Description of Proposed Faculty Development Program. The details of realms at NC Staten University are teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, research and discovery of knowledge, technological and managerial innovations, service in professional societies, and the engagement within the institution at the departmental, college and university levels, and these are summarized in 3 major realms of teaching, scholarship and service. A standard performance expectation for all faculty members is in place at NC State University, was known as the Statement of Faculty Responsibilities (SFR) describing the faculty expectation in each realm, and signed by the faculty and the department head. New faculty members will have certain expectations on teaching load, services to the university and the professional societies, and research. A new faculty may struggle in the first 2- 3 years to obtain research contracts from funding agencies. Accordingly, scholarly achievement relies significantly on research funding, availability of excellent PhD graduate students, a reasonable number of MS students, and the rate with which research advances and the rate and quality of publications. New faculty usually submits several proposals with the hope to get 1-3 federally funded contracts with reasonable funding level. We experienced great value of NRC Faculty Development Awards over the past years and how these grants effectively helped our newly appointed junior faculty to proceed in their career and to progress faster towards the research goals, and quickly build up the research career and established a research group. It is indeed a great supplement to the startup package that usually newly appointed junior faculty receive in most academic institutions, especially when the support is highly needed to establish experiments and acquire instruments, equipment, materials and supplies. We will leverage the funds committed by the NC State University College of Engineering and the Department of Nuclear Engineering together with the NRC Faculty Development funds to help the selected candidates to rapidly and effectively establish their research program. The grant will be extremely important once they start their appointment to help establishing their research group of projected 4-6 students, with 2 supported by our startup package and 2 supported by the NRC grant, and matching funds for tuition and fees. As a standard, the newly hired faculty will be relieved from teaching in their first semester to allow them to setup thei...
