Timothy E. Frank

Timothy E. Frank
Timothy E. Frank (BS 02, MS 03)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
U.S. Air Force Academy

CEEAA Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2013

For accomplishments as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force completing civil engineering missions overseas; and for outstanding engineering achievements, leadership and enhancement of engineering education as an engineering educator and researcher.

Biography

Timothy E. Frank is an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force. He has served throughout the world and in various capacities as a civil engineer since graduating from the University of Illinois in 2003. Frank currently teaches structural engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy to cadets who will be commissioned as Air Force officers upon graduation, and is passionate about working with students. His research interests include the blending of cultural and technical competencies, using learning contracts to encourage self-directed learning, and providing low-cost, sustainable water filtration and disinfection in developing countries. 

Frank enjoys managing projects and working with diverse groups of people, especially those in other cultures. Among Frank’s favorite projects to manage were the construction of an unmanned aerial vehicle maintenance and hangar complex and the environmental restoration of 1,200 acres of land formerly used as a bombing range. These projects allowed him to employ innovative technologies and collaborate with multiple agencies. Other career highlights include skydiving, commanding a civil engineer squadron while deployed to Southwest Asia and taking Academy cadets to Ghana on a cultural immersion trip.

Off duty, Frank enjoys the outdoors, traveling and spending time with his wife, two daughters and dog.