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Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center

Description: The Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has completed its sixth year of operation. During this period the Center has involved thirteen GATE Fellows and ten GATE Research Assistants in preparing them to contribute to advanced automotive technologies in the center's focus area: hybrid drive trains and control systems. Eighteen GATE students have graduated, and three have completed their course work requirements. Nine faculty members fro… more
Date: September 30, 2005
Creator: Hodgson, Jeffrey & Irick, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Independent Review of Simulation of Net Infiltration for Present-Day and Potential Future Climates

Description: The DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) tasked Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) with providing an independent expert review of the documented model and prediction results for net infiltration of water into the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain. The specific purpose of the model, as documented in the report MDL-NBS-HS-000023, Rev. 01, is “to provide a spatial representation, including epistemic and aleatory uncertainty, of the predicted mean annual n… more
Date: August 30, 2008
Creator: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical GATE Report, 1998-2006

Description: In 1998, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded 10 proposals to establish graduate automotive technology education (GATE) centers of excellence at nine universities, each addressing a specific technological area. The University of California, Davis was chosen for two centers: Fuel Cell Center and Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Design Center (power drivetrains and control strategies). This report is specific to the Fuel Cell Center only, which was housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation … more
Date: September 30, 2006
Creator: Center, GATE Fuel Cell Vehicle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Developing integrated benchmarks for DOE performance measurement

Description: The objectives of this task were to describe and evaluate selected existing sources of information on occupational safety and health with emphasis on hazard and exposure assessment, abatement, training, reporting, and control identifying for exposure and outcome in preparation for developing DOE performance benchmarks. Existing resources and methodologies were assessed for their potential use as practical performance benchmarks. Strengths and limitations of current data resources were identifie… more
Date: September 30, 1992
Creator: Barancik, J. I.; Kramer, C. F. & Thode Jr., H. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[UNT UPDATE, Vol. 22 No. 1, March 30, 1992]

Description: A page from the UNT UPDATE publication that covers presentations by Dr. R. William McCarter and Dr. D. Jack Davis at the Association of General Education International Conference, and at the Music Symposium 92: Growing and Developing in the Arts. Also included are Nancy Reynolds' publication of a book titled "Art Lessons for the Middle School: A DBAE Curriculum" and an article titled "Blowing Your Own Horn: Public Relations for Art Educators as well as serving as a juror in an art competition.
Date: March 30, 1992
Creator: Owen, Sherri
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Education at California State University, Los Angeles

Description: California State University, Los Angeles, has partnered with the Department of Energy in addressing the workforce preparation and public education needs of the fuel cell industry and the US economy through a comprehensive set of curriculum development and training activities: * Developing and offering several courses in fuel cell technologies, hydrogen and alternative fuels production, alternative and renewable energy technologies as means of zero emissions hydrogen economy, and sustainable env… more
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Blekhman, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Science and Technology Review, July/August 2012

Description: This month's issue has the following articles: (1) Energetic Materials Research Finds an Enduring Home and Mission - Commentary by Bruce T. Goodwin; (2) A Home for Energetic Materials and Their Experts - The Energetic Materials Center has become the National Nuclear Security Administration's go-to facility for high explosives formulation, testing, and expertise; (3) A Spectra-Tacular Sight - Scientists use spectrographic techniques and a high-powered telescope to study the atmospheric compositi… more
Date: May 30, 2012
Creator: Poyneer, L A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TYPE A VERIFICATION REPORT FOR THE HIGH FLUX BEAM REACTOR STACK AND GROUNDS, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, UPTON, NEW YORK DCN 5098-SR-08-0

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 458.1 requires independent verification (IV) of DOE cleanup projects (DOE 2011). The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) has been designated as the responsible organization for IV of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) Stack and Grounds area at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York. The IV evaluation may consist of an in-process inspection with document and data reviews (Type A Verification) or a confirmatory survey of … more
Date: November 30, 2011
Creator: Harpenau, Evan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Analysis: Lessons Learned from Stationary Power Generation Final Report

Description: This study considered opportunities for hydrogen in stationary applications in order to make recommendations related to RD&D strategies that incorporate lessons learned and best practices from relevant national and international stationary power efforts, as well as cost and environmental modeling of pathways. The study analyzed the different strategies utilized in power generation systems and identified the different challenges and opportunities for producing and using hydrogen as an energy car… more
Date: April 30, 2010
Creator: Grasman, Scott E.; Sheffield, John W.; Dogan, Fatih; Lee, Sunggyu; Koylu, Umit O. & Rolufs, Angie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Security and Restoration Exercise Program/Best Practices and Information Sharing

Description: The first year of this cooperative agreement focused on the following elements: curriculum development and presentation, curriculum maintenance, enhancements, and effectiveness, and smart card initiative. During the second year of this grant, with redirection from DOE, the IUOE modified its mission statement under the cooperative agreement. It states: 'The mission of the IUOE is to provide expertise to provide best practices, information sharing, and develop scenarios and conduct exercises rang… more
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: McCabe, Barbara & Kovach, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Engineering Enrollments and Degrees Survey, 2008 Data

Description: The survey includes degrees granted between September 1, 2007, and August 31, 2008, and fall 2008 enrollments. Thirty-one academic programs reported having nuclear engineering programs during 2008, and data was provided by all thirty-one programs.
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: Analysis and Evaluation, Science Education Programs
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center for Hybrid Electric Drivetrains and Control Strategies

