Faculty and their research:

Jack S. Brenizer, Jr., professor of nuclear and mechanical engineering and program chair of nuclear engineering – Radiation detection, neutron radiography, neutron activation analysis, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and aerogel materials.

Gary L. Catchen, professor of nuclear engineering – Characterization of electronic, optical, and magnetic materials using hyperfine interaction techniques such as perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy; radiation detection and measurement; nonlinear regression and optimization.

Fan-Bill Cheung, professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering – Heat transfer and thermal systems.

Robert M. Edwards, professor of nuclear engineering – Power plant simulation and control; application of artificial intelligence and expert systems to power plant operations.

Lawrence E. Hochreiter, professor of nuclear and mechanical engineering – Reactor engineering and design, single- and two-phase flow and heat transfer, safety analysis models and methods, core thermal-hydraulic methods and analysis.

Kostadin N. Ivanov, professor of nuclear engineering – Three-dimensional reactor core analysis, computational methods in reactor statics and dynamics, thermal-hydraulic reactor system transient modeling of power plants, coupled 3D kinetics/thermal-hydraulic simulations and benchmarking, core design and fuel management.

Edward H. Klevans, professor and head emeritus of nuclear engineering – Radiation instrumentation for industrial application.

Samuel H. Levine, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering – Fuel management, reactor operations, neutron spectrum and beta dosimetry measurements and calculations, reactor design, and fast reactor physics.

John H. Mahaffy, associate professor of nuclear engineering – Computational fluid mechanics, two-phase flow and heat transfer, nuclear reactor safety analysis, and vector and parallel computational techniques.

Arthur T. Motta, professor of nuclear engineering – Radiation damage to materials, zirconium alloys, defects in materials, phase transformations under irradiation.

Barry E. Scheetz, professor of materials, civil and nuclear engineering – Waste form development, stability and environmental interaction, cement and concrete for immobilization and isolation of wastes, cement chemistry, nuclear and hazardous chemical waste management, crystal chemistry and materials characterization.

C. Frederick Sears, director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center and senior scientist; affiliate professor of nuclear engineering - Nuclear safety and management; reactor operations, utilization, and training; instrumentation and control; research and service applications utilizing the RSEC facilities.

Kenan Ünlü, associate director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center and senior scientist; professor of nuclear engineering – Development and applications of nuclear analytical techniques; neutron depth profiling, cold neutron prompt gamma activation analysis, neutron radiography and neutron activation analysis.