Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation

Student Awards at the 2023 ETI Workshop

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ETI consortium hosted its Annual Workshop at University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 8-9, 2023. About 80 participants representing university partners, national laboratories, and the government joined together to build and strengthen the research collaboration between the labs and the universities. This workshop was a great success with wonderful contributions from the ETI community.

Student presentations (both oral and poster) were impressive and excellent, and this year’s Student Award winners are: 

Allen Wood III (UNC-Chapel Hill) — Best Oral Presentation

Kate Thompson (UW-Madison) — Best Poster Presentation

2022 ETI Graduate Workshop is successfully concluded!

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ETI hosted a How to Apply to Graduate School Workshop event that presents opportunities in non-proliferation R&D on November 18-19 (Friday and Saturday), 2022, at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, 800 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA. Our aim is to host this event for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) engineering students, and the goal is to draw more diversity into our partner institutions.

The workshop includes:

  • Best practices in applying to graduate school
  • Tips on getting funding while a graduate student
  • Tours of GA Tech laboratory facilities
  • Graduate research opportunities at consortium partners
  • Networking with faculty and students from leading research universities
  • Diverse career opportunities in non-proliferation R&D

ETI welcomed international visitors from Europe

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ETI headquarter welcomed and had a in-person meeting with eight visitors from Europe who visited Atlanta in the week of July 11, 2022, under the auspices of the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program with the theme of “Deterrence Today, Disarmament Tomorrow.”

During their visit, the State Department has requested a meeting with Georgia Tech’s Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, which was coordinated by the Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV). Professor Steven Biegalski gave an introductory presentation to the visitors to discuss the ETI Consortium’s mission, research works, and partnerships on July 15, 2022.

Professor Anna Erickson has been selected as the new Associate Chair for Research in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering!

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Congratulations! Professor Anna Erickson has been selected as the new Associate Chair for Research in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Erickson will be responsible for working with the Woodruff School’s faculty to develop a strategic research plan for future growth and investments in the school, as well as identifying new research opportunities, helping to foster strategic relationships with government, industry, and foundations, and synergizing research efforts with other units in the College of Engineering and across the Institute.

Congratulations Successful UPR2022 Presentations

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NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D) held its annual University Program Review (UPR) Meeting from June 7 – June 9, 2022 at the Michigan League at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The UPR 2022 review meeting is an opportunity to showcase the DNN R&D-funded research projects from universities and their laboratory partners to the broader nuclear security and nonproliferation community. Activities included presentations consisting of 54 oral research presentations and 70 posters from different disciplines and topic areas: (1) Data Science, Modeling, and Simulation, (2) Fundamental Science, (3) Detection Technology, (4) Nonproliferation Signatures and Observables.

ETI members successfully presented 19 oral and 22 poster presentations. Three ETI students were awarded best presentation awards:

  • Best Oral Presentation: Ashok Dheenan (OSU, advisor: Dr. Siddharth Rajan, “Radiation Tolerant Wide Bandgap Microelectronics“)
  • Best Poster Presentation: Samuel Kemp (GT, advisor: Dr. Jonathan Rogers, “Precomputing Radiation Kernels for Real Time Particle Filter Source Term Estimation in Obstacle Rich Environments“) 
  • Best National Lab Project Award: Caleb Chandler (CSM, advisor: Dr. Alan Sellinger, “Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization of Vinyltoluene Towards the 3D Printing of Plastic Scintillators“).
Ashok Dheenan — OSU
Samuel Kemp — GT
Caleb Chandler — CSM