Ron R. Hart

Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering

Date of Appointment: 1975
Office: 129 Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-4157
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: rhart@tamu.edu

Mailing Address: Texas A&M University
Department of Nuclear Engineering
3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133

Education
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1967
B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Oklahoma, 1959

Courses
ENGR 385, Problems for Co-op Students
NUEN 202, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering II
NUEN 405,
NUEN 604, Radiation Interaction and Shielding
NUEN 606, Reactor Experimentation

Department Activities
Mentor Group Leader
Department Co-op Coordinator

Areas of Interest
Ion beam interactions
Neutron transmutation doping
Radiation effects

Curriculum Vita

EXPERIENCE

Lecturer, Physics, California Lutheran College 1969,1973
Visiting Summer Faculty, Sandia National Laboratories-Research in X-ray Dosimetry, 1985
Technical Staff and Group Leader, Hughes Research Laboratories, 1967-1974
U.S. Navy, nucleonics Investigator, U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
Ensign, USN 1959-1960, LTJG, USN 1961-1962
U.S. Naval Reserve, LT 1962-1976

AWARDS/RECOMMENDATIONS

Membership in the Bohmische Physical Society for significant contributions to the field of Particle-Solid Interactions
TEES Research Fellow, 1985
AEC Special Fellowship in Nuclear Science and Engineering, 1964-1967
NSF Traineeship in Nuclear Engineering, 1963

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Nuclear Society
American Physical Society
American Vacuum Society
Materials Research Society
Phi Eta Sigma
Sigma Pi Sigma
Sigma Tau
Sigma Xi
Pi Mu Epsilon
Tau Beta Pi
Registered Professional Engineer in State of Texas

PUBLICATIONS

P. E. Tissot and R. R. Hart, "Ion Beam Heating of Thin Silicon Membranes," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B79 , 796 (1993).

S. R. Lee and R. R. Hart, "Screened Rutherford Backscattering Cross Sections for Heavy Ion and Low Energy Backscattering Analysis," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B79, 463 (1993).

J. A. Rennie, G. D. White, and R. R. Hart, "Low Energy Proton Beam Imaging Using an Achromatic Quadrupole Doublet," Thirteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Denton, TX (1994)

P. E. Tissot, J. C. McCoy, and R. R. Hart, "Medium Energy Ion Implantation of Germanium into Heated <110> Silicon," Applied Physics Letters 66, 979 (1995).

K. G. Thompson and R. R. Hart, "Microchannel Plate Efficiencies for Medium Energy Helium and Carbon Recoils in Pulsed Beam Time-of-Flight Applications," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 371, 563 (1996).

J. A. Rennie, G. D. White, and R. R. Hart, "Proton Beam Imaging Using an Achromatic Quadrupole Doublet," Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, AIP Press, Editors J. L. Duggan and I. L. Morgan, 1215 (1997).

K. Ünlü, M. Saglam, R. R. Hart, J. D. Shipp, "Effect of Long-Term Alpha Radiation on Stainless Steel Used in Pu Encapsulation", Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 76, 142 (1997).