Ron F. Green

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Ron Green

Ron F. Green

Chairman, Advatech, LLC

Education

  • B.S. 1970, Engineering Physics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • M.S. 1978, Engineering Administration, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

While an undergraduate, Green played varsity baseball and participated in student government, serving as a student senator from the Tickle College of Engineering. In 1970, after working his way through school as a co-op student at Union Carbide, he accepted a job as a test engineer with Union Carbide in Oak Ridge.

Later, while working with U.S. Nuclear, Inc., he became the youngest plant manager in the country at age 26. Green later served as manager of quality assurance and interface control for the U.S. Department of Energy. After three years with the Department of Energy, he joined the System Development Corporation as southeast regional manager.

In 1982, Daniel International, a subsidiary of Fluor Corporation, offered him a job as a division vice president. Green worked for Daniel International for 16 years supervising the construction of power plants in China, Saudi Arabia, South America, Jordan, Thailand, and others countries. In 1989, Fluor launched a new company with Duke Power called Duke/Fluor Daniel. Green served as its founding president and served as president of the Power Generation Operating Company for Duke/Fluor Daniel. Under Green’s leadership, Duke/Fluor Daniel saw revenues rise to $4 billion a year. Green departed Duke/Fluor Daniel to become president of Shell Oil’s Power Division; however, he returned in 1999 as president and CEO of Duke Engineering and Services, Inc. Before his passing in 2011, Green was the chairman of Advatech, LLC, a provider of technology to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions as well as engineering, design, and construction services for the power market.

As an original member of the Tickle College of Engineering’s Board of Advisors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he recognized the need to update the engineering curriculum and improve the communications skills of engineering students. Green helped to develop the Jerry E. Stoneking Engage Engineering Fundamentals Program where freshman students develop communication skills and hands-on engineering skills. He served on the Board of Directors for both Astec Industries and Eagle Energy, Inc. and was also a member of Tau Beta Pi and the American Nuclear Society.