men's Master Middleweight Judo Championship title. Two years later, the

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promoted him to black belt rank of Nidan (2nd dan).

Bibliography

* ''Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth'' , Meaningful Publications, 2013. * ''Premonitions of the Palladion Project'' , LuLu Publishing, 2008.

Notes

References

External links

Indiana Society of Professional Engineers

List of National Society of Professional Engineers Fellows

Central Michigan University ROTC Hall of Fame

Google Scholar citations for Scott Haraburda

Chemical Processing magazine
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