LCDR Diallo Wallace USN

California State Credentialed Teacher in Career Technical Education (CTE) with experience teaching aviation and engineering to youth. At the graduate level, he has attained a Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Project Management from Keller Graduate School. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Purdue University with a dissertation focus on the benefits of interweaving physics first and engineering curriculums for student self-efficacy in engineering.

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Diallo has presented to The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) on the gains of incorporating computation and computer programming in K-12 curriculums and he has also presented at NASA’s Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC) on ways to implement the engineering design process and thinking for pre-college students.In his military capacity, Diallo is a Naval Aviator and Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer in the NAVAIR RESERVE PROGRAM (NRP). He serves in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the United States Naval Academy, instructing aeronautics, astronautics, and MATLAB Computer programming courses. He is the Officer Representative for USNA’s 100 member National Society of Black Engineers and the Officer Representative of the 1000 member Naval Academy Flight Training Squadron (VTNA), where he trains and mentors midshipmen for flight school. Diallo routinely presents to youth and teachers about space and aviation as an active volunteer of the Naval Academy’s STEM Center for Education and Outreach.