Page 20 - Engineering Penn State Magazine: Fall/Winter 2020
P. 20
THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
at Penn State and beyond
by Ashley WennersHerron
The Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering is newly named, once more independent, and under new leadership.
The department, formally established in 1959, joined with the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1997. The two departments were separated in the summer of 2019, the year after nuclear engineering received an endowment from Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist. Jean Paul Allain joined Penn State from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to lead the department. Allain also holds
the Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Plasma Medicine in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. He is also an Institute for Computational and Data Sciences faculty co-hire and professor of biomedical engineering by courtesy.
20
ENGINEERING PENN STATE
“The future nuclear engineer will think globally and have a keen appetite for learning with an entrepreneurial mindset to bring about transformational innovations in nuclear technology.” – Jean Paul Allain
Features
