Heat Transfer and Microwave Sinstering Expert

Expertise

• Heat transfer analysis: conduction, radiation and convection.
• Microwave heating and high power microwave systems.
• Microwave sinstering of ceramics.
• Nuclear engineering and pressurized water reactors.
• Particle diffusion mechanisms and measurement.

Experience

Independent Consultant 2003-Present

Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech 1984-2003

Associate Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech 1979-1984

Assistant Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech 1974-1979

Babcock & Wilcox, Lynchburg, Virgina, Senior Physicist, 1973-1974

U.S. Navy, Naval Nuclear Power School, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Division, Instructor 1964-1969

Ceramic Science and Technology Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory 1993-1994

Honors & Publications

More than 20 publications

Education

• Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, N.C. State University, Honors: Atomic Energy Commission
• M.Sc., Mathematics, University of Delaware
• B.E.P., Engineering Physics, Auburn University