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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 ITRI. His degrees are in EE from Texas Tech, MIT, and the University of Houston. Dr. Shelton worked at NASA on Apollo and TDRSS. He chaired university departments of 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 a legislative assistant for Rep. Lloyd Doggett. In 2001 he founded spin-off companies from Loyola University Maryland as WTEC, a non-profit, and ITRI, a small business. Both provide research and administrative services to Federal agencies. His personal research is on scientometrics and science policy.