David Huizenga (DOE Senior Advisor for EM, 8th from left) with FIU’s DOE Fellows and Dr. Leo Lagos (DOE Fellows Program Director, 10th from left) at WM2012
Seventeen Department of Energy – Florida International University (FIU) Fellows attended the Waste Management 2012 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, from February 26 to March 1, 2012. The DOE Fellows from the DOE – FIU Science and Engineering Workforce Development Initiative met with Mr. David Huizenga (DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management) while at the conference to discuss their EM applied research work being performed at FIU’s Applied Research Center as well as their summer internship experiences at DOE sites, national laboratories, and site contractors. The DOE Fellows Program is being supported by EM in order to create a pipeline of minority students and engineers to help span the science and engineering talent gap necessary to complete EM’s mission. This event appeared in an article in the March 1 EM Program Update (here).
Fourteen of the DOE Fellows also presented their research via technical posters during the session entitled, “Student Poster Competition: The Next Generation – Industry Leaders of Tomorrow” (Session 30). In addition, DOE Fellows Director (Dr. Lagos) and DOE Fellow (Ms. Heidi Henderson) participated in two panel sessions dedicated to students and young professionals – “Graduating Students and New Engineers – Wants and Needs – Are Companies Even Listening?” (Session 44) and “Young Professionals” (Session 45). The Fellows also help out at the conference by working as student assistants during the various presentations and panel session at WM12.
Posters included:
- Challenges Achieved By Innovative Technologies at the Hanford Site – Heidi Belle Henderson
- Asynchronous Pulsing as a Means of Unplugging Pipelines – Janty Ghazi
- Peristaltic Crawler for Pipeline Unplugging – Jose Matos
- Sensor Implementation and Data Acquisition for Thermal Analysis of Special Grout – Sainath Chidambar Munavalli
- Implementation of Parallel Computing for Multiphase Flows using theLattice Boltzmann Method – Jaime Mudrich
- Heat of Hydration Experimental Mock Up UsingCellular Concrete/Grout – Alessandra Monetti
- Investigation on Uranium Biosorption by DOE-Hanford Site SoilIsolates: Effects of Calcium and Bicarbonate – Bryant Thompson
- Batteryless Wireless Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring and In-Situ Decommissioning Tasks – Elicek Delgado-Cepero
- Evaluation of Asynchronous Pulsing Unit Pipeline Unplugging Technology – Eric Inclan
- Energy Facility Contractors Group – Lessons Learned and Best Practices – Lee Brady
- Improvements of an Integrated Flow and Mercury Transport Model in East Fork Poplar Creek Watershed, Oak Ridge, Tennessee – Lilian Marrero
- In-Situ Decommissioning Sensor Network Meso-Scale Test Bed – Nadia Lima
- Investigation of the Effect of Water Quality Parameters on Dissolution of Sodium Meta-Autunite – Ravi Gudavalli