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FLC Awards Archive
— 1988
Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer
Department
of Energy
Ames Laboratory,
Iowa State University
James J. Holl, O. Dale McMasters
Extraordinary effort in helping to establish
a facility and an operation for the commercialization
of Terfenol-D, a promising new magnetostrictive
material.
Argonne
National Laboratory
David S. Kupperman, Melvin Linzer
Excellence in a cooperative effort with a trade
association and private industry to develop
an ultrasonic flaw detector for hot steel.
Brookhaven
National Laboratory
Suresh Srivastava
For unusual initiative in introducing the red
blood cell kit to industrial sponsors and convincing
them to commercialize it for use in millions
of clinical examinations annually.
Dmitri Stephani
Creativity in inventing hybrid preamplifiers
and uncommon initiative in promoting commercialization
through assisting manufacturers to produce,
advertise and market thousands of units annually.
Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory
Philip V. Livdahl
Developing the hospital-based proton therapy
accelerator and transferring the technology
to the medical community.
Idaho
National Engineering Laboratory
B.R. "Bud" Albin, R.A.
"Dick" Mitchell
For the initiative and technology transfer efforts
demonstrated in organizing the Volunteers for
Medical Engineering, Inc. Idaho Falls Chapter.
Michael A. Bray, Daniel R. Corsberg
For the initiative and creativity demonstrated
in transferring the INEL technology, Alarm Filtering
System to users outside the nuclear safety industry.
Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory
Ian G. Brown
For the design, development and active transfer
of the micro MEVVA and MEVVA (metal vapor vacuum
are) ion source technologies to industry and
to educational institutions.
Dariush Arasteh, John Hartmann,
Sue Reilly, Mike Rubin, Stephen Selkowitz
For the development and creative technology
transfer of the WINDOW 2 thermal performance
program to the diverse window and insulating
glass industry.
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Wayne Bongianni, Richard Mah,
Anton Mayer, Joel Williams
Creativity and persistence on successful transfer
of materials and instrumentation technology
to GV Medical, Inc. in the field of laser angioplasty
commercialization.
James L. Smith, Terry C. Wallace
Development of an innovative cooperative program
with the Public Service Company of New Mexico
on high-temperature superconductivity research
and development.
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
E.C. Bradley, S.A. Meacham
Development of ORNL's first agreement involving
licensing of both patents and copyrights and
a companion cooperative agreement (REMOTEC/DOE)
leading to commercialization of Advanced ServoManupulator/Control
System technology.
Pacific
Northwest Laboratory
Alex G. Fassbender, Peter M. Molton
Commitment to the development and transfer of
a process for converting sewage sludge to fuel
oil and steadfast pursuit of a successful alternative
when initial commercialization efforts failed.
Sandia
National Laboratories
Lawrence W. Teufel
Development of the anelastic strain recovery
technique of in situ stress measurement and
initiative in arranging cooperative programs
for transfer to industry.
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