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EESA Awards & Recognitions

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2012

EESA Management

  • 2012 Outstanding Service Award, UChicago Argonne Board of Governors, Renée Nault

Decision and Information Sciences

  • Standards and Practices Department Award, International Society of Automation, Vic Hammond
  • Distinguished Service Medal, Alabama Governor Bentley, John Short and Richard Winter
  • Value Engineering Achievement Award, U.S. Department of Defense, Michael North, Mary Ann Bitz, Mark Bragen, Eric Tatara, and Chuck Olsen
  • Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award, Edgar Perez

Energy Systems

  • 2012 Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Larry Johnson
  • 2012 R&D 100 Award, Ultra-Fast and Large-Scale Boriding, Ali Erdemir
  • 2012 R&D 100 Award, Large Area Microchannel Plates, Jeff Elam
  • New Venture Challenge Award, Dan Schabacker and Aeraj ul Haque
  • 2012 SAE McFarland Award, Thomas Wallner and Mike Duoba
  • 2012 FLC Award, Resin Wafer Technology, Seth Snyder
  • 2012 Argonne Pacesetter Award, Green Racing Simulator, Forrest Jehlik and Danny Bocci

Nuclear Engineering

  • Young Member Excellence Award, American Nuclear Society, Elia Merzari
  • 2012 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, American Nuclear Society, Dave Pointer

2011

Energy Systems

  • Member Emeritus, Transportation Research Board, Marianne Mintz
  • 2011 R&D 100 Award, Advanced Ceramic Film Capacitors for Power Electronics in Electric Drive Vehicles, Balu Balachandran, Beihai Ma and Manoj Narayanan
  • 2011 R&D 100 Award, Enhanced Renewable Methane Production System, Seth Snyder, Richard Doctor, Michael Henry and Meltem Demirtas
  • Elected President, Council for Chemical Research, Seth Snyder
  • Cited one of "the best and brightest innovators in the energy labs" by Innovation (America's Journal of Technology Commercialization), Dan Schabacker
  • Distinguished Performance Award, University of Chicago, Aymeric Rousseau
  • Distinguished Performance Award, University of Chicago, Ali Erdemir
  • Individual Award for Safety Leadership, University of Chicago, Greg Krumdick
  • Named to "Electrifying 100 List," Automotive News, Don Hillebrand
  • Fellow, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, Oyelayo O. Ajayi
  • 2011 Presentation Award for Young Researchers and Engineers: Outstanding Presentation Award, Japan Society of Automotive Engineers, Thomas Wallner
  • Environmental Protection Agency, Outstanding Researcher Award, Henning Lohse-Busch
  • Society of Automotive Engineers, Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker, Thomas Wallner
  • Argonne National Lab, Argonne Pacesetter Award, Michael Duoba, Glenn Keller, Henning Lohse-Busch, Danny Bocci, Michael Kern, Dave Bell, Geoff Amann, Eric Rask, Dave Shimcoski

Decision and Information Sciences

  • “High Performance Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation” (paper) presented at the 79th Annual Military Operations Research Society Symposium nominated for Richard H. Barchi Prize, Michael North
  • 2011 Most Innovative Use of RFID Award, RFID Journal, Yung Liu

Nuclear Engineering

  • US DOE Secretary's Achievement Award, for work on Fukushima, Mitch Farmer
  • Outstanding Achievement, RERTR-2011 International Meeting, Jordi Roglans-Ribas
  • Outstanding Contributions to National and Global Security, NNSA, Yousry Gohar
  • Exemplary Technical and Project Leadership, NNSA, John Stevens
  • Secretary’s Achievement Honor Award, U.S. Department of Energy, Mitch Farmer
  • 2011 Award of Excellence, Nigerian Institute of Physics, Temi Taiwo
  • Distinguished Service Award, American Nuclear Society, Roger Tilbrook

2010

Energy Engineering & Systems Analysis

  • American Chemical Society, Fellow, Alfred Sattelberger
  • Purdue University School of Materials Engineering, Outstanding Materials Engineer, Mark Petri

