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Nuclear Engineering and Radiological S c i e n c e s
NERS
University of MichiganCollege of Engineering
November 2-4, 2008
Michigan MeMorial Phoenix energy institute
The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support
of the NERS@50 Anniversary Symposium Celebration
College of Engineering andMedia and Marketing
Welcome to our 50th Anniversary!1958-2008
Schedule of Events(All activities take place in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library unless noted otherwise)
Sunday, 11/2/08 6:00-8:00pm Welcome Reception/Early Registration Chesebrough Lobby, Chrysler Center
Student Poster Display Gallery –Duderstadt Center
Monday, 11/3/08 Morning Session 7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast
Registration
8:30-8:40 Welcome
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
8:40-9:30 Dr. David Kay, Senior Research Fellow
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, Virginia
Rethinking the non-proliferation requirements for the nuclear renaissance
9:30-9:45 Bill Martin, NERS Department Chair
NERS Department: Past, Present and Future
9:45-10:15 Chairs Panel
Former Dept chairs talk about the department and significant/interesting events during their tenures
10:15-10:30 BREAK
10:30-10:45 Sidney Yip, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Engineering Then and Now – Reflect, Rejoice, and Reload
10:45-11:00 John Engdahl, Donald V. Fites Chair of Engineering
College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University
The Evolution of Gamma Imaging Technology for Nuclear Medicine
11:00-11:10 John Kelly, Sandia National Laboratories
Innovative Applications of Nuclear Power
11:10-11:20 Todd Palmer, Oregon State University
Deterministic Transport for Radiation Detection Problems – Monte Carlo Isn’t the Only Game in Town
11:20-11:30 Jim Rathkopf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Memories of the 80’s
11:30am-1:00pm LUNCH
Monday, 11/3/08 Afternoon Session 1:00-1:45 Alumni Panel
Alum from each decade – personal recollections and pictures are encouraged
1:45-2:00 Jim Fici, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Personal Thoughts and Reflections – NERS Years Ago and The Bright Future Ahead
2:00-2:15 John Luginsland, NumerEx
NERS Plasma Physics in the Last 20 Years
2:15-2:25 Tom Mehlhorn, Sandia National Laboratories
NERS, Sandia, and me – 30 years of learning and research
2:25-2:35 Jacob Trombka, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Ray, Gamma Ray and Neutron Remote and In-Situ Exploration of the Solar System
2:35-2:45 Siaka Yusuf, The Dow Chemical Company
Industrial Research Measurement Problem Solving Using Neutron Activation Analysis
3:00-5:30 Student Poster Display Gallery - Duderstadt Center
4:00-5:30 Laboratory Tours See schedule
6:30-11:00 Social Hour and Banquet Michigan League
Radiation image of the 0.724 and 0.756 meV gamma Rays of ZR-95.
Radiation image of the 1.173 and 1.332 meV gamma Rays of Co-60.
Tuesday, 11/4/08 Morning Session
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 Todd Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Recollections on Graduate School at Michigan and Advice for Those to Come
8:45-9:00 Sidney Karin, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California-San Diego
Reflections
9:00-9:15 John Valentine, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Musings of a Measurements Graduate
9:15-9:25 Forrest Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory
NERS and the National Laboratories – Transport Methods
9:25-9:35 Paul Rockett, Sandia National Laboratories
TBA
9:35-10:20 Futures Panel
A panel of alumni will discuss the nuclear “renaissance” and its implications for NERS.
10:20-10:35 BREAK
10:35-10:45 Donald Hall, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute: A Unique National Resource
10:45-10:55 George Baldwin, Sandia National Laboratories
International Nuclear Safeguards at Sandia National Laboratories
10:55-11:05 Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Magnetic Fusion Energy Research, 2008 and beyond
11:05-11:15 Tom Sutton, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
The MC21 Monte Carlo Transport Code
11:15-11:30 Final Remarks
Tuesday, 11/4/08
12:00-1:30 Student/Alumni Luncheon Johnson Rooms/LEC
Schedule for Tours of the NERS Research LaboratoriesMonday, November 3
There will be 3 groups for the laboratory tours. Based on the labs that you would like to see, select a group. Lab tours will leave the Gallery in the Duderstadt Center to walk or go by van at 4:00 pm.
