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Engineering Laboratory

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2022 - Silver Medal Award---Jonathan Weigand, Sorin Marcu, Fahim Sadek, Adam Pintar, Long Phan

For innovative research to measure and quantify effects of the alkali-silica reaction on the safety of nuclear power plants for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Marc Levitan is Elected ASCE Structural Engineering Institute Fellow

The SEI Fellow grade of membership recognizes accomplished SEI members as leaders and mentors in the structural engineering profession.

Ryan Falkenstein-Smith Receives Proulx Early Career Award

This award recognizes meritorious achievement by members of the IAFSS who are early in their career and have contributed a body of work that is of significance to fire safety science. The award includes a grant of $4,000 (US), a plaque, and free...

Aspasia (Sissy) Nikolaou was Elected President of the ASCE Geo-Institute

President of the ASCE Geo-Institute. The Geo-Institute has over 13,000 members and is represents geoprofessionals and the geo-industry. It was created by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1996 as one of ASCE's nine specialty Institutes.

Adam Jacoff and David Schmitt Receive DOC FY 2021 Real Property Portfolio Award

For cleaning out and vacating NIST materials from the NIKE site so that the property could be sold and for developing the Program of Requirements document for the new replacement facility

2021 - Safety Award---Brian Brass, Andrew Persily, Steven Emmerich, Lisa Ng, Charles Bowers, Christian Colburn, Danielle Swarts, Carrie Kelly, Drew Comley, George Potts, Jr.

For developing research-based guidelines and best practices to maximize the impact of campus ventilation systems, which prepared NIST for Phase 1 reopening.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Brundage, Rachael Sexton

For developing an innovative method to integrate human expertise with machine learning to extract manufacturing knowledge from technical data.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Craig Schlenoff, William Harrison, Anthony Downs, Pavlo Piliptchak, Murat Aksu

For developing an innovative simulation-based robot agility competition that has spurred breakthrough solutions to industry’s robotics challenges.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski

For development and dissemination of the first detailed cybersecurity guidelines specifically for protecting small and medium-sized manufacturers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Rick Davis

For development of new Standard Reference Material cigarettes for regulatory compliance testing of the ignition propensity of residential furnishings.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---W. Stuart Dols, Brian Polidoro, Dustin Poppendieck, Steven Emmerich, Lisa Ng

For development, application and dissemination of the Fate and Transport of Indoor Microbiological Aerosols (FaTIMA) tool in response to COVID-19.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Sherwin McAdam, Hing Pan Wong, Tracy Retterer, Karla Sims, John Furgerson, Daniel Dender, William Clark, Jody Sandel, Hong Zhang, Yali Zhang

For developing and implementing an acquisition management tool providing transparency and visibility to customers, leadership, and acquisition professionals.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Commarota, Cerasela Constantin, Sushama Singh , Simon Frechette , Eric Shirley, Andrea Medina-Smith, Elisabeth Mansfield, Douglas Montgomery, Peter Gehring, Fernando J. Cintron

For development of an IT system to modernize and simplify NIST's publication processes

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Benjamin Long

For the development of an additive manufacturing materials database and data portal to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Alden Dima, Talapady Bhat , Benjamin Long , Jacob Collard, Rachael Sexton, John Elliott

For the rapid development and deployment of an innovative COVID-19 research system used globally to improve collective research knowledge-sharing.

2021 - William P. Slichter Award---Lyle Levine, Brandon Lane, Kalman Migler, Shawn Moylan, Mark Stoudt, Maureen Williams, Jonathan Seppala, Thien Phan, Ho Yeung, Sandra Young

For establishing the AM Bench Test Series to increase the reliability of simulations of additive manufacturing processes that are critical to industry.

2021 - Gold Medal Award---Brandon Lane, Steven Grantham, Ho Yeung, David Deisenroth, Jason Fox, Jared Tarr, Jay Nanninga, Clarence Zarobila

For developing the world-class capabilities of the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed and delivering groundbreaking measurements and data.

KC Morris Named SME Fellow for Her Outstanding Career Achievements

Outstanding career achievements and impact on manufacturing.

Brandon Lane Receives ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Young Professional Award

In recognition for his continuous and outstanding contributions to research pertaining and in support of additive manufacturing.

Shawn Moylan Receives 2021 ASTM Additive Manufacturing Award of Excellence in Standardization

In recognition of your significant and continuous outstanding contributions to the field of additive manufacturing, specifically in support of standardization.

Judith Mitrani-Reiser Inducted to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Dr. Mitrani-Reiser is recognized as a preeminent authority in disaster science and has dedicated her career to reduction of losses from disasters and failures in our built environment. At NIST she provides leadership for national programs, including...

Therese McAllister Receives 2021 ASCE Walter P Moore, Jr. Award

In recognition of demonstrated technical expertise in and dedication to the development of structural codes and standards

Aspasia Nikolaou Receives Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year for 2020 – 2021

In recognition of her character, professional integrity, and years of outstanding service to the civil engineering profession.

Shaw C. Feng is Recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award

Shaw C. Feng is recognized with the Eli Whitney Productivity Award for his outstanding contributions to using efficiently linked data to enable digital metrology, sustainable manufacturing and systems integration for manufacturing industries thereby...

A Group within the Intelligent Systems Division are 2021 FINALIST

Adam Jacoff, Ann Virts, Kamel Saidi, Elena Messina, Kenny Kimble, Dave Schmitt, Tony Downs, and Brian Weiss are recognized as 2021 FINALIST for the 2021 Service to America Medal in the category of Safety, Security, and International Affairs for...

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