Vision:  Lead the Nation in Developing and applying Predictive simulation to Engineering Design and Decision-Making.

Sandia’s vision is to provide innovative, science-based engineering solutions to our Nations most challenging security problems. To realize this vision, we must leverage the dramatic advancements in computational and experimental capabilities that provide the foundation for predictive science. Engineering Sciences is committed to developing advanced science-based computational capabilities that capture our understanding of the underlying governing phenomena and that are validated against high-fidelity, spatially and temporally resolved experimental data.

We will use these underlying capabilities and understanding to provide the optimal science-based engineering solutions that support design and riskinformed decisions. Working with others, we will lead the transition in engineering benefiting product realization, including design, manufacture, qualification, certification and surveillance, that integrates high-fidelity experiment, test and simulation. To position us strategically for mission success and to realize our vision, the Engineering Sciences has developed a program and management stewardship structure that permits a managed transition to this increased reliance on science-based simulation-enabled engineering supporting all elements of the product life-cycle.

Mission and Scope: The Mission of Engineering Sciences is to “Provide Validated, Science-Based, Engineering Solutions Across The Product Life Cycle to Meet The Mission Needs Of Sandia National Laboratories.”

In meeting the nation’s security needs, Sandia must support a diverse customer base ranging from our primary customer, Nuclear Weapons, to meeting the nation’s needs in energy, nuclear nonproliferation, defense and homeland security. To support these diverse customers, Engineering Sciences must be agile and responsive. We provide this responsiveness and agility through foundational capabilities and expertise that can address these multiple needs. Engineering Sciences develops foundational knowledge in the areas of:

thermal transport fluid mechanics aero-sciences solid mechanics		structural dynamics material mechanics electromagnetics and electrical sciences

and leverages foundational knowledge in material sciences, nano-sciences, and micro-sciences developed within the broader Sandia ST&E community. This foundational knowledge is captured in our science-based computational capabilities, validated through high-fidelity experiments, with quantified uncertainties, and applied by discipline experts to provide solutions to meet the needs of our diverse national security customers. In recent years, there has been a significant trend to increase our understanding of phenomena at the micro-scale and nano-scale to support the evolving needs of our customer base. This has resulted in the development of computational capabilities that capture non-continuum phenomena and provide bridging between the atomic and continuum models, the development of advanced diagnostics that can provide spatial resolutions at the micro-scale, and below, with high temporal resolution, and the discovery of phenomenology that is unique and enabled at small scales. The latter is dominated by heterogeneous non-continuum phenomena and large surface-to-volume ratios, among other effects.