The Chief of Engineers commands the US Army Corps of Engineers. As a staff officer at The Pentagon, the Chief advises the Army on engineering matters and serves as the Army's topographer and the proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs. United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. ... The Pentagon, looking east with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the distance. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Topography, a term in geography, has come to refer to the lay of the land, or the physiogeographic characteristics of land in terms of elevation, slope, and orientation. ...

As commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Chief of Engineers leads a major Army command that is the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency. This office defines policy and guidance and plans direction for the organizations within the Corps.

Chief of Engineers List

• Richard Gridley (June 1775-April 1776)
• Rufus Putnam (April 1776-December 1776)
• Louis Lebègue Duportail (July 22, 1777-October 10, 1783)
• Stephen Rochefontaine (February 26, 1795-May 7, 1798)
• Henry Burbeck (May 7, 1798-April 1, 1802)
• Jonathan Williams (April 1, 1802-June 20, 1803 and April 19, 1805-July 31, 1812)
• Joseph Gardner Swift (July 31, 1812-November 12, 1818)
• Walker Keith Armistead (November 12, 1818-June 1, 1821)
• Alexander Macomb (June 1, 1821-May 24, 1828)
• Charles Gratiot (May 24, 1828-December 6, 1838)
• Joseph Gilbert Totten (December 7, 1838-April 22, 1864)
• Richard Delafield (April 22, 1864-August 8, 1866)
• Andrew Atkinson Humphreys (August 8, 1866-June 30, 1879)
• Horatio Gouverneur Wright (June 30, 1879-March 6, 1884)
• John Newton (March 6, 1884-August 27, 1886)
• James Chatham Duane (October 11, 1886-June 30, 1888)
• Thomas Lincoln Casey (July 6, 1888-May 10, 1895)
• William Price Craighill (May 10, 1895-February 1, 1897)
• John Moulder Wilson (February 1, 1897-April 30, 1901)
• Henry M. Robert (April 30, 1901-May 2, 1901)
• John W. Barlow (May 2, 1901-May 3, 1901)
• George Lewis Gillespie, Jr. (May 3, 1901-January 23, 1904)
• Alexander Mackenzie (January 23, 1904-May 25, 1908)
• William Louis Marshall (July 2, 1908-June 11, 1910)
• William Herbert Bixby (June 12, 1910-August 11, 1913)
• William Trent Rossell (August 12, 1913-October 11, 1913)
• Dan Christie Kingman (October 12, 1913-March 6, 1916)
• William Murray Black (March 7, 1916-October 31, 1919)
• Lansing Hoskins Beach (February 10, 1920-June 18, 1924)
• Harry Taylor (June 19, 1924-June 26, 1926)
• Edgar Jadwin (June 27, 1926-August 7, 1929)
• Lytle Brown (October 1, 1929-October 1, 1933)
• Edward Murphy Markham (October 1, 1933-October 18, 1937)
• Julian Larcombe Schley (October 18, 1937-October 1, 1941)
• Eugene Reybold (October 1, 1941-September 30, 1945)
• Raymond A. Wheeler (October 4, 1945-February 28, 1949)
• Lewis A. Pick (March 1, 1949-January 26, 1953)