Energy Systems

  • Henry Souther Standards Award, Mike Duoba
  • Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Ali Erdemir
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow, Ali Erdemir
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Vehicle Technology Program Merit Review Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions designing, developing and making PSAT the industry standard for lifecycle and cost modeling," Aymeric Rousseau

Nuclear Engineering

  • American Nuclear Society, Best Paper, Temitope A. Taiwo, Di Yun, Taek K. Kim, and Amr S.G. Mohamed
  • Nuclear Engineering Society, Fellow, Hussein Khalil

2009

Decision and Information Sciences

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Certificate of Appreciation for "Commercial Facilities Sector-Specific Agency Team," Jim Hensley
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Information Systems Security Officer of the Year Award, Nathan Rinsema

Energy Systems

  • R&D 100 Award for "super hard and slick coating (SSC) for increased engine efficiency and component reliability," Ali Erdemir and Osman Eryilmaz
  • The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Extraction and Processing Division, 2009 Technology Award, Bassam Jody, Joe Pomolyka, Jeff Spangenberg and Ed Daniels

Nuclear Engineering

  • Dileep Singh named a Fellow in the American Ceramic Society
  • National Nuclear Security Administration, Certificate of Appreciation for "supporting the development of a Joint Sustainability Plan for the Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) program in Russia as a key member of the Joint Sustainability Working Group," Chuck Roche
  • Secretary of Energy Achievement Honor Award for "work for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Program," Yousry Gohar
  • Secretary of Energy Achievement Honor Award for "work for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) Reactor Conversion Program," Jordi Rogland-Ribas

2008

Decision and Information Sciences

  • The Assistance Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, 2007 Team Award for Process Improvement for "taking part in developing a cohesive verification process that could be used to verify the capabilities of the JSP aircraft," John Hummel
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Pressure Vessels and Piping Division, Certificate of Appreciation, Yung Li
  • University of Chicago, Recognition for contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, David Streets
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Certificate of Appreciation for "development of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards for the Chemical Security Compliance Division," James Peerenboom

Energy Systems

  • Arun Wagh named a Fellow in the American Ceramic Society
  • Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Award for Honorable Mention Technical Paper, "Development of Membranes for Purifying Hydrogen produced by Coal Gasification and/or Methane Reforming," U. (Balu) Balachandran, Tae H. Lee, Yubxiang Lu, Chan Young Park, and Stephen E. Dorris
  • University of Chicago, Recognition for contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Richard Doctor, and Steven Plotkin
  • R&D 100 Award for "ultrananocrystalline diamond seal technology," John Hryn, Greg Krumdick, Jeffrey Elam, and Joseph Libera
  • British Petroleum, Ernst W. Thiele Award for "innovative application of multiphase theory and computational fluid dynamics in the areas of nuclear, fossil and biochemical engineering," Robert Lyczkowski

Nuclear Engineering

  • Jim Grudzinski named a Fellow in the Argonne Accelerator Institute
  • Nuclear Criticality Safety Division of the American Nuclear Society, Technical Excellence Award, Richard D. McKnight
  • University of Chicago, Joseph J. Jacobs Master Builder Award for "the Center of Nanoscale Materials Conventional Facilities," Fran Clark
  • U.S. Department of Energy, Certificates of Appreciation for "exemplary service and commitment in the review of preliminary industry deliverables in the GNEP program," Pete Heine, Chris Grandy, and Temitope Taiwo
  • University of Chicago, Distinguished Performance Award, James Cahalan
  • U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Security Service, Certificate of Appreciation for "work completed on the DSS e-FOCI System," Judy Chiarelli
  • Recognition and a medal from Argonne Laboratory Director for "participation in the formal license application for the federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain," Mark Peters, Edgar Morris, and Mark Nutt

2007

Decision and Information Sciences

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Certificate of Appreciation to "the National Annual CI/KR Protection Report Writing Team for the successful development and coordination of the 2007 Annual CI/KR Protection Reporting Process," Tom Baldwin, William Buehring, Margaret Clemmons, Ron Fisher, James Peerenboom, Melanie Tompkins, Robert Weaver, and Ron Whitfield

September 2012

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