The UT Department of Nuclear Engineering (UTNE) has pioneered the development of on-line process monitoring systems beginning in the 1980s with a Department of Energy (DOE) funded research project to investigate the application of artificial intelligence techniques to nuclear power plants. Work continued in monitoring, anomaly detection, fault identification, and later in prognostics for a wide spectrum of applications including process plants, military aircraft, deep well drilling, and computer servers, to name a few. Much of our work has resulted in the development of algorithms and systems to improve safety, monitor operations, optimize maintenance and improve profitability.

UTNE also has a long history of Instrumentation and Control expertise with recent applications to small modular reactors, advanced reactors, and advanced control strategies. With the addition of Richard Wood in 2016, we also have extensive expertise in regulatory research and technology development R&D addressing the use of digital instrumentation and control (I&C) in nuclear power applications.