John Ford

John Ford

Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Departmental ABET Coordinator

Date of Appointment: 2006

Office: 58A Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-6271
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: ford@ne.tamu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1992
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1986
B.S., Nuclear Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1982

Courses Taught

LBAR 489: University Honors Seminar
NUEN 201: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering I
NUEN 303: Nuclear Detection and Isotope Technology Laboratory
NUEN 405: Nuclear Engineering Experiments
NUEN 489: Special Topics: Subcritical Assembly Experimentation and Modeling, Operational Health Physics of Advanced Reactors
NUEN 673: Radiation Biology
NUEN 674: Radiation Carcinogenesis
NUEN 675: Internal Dose Assessment

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Areas of Interest

My research interest is the response of intact tissues to ionizing radiation and a microbeam is required to determine how the response of individual cells in a tissue are modified by neighboring unirradiated cells. This is a critical question for the determination of the carcinogenic risk of exposures to low doses of ionizing radiation.



Curriculum Vita: Click Here to View


Recent Publications

Journal Articles:

  1. J. K Wagner, J. A. Dillon, E. K. Blythe, and J. Ford, "Dose characterization of the RadSource 2400 X-ray irradiator for oyster pastuerization," Applied Radiation and Isotopes 67(2), 334-339 (2009).
  2. A. S. Pasciak and J. R. Ford, "High-speed evaluation of track-structure Monte Carlo electron transport simulations," Physics in Medicine and Biology 53(19), 5539-5553 (2008).
  3. J. Vanamala, A. Glagolenko, P. Yang, R. J. Carroll, M. E. Murphy, R. A. Newman, J. R. Ford, L. A. Braby, R. S. Chapkin, N. D. Turner and J. R. Lupton, "Dietary fish oil and pectin enhance colonocyte apoptosis in part through suppression of PPARĪ“/PGE2 and elevation of PGE3," Carcinogenesis 29(4): 790-796 (2008).

Conference Proceedings:

  1. K. Vierow, F. Best, J. Ford, Y. Hassan, S. McDeavitt, J. Ragusa, W. D. Reece, L. Shao, and P. Tsvetkov, "TAMU Nuclear Safety Curriculum Development for a 21st Century Workforce," Proc. of 2008 ANS Annual Meeting, Annaheim, CA, June 2008.