Michael L. Telson is an American engineer currently at the

Federation of American Scientists The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is an American nonprofit global policy think tank with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to attempt to make the world more secure. FAS was founded in 1945 by a group of scient ...

and General Atomics Corporation and is an Elected Fellow of the

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, since 1999 and also an

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Fellow since 2004. He is an expert on technology and formulation policies and budgets. From 1975 to 1995, he was on the

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Budget Committee. From 1997 to 2001, he was the chief financial officer for the

U. S. Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear wea ...

Education

He earned his Ph.D. (1973), E.E., M.S. and B.S. from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

and an M.S. in management from MIT.

Publications

*The economics of alternative levels of reliability for electric power generation systems, ML Telson – The Bell Journal of Economics, 1975 *The economics of reliability for electric generation systems, ML Telson – 1973, MIT

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Telson, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century American engineers MIT School of Engineering alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni