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tuesday Special Events

aPPlIed MeChanICs dIvIsIon honors & awards Banquet. Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award Committee
sPonsored By aPPlIed MeChanICs dIvIsIon Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award Committee
6:30PM–9:00PM Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award Committee
Phoenix grand Ballroom d, sheraton grand Daniel C. Drucker Medal Committee
Tickets: $90 Warner T. Koiter Medal Committee
Timoshenko Medal Committee
The evening’s events will include honoring:

wednesday Special Events

wednesday, nOVeMBeR 16 Biography: Mr. unikewicz is a senior engineer,
Regulatory Affairs with NuScale Power LLC. A
graduate of the University of Hartford, he has over
InvIted Industry PresentatIon 35 years experience in the field of Nuclear Power Plant
1:15 – 2:00PM Engineering, Design, Regulation, Construction and
125a, Phoenix Convention Center Operation. Prior to working with NuScale, he spent
speaker: steven unikewicz, senior Licensing engineer, nuscale Power 19 years in Design Engineering at Connecticut Yankee and Millstone
Nuclear Power Plants, 7 years with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
title: Pen to Practice: Transformative Ideas in the Nuclear Power Plant and 8 years as a Sr Principle Engineer with Alion Science & Technology.
Arena – Challenges, Successes, and Sometimes Failure He has worked at nuclear plant in China, Korea, Japan, Belgium and the
US. In his current position with NuScale Power, he is working with the team
Abstract: As a figment of imagination that emerged through the aid of
to bring the next generation Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR) through
science to plan on paper. It moved to realization in stone, metal and
design certification to market. NuScale expects to complete their design
energy. It brings jobs and homes to men. It elevates the standards of living
certification and begin operation of a plant in the early 2020's. Additionally,
and adds to the comforts of life. It has been with us since the 1950's and
Mr. Unikewicz is the ASME Engineering Sciences Segment (ESS) Chair,
continues to evolve today with new designs that safer and simpler and
a member of the ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards (BNCS),
environment friendly. The design and operation is highly theoretical,
a member of the ASME Standards Committee on Operation and Maintenance
profoundly practical and strictly regulated. It's also a highly political and
of Nuclear Power Plants (OM Code). He has approximately 16 peer
emotional topic as well.
reviewed publications on technical topics ranging from Energy and the
Environment to Nuclear Plant Inservice Testing.
It can be argued that, 60 years in, we are very successful – plants
operating well over 95% providing stable energy to millions of people
world-wide, plants being planned and built in the US and world-wide. It
can be argued that the commercial nuclear industry is no longer success- MeMs dIvIsIon's volunteer reCePtIon and Best PaPer
ful. US plants are shutting down due to economics, the US still has no award PresentatIon
plans for a permanent spent fuel repository; the time frame for a new 5:30PM–7:00PM
design from Pen to Practice is 20 years (or more). 126C, Phoenix Convention Center

In the commercial nuclear industry, the mechanical engineer must be
cross disciplined, multi-lingual, socially aware and highly competent. We
need to speak the language of science, of engineering, of construction, of IMeCe volunteer and student reCognItIon reCePtIon
regulation and be able to speak to ours neighbor and friend as well. 5:30PM–7:00PM
Paradise valley, sheraton grand
Success is an option – we can and will continue to create new ideas, and

put them practice; but to get there we need to be transformative in our
thinking. All engineers have a place and role. Without question, there are
challenges and there will be failures, how we achieve success is up to us. eleCtronIC and PhotonIC PaCkagIng dIvIsIon wIne and
Cheese reCePtIon. sPonsored By the eleCtronICs and
In this presentation, we will discuss the mechanical engineers role in the in
PhotonICs PaCkagIng dIvIsIon
the struggle for success. What can we as researchers, design engineers,
7:00PM–8:00PM
construction engineers and regulators do? How has regulation and
126B, Phoenix Convention Center
standardization helped and at times hindered? What are our challenges
going forward?
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