L. Edward Temple, Jr.
SNS Project Director
Dr. Temple has held project director positions at SNS, the U.S. Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Detector, and the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Before these positions he held increasingly responsible positions in ãproject managementä arenas in DOE. He has served on several high-level technical, cost, schedule, and engineering management review panels and teams.
At SNS, Dr. Temple has been involved in establishing the technical, cost, and schedule baselines and in developing and implementing formal project management systems. He has overseen staffing of the SNS Oak Ridge Project Office and has led the project through critical reviews by successful completion of conditions imposed by Congress as a requirement for release of FY 2000 funding. He has worked together with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) director to establish, and select leadership for, a new LANL SNS Linac Project Division.
On CMS, Dr. Temple was construction project manager at Fermilab, where he had management and fiscal responsibility and worked with a coleader who was responsible for technical aspects of the detector. This $256M effort entailed 32 U.S. universities and laboratories as participants in the International CMS activities.
Dr. Temple first led DOE reviews of the APS at its inception. He was then appointed APS project director just as construction was getting under way, where he lead the construction effort to a completion. His management of APS covered technical, cost, and schedule aspects and resulted in the facility being built with an increased scope, while remaining ahead of schedule and within budget.
At DOE, Dr. Temple held positions at the San Francisco Operations Office and then in Headquarters. At Headquarters, he worked in the Office of Program and Project Management Assessment in the Office of the Controller. There he participated in developing department project management orders and guidance. He then transferred to the Office of Energy Research (OER), where over a ten-year period he developed an OER Project Management System that continues as a model today.
Dr. Templeâs first position was as a senior development engineer for the General Electric Nuclear Energy Division, where he lead teams conducting scientific measurements at nuclear power reactors in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States during refueling outages.
Ed graduated magna cum laude from Kansas Wesleyan University with a B.A. in mathematics and physics and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of California at Berkley. He did his Ph.D. thesis in experimental nuclear physics at the 184ä Cyclotron at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
