Kip Wheeler

Affiliation

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Biography

My name is Kip and I am an undergraduate, Nuclear Engineering Major at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. I am originally from Edinburgh, Indiana. While Nuclear Waste Management was one of the first things to draw me to the nuclear industry, the focus of my undergraduate research has revolved around ceramics. I have worked in a ceramics synthesis lab on campus as well as studied ceramic metal composite fuels at ORNL during an internship. My recent research has been centered at the Tennessee Ion Beam Materials Laboratory and hopefully will continue there into the Master’s degree I plan to pursue.