Military leaders argue that the Department of Defense must be more involved if the US is to win the new space race for a lunar outpost.
Author Archives: Lt. Col (Ret) Patrick C. Suermann
Lt. Col (Ret) Patrick C. Suermann, PhD, is the Interim Dean of the Texas A&M School of Architecture. Before his appointment as interim dean, Suermann served for four and a half years as head of the Texas A&M Department of Construction Science. Suermann is an established researcher who has published numerous journal articles, national standards, book chapters and presented at various professional conferences including the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Research Congress as well as the Earth and Space Conference, and more. Suermann retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2017 as a Lieutenant Colonel after a distinguished military career of building runways in remote areas of the world or teaching engineering to future leaders of character. Suermann regularly publishes in high profile journals on civil engineering, construction, and lunar construction/materials and was most recently quoted in the New York Times for the future of lunar architecture.