Arthur Ruggles

Restart: The Alabama Diary (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A professor on sabbatical helps restart a Nuclear Reactor in north Alabama. The reactor had not run in over 22 years, making the restart challenging. An account of the restart is taken from his diary and includes cultural, political and technical dimensions of his experience in Alabama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098301491
• Artikelnr.: 58824671

Autorenporträt

On the Eastern edge of Appalachia in western Maryland lies Boonsboro, a town of a few thousand during the time of Art's youth. His high school favored agriculture and vocational technology, but Art went on to Lehigh University. After several summer jobs laboring to help with the bills, he graduated and went off to Lexington, KY to work for IBM as an Engineer. Neither of Art's parents graduated high school, and exposure to professionals was limited in the social circles of his family, so the notion of professional life was poorly understood prior to entering college and acquiring a professional job. The IBM regimentation was tolerable, but not expected. Hillbillies are used to more relaxed schedules, so after four years Art returned to school full of hope that a more flexible professional position could eventually be found. His father, in total amazement at voluntarily resigning a good high paying job to return to school, noted that most can make a living without attending school for 20 years. This is truly wisdom, but his father's view was colored by a great depression, and a few years working for WPA. Art worked as a Lecturer and then as a Project Manager in the Center for Manufacturing Productivity while at RPI earning the "terminal degree." These were years of growth, work, study and recreation. The schedule was flexible, but the pay was not good and the rigor of study and work was sometimes quite hard. Art took a position with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1987, and moved to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1992, retiring from UT in 2018. Art earned Fellow stature in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Full Professor status in a Land Grant University. He has designed targets for cyclotrons that produce radioisotopes for PET imaging, and led development of radiotracer imaging protocols capable of tracking single cells and mapping flow in opaque systems. Art has also won several teaching awards.Now as a recovering engineer, with work history in commerce, government and university, Art offers this story to help readers appreciate the technology we depend on, and the discipline required to manage complex infrastructure. While not flattering of all organizations involved, the book is offered with intent to guide improvements. We must define our flaws and continuously improve, otherwise something else will happen.