Dr. John W. McClory, Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Chair, Nuclear Engineering Program
MS Thesis Advised
2024 Second Lieutenant Dustin Rodgers, Nuclear Engineering, Investigation of the ATHENA Radiation Environment at the National Ignition Facility
2023 Major Michael Lindsay, Nuclear Engineering, Assessment of Emergency Cooling Requirement for Nuclear Reactor Loss-of-Coolant Accidents
2023 Second Lieutenant Camila Quintero-Hilsaca, Nuclear Engineering, Modeling Radiation Exposure on Flight Missions to Analyze Aircrew Risk
2022 Captain Matthew Heiskell, Optical Flow Analysis of Early Cloud Nuclear Test Films
2021 Mr. Patrick Brown, One Dimensional Study of Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters for a Potential New Class of Heavy Ion Drivers for Plasma Jet Driven Magnetoinertial Fusion
2020 2Lt Nathan Gale, Neutron Displacement Damage in Germanium-Tin Photodiodes
2020 Ms. Taylor Nichols, Determination and Simulation of the Neutron Spectrum of Nuclear Detonations and Surrogate Sources
2018 Major Andria Martin (Graduate Research Paper) Effects Caused by Radioactive Isotope Release from Damaged Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies
2018 Captain Christopher Pitkins, Improving Fallout Characterization by Using Mutlivariate Techniques to Determine Composition
2018 Second Lieutenant Anita Dunsmore, Using an Astrophysical Model to Characterize Nuclear Dust
2017 Major Clinton Shelby, Tumbler-Snapper Atmospheric Nuclear Test Series Streak Film Analysis
2017 Captain Derek Haws, Using Principal Component Analysis to Improve Fallout Characterization
2016 Second Lieutenant Sarah Castro, Nuclear Forensics Applications of Principal Component Analysis on Micro X-Ray Fluorescence Images
2016 Major Aaron Ferguson, Analysis of Neutron Effects for Asteroid Disruption
2016 Second Lieutenant Molly Wakeling, Differential (p, p′) and (p, d) Cross Sections of 89Yand 92Zr
2015 First Lieutenant Ashley Green, Comparison of Varying Mass-to-Yield Ratio Nuclear Detonations Using DIRSIG
2015 Second Lieutenant Peter Jackson, Determination of Dimensions and Yield of Nuclear Fireballs from Test Films
2015 Major Tamara Vanhoose, X-ray Shielding Effectiveness of Multifunctional Composite Materials
2015 Major David Matters, Analysis of the Nuclear Structure of 186Re Using Neutron-Induced Reactions
2014 Mr. Josiah Dierken, Material Science, Analysis of Fallout Particles Using Image Registration of Autoradiography and Scanning Electron Microscopy
2014 Mr. Evan Kemp, Materials Science, Proton Damage Effects on Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors
2014 Captain Tyrone Ospino, Modeling Detector Response to Scattered Gamma Rays
2014 Captain Matthew Recker, Copper Doping of ZnO by Nuclear Transmutation
2014 First Lieutenant Timothy Genda, Optimization of Prompt Neutron Detector Placement for Standoff Photon Interrogation of Special Nuclear Materials
2013 Major Anthony Marchand, Neutron Shielding Effectiveness of Multifunctional Composite Materials
2013 Major James Shinn, Changes to Tensile Strength and Electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness in Neutron Irradiated Carbon Nanocomposites
2013 Captain Jeremy Best, Electron Damage Effects on Carbon Nanotube Thin Films
2013 First Lieutenant Nathan Loyd, Passive, Low Cost Neutron Detectors for Neutron Diagnostics at the National Ignition Facility
2013 First Lieutenant Mischa Monroe, Elemental Identification for Forensics Analysis of Nuclear Fallout Debris Samples Utilizing Micro-XRF, SEM, and Autoradiography Mapping
2012 Captain Melanie Mace, Neutron Diagnostics for Magnetic Target Fusion
2012 Major Quan Hai Lu, Durability of MWCNT Composites under Electron and Neutron Irradiation
2012 Major Thomas McQuary, Neutron Detection Using Amorphous Boron Carbide Hetero-Junction Diodes
2011 Major Brant Kananen, Characterization of Neutron-Induced Defects in Isotopically Enriched Lithium Tetraborate
2011 Major Benjamin Thomas, Neutron Detection Using Gadolinium-Oxide Based Diodes
2011 Captain Nickolas Duncan, Changes to Electrical Conductivity in Irradiated Carbon Nanocomposites
2011 Captain Jesse Foster, Radiation Effects on the Electrical Properties of Hafnium Oxide Based MOS Capacitors
2011 Second Lieutenant James Bevins, Characterization of a Boron Carbide Heterojunction Neutron Detector
2010 Captain Janusz Mikina, In-Situ Gate Bias Dependent Study of Neutron Irradiation Effects on AlGaN/GaN HFETs
2010 Major Christopher Young, Solid State Neutron Detection with a Heterojunction Made from Gadolinium Oxide and p-type Silicon
2009 Major Jeffrey Moran, The Effects of Temperature and Electron Radiation on the Electrical Properties of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors