FLC Awards Archive
— 1986
Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer
Department
of Energy
Ames
Laboratory, Iowa State University
John McClelland, Linda Seaverson
Development and commercialization of a new photoacoustic
cell for Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
Argonne
National Laboratory
Robert F. Domagala, James E. Matos,
James L. Snelgrove, Henry R. Thresh, Armando
Travelli, Thomas C. Wiencek
Developing a proliferation-resistant nuclear
fuel for research reactors and transferring
the fabrication technology to commercial fuel
element producers.
Brookhaven
National Laboratory
Russell N. Dietz
Leadership and initiative in developing and
commercializing an air infiltration measurement
system that will result in more comfortable
homes and energy efficient buildings.
Energy
Technology Engineering Center
Nathan J. Hoffman
Promoting technology transfer between academic
and Federal laboratory sectors by suggesting
graduate thesis topics of mutual interest to
the Department of Energy and university research
departments.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Hans Brujines
Transfer of the LLNL-developed Cray Time Sharing
System to firms in private industry seeking
to provide less costly supercomputer environments.
Dr. Douglas R. Stephens
Success in using cooperative agreements to transfer
underground coal gasification technology to
industry and foreign countries.
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
James D. Doss
Transfer of an optical keratoplasty device to
Radtech, Inc.
Oak
Ridge Institute for Science & Education
Cheryl F. Allred, Shirley A. Fry,
Harold Hodges, Judy S. Lambert, Clarence C.
Lushbaugh, Robert C. Ricks, Anna H. Sipe
Developing new treatment techniques, providing
technical assistance, and disseminating information
to government agencies, industry and hospitals
to improve the handling of radiation accidents.
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
Michael S. Blair, E. Johnathon
Soderstrom, Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh
Noteworthy contributions toward the commercialization
of the fiber optics luminoscope resulting in
a licensing agreement with Environmental Systems
Corporation of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Chain T. Liu, Anthony C. Schaffhauser,
Vinod K. Sikka, E. Johnathan Soderstrom
Noteworthy contributions toward the commercialization
of aluminide alloys and, specifically, toward
the achievement of a licensing agreement with
Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Fredrick G. Burton, Dr. Dominic A. Cataldo,
Dr. Peter Van Voris
Initiative and uncommon creativity in transferring
a biobarrier technology into products that prevent
unwanted root growth and vegetation from roadways,
septic tanks, sewer lines, buried gas lines,
and irrigation heads. Dr. Steven R.
Doctor, Thomas E. Hall
For their initiative and uncommon creativity
in transferring the "STAFT-UT Signal Processing
for High Resolution Imaging" to private
industry for its application at electric utilities.
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