Description: Beginning the fall semester of 1999, The University of Maryland, Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research served as a U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Center for Hybrid Electric Drivetrains and Control Strategies. A key goal was to produce a graduate level education program that educated and prepared students to address the technical challenges of designing and developing hybrid electric vehicles… more
Date: September 30, 2005
Creator: Holloway, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modeling, Simulation Design and Control of Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Drives

Description: Ohio State University (OSU) is uniquely poised to establish such a center, with interdisciplinary emphasis on modeling, simulation, design and control of hybrid-electric drives for a number of reasons, some of which are: (1) The OSU Center for Automotive Research (CAR) already provides an infrastructure for interdisciplinary automotive research and graduate education; the facilities available at OSU-CAR in the area of vehicle and powertrain research are among the best in the country. CAR facili… more
Date: September 30, 2005
Creator: Rizzoni, Giorgio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capturing the Daylight Dividend

Description: Capturing the Daylight Dividend conducted activities to build market demand for daylight as a means of improving indoor environmental quality, overcoming technological barriers to effective daylighting, and informing and assisting state and regional market transformation and resource acquisition program implementation efforts. The program clarified the benefits of daylight by examining whole building systems energy interactions between windows, lighting, heating, and air conditioning in daylit … more
Date: April 30, 2006
Creator: Boyce, Peter; Hunter, Claudia & Howlett, Owen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership

Description: The Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership's (SECARB) Phase I program focused on promoting the development of a framework and infrastructure necessary for the validation and commercial deployment of carbon sequestration technologies. The SECARB program, and its subsequent phases, directly support the Global Climate Change Initiative's goal of reducing greenhouse gas intensity by 18 percent by the year 2012. Work during the project's two-year period was conducted within a ''Task Res… more
Date: August 30, 2006
Creator: Nemeth, Kenneth J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multidisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Support of the Biobased Products Industry

Description: The project had a dominant education component. The project involved revising curriculum to educate traditional engineering students in the emerging field of industrial biotechnology. New classes were developed and offered. As a result, the curriculum of the Colorado School of Mines was expanded to include new content. Roughly 100 undergraduates and about 10 graduate students each year benefit from this curricular expansion. The research associated with this project consisted of developing new … more
Date: September 30, 2005
Creator: Dorgan, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Physics Enrollments and Degrees Survey, 2008 Data

Description: The survey includes degrees granted between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008. Enrollment information refers to the fall term 2008. Twenty-six academic programs were included in the survey universe, and all 26 programs provided data.
Date: March 30, 2009
Creator: Analysis and Evaluation, Science Education Programs
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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UC Merced Center for Computational Biology Final Report

Description: Final report for the UC Merced Center for Computational Biology. The Center for Computational Biology (CCB) was established to support multidisciplinary scientific research and academic programs in computational biology at the new University of California campus in Merced. In 2003, the growing gap between biology research and education was documented in a report from the National Academy of Sciences, Bio2010 Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. We believed that a… more
Date: November 30, 2010
Creator: Colvin, Michael & Watanabe, Masakatsu
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership Quarterly Report

Description: The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, led by Montana State University, is comprised of research institutions, public entities and private sectors organizations, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Nez Perce Tribe. Efforts under this Partnership fall into four areas: evaluation of sources and carbon sequestration sinks; development of GIS-based reporting framework; designing an integrated suite of monitoring, measuring, and verification technologies; and initiating a … more
Date: June 30, 2004
Creator: Capalbo, Susan M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessing the Economic Viability of Bio-based Products for Missouri Value-added Crop Production

Description: While research and development on biobased products has continued strong over the years, parallel attention on the economics and management of such product innovation has been lacking. With the financial support of the Department of Energy, the Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia has launched a pilot graduate education program that seeks to fill the gap. Within this context, a multi-disciplinary research and teaching program has been struc… more
Date: November 30, 2005
Creator: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE/Industry Matching Grant Program

Description: For the academic year 2001-2002, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences received $50,000 of industrial contributions, matched by a DOE grant of $35,000. We used the combined DOE/Industry Matching Grant of $85,000 toward (a) undergraduate merit scholarships and research support, (b) graduate student support, and (c) partial support of a research scientist.
Date: September 30, 2003
Creator: Lee, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social implications of the Human Genome Project: Policy roundtable series and journals. Final progress report, March 15, 2001 - March 15, 2002

Description: This report reflects the activities of the Harvard Health Caucus at Harvard Medical School that were supported, in part, by the Department of Energy. The following policy roundtables and panels were held: Spring 2001 Policy Roundtable Series: The social implications of the Human Genome Project; Spring 2002 Policy Roundtable Series: Managing globalization to improve health; 13 February 2002 Keynote Address: The globalization of health; 25 February 2002 Healthier or Wealthier: Which comes first i… more
Date: December 30, 2002
Creator: Seiguer, Erica
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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User's guide for the IEBT application

Description: INFOSEC Experience-Based Training (IEBT) is a simulation and modeling approach to education in the arena of information security issues and its application to system-specific operations. The IEBT philosophy is that ''Experience is the Best Teacher''. This approach to computer-based training aims to bridge the gap between unappealing ''read the text, answer the questions'' types of training (largely a test of short-term memory), and the far more costly, time-consuming and inconvenient ''real har… more
Date: April 30, 1999
Creator: Bartoletti, T
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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