NPRE will mark its 10th annual SPEED-Interchange student career fair event on Tuesday, September 24. (view program)
This annual event, first offered in 2009, allows NPRE alumni to share with students information on employers, internships, and career opportunities and strategies. Non-alumni representatives whose employers are interested in our students also are encouraged to take part in the Student Professional Engineering Excellence Development (SPEED)-Interchange event. Alumni and company reps can interact with students in individual informational sessions and a group panel discussion, and, if desired, conduct mock interviews.
Here are this year's visiting employers:
EXELON CORPORATION
Ed , Director, BWR Core Design
McVey, BS 1983, has made his career at Exelon. He has held various positions in the Nuclear Fuels organization and has been assigned to three different nuclear power plants. Currently, he is the Director of Core Design for eight boiling water reactor plants.
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
Jeffrey A. Favorite, Technical Staff Member, Monte Carlo Methods, Codes, and Applications Group (XCP-3)
Favorite’s work and research in LANL’s X-Division are in the areas of neutron multiplication and criticality, neutron and photon shielding, and other neutron and photon simulations and analyses using the MCNP Monte Carlo code, the PARTISN discrete-ordinates code, and other transport codes. His particular interests are in perturbation and sensitivity methods as well as inverse and optimization methods for neutron and photon transport problems. Interface and boundary perturbations are of special interest. Favorite earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993, 1994, and 1998, respectively.
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Prashant K. Jain, Team Lead, Thermal Hydraulics
Jain is a team leader for ORNL’s Thermal Hydraulics research efforts in the Advanced Reactor Engineering group. His primary research interests include computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, multiphysics, the lattice Boltzmann method, and parallel scientific software development. At ORNL, Jain is developing an advanced thermal-hydraulics design and safety basis model for the High Flux Isotope Reactor. He is also leading several strategic partnerships and CRADA efforts for the DOE HPC4mfg program and others. Jain earned a master’s degree and PhD in NPRE in 2006 and 2010, respectively, and a bachelor’s degree (2004) in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES
Ian Sanders-Schneider, Component Engineer
Sanders-Schneider, earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 and a master’s degree in 2018 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a component engineer for the Gas Transfer Systems Group.