Bio - Dave Hill is the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Engineering Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He has held the position since February 2004. The Energy and Engineering Sciences Directorate executes over $250M of programs for a variety of government and industrial sponsors in every aspect of energy technology. He was previously Director of the Nuclear Science and Technology Division at ORNL. He came to ORNL from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in July 2002, where he was Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Engineering Research. He previously held positions at Argonne as Director, Reactor Analysis and Engineering Division; Director, Reactor Engineering Division; and Director, International Nuclear Safety Center.
An internationally acknowledged expert on nuclear reactor and fuel cycle issues, Dr. Hill has extensive experience in the area of international nuclear matters, working both with the countries of Western Europe and the countries of the Former Soviet Union, especially Russia. He was a member of the U.S. Department of Energy delegation for negotiations with the Russian Federation on proliferation-resistant fuel cycle technologies in 2000 and on advanced nuclear technologies in 2002. He is currently the chair of the Science Committee’s Working Party on Partitioning and Transmutation, a group within the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency. He represents the U.S. government as a member of the Nuclear Safety Advisory Group for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. He is also chair of the American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Isotope Assurance.
He was the recipient of the University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory (1993) and the Argonne National Laboratory Director’s Award (1998).
Dr. Hill received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, in February 1974 and was the recipient of a Science Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Southampton from 1973 to 1976, where he conducted research in semiconductor physics. He then joined the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Winfrith in Dorset, United Kingdom. From 1980 to 1982, he worked with ANL, managing a joint U.S./U.K. experimental program on reactor safety known as PFR/TREAT. In 1983, he returned to Winfrith and ultimately joined ANL in 1984. He received an M.B.A. (Honors) from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, in 1995.

Bio - Tom Busmann is a principal with Focus Environmental Inc. and serves as Manager of Process Engineering. A PE in Tennessee and Michigan, he has 24 years experience in engineering for environmental management.

Bio - John VanZyll currently serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Product Inspections (DPI) Inc., an Oak Ridge based company that specializes in forensic investigations. John is a cofounder of the company that was started in 1991, which subsequently went public in 2001. Mr. VanZyll has developed numerous test protocols and procedures for both product failure analysis and indoor air quality testing. Mr. VanZyll is a licensed Private Investigator and holds a number of certifications including; National Association of Investigative Specialist, Insurance Claim Investigation, and Advanced Fire Investigation Techniques. Mr. VanZyll has been involved in a number of class action product failure law suits including Masonite siding, Firestone tires, Louisiana Pacific siding, polybutylene pipe and fire retardant plywood (FRT).
DPI performs independent forensic investigations for the insurance industry in product liability cases. DPI receives evidence (failed products) from insurance companies and performs inspections including specific laboratory tests to determine original component manufacturer as well as root cause of failure. Specifically, DPI is tasked with determining if the product failed, how it failed, and who or what caused the failure. DPI has performed investigations on over 380,000 items in the 14 years since the company was formed.
Additional information on the services provided by Diversified Product Inspections can be found at the company's web site at www.dpi-inc.com.

Bio - Don Spellman joined ORNL in 1991 and has led a variety of programs since that time. Don came to ORNL from a 12-year career as a nuclear power plant consultant with Gas-Cooled Reactor Associates and Management Analysis Company and a 20-year career as a Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer. He joined the Plutonium Disposition Program in 1994 to lead the concept evaluation for the CANDU reactor as a disposition option. In 1997 – 1999, Don lead the ORNL support for the DOE procurement effort to contract with a U.S. consortium who would be tasked to design, construct, and operate a MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility and manage the effort with a commercial utility to modify, as necessary, reactors selected to burn the MOX fuel. This consortium, Duke, Cogema, Stone and Webster (DCS) was selected on May 19, 1999. At that point, Don then was put in charge of the management of the U.S. Domestic Reactor Disposition Program and Dr. David Moses was selected to lead the International Disposition Program.

Bio - Craig F. Moyer is Director, Capital Programs, Hershey Foods Corp. A Harrisburg, PA, native, Craig is a 1973 Chemical Engineering graduate of Northeastern University and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania. He has been with Hershey since 1973 and has held various responsible positions beginning in Quality Assurance and progressing through Product & Process Development as well as Project Engineering and Project Management.
In the early 1980's, Craig was the lead process design engineer and start up manager for an $80+ million grassroots confectionary manufacturing facility in Stuart's Draft, Virginia. Since 1983, he has held several Engineering Management positions within the Hershey organization. In 1989, Craig was named Project Manager for Hershey's $100+ million West Hershey chocolate manufacturing facility, in addition to his managerial responsibilities. From 1993 to 2002, he was responsible for corporate wide process engineering efforts in support of on-going plant operations, new product engineering and capital project design engineering. In 2002, Craig was named Director, Capital Programs, where he is currently responsible for planning and managing Hershey Foods’ $200 million annual capital program in support of the Corporation’s business growth initiatives.
Craig and his wife, Lois, live in Lawn, PA, where they enjoy road cycling (each trying to average 2000 miles per year), hiking, gardening, traveling and reading. His last book read is “John Adams” by David McCullough.

Bio - John Cosgrove is a researcher in the Nuclear Science and Technology Division of ORNL and co-founder of the Shady Grove Meadery.

We will be welcoming area high school chemistry students and their teachers to this meeting. This meeting provides an opportunity for high school students with interests in chemistry to learn more about opportunities in chemical engineering.
Hope to see you there.