Using Simulation to Model Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Flow

Abstract

The Army Cadet Command oversees the Army Reserve Officer Training. It receives mission goals every year along with a budget. It is their responsibility to recruit enough cadets to fulfill mission goal and remain under budget, while ensuring the recruited cadets have the correct percentages of race, gender, and majors. This research provides a tool that can change the numbers and percentages of incoming cadets, what year of school they enter, as well as their gender, race, and STEM or non-STEM parameters, in order to explore the composition of graduated commissioned cadets. This study finds that changing the percentage of cadets entering each year results in significant changes in the STEM and non-STEM demographics of the commissioning class. Modeling race and gender disenrollment, as well as specific scholarships, can improve this study.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1077569

Entities

People

  • Marydell V. Westman

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Databases
  • Demography
  • Education
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Behavior
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • Test Methods
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.