Engineers
Kendra M. Foltz Biegalski |
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Dr. Kendra M. Foltz Biegalski has 15 years experience in nuclear engineering, nuclear and chemical analytical techniques, and two years of nuclear reactor operations. She has 13 years domestic and international experience in scientific research and collaboration as well as three years experience in the teaching, training, and licensing of nuclear scientists and nuclear reactor operators. In 2002, Dr. Kendra M. Foltz Biegalski’s work at General Dynamics generated a letter of commendation from the Air Force Technical Applications Center to the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency who was funding the work. In addition, she was a scientific expert for the US Department of State Verification Monitoring Task Force committee for several years. Dr. Foltz Biegalski received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois and currently holds a P.E. license in the sate of Virginia. She is currently a research engineer at The University of Texas at Austin and acts as the President of K&S Nuclear, LLC.
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Steve Biegalski |
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Dr. Biegalski specializes in the fields of nuclear instrumentation, neutron radiography, analysis of environmental media with nuclear methods, nuclear reactor analysis, and modeling of environmental pathways. Dr. Biegalski currently acts as a Senior Engineer for K&S Nuclear, LLC. He is also currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas and Director of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. He has utilized his expertise to support the development of technology in support of the U.S. DoD for monitoring the development of nuclear weapons programs around the world. This includes the development and installation of environmental aerosol and xenon monitoring stations, the development of software to analyze data from the radionuclide monitoring systems, nuclear forensics, and investigation of the trends, sources, and origin of anthropogenic radionuclides in the environment. In the past, Dr. Biegalski has used this expertise for investigations of air pollution sources in the Arctic, assessing the toxic metal input into the Great Lakes, and working on global change modeling.
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