Category Archives: Faculty
Brown Wins Young Member Award From American Nuclear Society
Associate Professor Nick Brown is the latest recipient of The Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award bestowed by the American Nuclear Society.
2021 Faculty and Staff Awards Announced
Wes Hines, Maik Lang, Jamie Coble, David Donovan, and Michelle McBee received faculty and staff awards from UT’s Tickle College of Engineering.
International Modeling Helps Improve Small Modular Reactors
Research Assistant Professor Ondrej Chvala and Professor Ivan Maldonado partnered with visiting researcher Pavel Suk on a new computer-modeling tool and applied it to a NuScale reactor.
Chvala Raises MSR Profile in International Publication
Research Assistant Professor Ondrej Chvala wrote about Molten Salt Reactors for the internationally acclaimed magazine Power Engineering International.
Wirth Talks Fusion with Forbes
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Brian Wirth spoke to Forbes about the importance for the government to build a pilot fusion plant in the US.
UT Part of $25M Nuclear Research and Development Project
The department is part of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, an 11-member university consortium grant for research and development into nuclear science, engineering, and security.
UT Researchers Help Influence Fusion Policy, Development
UT nuclear engineering researchers helped influence a new federal push toward making a working fusion power plant a reality by the late 2030s.
Hines Gives Welcome Address at CONTE
Wes Hines, Postelle Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UT, opened the CONTE conference with a welcoming speech.
In Memoriam: Thomas Howard Scott Touched Lives in Engineering and Beyond
Associate Professor Emeritus Thomas Howard Scott, who served on the faculty in the Department of Nuclear Engineering from 1986–2008, has passed away.
Zhang Addresses IAEA Webinar on Nuclear Cybersecurity
Research Assistant Professor Fan Zhang presented core findings of collaborative cybersecurity research in webinar series to members of the International Atomic Energy Agency.