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Steven A. Arndt

Steven Arndt is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of software reliability, human factors, instrumentation and control engineering, software quality assurance, and reactor thermal hydraulics. For the past eighteen years he has worked at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in various positions being responsible for research in the areas of digital system analysis, software reliability, human performance, and human factors; developing the first NRC research plan for digital instrumentation and control; developing the advanced reactor research program in instrumentation and control; initiating a new program for evaluation of software metrics; conducting research on digital system reliability with his most current work in the development and application of advanced software quality and reliability methods and heading the software reliability program at NRC. He has been awarded (1996) the NRC Meritorious Service Award for Engineering Excellence for his work in developing new simulation models and analysis tools for use by NRC training and inspection staff, and for his work in the development and implementation of PRA training, PRA policy and the PRA implementation plan. In 2001, he was made a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) for his work in nuclear power plant instrumentation and control systems, reliability engineering, and software quality. Mr. Arndt has authored or co-authored more than 60 journal articles and conference papers and is on the editorial review boards for journals in the nuclear engineering, reliability engineering and software quality areas. He is a member, past associate vice president, and past director of the Society for Computer Simulation. Mr. Arndt did his undergraduate work in physics and his graduate work in nuclear engineering at The Ohio State University, where he was honored by the faculty of the College of Engineering in 2003 as a Distinguished Alumnus. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Quality, the first person to ever hold the fellow rank in all four of these societies. He is a registered professional engineer and serves as the Vice Chair of the Maryland State Board for Professional Engineers.