Science / Technology / Engineering

June 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students from Texas Tech University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have won this year’s annual MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.

May 18, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories recently provided three engineering concepts to small business owner Dale Petty for a gadget that keeps car tires inflated to the right pressure.

April 21, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a software-based tool called BROOM — short for Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model — to assist in the gathering of samples following a release of biological warfare agents in a public...

April 11, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Corporation Board of Directors has named Dr. Thomas O. Hunter President of Sandia Corporation and Director of Sandia National Laboratories, effective April 29. Hunter most recently has served as Sandia’s senior vice president for Defense Programs...

April 4, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and The University of Texas System will sign a multi-faceted memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, April 6. The event begins at 9 a.m. in the Russell Senate Office Building, Room 284.

March 22, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories assisted 278 New Mexico small businesses in 2004 thanks to a tax credit passed by the New Mexico Legislature.

March 22, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Manufacturers, inventors, and researchers challenged by MEMS reliability issues should consider signing up for one of the upcoming “MEMS reliability short courses” offered by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque May 10-12 and Dec. 13-15.

March 22, 2005 • LOS ANGELES, Calif. — To investigate tumors, pathologists currently rely on labor-intensive microscopic examination, using century-old cell-staining methods that can take days to complete and may give false readings.

March 8, 2005 • A MEMS test unit sits under the black box that contains its atmosphere. The gold plates beside it are wiring sites. Next to the device, for size comparisons, are grains of table salt. Download 300dpi JPEG image, ‘Radant-salt-3b.jpg’, 684K (Media are welcome to download/publish..

March 7, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geothermal researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed sensors that can be placed in hotter and higher-pressure underground environments than previous instruments, a capability that is allowing geologists worldwide to make more precise...

March 2, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a South Texas highway local police and border agents are using a hand-held sniffer developed at Sandia National Laboratories to help stem the flow of illegal drugs northward into the U.S.

February 15, 2005 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — From the beginning, researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, the creators of the Army’s Explosive Destruction System (EDS), suspected the system could, in addition to snuffing out chemical warfare material...

February 3, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new initiative at Sandia National Laboratories seeks to stimulate spin-off companies to be built around Sandia technologies that are important to the Lab's national security mission.

February 1, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— A MEMS design competition sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories will provide eight university student teams the opportunity to have their microelectromechanical designs fabricated for free, using the world's most advanced silicon surface micromachining...

January 18, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new online database created to highlight opportunities to license Sandia National Laboratories’ intellectual property is now available to the general public.

January 11, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There you are, tapping your fingers on the cold steering wheel as your windows cloud over from your breath. How could you have known your car battery was that low?

January 7, 2005 • DETROIT, Mich., and LIVERMORE, Calif. — General Motors Corp. and Sandia National Laboratories have launched a partnership to design and test an advanced method for storing hydrogen based on metal hydrides.

January 5, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A workshop for high school physics teachers will be held Saturday, Jan. 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Albuquerque Convention Center in the Ruidoso Room, East Complex Upper level.

December 9, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the “dream team” of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University this week to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a gigapixel...

December 7, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Over the next few weeks researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories will begin testing innovative ways to treat arsenic-contaminated water in an effort to reduce costs to municipalities of meeting the new...

November 18, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is looking for businesses to serve as either mentors or protégés in its Mentor Protégé Program (MPP) for next year.

November 10, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Peering into the center of Sandia National Laboratory’s Z machine as it fires had been a feat unachievable for a decade.

November 4, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A radar, originally developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories for military surveillance and reconnaissance applications, is helping a volunteer search and rescue group save lives.

October 21, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to...