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Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Pages 109-116
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His consulting work has included work for nuclear regulatory bodies in the United Kingdom and Canada on human factors issues for the Sizewall "B" public inquiry, task analysis, the design clef emergency operating procedures, models of operator error, and the use of simulators in training. He has been responsible for organizing NATO workshops on mental workload on human error, has served on a committee of the IEEE on guidelines for nuclear industry human factors, and is vice president of Human Factors North, Inc.
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He Is also President of the Research Committee on Disasters, International Sociological Association. He has held academic positions at various universities including University College, Cardiff, the University of Delaware, the University of Delhi, Aims Shams University, the Arab States Center for Education in Community Development, Ohio State University, Capital University, and the University of Tennessee.
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From 1951 through 1963 he worked at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of Westinghouse Electric Corporation; his responsibilities there included: supervisor of advanced surface ship control engineering, chief test engineer for acceptance testing of Bettwdesigned reactors for nuclear submarines at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, lead engineer for nuclear plant analysis of Skate Class Nuclear Submarines, and designer of power range instrumentation and reactor protection systems and hardware for the U.S.S. Nautilus.
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HE research experience has included analysm of severe accidents in advanced reactors, reliability data systems and data anIaysis, human factors, training systems and human performance modeling. His management experience includes technical, personnel, and financial management of tasks, projects, and multiproject programs.
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He conducts research on the structure and decision-making dynamics of complex, technologically intensive organizations, and the effects of advanced technologies on organizational and regulatory development. His recent work includes studies of public policy and organizational dilemmas of radioactive waste management, as well as institutional effects of alternative energy technologies on utilities and regulators in the operating technologies demanding a very high level of operational reliability, especially, air traffic control, regional electrical power systems, the nuclear power fuel cycle, and naval aircraft carrier operations.
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Over the past eight years, he has directed and worked on a number of research and consulting projects involving human behavior in potentially hazardous facilities. His substantive contributions include safety assessments at a chemical facility, determination of generic human factors improvements to safety at liquified natural gas facilities, and a variety of applications at nuclear power plants.
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He has served as vice president of the Essex Corporation; chief scientist at Biotechnology Inc.; chief of consumer sciences research at the National Bureau of Standards; and director of the Institute for Human Perfomance Research at the American Institutes for Research. His nuclear human factors experience includes work on the development of NUREG-0700 and NUREG-0801; management of 10 control room design reviews; human factors studies for Toledo Edison, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada; and the development and presentation of human factors workshops for power plants and Department of Energy laboratories.
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Prior to his present assignment, Ward was manager of the Reactor Safety Research Division and, earlier, of the Nuclear Engineering Division at the Savannah River Laboratory. From 1975 to 1980, he was superintendent of the Reactor Technology Department at the Savannah River Plant.
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