Argonne engineer earns alumni award from Cornell University
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ARGONNE, Ill. (April 23, 2008) – Argonne Senior Engineer Roger Poeppel recently
received the 2008 Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni
Award from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
A three-member faculty committee selected Poeppel based on his service as
the former head of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory
programs in Ceramics and as director of the lab's former Energy Technology
Division.
A total of four alumni were recognized in the inaugural year of acknowledging
the significant contributions and achievements of Cornell graduates to the
field of materials science and engineering.
Poeppel is a 1964 graduate of Cornell, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering
Physics and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1968. He has been
with Argonne for 39 years and is a senior engineer in the Environmental
Science Division, where he is responsible for new nuclear reactor licensing projects.
Along with his work in ceramics and the Energy Technology Division, Poeppel
has been an invited speaker at numerous meetings and conferences and has initiated
collaborative research with at least 25 private companies. As director of the
Argonne National Laboratory Pilot Center, he was responsible for developing
collaborative research with industry and university partners to improve properties
of ceramic superconductors and to assure rapid commercialization of this new
technology.
He has more than 200 published works and 20 patents and was the editor-in-chief
of the journal Applied Superconductivity.
Argonne National Laboratory brings the world's brightest scientists and engineers
together to find exciting and creative new solutions to pressing national problems
in science and technology. The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne
conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every
scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from
hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies
to help them solve their specific problems, advance America 's scientific leadership
and prepare the nation for a better future. With employees from more than 60
nations, Argonne is managed by UChicago
Argonne, LLC for the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office
of Science.
For more information, please contact Brock Cooper (630/252-5565
or bcooper@anl.gov) at Argonne.
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