2013 DOE Fellows Poster Exhibition

The seventh annual DOE Fellows Poster Exhibition and Competition took place on October 16, 2013. The purpose of this event was to showcase the DOE Fellows’ research accomplishments for the past year as a result of their participation in various U.S. Department of Energy – Environmental Management (DOE-EM) related applied research projects. A total of 12 posters were exhibited. Some of the projects showcased by the students were a result of their summer internship assignments at DOE Savannah River Site, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, DOE Hanford Site, and DOE Headquarters (DOE-HQ) in Washington, DC. Also, some of the posters reflected the DOE Fellows’ DOE-EM applied research that they conduct at the Applied Research Center (ARC) as part of the DOE-FIU Cooperative Agreement sponsored research.

For some of the graduate students, these projects are also a part of their thesis towards a master’s degree. This year’s panel of judges comprised of Dr. Ines Triay (ARC Executive Director), Dr. Norman Munroe (Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies & Academic Affairs – FIU College of Engineering), and Dr. David Roelant (ARC’s Associate Director of Research). This year, the poster exhibition and competition was conducted at FIU’s Engineering Center’s Panther Pit and was attended by FIU faculty, ARC personnel, and FIU students.

The posters presented included:

• Uranium Sequestration by Subsurface pH Manipulation using NH3 Gas Injection
  DOE Fellow Claudia Cardona (Environmental Engineering)

• Residual Waste Detection in HLW Staging Tanks
  DOE Fellow Dayron Chigin (Electrical Engineering)

• Low Level and Mixed Low Level Waste Treatment Technology Identification
  DOE Fellow Gabriela Vazquez (Mechanical Engineering)

• Analysis of Life Expectancy for Waste Transfer Lines Located in SY-Farm at Hanford Site
  DOE Fellow Jennifer Arniella (Mechanical Engineering)

• U (VI) Immobilization within SRS Groundwater
  DOE Fellow Joel McGill (Environmental Engineering)

• Radiological Decontamination with Permanent and Removable Coatings
  DOE Fellow Mariana Evora (Civil Engineering)

• SharePoint Based Secured Project Management for DOE-EM
  DOE Fellow Mariela Silva (Engineering Management)

• Investigation on Microbial Dissolution of Uranium (VI) from Autunite Mineral
  DOE Fellow Paola Sepulveda (Biomedical Engineering)

• Network Performance testing of D&D KM-IT with Traffic Generators
  DOE Fellow Pedro Cordon (Computer Engineering)

• Performance Evaluation of Mobile Applications with KM-IT Web Services
  DOE Fellow Revathy Venkataraman (Computer Science)

• Characterization of the Uranium-Bearing products of Novel Remediation Technologies
  DOE Fellow Robert Lapierre (Chemistry)

• Savannah River Site Internship
  DOE Fellow Valentina Padilla (Environmental Engineering)

2013 DOE Fellows Poster Exhibition Photo Gallery

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