Daisie Dawson Boettner (née Wheeler) is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Army brigadier general, and professor emerita in the United States Military Academy.
She is known for her coauthorship of the textbook Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics and for her research on thermal energy storage, heat transfer, and fuel cells.
[3] In the Army, she initially served as a platoon leader in the 50th Ordnance Company.
She moved to the 89th Ordnance Company, in Germany, from 1982 to 1985, and then became an ammunition and logistics officer for the 24th Infantry Division from 1986 to 1989, before being assigned to West Point as an instructor and assistant professor in 1991.
[4] She was chair of the department of civil and mechanical engineering before retiring in 2017 after 36 years of service.