Group A – Laboratories located in the NAME Bldg. and Cooley Bldg.4:00 Board vans to NAME Bldg.4:10 Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (Was)
Neutron Science Laboratory (Hartman)Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory (Gilgenbach)
4:40 Board van to return to Cooley Bldg.4:50 Arrive at Cooley Bldg.4:50 High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory (Was)
Position-Sensing Radiation Detection Laboratory (He) Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory (Kearfott) Detection for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Laboratory (Pozzi) Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory (Foster) 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at the Michigan League (6:30pm)
Group B – Laboratories located in the PML, Gerstacker Bldg. and NAME Bldg. Walk to PML 4:10 Irradiated Materials and Testing Laboratory (Was) Walk to Gerstacker Bldg. High Intensity Laser Laboratory (Krushelnick) 4:40 Walk to Cooley 4:50 Board van to NAME Bldg.
5:00 Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (Was) Neutron Science Laboratory (Hartman)
Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory (Gilgenbach) 5:30 Board van to Cooley Bldg. 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at Michigan League (6:30pm)
Group C – Laboratories located in the Cooley Bldg., PML and Gerstacker Bldg. Walk to Cooley Bldg. 4:10 Arrive at Cooley Bldg. 4:10-4:25 High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory (Was) Position-Sensing Radiation Detection Laboratory (He) Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory (Kearfott) Detection for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Laboratory (Pozzi) Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory (Foster) 5:00 Walk to PML Irradiated Materials and Testing Laboratory (Was) 5:15 Walk to Gerstacker Bldg. High Intensity Laser Laboratory (Krushelnick) 5:30 Walk to Cooley 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at Michigan League (6:30pm)
Dr. David Kay, Senior Research FellowPotomac Institute for Policy Studies
Arlington, VAhttp://www.potomacinstitute.org/aboutus/staff/kay.htm
“Rethinking the Non-proliferation Requirements for a Nuclear Renaissance”
Monday, November 3, 20088:30 AM
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library1000 Beal Avenue
If a worldwide nuclear renaissance of nuclear generated electricity is to in fact occur, the nuclear enterprise – in all its compo-nents – must meet at least three requirements:
A very high standard of operational safety regardless of • where the nuclear reactors are located;
Demonstrable economies in construction and operation of all• components of the nuclear fuel cycle;
At the least not contribute to the possibilities of nuclear proliferation,• and preferably be highly resistant to nuclear proliferation.
This talk will address the third of these requirements: What are the non-proliferation requirements for a nuclear renaissance? The non-proliferation system that was designed for the first age of nuclear power met the needs, as foreseen in the early 1960’s. Compared to many efforts to foresee where technology and national competition will lead, the first efforts at non-proliferation were remarkable achievements. But technologies and the pressures toward proliferation have changed. This talk lays out what these changes are and the requirements for an effective non-proliferation system to undergird a new age of nuclear power growth.
NAME CO-AUTHORS TITLE
Abdul-Jabbar, Najeb Y. Boucher, J. Dolan Radiation Shielding Design for Aircraft CrewAmbers, Scott M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi Analytical Description of Pulses Measured with an Organic
Liquid Scintillator for Pulse Shape
Ampornrat, Pantip Y. Chen, G. Was, L. Wang Microstructure of Oxide Scales Formed on Alloy HCM12A in Supercritical Water
Anderson, Stephen Event Classification in 3D Position Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors
Beauvais, Zachary K. Thompson Evaluation of Total Effective Dose to Certain Environmentally Placed Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials Using Residual Radioactivity (RESRAD) Code
Campbell, Anne Z. Jiao, R. Zhou, G. S. Was Stage Design for In-Situ Proton Irradiation Induced Creep Experi-ments
Hubble, Aimee B. Yee, E. Gillman, J. Foster Research Activities at the Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory
Davidson, Greg E. Larsen Sweepless Time-Dependent Transport Calculations using the Stag-gered Block Jacobi Method
Fowler Guzzardo, Tyler Sensitivity Study of Electron Dose Distributions in Inhomogeneous Water
Fynan, Douglas F. Rahman, John Haddad Gamma Irradiation for the Disinfection of Municipal Wastewater
Gomez, Matt Michigan Accelerator for Inductive Z-pinch Experiments (MAIZE)
Haas, Jason J. Lee Equilibrium TRU Management Scheme for Diverse Fuel Cycle Analysis
Haddad, John F. Rahman, T. Briley, A. Fisher The Use of Weapon-Grade Plutonium as a MOX Fuel in the AP-1000 Reactor
