ME alumnus Max W. Carbon elected to National Academy of Engineering
ME alumnus Max W. Carbon elected to National Academy of Engineering
On February 9, 2012, Dr. Max W. Carbon (BSME ’43, PhD ’49, OME ‘91, DEA ’84) was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Sixty-six new members and 10 foreign associates were elected for 2012. The total U.S. membership is now 2,254 and the number of foreign associates is 206 members.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
Dr. Max Carbon, is a Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering graduate and Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was elected into the NAE for establishing engineering educational programs for nuclear reactor design and safety.
Professor Carbon is Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he chaired the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Department and its predecessor programs from 1958 to 1992. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1949 he began his nuclear career at the Hanford Works, where he was responsible for the safety of the graphite piles used to produce plutonium. He was subsequently engaged in the design of ICBM nose cones. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and he has served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, on the University of Chicago [UC] Special Advisory Committee for the Integral Fast Reactor [chair], on the National Nuclear Accrediting Board for the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations [INPO], on the Nuclear Safety Review and Audit Committee for the Kewaunee Nuclear Power plant, and on the UC Special Advisory Committee for the Nuclear Technology Program at Argonne National Laboratory [chair].