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World Wide Branding Entrepreneur of the year Press Release summarizes most of my profile (See attached). I'm 75 and a Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering from Penn State. To receive an M.S. degree from UOW, there are four written and an oral exam. I passed a written exam and was screwed by a mathematics professor when I performed integration in the complex plane and simply got a sign error in the answer. But I dazzled them in the oral exam when I developed a Bessel Function in answer to a question of what happens if a rod is dropped between two fuel rods. They were shocked and wanted me go on for a PhD. But, I had military obligations, and wanted to get work experience. I received the MS and Army 2nd LT commission in June 1972. Then I took a job with General Atomic in San Diego, a beautiful area with the two eighteen holes of the two Torrey Pines Golf Courses, just across the street where professional golf tournaments are held. After about five years (when they lost all their customers), I moved East to Combustion Engineering in Windsor Connecticut. After my academic and "grunt" service in the nuclear industry, I joined Lemont Scientific as Director of Software Development where Jozef Lebiedzik was the Chief Hardware Engineer. There I learned assembly language on both Perkin Elmer and DEC computers because the computers of the era were simply too slow for FORTRAN programing, I eventually had six people working for me. It was a great job where I learned entrepreneurship. They brought in a new GM and salesman that I didn't think were polite, honest or ethical. So, I went back to Penn State in January 1987 to complete a PhD. I learned many additional languages in my career at PSU: the B&W Modular Modeling System, Pascal, C, DataViews graphical software, LISP, Prologue, C++, MATLAB & SIMULINK, SIMULINK Real-Time Workshop, and LabVIEW.
January 12, 1998 WWII Research Summary: David Henry Edwards (33 768 316) and Blair Colby in WWII: David Henry Edwards was born in Oxford, PA on May 23, 1914, grew up near Coatesville, PA and died at the age of 41 in 1955. Dave and Blair fought with the 106th infantry division, VIII Army Corps of First Army at the Battle of the Bulge and were captured and went to Stalag IXB. According to Dave's discharge papers, his military occupation was "Pioneer (729)" and is described as, "Performed duties of a demolition expert as a member of a crew" My brother Floyd started genealogy research on our family about the time I started research on what happened to our father in WWII. We are descendants of the Platt family who emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland when their son George was two years old. The 1860 census from Alleghany County New Jersey lists the Platt family where George had become 18. Martha at age 12 would become our Great Grandmother when she married William Edwards (see license). William claimed to be Irish but Floyd’s genealogy research has yet to prove it. George Crawford Platt won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War. On July 3rd, 1863 in Fairfield PA, near Gettysburg, George was with Troop H of the 6th US Cavalry Division. George's regimental flag was captured. The flag bearer was shot down. Several soldiers went in to rescue the flag. There were hand-to-hand combat and additional deaths. George ripped the flag off of the flag staff and stabbed a confederate on the way out with the flag staff. For his actions on July 3rd, 1863, George was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The 6th US Cavalry Division was defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg but George and the flag survived. Later George’s great grandson lobbied the Pennsylvania Legislature to rename the Primrose Bridge over the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. The bridge was renamed to the George Crawford Memorial Bridge and later that great grandson changed his last name to Platt.
1) Control of Nuclear Reactors using MATLAB and SIMULINK, with James Turso as the first author ( one of my first PhD students). The first chapter is due in January 1914 completion in 2015. Jim negotiated the book deal with CRC Press. See attached outline of book, "Nuclear Reactor and Power Plant Control" 2) The family history of the Edwards family. The book will include: a) discussions of mother growing up on the Freedline Farm, b) the history of our father in WW II and his capture at the Battle of the Bulge, c) the history of their seven sons, and d) battle and successes of our mother which begins with the birth of her fifth son, Leonard, when our father returned from being a POW, and me (Robert) battles and successes with manic-depressive disorder. i) See attached "My Battle with Manic-Depressive Disorder ii) See the attachments associated with my father David Henry Edwards (title of each picture and the pictures) 3) My brother Floyd started doing genealogy research on our family in 2010. The 1860 census from Alleghany County New Jersey lists the Platt family after they emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland (see census). Young Martha would become our Great Grand Mother when she married William Edwards (see license). Martha's older brother George was 16 in 1860. George Crawford Platt won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War. On July 3rd, 1863 in Fairfield PA, near Gettysburg, George was with Troop H of the 6th US Calvary Division. George's regimental flag was captured. The flag bearer was shot down. Several soldiers went in to rescue the flag. There was hand-to hand combat and additional deaths. George ripped the flag off of the flag staff and stabbed a confederate on the way out with the flag staff. For his actions on July 3rd, 1863, George was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. As Floyd says, Google "George Crawford Platt" to learn much more about George.
