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National Hispanic engineering organization names Sandia manager Engineer of the Year

October 18, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — A radar systems manager at Sandia National Laboratories who is committed to encouraging youths to pursue science and technology careers has been named 2012 Engineer of the Year by the Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Steve Castillo, manager of Sandia’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems...
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Sandia shows monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

September 10, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia’s Susan Stevens-Adams wears a cap dotted with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors that are injected with gel to make sure they have good contact. EEGs are used as part of a study into memory and memory traini…

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business

September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...

Sandia Science & Technology Park fuels economy with jobs, tax revenue, spending

August 28, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The $1.89 billion in economic activity generated by the Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) since it was established in 1998 has produced more than $73 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $10.4 million for the city of Albuquerque, according to a...

Sandia explosives legend Paul Cooper hangs up his teaching hat

August 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Paul Cooper, one of the world’s foremost explosives experts, retired from Sandia National Laboratories more than a decade ago but continued his labor of love, teaching a new generation of engineers everything they needed to know about blowing things up. Cooper taught explosives safety and technology to...

Sandia experts, students explore cyber issues during weeklong summer institute

August 24, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the Livermore Valley Open Campus.Cyber Security Technolo…

Sandia Science & Technology Park to host news conference on economic impact results

August 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) will host a news conference Tuesday to announce the results of an economic impact report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG). The findings will be reported by the city of Albuquerque, represented by Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, and Bernalillo...
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Sandia Labs names new VP of Business Operations/CFO

August 7, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bonnie Apodaca is the new vice president of Business Operations and chief financial officer at Sandia National Laboratories. “I am confident that her contributions will move Sandia forward, improve our business efficiencies and ensure continued excellence in mission support,” said Kim Sawyer, Sandia’s deputy laboratories director and...
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Increased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting

August 6, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two researchers have reprised in the journal Energy Policy their groundbreaking finding that improvements in lighting —  from candles to gas lamps to electric bulbs  — historically have led to increased light consumption rather than lower overall energy use by society. In an article in the journal...
Sandia researcher Jeff Tsao examines the set-up used to test diode lasers as an alternative to LED lighting. Skeptics felt laser light would be too harsh to be acceptable. Research by Tsao and colleagues suggests the skeptics were wrong.

National workshop brings career development help to Sandia postdocs, student interns

July 17, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory…

Labs small-business assistance program named Manufacturing Advocate of the Year

July 13, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program has received the 2012 Manufacturing Advocate of the Year award from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The MEP award recognized the program’s “commitment to the business growth and transformation of U.S.-based manufacturing through...

Sandia SolarTrak technology helps arrays worldwide follow the sun

July 3, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When Alex Maish was a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in the early 1980s, he had a pet project, a low-cost, high-precision way to continuously move solar panels into the best possible position to catch sunlight and generate energy. By the early 1990s the technology was ready...

Sandia engineer named DOE Energy Pioneer

July 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy named Chris Evans an Energy Pioneer for his work in identifying and implementing energy conservation practices at Sandia National Laboratories. The award recognizes people who go above and beyond their jobs in energy management for the federal government. Evans has been involved...

Award-winning Sandia Labs engineer trods global path of nonproliferation

June 27, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Adam Williams of Sandia National Laboratories won a 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Award for his work in international security and nonproliferation. Williams was named Most Promising Engineer-Government in the prestigious BEYA program, which recognizes some of the nation’s best and brightest engineers, scientists and technology...

Sandia Labs’ unique approach to materials allows temperature-stable circuits

May 31, 2012 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sandia National Laboratories materials science researcher Steve Dai has come up with a unique approach to creating materials whose properties won't degenerate with temperature swings. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on t…

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

May 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary rock. By understanding the variety of pore sizes and spatial patterns in strata, geologists can help achieve more production from...

Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE ‘smart machine’ developed at Sandia Labs

May 16, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine” installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “amaze”) is being provided to the Navy as...
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Partnership program seeks small-business groups needing technical help

May 15, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program is looking for groups of companies facing common challenges that could use technical assistance from researchers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. NMSBA is soliciting proposals for 2013 leveraged projects, in which two or more small businesses request...

Sandia scientists named 2012 SIAM applied mathematics fellows

May 8, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Sandia National Laboratories researchers Bruce Hendrickson and Pavel Bochev have been named Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Hendrickson and Bochev were among 35 members selected for fellow status this year, and are the first Sandia scientists to earn the honor from the...

Legacy Waste Program nearing completion

May 2, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The last scheduled shipments of remote-handled (RH) transuranic (TRU) waste left Sandia on Wednesday, headed directly for permanent disposal in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. These shipments end Sandia’s final stage in DOE’s Legacy TRU Waste Program, which works...
TRU trucks leave for WIPP

Innovation Celebration spotlights teamwork between science and business

May 1, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A kick in the teeth got Delano Romero thinking about mouth guards. An Albuquerque martial artist, Romero was sparring in Brazilian jiu-jitsu when his mouth took a hit. His over-the-counter mouth guard didn’t do its job, and his teeth fractured. Romero decided to develop a better mouth guard,...

ER doc, Sandia engineer join forces on better trauma shears

April 23, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque physician teamed with a Sandia National Laboratories engineer to improve the doctor’s trauma shears design so emergency personnel can get to the injuries they need to treat more quickly. “Sometimes seconds count. This product will make a difference for the medical community,” said Mark Reece...

Miniature Sandia sensors may advance climate studies

April 10, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models.“We now have an inexpensive tool for collecting pristine vapor samples in the field,” said Sandia National Labora…

Sandia’s Ion Beam Laboratory looks at advanced materials for reactors

March 26, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Sandia National Laboratories is using its Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL) to study how to rapidly evaluate the tougher advanced materials needed to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and extend the lives of current reactors.[caption id="" align="al…
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