Student Research PostersGallery - Duderstadt Center
Hamilton, Ceris M. Hartman, H. Wu, T. Udovic, J. Rush, A. Gross, J. Vajo, T. Baumann
A Study of the Effects of Nanoconfinement on the Dynamical Properties of Lithium Borohydride Using Neutron Scattering Techniques
Harvey, John E. Thomas, K. Kearfott Precision, Accuracy, and Optimal Numbers of Trials for Calibration of Individual Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (TLDs) Through Glow Curve Peak and Region of Interest Analysis
Harvey, John E. Thomas, K. Kearfott Glow Curve Peak Fading Properties of Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (TLDs)
Hou, Jason B. Collins, V. Seker, T. Downar
Comparison of TRU Burning Capabilities of SFR and RBWR
Jabaay, Dan V. Seker, Y. Xu, T. Downar Analysis of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors with PARCS/AGREE
Jiang, Hao F. Becchetti, A. Villano, M. Ojaruega, A. Rose, R. Ray-mond, R. Torres-Isea, J. Kolata, A. Roberts
Quantitative Low-Energy Ion Beam Profile Measurement with Gafchromic Film
Johnson, Seth E. Sunny Non-Proliferation Border Security
Johnson, Seth T. Urbatsch Opacity Distribution Functions in Implicit Monte Carlo
Joshi-Kaye, Sonal On behalf of Dr. He’s Research Group
Polaris Project
Kaye, Willy N. Bennett, C. Wahl, Z. He Gamma-ray Source Location Through Attenuation
Kochunas, Brendan M. Hursin, T. Downar, V. Seker
DeCART: Deterministic Core Analysis Based on Ray Tracing
Lehnert, Adrienne Z. Whetstone, T. Zak, K. Kearfott
Preliminary Simulations in the Use of Fast Neutrons to Detect Explosives
Li, Weixing L. Wang, K. Sun, Q. Wei, Y. Chen, R. Ewing
The nature of fission track in apatite: on its structure and forma-tion
Maestas, Ben P.R. Stanfield, S.D. Clarke, M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi
The iFIND Mobile Standoff Radiation Detection System: A Pix-elated Two Plane Compton Imaging Detector with Active Coded Aperture Array Capability
McGuffey, Chris T. Matsuoka, M. Levin, S. Bulanov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, P. Rousseau, V. Yanovsky, A. Zigler, A. Maksimchuk, and K. Krushelnick
Guiding and Ionization Blueshift in Ablative Capillary Waveguide Accelerators
Miller, Eric M. Flaska, S.D. Clarke, S.A. Pozzi, P. Peerani
Monte Carlo Simulation of the Full Neutron Multiplicity Distribution Measured with a Passive Counter for PuO2
Moran, Tiberius D. Zaide Theoretical and Numerical Developments in Turbulent Radiative Hydrodynamics
Newton, J. P. J. Laird, K. Thompson, Z. Beau-vaiz, Z. Whetstone, K. Kearfott
Mapping of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials and Indoor Radon Gas Concentrations with Population and Land Type in Several North Central Mountain States
Nowicki, Suzanne S. Anderson, Z. He, K. Shah, L. Cirignano, H. Kim
Investigation of Polarization Effect in Thallium Bromide Detectors
Pavenayotin, Niravun Y. Chen, L. Wang Ion Implantation of Gold Nanoparticles in Sulfide Minerals
Penisten, Janelle Z. Jiao, Gary S. Was Radiation-Induced Segregation in Candidate Alloys for the Advanced Burner Reactor
Perez-Bergquist, Alejandro K. Sun, Y. Zhang, L. Wang Thermally-Induced GaSb Core-Shell Nanofibers: Evidence of Nanoscale Phase Instability
Thompson, K. H. D. Cooper, A. Lehnert, J. Har- vey, J. Newton, K. Kearfott
Calibration of a Charcoal Canister-Based Radon Screening System Using a Small Radon Chamber
Thrall, Crystal C. Wahl Performance of Five-or-More-Pixel Event Sequence Reconstruction for 3-D Semiconductor Gamma-Ray-Imaging Spectrometers
Wang, Weiyi MLEM Deconvolution in Spatial and Combined Spatial-Energy Domains for Combined Single-, Two-, Three-, and Four-Interaction Events
Ward, Andrew B. Collins, Y. Xu, T. Downar Modeling of the Argentina Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor, ATUCHA-II
Wei, Qiangmin K. Li, W. Lu, L. Wang Self-assembly of ordered nanopatterns via ion beam irradiations
West, Elaine IGSCC Mitigation in Supercritical Water
Whetstone, Zachary A.Lehnert, T. Zak, K. Kearfott Preliminary shielding design for a D-T neutron generator
Wolters, Emily E. Larsen, W. Martin A Hybrid Monte Carlo-S2 Method for Preserving Transport Ef-fects in Interface Problems
Xu, Yunlin T. Downar, V. Seker, A. Ward, B. Collins
PARCS: An Advanced Reactor Core Simulator
Zak, Tomasz A. L. Lehnert, Z. D. Whetstone, K. J. Kearfott
Shadow Shield Development for a Liquid Scintillator Neutron Detector
Zhu, Yanbo M. Heath, M. Claus Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors for the Disposal of Higher Actinides and Weapons Grade Plutonium
Then and Now - A Few NERS@50 Speakers
Todd Allen University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daniela Atanasovski DTE Energy
George Baldwin Sandia National Laboratories
Ronald Berliner Instrumentation Associates
John Booske University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Borcherts Retired
Jeffrey Bradfute Westinghouse Electric Company
Forrest Brown Los Alamos National Laboratory
Paul Cook Wolverine Sign Works
Moni Dey Deytec, Inc.
