Dr. Thomas F. Ewing Associate Division Director, Nuclear Engineering Division

Special Responsibilities
Associate Division Director,
Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory.

Discipline
Engineering Physics, Nuclear Engineering

Professional Experience:
Broad background in applied physics, mathematics, and computing; 30 years experience in nuclear power research, software design and development, mathematical modeling and simulation, and technical project development and management. Currently senior scientist and Associate Division Director of Nuclear Engineering with line-management responsibility for the national security programs, and lab-wide responsibility for developing and coordinating transportation and border security initiatives for Argonne's program in homeland security.

Skills and Capabilities:

Program Development and Management

Established and led large, international collaborations, as well as served as project manager or collaborator in multilab initiatives for DOE, DoD, and other government agencies.

Safeguards & Nonproliferation

Established and led an international program in nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A) in Ukraine.

Decontamination & Decommissioning

Led laboratory D&D program and established robotics research program in support of laboratory D&D thrust.

Software Development/Engineering

Served on multi-organization expert panels to provide software engineering reviews for DOE’s New Production Reactor Program and Software Capabilites Evaluations for DoD of several large aerospace contractors. Established and led multilab IV&V project to support the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Creator of the AIMAS software used in former Soviet countries for nuclear material control and accounting.

Engineering Analysis/Modeling

Developed models and simulations for diverse programs in energy, national security, and transportation areas. Co-author of the MAAP degraded core analysis computer program for simulating PWR and BWR behavior under hypothetical accident conditions. MAAP is still widely employed around the world for reactor degraded core analysis.

Education:
B.S. engineering physics with honors, University of Toledo, 1973
M.S. nuclear engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1975
Ph.D. nuclear engineering, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1978

Committees:
Transportation Research Board, Illinois Terror Task Force, ITS Midwest Board, Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Transportation Corridor Coalition

Professional Societies:
ASME-CIE, INMM, SCS