John W. Poston Sr.

Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Director, College of Engineering Study Abroad Program in Germany

Date of Appointment: 1985
Office: 129G Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-4161
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: poston@ne.tamu.edu

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

Education
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1971
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1969
B.S., Mathematics, Lynchburg College, 1958

Courses
NUEN 101, Principles of Nuclear Engineering
NUEN 479, Radiation Protection Engineering
NUEN 612, Radiological Safety and Hazards Evaluation
NUEN 678, Waste Management in the Nuclear Industry
ENGR 482 Ethics and Engineering

Areas of Interest
External Dosimetry
Internal Dosimetry

Curriculum Vita

EXPERIENCE
Texas A&M University
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, May, 1998-present
Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Engineering,July, 1988-May, 1998
Professor and Interim Head, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Feb. 1, 1988 - June 30,1988
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Jan. 1, 1985 - Jan. 31, 1988

Other
Private Consultant, Sept. 1984 - Jan. 1985
Associate Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 1977 - Sept. 1984
Head, Medical Physics and Internal Dosimetry Section, Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Feb. 1974 - Jan. 1977
Assistant Head, Internal Exposure Section, Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 1972 - Feb. 1974
Staff Member and Leader, Dosimetry for Human Exposures and Radiobiology Group, Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jan. 1964 - June 1974
Staff Member, Critical Experiments Facility, Babcock & Wilcox Co., Lynchburg, VA., June 1958 – Jan. 1964

AWARDS/RECOMMENDATIONS
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2001
Fellow, Health Physics Society, elected 1987
1994 Health Physics Society Founders Award recipient..
Fellow, American Nuclear Society, elected 1996
Glenn Murphy Award, 1996 recipient, American Society for Engineering Education, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Division
Inducted into the Georgia Institute of Technology's Academy of Distinguished Engineering Graduates - 1995.
1990 Western Regional Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award, Northern California Chapter of the Health Physics Society and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Halliburton Professor of Nuclear Engineering for 1987-88 academic year.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Heath Physics Society-Fellow
International Radiation Protection Association
American Nuclear Society-Fellow
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements- Honorary Lifetime Member
Sigma Xi
Society of Nuclear Medicine
American Association for the Advancement of Science-Fellow
American Society for Engineering Education

Publications

John W. Poston, Sr., Wesley E. Bolch and Lionel G. Bouchet, “Mathematical Models of the Human Anatomy,” in Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Techniques in Nuclear Medicine, Habib Zaidi and George Sgouros, Eds., OIP Publishing, London, 2003.

Pat Zanzonico and John W. Poston, Sr., “Basic Concepts of Internal Radiation Dosimetry,” in Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Techniques in Nuclear Medicine, Habib Zaidi and George Sgouros, Eds., OIP Publishing, London, 2003.

Lionel G. Bouchet, Wesley E. Bolch, Michael G. Stabin, Keith F. Eckerman, John W. Poston, Sr., and A. Randall Brill, “Monte Carlo Methods and Mathematical Models for the Dosimetry of Skeleton and Bone Marrow,” in Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Techniques in Nuclear Medicine, Habib Zaidi and George Sgouros, Eds., OIP Publishing, London, 2003.

Dosimetry, revised and updated chapter in The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Academic Press, Inc., September 2001.

Health Physics, revised and updated chapter in The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Academic Press, Inc., September 2001.

Inseok Baek and John W. Poston, Sr., “A Dosimetric Model for Inhaled Radioactive Gases”, Health Phys. 79 (2) 162-169 (2000).
MIRD Pamphlet No. 15: “Radionuclide S Values in a Revised Dosimetric Model of the Adult Head and Brain,” L. G. Bouchet, W. E. Bolch, D. A. Weber, H. L. Atkins and J. W. Poston, Sr., J. Nuc. Med., 40 (No.3) 62S-101S, March 1999.

Radiation Dosimetry, J.W. Poston, Sr., chapter in the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John G. Webster, Ed., Vol. 6, 47-58, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

A. E. Waltar and J. W. Poston, Sr., “Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education and Training: A University Viewpoint”, Trans. Amer. Nuc. Society 81, 219-220, (1999).

Jay M. Thompson and John W. Poston, Sr., “Absorbed Dose from Traversing Spherically Symmetric, Gaussian Radioactive Clouds”, Health Phys. 76 (6) 639-643 (1999).

C. H. Kim, W. D. Reece, and J. W. Poston, Sr., “Calculation of Effective Dose for Broad Parallel Photon Beams”, Health Phys. 76 (2) 156-161 (1999).

C. H. Kim, W. D. Reece, and J. W. Poston, Sr., “Development of a Two-Dosimeter Algorithm for Better Estimation of Effective Dose Equivalent and Effective Dose”, Rad. Prot. Dos. (No. 2) 101-112, 1999.

C. H. Kim, W. D. Reece, and J. W. Poston, Sr., “Effective Dose Equivalent and Effective Dose for Photon Exposures from Point and Disk Sources on the Floor”, Health Phys. 75 (2) 170-178 (1998).