Ed Renaud
Westinghouse Electric Company
After working a couple of years in a factory after high school, Ed Renaud attended and graduated from a four-year military style academy for the Merchant Marine with an undergrad in Marine Engineering. This degree is a mixture of mechanical and electrical theory with an emphasis of hands on after "class time" with labs consisting of welding, machine shop, tear downs and repairs of motors, pumps, valves, turbines, boilers/furnaces, heat exchanges and even HVAC. While Ed had some at sea experience, he moved into the nuclear industry in 1980 with plant construction at a BWR. In a little under three years working in QA/QC, Ed had obtained level 2 qualifications in civil (concrete), electrical and mechanical inspection, NDE in PT, MT and some UT and RT experience. He also achieved a Certified Weld Inspector (CWI) while being responsible for leading inspection of small-bore pipe hangers and qualifications of welders. Ed obtained operating plant outage experience supporting a double outage as a contractor for PSE&G at Salem 1 & 2.
Hiring on with Westinghouse in 1983, Ed started his 42 years of service, where he currently professionally resides. Throughout the years Ed achieved or acquired the following:
- Five years of field services experience at dozens of operating Nuclear Power Plants around the world, mostly PWR on all NSSS equipment and services
- An MBA with Katz Graduate Business School from the University of Pittsburgh
- 20 years as a Lead Auditor
- One year role as the QA Manager of the Pensacola NSSS Large Component manufacturing facility where Westinghouse shipped the last of the Steam Generators constructed in the US
- 10 years as an RCA Lead and trainer
- 4 years as the Westinghouse Corporate lead for CGD where the program was turned around from needing improvement to be one of the best in the industry.
- Manager and eventually Director of Quality in Westinghouse Nuclear Service Division
- 12 years leading the Westinghouse Corporate ASME Code Program with the overall responsibilities for the N, NPT and NA program and certification overseeing construction of NSSS Components
- Almost 20 years of support work with ASME Code Section III with service on multiple Task Groups, Working Groups, with a more recent focus on Alternate Requirements and Advanced Manufacturing and 15 years as part of SGGR responsible for NCA
- Increasing involvement with NQA-1 over the years with current responsibilities and membership on Main Committee, Executive Committee, Subcommittee on Interface, Subcommittee on Engineering and Procurement Processes and champion leadership for Applications Special Project Working Group (ASWG)
- Adjunct Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson Graduate School of Engineering, where he developed and taught a semester long course on NQA-1
- Eight-year program leading the certification and stamping of the 10 NSSS major large components (4 S/Gs. PRZ, RV and 4 RCPs) at Watts Bar 2
- After over 30 years in Quality, Ed has spent the last 10 years in Engineering in both NSSS Components Engineering and the last half in Nuclear Fuels Engineering, where he was the first person in Westinghouse from Quality to achieve and be awarded the title of "Consulting Engineer"