Congratulations to Dr. J. Michael Doster, recipient of the 2016 Glenn Murphy Award, by the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education. This award is made annually to a distinguished nuclear engineering educator in recognition of notable professional contributions to the teaching of undergraduate and/or graduate nuclear engineering students.

Dr. Doster is an  Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at NC State, the Director of Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Program and the Director of the Consortium of Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) Education Program. His research areas include reactor and reactor-related heat transfer and fluid flow problems – ranging from resolving uncertainties associated with the basic equations and numerical techniques used to describing multiphase flow systems to the use of high fidelity systems simulations to develop advanced control methods for current and next generation reactors. His current research area focuses on deployment of Small Modular Reactors in Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems.

Glenn Murphy was an engineering faculty member at Iowa State University from 1932 until his death in 1978. He attained the rank of Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering and served as the head of Aeronautical Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He organized the Department of Nuclear Engineering and served as its head for fourteen years. At the time of his death he was coordinator of the Engineering Education Projects Office in the dean’s office at Iowa State University. Dr. Murphy was very active in ASEE, having served as its President in 1962 and Vice President for two terms, 1957-59 and 1965-68. In honor of Glenn Murphy, this award is endowed by the Friends of Glenn Murphy, the Edison Electric Institute and Iowa State University.