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With more than six decades as a top-ranked program in its rearview, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is hardly slowing down. In fact, NEEP is continuing to grow and develop its faculty, curriculum, and research.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|12:15–2:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jacob Farber (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (ANS)
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Development of H∞ Controllers for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engines
Dan C. Floyd (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), David M. Sikorski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard T. Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Seddik M. Djouadi (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
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A Reduced Order Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Model as a Research Development Platform
David M. Sikorski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard T. Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Development of a Non-Nuclear Test Bed for Advanced Control Algorithms
Hayden Sutton (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Richard Wood (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Bart Murphy (ORNL), N. Dianne Bull Ezell (ORNL)
Instrumentation for Microreactor Non-Nuclear Testbed Facilities
Troy Unruh (INL), Joshua Daw (INL), Kelly McCary (INL), Richard Skifton (INL)