Laboratory scientist Ning Li has been named 2006 Asian American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA). Li was recognized for his technical and programmatic leadership in developing an important heavy-liquid metal nuclear coolant technology for advanced nuclear reactor and waste transmutation applications.
Li, of Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics (MST-10), is the Laboratory’s project and team leader for heavy liquid metal coolant technology and materials development, and serves as an executive committee member of the Material Science and Technology Division of the American Nuclear Society. Li also is an adjunct professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is a research affiliate in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has authored 97 publications and technical reports and has received one patent.
Li earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and arrived in the United States as a doctoral student in the Physics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The CIE-USA award recognizes established engineers who have made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, the public welfare and/or humankind. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Los Alamos scientist has received the award. Previous Laboratory recipients are Quanxi Jia, Wu-chun Feng, Joe Tiee and Paul Pan.
Li will be recognized at a banquet scheduled for Saturday (Feb. 25) in Seattle, Wash.
