Jordan Ewing is a Computational Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate at Michigan Technological University. He is also the recipient of the SMART Scholarship. He presently has master’s degrees in Physics from Wright State University and Data Science from Michigan Technological University. His research is in remote sensing applications and machine/deep learning to help build predictive models for mobility purposes and terramechanics applications. He mainly focuses on thermal and hyperspectral imaging to investigate soil properties for mobility. His research applies to the development of the Next Generation – NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM).