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Engineering Laboratory

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2016 - Silver Medal Award---Therese McAllister, Erica Kuligowski, Stephen Cauffman, David Butry

For outstanding leadership in developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide, a planning process to help communities increase disaster resilience.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Kevin McGrattan, Randall McDermott, Glenn Forney, Craig Weinschenk, Richard Peacock, Anthony Hamins, Blaza Toman

For development of the Fire Dynamics Simulator fire model, an achievement in the practical application of science to fire-safe design of structures.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Piotr A. Domanski, W. Vance Payne

For conducting the first study of the impact of installation faults on heat pump performance, providing an authoritative basis for improved practice.

Selepak, Kuligowski, Fernandez, Reneke, Hagwood, Peacock, Averill

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke, Charles Hagwood, Michael Selepak, Marco Fernandez, Jason Averill, Erica Kuligowski

For development, analysis, and dissemination of a building evacuation database to improve occupant safety during fire incidents.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Matthew Boyd, Brian Dougherty

For development of testbeds for monitoring photovoltaic (PV) system performance that are providing critical datasets to the solar energy industry.

Brian Weiss Receives MVP Award - Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2016

The PHM2016 Most Valuable Player award was issued to Dr. Brian Weiss for his contributions to the organization and management of the panel sessions for the conference. Brian organized a record number of panel sessions for the 2016 conference...

Roger Bostelman Receives 2016 Robert J. Painter Memorial Award

Roger’s work with F45 has been extremely noteworthy, and the Painter Award was especially suited to the proactive mindset he has brought to F45 and the rapid evolution of its standards activity.

Paul Witherell was accepted into the ASME 2016-2017 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering

Recognized as a promising early career and future leader in mechanical engineering

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Alexander Maranghides

For development and implementation of a science-based post-fire data collection methodology to improve community fire resilience.

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---David Yashar

For exemplary research resulting in significant and critically needed efficiency improvements for heat pumps and air conditioners.

2014 - Edward Bennett Rosa Award---Anthony Downs, Hui-min Huang, Adam Jacoff, Elena Messina, Richard Norcross, Ann Marie Virts

For outstanding contributions to the development of ASTM International standard test methods and prototype tests to advance emergency response robots.

2014 - Colleagues' Choice Award---Glen Saraduke

For professional excellence, leadership and exceptional dedication to safe laboratory operations across the NIST Boulder campus.

2014 - Gold Medal Award---Long Phan, Erica Kuligowski, Franklin T. Lombardo, David P. Jorgensen

For conducting the federal investigation of the May 2011 Joplin Tornado that resulted in 16 recommendations to save lives and reduce losses.

Paul Witherell Selected 2014 ASME/CIE Young Engineer Award

Dr. Paul Witherell of the Engineering Laboratory’s Systems Integration Division, has been selected for the 2014 Young Engineer Award presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Computers and Information in Engineering (ASME/CIE)...

Dr. John Harris selected Fellow, ASCE/SEI

ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives.

Simon Frechette Receives 2012 DoD Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award

For Advancement of 3D Technical data package and data certification standards that will reduce defense system lifecycle support costs. The Air Force's "Customer/Supplier Interoperability during Collaborative Design (CSI)" and OSD/DMS&T’s "3D...

Green Gov Award

The award citation states that through the development of the BEES software tool, Bobbie has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art of practices for sustainability measurement of building materials and bio-based products across the Federal...

World Standards Day Paper Competition

Winner of the 2010 World Standards Day Paper Competition

Vijay Srinivasan Elected 2009 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

This award is to acknowledge Dr. Srinivasan's distinguished dual career in industrial research and academic teaching spanning over twenty-five years.

GOSCON Award

For promoting performance evaluation and benchmarking for robot systems and facilitating innovations in robotics

SME Fellow

Albert J. Wavering III is the acting deputy director of National Institute of Standards & Technology's Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. There, he is responsible for laboratory operations and assists the director in establishing its strategic...

AIAG award

For substantial contribution and leadership on behalf of the automotive industry.

Eswaran Subrahmanian AAAS Fellow

For distinguished contribution to design theory and methodology and its implications for design support systems & for bridging theory,practice and education in engineering design

Mina Seif Awarded 2018 MAJR Medal

The “McGuire Award for Junior Researchers” (MAJR Medal) is awarded by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) to a junior researcher who has impacted the structural stability field through service and research within ten years after...

Kuldeep Prasad Receives CO-Labs Governor's Award for High Impact Research

Free Range Frequency Combs: a collaborative journey from national lab to Colorado’s oil and gas fields

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