{"id":774,"date":"2012-03-16T16:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/?p=774"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:20:47","slug":"doe-fellows-participation-at-waste-management-2012-symposia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/feature\/doe-fellows-participation-at-waste-management-2012-symposia\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE Fellows Participation at Waste Management 2012 Symposia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen Department of Energy \u2013 Florida International University (FIU) Fellows attended the Waste Management 2012 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, from February 26 to March 1, 2012. The DOE Fellows from the DOE \u2013 FIU Science and Engineering Workforce Development Initiative met with Mr. David Huizenga (DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management) while at the conference to discuss their EM applied research work being performed at FIU\u2019s Applied Research Center as well as their summer internship experiences at DOE sites, national laboratories, and site contractors. The DOE Fellows Program is being supported by EM in order to create a pipeline of FIU STEM students and engineers to help span the science and engineering talent gap necessary to complete EM\u2019s mission. This event appeared in an article in the March 1 EM Program Update ).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dr.-David-Huizenga-with-DOE-Fellows.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Dr. David Huizenga with DOE Fellows\" src=\"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dr.-David-Huizenga-with-DOE-Fellows.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. David Huizenga with DOE Fellows\" width=\"600\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of the DOE Fellows also presented their research via technical posters during the session entitled, \u201cStudent Poster Competition: The Next Generation \u2013 Industry Leaders of Tomorrow\u201d (Session 30).\u00a0 In addition, DOE Fellows Director (Dr. Lagos) and \u00a0DOE Fellow (Ms. Heidi Henderson) participated in two panel sessions dedicated to students and young professionals &#8211; \u201cGraduating Students and New Engineers \u2013 Wants and Needs \u2013 Are Companies Even Listening?\u201d (Session 44) and \u201cYoung Professionals\u201d (Session 45). The Fellows also help out at the conference by working as student assistants during the various presentations and panel session at WM12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about the Work Force Development Program, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonel Lagos, Ph.D., P.M.P.<\/strong><br \/>\n10555 West Flagler Street<br \/>\nEC Suite 2100<br \/>\nMiami, Florida 33174<br \/>\nTel: 305-348-4249<br \/>\nFax: 305-348-1852<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lagosl@fiu.edu\">lagosl@fiu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or visit the program&#8217;s website at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fellows.fiu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/fellows.fiu.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt pull-left\">Seventeen Department of Energy \u2013 Florida International University (FIU) Fellows attended the Waste Management 2012 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, from February 26 to March 1, 2012. The DOE Fellows from the DOE \u2013 FIU Science and Engineering Workforce Development Initiative met with Mr. David Huizenga (DOE Senior Advisor for Environmental Management) while at the conference to discuss their EM applied research work being performed at FIU\u2019s Applied Research Center as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54891,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/54891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eicdev.fiu.edu\/phparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}