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Interns to Industry: Connecting students to the workforce
The nuclear industry has long recognized a shortage of both skilled craft labor and professional talent. As global demand for reliable energy continues to rise—across the United States and internationally—that need has not only increased but has become critical.” This is a truth that nuclear industry consultant Jeffery P. Hawkins understands, and it is why he developed a program called Interns to Industry. The former Fluor Corporation executive said that “there has been a deficit of qualified resources in the nuclear industry, and this is forecasted to be even more so in the future, so I am working with various universities to determine how to customize their curriculums to fit the forecasted needs of the industry.”
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Jeff recently retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory after a 42-year career dedicated to radiation transport methods development and applications primarily directed towards shielding design and national security missions. Jeff started his career in the Reactor Analysis Section of the Operations Division at ORNL in 1978 after receiving his BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). He worked on his MS and PhD research as a UT Graduate Research Assistant at ORNL from 1978–1986, obtaining his ME in 1980, and PhD in 1987, both in Nuclear Engineering from UTK. He joined the Engineering Physics Division at ORNL as a research staff member in 1986. Over the course of his career at ORNL, Jeff functioned as a research and development staff member, a lead technical integrator, team leader, group leader, project/program manager, program developer/relationship manager, and retired as the Director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) for the National Security Sciences Directorate.
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