Meeting with Speaker at Swanage Conservative Club

ASME has selected U.S. Army Cadet Adam Leemans to represent the Society this year in the New Faces of Engineering-College Edition program. Leemans, an ASME student member and fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has conducted research on renewable energy integration at Army installations and is currently redesigning deployable barracks to improve energy efficiency.

As Brigade Energy and Environmental Officer at West Point, Leemans creates, leads, and manages energy, water, and waste conservation policy and programs for all 4,600 members of the U.S. Corps of Cadets. He previously served as assistant to the Energy Manager at the Directorate of Public Works, Rock Island Arsenal, and as an intern to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, Energy, and Environment).

In addition, Leemans is an Engineers Without Borders board representative for the Military Academy's Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department, a College Reading & Learning Association-certified tutor in math, engineering, Russian and economics, and team captain and member of the West Point Triathlon Team. Leemans was also a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship winner (2012), a Marshall Scholarship alternate (2012), a Rhodes Scholarship finalist (2012), and a USA Triathlon All American in 2011. He has been an ASME student member since 2010.