Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 2420 21 Joint APPOINTMENTS A joint appointment is an arrangement in which a researcher has formal ties to both INL and a university. These partnerships enhance collaboration, as joint appointees conduct research and development at both home and host institutions. Researchers profit by having access to INL employees and resources, while INL benefits from having ties with multiple university research programs. Joint appointments also allow opportunities to participate in specific proposals that might otherwise be impossible. A joint appointment can work in one of two ways: Through the program, laboratory employees may teach courses and conduct research at partner universities or professors can work with INL on collaborative projects. Within a joint appointment agreement, both INL and the university share in the costs of the joint appointment. As the Joint Appointment program expands, new categories are being considered. These include: Distinguished Joint Appointment Fellow: This designation, under development, will be equivalent to an INL Laboratory Fellow, with strategic high-level connections and a focus on research and development. Teaching Only: This designation serves to develop new talent for INL, a critical need as a significant portion of the lab’s workforce nears retirement age. There is no research component; rather, a focus on teaching university students to increase awareness of and connections to INL programs. The process for negotiating joint appointments was streamlined in 2016 in two significant ways. A new costing model was adopted and a process for blank master agreements was implemented. Negotiations took place with 13 institutions, and three new, highly ranked institutions – MIT, Purdue and University of Utah – entered the fold. Overall, INL’s number of joint appointments grew from 18 to 20 in 2016, representing growth of 11 percent. Incoming Outgoing A UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE IS REQUESTEDTO COLLABORATE ON SITE AT INL. AN INL EMPLOYEE IS REQUESTEDTO COLLABORATE AT A UNIVERSITY. JOINT APPOINTMENTS BY UNIVERSITY 3 Boise State University 1 California State University, Long Beach 5 Idaho State University 1 Indiana University 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 North Carolina State University 1 Oregon State University 3 University of Idaho 1 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2 University of Wyoming 1 Virginia Commonwealth University National & Homeland Security 4 1 Materials & Fuels Complex 1 Nuclear Science &Technology 8 Energy Environment Science &Technology Other 6 Highlights of 2016 included an agreement signed with Massachusetts Institute of Technology under which Dr. David Petti began working part-time in Cambridge as the executive director of a national team charged with an MIT report on The Future of Nuclear Power. He has served as DOE’s Advanced Reactor Technologies Program national technical co-director, and has extensive experience in the development of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor under the Next Generation Nuclear Plant program. He has led a study on potential advanced test and demonstration reactor options for DOE, work that was taken into account as MIT and INL made their agreement.