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R. D. Shelton

Duane Shelton has led R&D assessments since 1984, as a policy analyst at NSF, and now as CEO of WTEC and WTIP. His degrees are in EE from Texas Tech, MIT, and the University of Houston. Dr. Shelton worked at NASA on Apollo and on TDRSS, used for Shuttle communications. He chaired university departments that awarded degrees in applied math, CS, and EE.  He also chaired three Ph.D. and 60 M.S. thesis committees, and served as PI on 75 grants. In 1995 he was awarded an IEEE Congressional Fellowship to work as an LA for Rep. Lloyd Doggett. In 2001 he founded a spin-off from Loyola University Maryland as WTEC, a non-profit that studies international R&D for Federal agencies.