COL Philip Dacunto, Ph.D., PE Department Head Civil & Environmental Engineering philip.dacunto [at] westpoint.edu About Education COL Phil Dacunto is the head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a full professor of environmental engineering who has served as an engineer officer in a variety of divisional and corps combat engineer assignments, to include engineer battalion S3 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and most recently on the I Corps staff. Ph.D. - Stanford UniversityM.S. - Stanford UniversityB.S. - U.S. Military Academy