With 40+ years of computer programming experience, I know all engineering related computer languages as well as AI. Software expertise is thus available to most engineering organizations. As a Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, software and licensing services are especially marketed to the nuclear power industry. Marketing efforts thus far: 1) Mar 2013-Visual C++ software for LC-Vision's "Liquid Crystal Analysis System". I was recommended for the job by Jozef Lebiedzik whom I worked with at LeMont Scientific. At LeMont Scientific, Jozef did hardware and I did software for Scanning Electron Microscopes. That is the way it has always been between Jozef and me. See attached LCAS photo. 2) Jul 2014-Attendance and participation at the International Liquid Crystal Symposium, Dublin University, Ireland. See attached ILCS photos. 3) Nov 2014-The Company was a sponsor of the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting in Anaheim. 4) Feb 2015-The Company was a sponsor of the NPIC-HMIT 2015 meeting in Charlotte with exhibitor booth. Much of the ~$20,000 worth of material ordered from Staples in State College for the Anaheim meeting that failed delivery by UPS overnight shipment was placed in my Ford Cmax (See photo) and driven to Charlotte. An additional ~$2,000 of material was ordered from Staples in State College for the exhibitor booth and included golf hats with the company logo. 5) Aug 2015-for attendance at the Utility Working Conference two-sided business cards were purchased at Staples with a summary of the company capability on the back. PERFORM STEPS indicated in 6) for the back of the business card! 6)->SEE MORE, click on photo of "Licensing-Edwards ...", then ON READ ORIGINAL for Company website. The site is being expanded with worthwhile items to purchase. (This is a component of an updated Business Plan. See attached Business Plan Development in progress for more detail. If interested in any of the components, contact me for further information!)
I contributed $5,000 in 2014 and 2015 to be recognized in the Winners Circle at the Leadership Level. My email to Meghan Young, Special Olympics International, Washington DC: I accept the invitation to the Special Olympics USA Reception on Monday July 27th, 2015. The reason for my support is simple. I received a small envelope from Special Olympics in May 2014. I became emotionally attached to supporting the Special Olympics because I became physically handicapped with Parkinson's in 2013 and require a walker to be ambulatory, but the participants in the Special Olympics are much more handicapped than me. I will not need a name badge for the reception or any part of the Special Olympics events. I attended the Pennsylvania Special Olympics Games in State College. I had copies of the materials sent to me by the Special Olympics laminated at Staples in State College. I draped them over the front and sides of heavy duty walker with a 20 lb. pair of leg weights on the bottom rails. (See attached photos.) I pushed my walker throughout the Pennsylvania summer games and will do the same in Los Angeles and at the reception. I also had some of the original materials sent to me from the Special Olympics professionally framed at the Frame Shop in State College. I laid out the materials in the Special Olympics Summer games work area and a gentleman wearing a T-shirt from the Pennsylvania Flame of Hope Torch Run noticed them and told me that Sue Paterno (Coach Joe Paterno's surviving wife) knew of my name and contributions but did not know how to get in touch with me. I gave him my phone number. At the closing ceremonies, Sue Paterno was given a beautiful ceramic dish at the PSU Field Hockey field. As Sue Paterno left the field, I pushed my walker along the track waving my "Thank you for joining the Winner's Circle Placard" above my Walker to get her attention. She came over and I introduced myself. I have not heard from her and don't really expect to.
Retired from Penn State on July 1, 2012 as a Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering. Started "Edwards Analysis and Consulting" in May 2014 with an official IRS EIN Number. (See Company Owner present position.)
I retired as a Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering July 1, 2012, and started "Edwards Analysis and Consulting" in May 2014 with an official IRS EIN Number. (See present position.) In 2001 TMI donated their Basic Principles Simulator to Penn State (See Slide Show). In 2002 work began on an SBWR Test Loop (See Slide Show). Dissertations Supervised: Shian-shing Shyu, Ph.D., NucE, 5/2001, A Robust Multivariable Feedforward/Feedback Controller Design for Integrated Power Control of Nuclear Power Plant. Zhengyu Huang, Ph.D., NucE, 5/2002, Fuzzy Adapted Sliding Mode Controller Design for a Nuclear Power Plant. Weidong H, Ph.D., NucE, 5/2009, Stability and Design of Low-Pressure Two-Phase Natural Circulation. Yin Guo, Ph.D., NucE, 5/2012, Reliable LQG Controller Design with Sensor Failure for Nuclear Power Plant with IRIS Demonstration. Most Important publications Ceceñas-Falcón, M., and R.M. Edwards. 2003. Out-of-Phase BWR Stability Monitoring. Nuclear Technology. 143: 125-131. Huang, Z., and R.M. Edwards. 2003. Hybrid Reactor Simulation of BWR Power Oscillations. Nuclear Technology. 143:132-143. Yin Guo and Robert M. Edwards, 2009. "Pressure Control for Helical-Coil Steam Generator of IRIS Based on Nonlinear Observer-Based Feedback Dissipation," accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering X. Jin, Y. Guo, S. Sarkar, A. Ray and R. M. Edwards, 2011. "Anomaly Detection in Nuclear Power Plant via Symbolic Dynamic Filtering," IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science. Most Important Research projects Monitoring and Control Research Using a University Reactor and SBWR Test-loop, DOE NEER. $380,791 Advanced Instrumentation and Control Methods for Small Export Reactors with IRIS Demonstration, DOE NERI, $471,017 Most Important Research Report Edwards, R.M., January 2011, Advanced Instrumentation and Control Methods for Small Export Reactors with IRIS Demonstration.
