West Point Cadet Michael Creekmore recently received the U.S. Military Academy’s Bernstein Award for his 
research on a u-shaped picket alternative.
The Bernstein Award is given annually for the best civil engineering presentation at the academy’s annual Projects Day; the award is named for 1st Lt. David R. Bernstein, class of 2001, who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Creekmore’s work began as a summer internship and continued as a fall academic individual study course in 2012 under the mentorship of ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory’s (GSL) James Ray, Col. (ret.) Gary Johnston, Micael Edwards and Matthew Holmer.
As a junior, it is atypical for a cadet to undertake such a project and unprecedented to earn this distinction. This work was in support of the ERDC Deployable Force Protection program.