MSE Undergraduate Awarded Energy University Program Scholarship
Materials Engineering undergraduate student, Alejandro Figueroa, was awarded the 2017 Nuclear Energy University Program Scholarship from the U.S.. Department of Energy. He will receive a $7500 scholarship. He is one of 58 undergraduates across the U.S. to receive this award.
Alejandro has been working with Prof. Okuniewskis group since the Fall of 2016 where he has been performing porosity analyses in irradiated nuclear fuel obtained from high energy X-ray (synchrotron) micro-computed tomography.
Alejandro loading the sample to place onto the high energy X-ray beamline at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
Professor Okuniewski’s group (left to right), Alejandro Figueroa, Jonova Thomas, Professor Maria Okuniewski; along with APS beam scientists, Drs. Peter Kinesei and Hemant Sharma.
Source: Energy Department Announces New Awards for Advanced Nuclear Energy Development