INL National University Consortium – Annual Report 23 INL’s Joint Appointment Program is intended to enhance research knowledge and capabilities, as well as expand funding opportunities, and retain and recruit top notch scientists and engineers and between INL and universities. A joint appointee remains an employee of record for the home institution. Effectively, joint appointees act like dual employees and are given the ability to represent themselves as affiliated with both institutions. There are two types of joint appointments: - Incoming: from university to INL - Outgoing: from INL to university Dave Petti Massachusetts Institute of Technology Outgoing Dr. David Petti is director of Idaho National Laboratory’s Nuclear Fuels and Materials Division. In that position, he is responsible for the management of over 100 scientists and engineers performing nuclear fuels and materials research, in areas including experiment management and oversight, irradiation capsule design and testing, in-pile instrumentation, post-irradiation examination, and fuel performance modeling. He earned his doctorate and master’s degree in nuclear engineering at MIT. He started at INL in 1980 as an engineering intern in the Light Water Reactor Fuel Research Group. He was national technical director of the Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) Technology Development Office, responsible for technical direction of nuclear fuels, materials, methods, hydrogen and energy conversion technologies for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project and other VHTR projects for the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a senior editor of the Journal of Nuclear Materials and an editorial member of Nuclear Engineering and Design. He holds a lifetime achievement award for an INL publisher, and received the lab’s Management Excellence Award in 2014. Carol Smidts The Ohio State University Incoming Dr. Carol Smidts is the director of the Nuclear Engineering Program as well as a professor at the Ohio State University. In addition, Smidts leads the Risk and Reliability Laboratory, which has the goal of providing “strategic direction and guidance in the development of research related to the instrumentation control, and safety of advanced energy systems.” Beginning her career in Belgium, Smidts studied at the University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), was a consultant for the European Commission Joint Research Center of Ispra in Italy, a postdoc and then joined as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, Smidts is involved with multiple joint research projects with INL researchers including an INL Laboratory-Directed Research and Development project studying human reliability in micro reactors with INL PI, Dr. Ron Boring. Wade Marcum Oregon State University Incoming Dr. Wade Marcum is an associate professor in Oregon State University’s School of Nuclear Science & Engineering as well as the Kearney Faculty Scholar in Engineering. His research interests include nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, computational fluid dynamics, reactor safety, flow induced vibration, fluid structure interactions, and advanced reactor design. Joint Appointments