Daniel McDonald
Director, Instrumentation and Controls Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Daniel (Dan) McDonald is the director of the Instrumentation and Controls Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The division developed state-of-the-art measurement and control systems for industrial, national security, and scientific applications.

McDonald has served in a number of technical and managerial roles at ORNL and in the community. He cofounded the Oak Ridge Computer Association, is a member of the Student Motivational Task Force at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and also served as cotechnical director of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Measurement and Control Engineering Center, a National Science Foundation University/Industry Collaborative Research Center.

McDonald graduated from Michigan State University in 1974 with a B.S. degree in electrical and systems engineering. He received an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1979.

McDonald is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the World Tae Kwon Do Kum Do Federation. He is an instructor of Tae Kwon Do, a Korean martial art, and a student of traditional oriental healing. He is a cofacilitator of the ORNL Leadership Development Course and the "Path to Dialog," an interpersonal communication workshop.

McDonald has been married for 23 years to his childhood sweetheart, Victoria, and they have three children, Martin, Anne Marie, and Katherine.


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