Nuclear Engineering Core Faculty

Name
Title
Dept
Contact Info
Research Areas
Travis W. Knight Acting Program Director
Asst. Prof.
Nuclear
Eng
300 Main St.,
Rm. A120
e-mail
Ph: 803.777.1465
Fax: 803.777.0106
Advanced nuclear fuels and materials, reactor design, advanced fuel cycles, space nuclear power and propulsion, and application of nuclear power in future energy economies for sustainability including the production of hydrogen from nuclear energy
Jamil Khan Chair
Prof.
Mech Eng 300 Main St.,
Rm. A224
e-mail
Ph: 803.777.1578
Fax: 803.777.0106
Nuclear reactor, thermal hydraulics, enhanced heat transfer, heat transfer and fluid flow with phase change, computational and experimental fluid dynamics related to contaminants transport in rooms, heat transfer in porous media, micro-channel heat transfer
Abdel Bayoumi Prof. Mech Eng 300 Main St,
Rm. A223
e-mail
Ph: 803.777.1845
Fax: 803.777.0106
Product Design and Development; Design for Manufacture and Assembly; Application of nuclear power in future energy including the use of hydrogen as fuel in internal combustion engines
Jeff Morehouse Assoc. Prof. Mech Eng 300 Main St.,
Rm. A125
e-mail
Ph: 803.777.3017
Fax: 803.777.0106
Simulations of thermodynamic heat engine applications involving space-based fuel cell power systems, ground-coupled heat pumps, solar thermal systems; and other advanced energy power systems


Nuclear Engineering Adjunct Professors

Name University/ Company Contact Info Research Areas
Thad Adams Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site
Aiken, SC 29808
e-mail
Nuclear fuels, advanced materials for nuclear systems, spent nuclear fuel storage, disposal technologies for special nuclear materials, high temperature materials for thermochemical hydrogen production
Mel Buckner e-mail
Ph: 803.442.6373
Plutonium disposition, advanced fuel cycle initiatives, and nuclear hydrogen production
Marc Garland Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box 2008 MS6243
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
e-mail
Ph: 865.574.3251
Fax: 865.574.6872
Production of radioisotopes in nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, medical applications of radioisotopes
Maximilian Gorensek Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site
Aiken, SC 29808
e-mail
Nuclear hydrogen production, Nuclear hydrogen production, Thermochemical and hybrid hydrogen production process development, steady-state and dynamic flow sheet simulation and optimization, and high level waste treatment
Valmore Loiselle Mech Eng 300 Main S.
e-mail
Fax: 803.777.0106
Nuclear engineering; environmental remediation, emphasis on radioactive waste management and disposal; transportation and disposal of EPA pond closures, and radioactive metal recycle manufacturing
Elwyn Roberts Mech Eng 300 Main St., Rm. A216
e-mail
Ph: 803.777.2252
Fax: 803.777.0106
Materials performance in nuclear reactors, product design, manufacturing and concurrent engineering
Bill Summers Savannah River National Laboratory Savannah River Site
Aiken, SC 29808
e-mail
Energy policy, supply and demand; advanced energy systems analysis and design; fuel cells and the hydrogen economy; nuclear hydrogen production process design and economic analysis
Balendra Sutharshan Westinghouse e-mail Nuclear fuel performance, reactor engineering, Thermal hydraulics, two-phase flows, application of Six Sigma and Lean
James S. Tulenko Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sci. Bldg.
P. O. Box 118300
Gainesville, FL 32611
e-mail
Ph: 352.392.1401
Fax: 352.392.3380
Nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive wastes, reactor analysis, engineering application of radioisotopes, robotics, intelligent databases, system analysis
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