October 10, 1995

Nuclear Engineering students win grants

Four North Carolina State University doctoral students in nuclear engineering were awarded grants to present their work at the 16th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE). Only eight advanced graduate students from across the nation were awarded travel grants to the symposium. The four N.C. State students who received awards are Russell W. Kincaid, John P. Sharpe, Rebecca W. Caress and Dorwin C. Black.

The symposium, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Nuclear and Plasma Science Society, is a biennial international event for fusion scientists and engineers and was held September 30 through October 5 in Champaign, Illinois. "SOFE is a very prestigious gathering for plasma and fusion engineering," said Dr. Mohamed A. Bourham, associate professor of nuclear engineering and one of the students' advisers. "The students' receiving funds to attend and present their work indicates the importance of their research to the engineering aspect of fusion technology."

Kincaid is working on fueling future fusion reactors with pellet injectors; Sharpe studies reactor safety in conjunction with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; both Caress and Black conduct research on coaxial plasma thrusters. The students' advisers are Bourham; Dr. John G. Gilligan, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering; and Dr. Robert M. Mayo, assistant professor of nuclear engineering.

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