Wesley Hines

Dr. Wesley Hines is a Chancellor’s Professor and the Head of the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, where he has been for 26 years. Dr. Hines has authored over 350 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and advanced statistical techniques applied to process diagnostics, condition-based maintenance, and prognostics. Dr. Hines received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University in 1985, and served as a nuclear qualified submarine officer in the US Navy. He later received both an MBA, MS and PhD in Nuclear Engineering from The Ohio State University. Hines was recognized by the American Society of Engineering Education Nuclear Engineering Division, through their Glenn Murphy Distinguished Nuclear Engineering Educator Award in 2014, was selected ANS Fellow in 2015, and was the recipient of the ANS, Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education in 2019 and the Robert Long Training Excellence award in 2020.