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Captain Christopher Amaddio

Instructor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Captain Christopher Amaddio
Contact Information

(719) 333-9118

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Bio

Captain Amaddio is from Cleveland, Ohio and entered the Air Force in 2017 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He has gained knowledge in civil engineering operations while at base level assignments, expeditionary deployments and as a staff engineer. He is now an instructor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Academy. Capt Amaddio is a registered professional engineer in the State of Michigan.

Education

Master of Science in Civil Engineering – The University of Texas at Austin (2025)

Master of Science in Engineering Management– Air Force Institute of Technology (2021)

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering – United States Air Force Academy (2017)

Professional Experience

Instructor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (August 25 – Present)

Masters Student, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (August 24- August 25)

Joint Staff Engineer J44 Joint Special Operations Task Force – Somalia, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (October 2023 – March 2024)

Operations Engineering Officer in Charge, 9th Civil Engineer Squadron, Beale Air Force Base, Calif. (April 2023 – August 2024)

Executive Officer, 9th Mission Support Group, Beale AFB, Calif. (March 2022 – April 2023)

Installation Management Flight Commander, Undisclosed Location, Southeast Asia (July 2021 – February 2022)

Engineering Deputy Flight Commander, 9th Civil Engineer Squadron, Beale AFB, Calif. (March 2021 – July 2021)

Masters Student, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (August 2019 – March 2021)

Readiness and Emergency Management Flight Commander, 366th Civil Engineer Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (February 2019 – August 2019)

MILCON Project Manager, 379 ECES, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (July 2018 – February 2019)

Project Engineer, 366 Civil Engineer Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (July 2017 – July 2018)

Honors & Awards

Joint Service Commendation Medal

Joint Service Achievement Medal

Air and Space Commendation Medal with Three Oak Leaf Clusters

Air and Space Achievement Medal

Research and Scholarly Interests

Pavements, Geosynthetic Reinforced Pavement, Tunneling