In 1993, as an Assistant Professor, I attend the FIRST Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Control- Human Machine Interface Technologies meeting in Oakridge, TN, across from ORNL. At the meeting I volunteered to run the next meeting. I was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and ran the second meeting in May 1996 at the Nittany Lion Inn at Penn State. A Professor from Japan suggested NPIC-HMIT to use instead of the long title. NPIC-HMIT was adopted for the 96 meeting and has been used ever since. The success of that meeting contributed to my getting Tenure in 1997. See attached Curriculum VITA as Associate Professor.
I registered with the IAEA Experts Program in May 1994. The most significant duty called upon occurred in 1998 was the mission to evaluate "Nuclear System Instability Modeling Implementation Review of the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station Classroom Analysis Simulator", The MEX/9/045 Task 04 mission report is attached. Personnel from Mexico involved in the project were 1) Carlos Chavez-Mercado-Control and Supervision Processes Department, (2,3,4) Nuclear Energy Dept.: Jaime Morales, Hector Ocampo, Pedro Mendoza & 5) Conzepcion Hernadez-Simulation Department. Carlos was sent by his government in Mexico with full funding to study under me while I worked as a Project Associate. His wife was also sent with full funding at the same time to obtain a PhD in Chemistry. As Assistant Professor, Carlos was my first PhD in NucE. Both Chavez-Mercados-returned to Mexico for significant careers. My project associate summary indicates that the first thing I did resulted from Dr. Klevans sending me to ANL West. I converted the Westinghouse created DISYS (Diagnostic System) originally developed in Pascal to C. I took the C version back to Penn State (after spending a few weeks at ANL West in the summer of 1987) and Carlos created a graphical representation of the DISYS diagnostic tree in DataViews based on old-fashioned engineering drawings of the diagnostic tree. Succinctly, Carlos' PhD dissertation created a DataViews control console for operator use at EBR-II. His Dissertation was human factors related. An IE professor was on his committee and saw that Carlos did that aspect appropriately. When Carlos went back home to near Mexico City he created a huge laboratory that used DataViews. I was assigned as the IAEA inspector to go down and approve his work and justify the international funding he was getting. Carlos received his PhD in December 1994, "A Methodology for a Rapid Prototyping Environment for Nuclear Power Plant Control Console Design, Testing and Evaluation".
I worked on control for space nuclear power. Specifically, the Jupiter Icy Moon Observer, JIMO. I modified the air-gas dynamics modules of the B&W Modular Modeling System (MMS) to include a turbine and pump in-tandem for the gas used in the reactor and put the equations into SIMULINK . I then developed a control system for the model. I worked with a former PhD student, James Turso, who was there on one of his many many jobs throughout his career. James had used the MMS at Penn State for developing testing of fault-tolerant control of the EBR-II Deareating Feedwater Heater on a Bailey NETWORK 90 digital control system that include much work to get procedures developed and approved for the test conducted by Humberto Garcia. I reported my work to specialists in thermal hydraulics at NASA Glen and it was not well received. (See attached power point presentation.) However, a specialist in complex numerical simulation was interested in my work. I kind of got the last laugh, because the JIMO project was canceled by George Bush and the specialists that criticized me had to find different work. I simply went back to my job as a Professor at Penn State. Ha Ha. I wrote the following report for the NASA Glenn Research Center Instrumentation and Controls Division: "EXPLORATORY DYNAMIC MODELING OF A NUCLEAR POWERED BRAYTON CYCLE FOR NUCLEAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION", August 6, 2004, 3 pages. (See attached report.) BTW, I got the NASA hat on my LinkedIn profile photo from the NASA Glen Gift Shop.