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BILL DUNN
Associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering

 

Bill DunnBill Dunn, associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University, is supported by the Marine Corps to develop a way to improve bomb detection without having to get in close proximity to suspicious containers such as cars, knapsacks, briefcases, etc., that may conceal explosives.

Dunn began working on the project in November 2004 as the death toll in the war in Iraq continued to increase due to car and suicide bombings by insurgents. The device will use beams of both photon and neutron radiation that go into the target. The radiation that comes back contains information about what is inside the container.

In 2004 Dunn was one of a group of three engineers in K-State's mechanical and nuclear engineering department to receive a three-year grant of $1,978,370 from the National Science Foundation. The grant went to the development of a semiconductor neutron-imaging array to be installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source for the study of materials properties at a microscopic level not previously attainable.

Before coming to K-State in 2002, Dunn served as president of Quantum Research Services Inc., which developed specialized products and services.

Dunn received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He went on to receive both his master's degree and doctorate in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University.

Dunn can be reached by phone at 785-532-5628 or by e-mail to dunn@mne.ksu.edu