COL Scott Katalenich

Colonel Scott M. Katalenich serves as the Deputy Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. His military schooling includes the Engineer Officer Basic Course, the Armor Captain’s Career Course, Command & General Staff College Intermediate Level Education Common Core & Air Command and Staff College Advanced Operations Courses, Battalion/District (Army, Engineer, and US Army Corps of Engineers) Pre-Command Courses, Joint Engineering Operations Course, Counter Explosive Hazards Planner Course, Cold Weather Orientation Course, Air Assault, Airborne, Sapper, and Ranger. 

He has served in Mechanized, Stryker, and Echelon Above Brigade Engineer units, including multiple tours to the Joint Readiness Training Center, the National Training Center, and deployment to Iraq as a Brigade Engineer and Stryker Company Commander.  As a Battalion and Brigade S3, he planned, resourced, and directed missions in support of geospatial, underwater dive, explosive ordnance clearance, vertical construction, horizontal construction, survey, design, maintenance, and Logistics Support Vessel / harbormaster operations across the Pacific.  As a Corps of Engineers District Commander, he led both civilian and military professionals in delivering engineering design, planning, construction, real estate, regulation, flood risk management, hydropower, lock operations, recreation, and environmental services within the Great Lakes region.  

COL Katalenich is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Alaska.  He holds the academic rank of Associate Professor and has taught numerous engineering courses.