Nuclear Engineering Program (NEP) Faculty

Teaching staff for the Center for Excellence in Nuclear Technology, Engineering, & Research (CENTER) and the Nuclear Engineering Program (NEP) who are directly involved in the NEP include professors, instructors, and adjunct personnel. CENTER/NEP faculty and their areas of expertise are listed below.

Melinda P. Krahenbuhl, Director of the CENTER, Chair of the Nuclear Engineering Program, Associate Research Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Bioengineering; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1998. Research Interests: Plutonium chemistry and bioassay, dose reconstruction, and fission track analysis.
[e-mail: mpk@nuclear.utah.edu]

Dong-Ok Choe, Assistant Research Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering; Ph.D.  Research Interests: reactor physics, dose reconstruction, fission track analysis.
[e-mail: choe@nuclear.utah.edu]

David M. Slaughter, Research Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1986.  Research Interests: reactor physics and operations, radioactive and hazardous materials, environmental radiochemistry, transport risk assessment, nuclear forensics. He just returned from being the Director of the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center in California.
[e-mail: slaughter@nuclear.utah.edu]

For further information about the CENTER, you may contact an individual faculty member via their e-mail links.

Other Participating Faculty

Other faculty from Civil & Environmental Engineering (CVEEN), Mechanical Engineering (ME EN), and Chemical & Fuels Engineering (CHFEN) teach approved core and technical elective courses, and serve on supervisory committees for NEP students.

Civil & Environmental Engineering (CVEEN):

James J. Thompson, Manager, Radioactive Waste and Nuclear Materials Disposition Department at Sandia National Labs, Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ph.D. Purdue University, 1972.  Research Interests: bionucleonics, environmental chemistry, applied health, health and environmental protection, hazardous chemical and radioactive waste management.  
[e-mail: jjthomp@sandia.gov]

Scott Miller, Director of Radiobiology Division, Research Professor of Radiology and Radiobiology; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1974.  Research Interests: internal radiation effects, metabolic pathways, deposition and excretion of radionuclides.
[e-mail: scott.miller@hsc.utah.edu]

Fred W. Bruenger, Research Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiobiology in Partial Retirement; M.S. Frankfurt University, 1954. Research Interests: fission track analysis, neutron activation analysis, health effects of radionuclides on skeletal and soft tissue, determining the distribution of Pu and U in tissue and bone.
[e-mail: fred.bruenger@m.cc.utah.edu]

Ray D. Lloyd, Research Professor of Radiology and Radiobiology; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1974.  Research Interests: applications of radioactive tracers, gamma-ray spectrometry, dosimetry-internal emitters, radionuclide toxicity and metabolism, design and application of radiation detectors, environmental radioactivity, radiation effects and dose response models, decorporation therapy of heavy metals poisoning, local dosimetry in skeleton to detect Pu-239 and other alpha emitters.  
[e-mail: ray.lloyd@hsc.utah.edu]

Mechanical Engineering (ME EN):

Gary M. Sandquist, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1964.  Research Interests: reactor physics, radioactive waste management, health physics, environmental restoration, risk assessment, quality assurance.
[e-mail: gmsand@me.mech.utah.edu]

Chemical Engineering (CHEN):

Geoffrey D. Silcox, Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D. University of Utah, 1985. Research Interests: Experimental and analytical studies in heat and mass transport, computational modeling. [e-mail: geoff@coe.utah.edu]

Philip J. Smith, Professor of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D. Brigham Young University, 1979.  Research Interests: transport phenomena, thermodynamics, kinetics, and computational modeling [e-mail: smith@opus.utah.edu]

Collaborators

Valentin F. Khokhryakov, Currently, Head of the Biophysics Laboratory Branch No. 1 of the Biophysics Institute in the Chelyabinsk Region.  Co-author of more than 150 publications in his field. Research Interests: metabolism and dosimetry of nuclides in radiation workers and in the general population.

Sergey Romanov, Co-author of over 50 publications in his field. Research Interests: metabolism and dosimetry of radionuclides in radiation workers and the general population.

Evgenii K. Vasilenko, Chief of Radiation Protection Service at the Mayak Production Association.  Co-author of more than 25 publications on the subject of radiation dosimetry. Research Interests: external dosimetry for radiation workers and the general population.

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