Jie Du
John Engdahl Bradley University
Jim Fici Westinghouse Electric Company
Patrick Finnegan
David Gilliam National Institute of Science and Tech.
Kingsley Graham Retired
Rachel Gunnett Advent Engineering
Donald Hall Armed Forces Radiobiology Res. Institute
Wei Ji Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Valentin Jordanov
Reza Kamaly N & C LLC
Sidney Karin San Diego Supercomputing Center
John Kelly Sandia National Laboratories
Juan Carlo Lopez Boeing
John Luginsland NumerEx
Tom Mehlhorn Sandia National Laboratories
Thomas Merchant St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Michel Mirkovitch Lockleed-Martin Space Systems
Todd Palmer Oregon State University
Richard Polich Energy Options & Solutions
Shikha Prasad ERIN Engineering and Research
William Price Theradex
Jim Rathkopf Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Paul Rockett Sandia National Laboratories
Robert Rulko CNSC
Virinder Sandhu Lockheed Martin - KAPL
Ronnie Shepherd Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Donald Spong Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Allison Stolle Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Thomas Sutton Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Jacob Trombka NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
John Valentine Science Applications International Corp.
Brian Wagner Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Mary Beth Ward Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sam Werner National Institute of Science and Technology
Sidney Yip Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Out-of-Town Alumni Attendees
A. Ziya AkcasuScott AmbersPantip AmpornratMichael AtzmonMargaret BaconEric BakerKaushik BanerjeePaul BartonCameron BatesRichard BeckTroy BeckerAnn BellAlex BielajewBrandon BlackburnYvan BoucherMegan BrownAnne CampbellLiu (Will) ChangyuanJesse CheathamYanbin ChenShaun ClarkeBenjamin CollinsJeremy ConlinDonna ConstantPaul CummingsGregory DavidsonPam DerryYuni DewarajaJennifer Dolan
Burcin DonmezThomas DownarJames DuderstadtMichaela EddyJohn-Michael FischerMarek FlaskaRon FlemingJohn FosterDavid FrenchRon GilgenbachErci GillmanMatt GomezPeggy Jo GramerGeoffrey GreeningDouglas HakeHiruy HadguCeris HamiltonMichael HartmanJohn HarveyJohn HayesZhong HeBrad HoffAdam HoffmanAimee HubbleAlexander HunterDaniel JabaayHao JiangCaroline JoaquinSeth Johnson
Sonal JoshiWilly KayeKimberlee KearfottJae Cheon KimBrian KitchenGlenn KnollKarl KrushelnickJustin LamyEdward LarsenY. Y. LauJohn LeeAdrienne LehnertDiana LiWeixing LiJu LiuangWilliam MartinKathryn MasiEric MillerTiberius Moran-LopezMaria Eugenia Morell GonzalezKyeoung OhBrock PalenAndrew PattonNiravun PavenayotinJanelle PenistenScott PfefferJane PolingSara PozziVolkan Seker
University of Michigan AttendeesBradley SommersEva SunnyAlexander ThomasElizabeth ThomasShannon ThomasKaylie ThompsonCrystal ThrallAndrew TillNick TouranScott WagnerWilliam WalshLumin WangAndrew WardGary WasBrandon WeatherfordDavid WeheMatthew WeisElaine WestScott WildermanEmily WoltersHao YangJinan YangBenjamin YeePeng ZhangJacob ZierOwen Zinaman
The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Mich-igan is the oldest degree program and the second oldest department of its type in the coun-try. In the late 1940s the Department of Aeronautical Engineering organized a graduate program for Air Force officers who came to the University for training. One of the courses offered was a course that began with introductory material in neutron-nuclear physics and in cluded some material on reactor physics, such as diffusion theory and elementary criticali-ty calculations. The course was first held on a classified basis, and was organized and taught by Larry Rauch and Myron Nichols.
In the early 1950s, when the material became available on an unclas-sified basis, it was decided to offer the course on a college-wide basis. Developing interest in nuclear energy led to the introduction of sev-eral additional courses including a Radiation Measurements course, taught in Electrical Engineering (Kerr), a course on Interaction of Ra-diation with Matter, taught in Electrical Engineering (Gomberg), and a course on Industrial Applications of Radiation taught in Chemical Engineering (Brownell).
Interest in the area grew to the point that an interdepartmental committee was appointed by the Dean of Engineering in 1952 to administer a graduate program in Nuclear Engineering. It was decided in the early 1950s to construct a research reactor, as part of the Michigan Memo-rial Phoenix Project (MMPP) established as a World War II memorial in 1948. The existence on campus of a program with the responsibility for developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy attracted additional attention and a significant number of graduate students to the Nuclear Engineering program. The Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR), built with a $1 million grant from the Ford Motor Company, reached initial criticality in 1957 and was the third university campus reactor constructed in the United States.
A Short Departmental History
1957 - Ford Nuclear Reactor criticality reached
1958 - Department of Nuclear Engineering established
1965 - Undergraduate program in Nuclear Engineering estab-lished
1978 - Departmental and faculty offices move to Cooley Building
1977 - Major laboratories not located in PML transferred to shielded bays in Naval Archi-tecture and Marine Engineering Building
1980 - Undergraduate program in Engineering Physics reinsti-tuted
1995 - Name change to Depart-ment of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
2003 - Ford Nuclear Reactor shut down for decommissioning
The first Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering was awarded in 1954. The first three Ph.D. degrees (to M. Iriarte, T. Kammash, and F. Ham-mitt) were awarded at the spring commencement in 1958. By 1958 about 110 graduate students were enrolled, and about eight faculty members were associated with the program on at least a part-time basis: Gomberg, Kerr, King, Zweifel, E. Martin, Osborn, Brownell, and West.
In early 1958 the Engineering College and the University administration approved the formation of a Department of Nuclear Engineering, and it came into being officially on July 1, 1958. Henry Gomberg was appointed the inaugural Depart-ment Chairman.
The first student chapter of the American Nuclear Society was organized at the University of Michigan, and was officially chartered in December 1955. The Department initially offered only a graduate program, with degrees at the Masters, profes-sional, and doctoral levels. It was a national leader in the es-tablishment of Ph.D. programs in Nuclear Engineering and in Nuclear Science. In 1959, a tradition of long standing was begun by the administration of a “preliminary” examination for the incoming class of doctoral candidates (including Albrecht, Borcherts, Carpenter, Ferziger,
Knoll, Latta, Olhoeft, Plummer, Pluta, and Stevens).
In the Fall of 1965, the undergraduate program in Nuclear En-gineering was established. The first B.S. degrees were awarded two years later. A second undergraduate program, in Engineer-ing Physics, formerly Science Engineering, was reinstituted in 1980 under the auspices of the Department of Nuclear Engineering. In the 1980s, teaching and research programs of the Department began to diversify significantly outside the traditional nuclear engineering areas, including plasma physics, materials science, radiation measurements, radiological health, and medical physics. In recognition of the program diversifi-cation, the Departmental name was changed in 1995 to the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.
Throughout its his-tory, the Department has been housed on North Campus, close to the Phoenix Memo-rial Laboratory (PML) and the FNR. Initially, the Departmental of-fice was located in the Automotive Labora-tory, with faculty of-fices and laboratories also housed in the PML and the Fluids Laboratory (now G. G. Brown Laboratory). A major relocation took place in 1978 with the move of the Departmental office and most faculty offices to the Cooley Building. At the same time, major laboratories not located in the PML were transferred to the large shielded bays that formerly housed the Physics Department cyclotrons.
