Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation

UPR2023 — great success!

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The University Program Review (UPR) 2023 review meeting that was held at the ASUC Student Union: Martin Luther King Junior Building at the UC-Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, June 6 – 8, 2023, which 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. UPR is an unclassified venue for sponsors to review the accomplishments of grantees; stakeholders within the community to engage sponsored researchers; a forum to stimulate collaboration, technology transfer, and integration; and a venue where students and early career scientists can interact with their peers in a rigorous, yet collegial, environment.

All presenters from the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation (ETI) delivered excellent oral/poster presentations to our sponsors and the community!

All ETI students’ presentations were very impressive. This year’s UPR Student Award winners are:

  • Best Poster Presentation: Hyunsoon Lee (Dr. Siddharth Rajan group, The Ohio State University)
  • Best Oral Presentation: Andrew Fishberg (Dr. Jonathan How group, MIT)
  • Best National Lab Project: Jordan Stomps (Dr. Paul Wilson group, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Thank the ETI team for your great efforts and contributions to make the UPR2023 successful!

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.