Dr. John W. McClory, Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Chair, Nuclear Engineering Program
PhD Dissertations Advised
2024 Ms. Stephanie Neuscamman, Nuclear Engineering, Influence of Initial Mass Entrainment on Early Nuclear Cloud Rise and Fallout Character
2023 Lieutenant Colonel Jesse Foster Investigations of Ion Beam Quality from Cylindrical and Planar Pulsed Power Pinched-Beam Diodes
2022 Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Heider, Effects of Material Distribution on Nuclear Fireball Formation in the All Physics Algorithms Model for Nuclear Detonations
2022 Major James Frey, High Power Microwave Operational Exposure Detection Using Thermoacoustic Wave Generation in Lossy Dielectric Polymers
2021 Mr. William Erwin, Verification and Validation of Radiation Protection Factors from Monte Carlo Simulations
2020 Ms. Brittany Campbell, Evaluation of Multifunctional Composites Designed for Directed Energy and Ionizing Radiation Threats
2019 Major Melanie Mace, Nuclear Engineering, Targeted Germanium Ion Irradiation of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
2019 Major Matthew Recker, Nuclear Engineering, Enabling Mobile Neutron Detection Systems with CLYC
2017 Lieutenant Colonel Brant Kananen, Nuclear Engineering, Luminescence in Lithium Borates
2016 Major David Matters, Applied Physics, Nuclear Structure of 186Re
2015 Major Michael Dexter, Nuclear Engineering, Investigation and Development of Atmospheric Nuclear Detonation Optical Forensics Techniques
2015 Captain Robert Slaughter, Applied Physics, Multidimensional Analysis of Nuclear Detonations
2015 Captain M. Shamaun Holston, Nuclear Engineering, Characterization of Point Defects in Lithium Aluminate (Li2AlO2) Single Crystals
2014 Major Matthew Morello, Nuclear Engineering, Estimating Disruption Fires from a Nuclear Weapon Detonation Using Fire Following Earthquake Methodology
2012 Major Douglas Buchanan, Applied Physics, EPR and ENDOR Studies of Point Defects in Lithium Tetraborate Crystals
2011 Lieutenant Colonel Stephen McHale, Nuclear Engineering, Development of a Novel Solid State Neutron Detector Using Gadolinium
2010 Lieutenant Colonel David Wooten, Applied Physics, Electronic Structure of Lithium Tetraborate