The Departmental research laboratories in the former cyclotron
bays evolved into the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory and the Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory, occupying a large part of the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) Building. As a major University-wide facility, the FNR operated successfully between 1957 and 2003, when it was shut down for decommissioning. The Neutron Science Laboratory, featuring a D-T neutron gen-
erator with associated shielding facilities, was added recently to the Departmental facilities in the NAME Building. NERS faculty members also play leadership roles in a number of University facilities, including the Center for Ul-trafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) and the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL).
In addition to the current faculty, a number of individuals served on the departmental faculty. They include George West (died in 1970), Louis Hamilton (died in 1973), Lloyd Brownell (died in 1976), Edward A. Martin (died in 1985), Richard K. Osborn (died in 1987), Chihiro Kikuchi (died in 1988), Fred Hammitt (died in 1989), Milton Edlund (died in 1993), Henry Gomberg (died in 1995), George Summerfield (died in 1996), Fred Shure (died in 2000), John King (died in 2007), Geza Gyo-rey (retired from General Electric Company), Paul Zweifel (now at Virginia Tech), Harvey Graves (retired), Jack Carpenter (now at Argonne National Laboratory), David Bach (semi-retired at California State University, Northridge), M. M. R. Williams (now at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine), Mary Brake (now at Eastern Michigan University), Rodney Ewing (now with the Geology Department with a joint position in NERS), and Donald Umstadter (now at the University of Nebraska). The department also has 4 adjunct faculty and 5 research scientists contributing to various instructional and research programs.
The Department has been headed by seven Chairs over its history: Henry Gomberg (1958-1961), William Kerr (1961-1974), John King (1974-1979), Glenn Knoll (1979-90), William Martin (1990-94, 2004-present), Gary Was (1994-1999), and John Lee (1999-2004). James Duderstadt, a mem-ber of the Departmental faculty, served as Dean of Engineering (1981-1986), Provost (1986-1988), and President (1988-1996).
In the half century of its history, the Department has awarded 726 B.S., 669 M.S., 35 MEng, 9 Professional Nuclear Engineer, and 492 Ph.D. degrees. In addition, the Department served as the home department for 189 B.S. graduates in Engineering Physics and Science Engineering. During the Fall 2008 semes-ter, the Department has a total enrollment of 145 undergradu-
ates, including 25 Engi-neering Physics students, and 102 graduate stu-dents. The Department is consistently ranked first or second among all Nuclear degree programs in national academic surveys, including recent U. S. News and World Report surveys, both at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. As one indicator of excel-lence, students from the Department have won the Mark Mills Award of the American Nuclear Society 12 times out of the 49 selections that have been made to date.
Current Department Faculty(with year of initial appointment)1953 Professor Emeritus William Kerr1958 Professor Emeritus Terry Kammash1960 Professor Emeritus Dietrich H. Vincent1962 Professor Emeritus Glenn F. Knoll1963 Professor Emeritus A. Ziya Akcasu1969 Professor and President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt1974 Professor John C. Lee1977 Professor William R. Martin1980 Professor Ronald M. Gilgenbach1980 Professor Gary S. Was1986 Professor Edward W. Larsen1986 Professor David K. Wehe1987 Professor Michael Atzmon1989 Professor Ronald F. Fleming1990 Professor James P. Holloway1992 Professor Yue Ying Lau 1993 Professor Kimberlee J. Kearfott 1994 Professor Zhong He 1997 Professor Alex F. Bielajew 1997 Professor Lumin Wang 2006 Associate Professor John Foster 2006 Professor Karl M. Krushelnick 2007 Assistant Professor Michael Hartman2007 Associate Professor Sara Pozzi 2008 Professor Thomas J. Downar 2008 Assistant Professor Alexander Thomas
Department Research FacultyAssistant Research Scientist Marek FlaskaAssistant Research Scientist Mark HammigAssistant Research Scientist Zhijie JiaoAssistant Research Scientist Volkan SekerAssistant Research Scientist Sebastien Teysseyre (New position at INL October 2008)Assistant Research Scientist Feng Zhang
Adjunct FacultyAdjunct Assistant Professor Jeremy BusbyAdjunct Professor Forrest BrownAdjunct Professor Frederick W. BuckmanAdjunct Professor Michael J. FlynnAdjunct Professor Mitchell M. GoodsittAdjunct Professor Randall K. Ten HakenAdjunct Professor Ruth Weiner
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