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Faculty and Research

The Nuclear Engineering Department faculty consists of nine tenured (or tenure track) faculty members, ten research faculty members, twenty-three adjunct faculty members and four emeritus members. They are listed below along with their research interests. Titles of recent research publications and selected abstracts are presented in the Department's Annual Report. To provide a structure through which it may effectively discharge its responsibilities in the development and conduct of the Department’s programs of instruction, research, and service, the Faculty of the Nuclear Engineering Department of the University of Tennessee agrees to govern itself according to Bylaws.

Tenured (or tenure-track) Faculty

Dr. H.L. Dodds H. L. Dodds, Professor and Head, Ph.D. Tennessee, P.E.
Research interests: reactor core analysis, transient modeling and simulation, reactor safety analysis, advanced reactors, nuclear criticality safety
Dr. Jason P. Hayward Jason P. Hayward, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Michigan
Research interests: Radiation detection and measurement, gamma-ray imaging, modeling and simulation, medical and health physics, reactor operation
Dr. J. Wesley Hines J. Wesley Hines, Professor, Ph.D. Ohio State; MBA Ohio State
Research interests: diagnostics and surveillance, artificial intelligence methods, expert systems and neural networks
Dr. Laurence F. Miller Laurence F. Miller, Professor, Ph.D. Texas A&M;, P.E.
Research interests: particle and radiation transport, diagnostics and surveillance, waste management, health physics, modeling and simulation, instrumentation and control
Dr. G. Ivan Maldonado G. Ivan Maldonado, Associate Professor, Ph.D. North Carolina State
Research interests: incore fuel management, fuel cycle analysis, advanced reactors
Dr. Ronald E. Pevey Ronald E. Pevey, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Tennessee, P.E.; MBA Emory
Research interests: reactor physics, thermal hydraulics, computer methods development, shielding, nuclear criticality safety
Dr. Arthur E. Ruggles Arthur E. Ruggles, Professor, Ph.D. RPI
Research interests: Reactor thermalhydraulics, liquid metal flow and heat transfer, cavitation and fluid transients, accelerator target design and microchannel flow
Dr. Lawrence W. Townsend Lawrence W. Townsend, Professor, Ph.D. Idaho
Research interests: Radiation physics, transport, shielding and risk assessment; Nuclear and Radiological engineering; Theoretical nuclear physics
Dr. Robert E. Uhrig Robert E. Uhrig, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Ph.D. Iowa State, P.E.
Research interests: diagnostics and surveillance, artificial intelligence methods, expert systems and neural networks
Dr. Belle R. Upadhyaya Belle R. Upadhyaya, Professor, Ph.D. U. of Calif.-San Diego, P.E.
Research interests: Dynamics, instrumentation and control, monitoring and diagnostics, advanced signal processing, next generation reactors, autonomous control of space reactors, nondestructive examination, maintenance and reliability engineering.

Research Faculty

Ray S. Booth, Research Professor, Ph.D., Florida
Research interests: liquid metal reactors, research reactors, environmental impacts, neutron wave probagation.

Mario Fontana, Research Professor, Ph.D., Purdue, P.E.
Research interests: Power reactor safety (including response to potential terrorist attack, and advanced reactor systems.

Barry D. Ganapol, Research Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research interests: Deterministic and analytical transport theory.

Andrei Gribok, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Biological Physics
Research interests: artificial intelligence techniques, surveillance and diagnosis, Inverse and ill-posed problems, Regularization theory.

Martin L. Grossbeck, Research Professor, Ph.D., Illinois
Research interests: radiation effects in materials, burnable absorbers, research reactors, and ultra-high vacuum technology.

Richard A. Lillie, Research Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests: Deterministic and stochastic transport theory for applications in nuclear engineering.

John T. Mihalczo, Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research interests: radiation measurements for nuclear safeguards and nuclear criticality safety, reactor physics

Hanna Moussa, Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests: radiation safety, Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport.

F.R. Mynatt, Research Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research interests: radiation transport, isotope production and nuclear regulations

Harry J. Pettengill, Research Professor, Ph.D., Michigan
Research interests: nuclear regulation, radiation safety, radiation instrumentation and measurement, radiation health studies, radiological terrorism threat assessment and counter-terrorism.

Thomas H. Scott, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Florida
Primary activity: college-wide advising and recruiting

A. Stephan, Assistant Research Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research interests: radiation detection and homeland security

Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Tom Byrne, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. David H. Cook, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. M. D. DeHart, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Felix Difilippo, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Keith Eckerman, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Paul W. Frame, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Tony Gabriel, Adjunct Professor
Dr. J.C. Gehin, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Herschel Godbee, Adjunct Professor
Dr. David E. Holcomb, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Alan Icenhour, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Erik B. Iverson, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. James Lyon, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Gloria Mei, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Trent Nichols, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Adrian Oliver, Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Chet Ramsey, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Sara Pozzi, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Joseph Thie, Adjunct Professor
Dr. James E. Turner, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Timothy Valentine, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Colin West, Adjunct Professor
Dr. Michael Westfall, Adjunct Professor

Other Emeritus Faculty

Peter G. Groer, Professor, Ph.D. Vienna
Research interests: radiation risk assessment, competing risk theory, health physics, reliability analysis

Thomas W. Kerlin, Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Research interests: diagnostics and surveillance, modeling and simulation, instrumentation and control

Rafael B. Perez, Professor, Ph.D., Madrid
Research interests: diagnostics and surveillance, artificial intelligence methods

Hall C. Roland, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Tennessee
Primary activity: high school recruiting

Paul N. Stevens, Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, PE
Research interests: particle and radiation transport