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DOE OSTI2022

Quantifying the Role of APB Tubes on the Work-hardening of Ordered Phases

For sixty years, it has been theorized that antiphase boundary (APB) tubes, which are defects produced by deformation, contribute to the high strength of ordered alloys or intermetallic compounds. The concept of an APB tube was originally proposed by Vidoz and Brown [A.E. Vidoz, L.M. Brown, "On work-hardening in ordered alloys", Philosophical Magazine, 7 (1962) 1167–1175] in 1962 to explain the ~50% increase in strength observed when an alloy, such as Ni 3 Fe, is chemically ordered compared to when it is disordered. The existence of APB tubes was only definitively confirmed by Chou and Hirsch in 1981 [C.T. Chou, P.B. Hirsch Antiphase domain boundary tubes in plastically deformed ordered Fe 30.5 at.% Al alloy, Philosophical Magazine, A. 44 (1981) 1415–1419] using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Prior to the current work, there had been no studies trying to correlate the presence of APB tubes with their effect on the mechanical properties. The main finding of this project was that APB tubes do not contribute to the strength of the strongly-ordered intermetallic compounds FeAl and Ni 3 Al. This was shown by removing the APB tubes by heating the materials and showing that the mechanical properties were unaffected. In addition, in-situ deformation experiments were undertaken in a TEM on both disordered and ordered Ni 3 Fe, in which it was shown that defects (superdislocations) in the ordered alloy underwent many more interaction events than defect (dislocations) in the disordered alloy. This difference can explain the increase in the increase in strength observed when this material is ordered. The project supported a PhD student, Rachel Osmundsen, who successfully defended her thesis in April, 2022. It also supported the principal investigator, Ian Baker, two PhD exchange students and an undergraduate researcher. The work involved collaborations with the following people and use of the following facilities: Dr. Si Chen, Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, for synchrotron X-ray diffraction; and Dr. Katherine Shanks and Dr. Kelly Nygren, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), for synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The work led to 12 papers published in refereed journals with two papers currently submitted to journals. There were also 16 presentation made at conferences and universities on the work, ten of which were invited.

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DOE OSTI2022

West Virginia University Industrial Assessment Center (Final Progress Report)

The Industrial Assessment Center at West Virginia University has been successful in workforce development, and in generation of energy savings for manufacturing facilities during the period 2016 to 2021. Graduate and undergraduate students have benefited from energy assessment experience and most of them have found good positions as energy engineers and analysts in the industrial sector. Several peer reviewed research papers in archival journals as well as conference papers on the topic of energy engineering and assessment have been published. The implemented energy savings for manufacturing facilities have been significant in the areas of lighting, compressed air, process heating, steam, HVAC, chillers and cooling towers, and motors. In addition, water use reduction, smart manufacturing applications to save energy, cyber security evaluation, energy management, productivity improvements and waste reduction opportunities that lead to energy intensity reductions have been explored. The students have obtained an opportunity to interact with energy efficiency and productivity improvement professionals at various conferences and workshops and their research has generated important results. In summary, the West Virginia University Industrial Assessment Center (WVU-IAC) has fulfilled its mission in regard to workforce development, energy efficiency for manufacturing facilities, and laid a strong platform enhancing sustainability through reductions in carbon emissions achieved through energy efficiency and energy management initiatives and reductions in water usage and waste reduction. During the project period (2016-2021) the WVU-IAC has made numerous energy efficiency, water use reduction, waste reduction, and productivity improvement recommendations, a significant number of them having been implemented by the manufacturing facilities. The research adds significant understanding to the area of energy efficiency, water and waste reduction, and productivity improvement. The technical effectiveness and economic feasibility of the methods and techniques investigated and demonstrated through this project have been exemplary, resulting in significant recommended and implemented resource savings and reductions in carbon emissions. The project has been of significant benefit to the public owing to replication of results within the industrial sector, thus reducing operating costs for businesses that result in increase of growth and employment, as well as community benefits in terms of reductions in carbon emissions.

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DOE OSTI2022

South Texas Industrial Assessment Center (Final Report)

The South Texas Industrial Assessment Center (ST-IAC) provides small to mid-size manufacturing companies and water treatment plants in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, free energy assessments to help them reduce costs and stay competitive for sustainable development. The ST-IAC operates within the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), and is the largest Hispanic-serving IAC in the U.S. Created in 2016, the ST-IAC, situated in the most economically disadvantaged region in the country, has been successful in training students and assessing local industries served by a predominantly Hispanic population. UTRGV, now the second largest Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) of higher education in the U.S., has a student population of 32,000, of which 90% is Hispanic. While Covid-19 had a negative impact to our program during Budget Periods (BP) 4 and 5, the center still managed to provide opportunities for individuals, manufacturing and water industries in the local region. The program developed an energy engineering program in the region and further advanced national priorities. Those include resilience and sustainability of operations by implementing energy efficiency processes, renewable energy sources, decarbonization, battery storage, and cybersecurity in south Texas.

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DOE OSTI2024

Neptunyl and Uranyl Peroxide Chemistry in Molten Salts, Uranyl Structures from Nature, and Thermodynamic Studies Extending into the Transuranium Elements (Final Report)

This project was initially funded in 2007 and the current technical report is for 2019-2022. The specific objectives of this project (2019-2022) were: (1) Synthesis of actinide peroxide compounds in molten salt eutectics, (2) Studies of new uranyl minerals with fascinating structures and compositions, (3) Drop-solution calorimetric studies of actinide compounds extending into the transuranium elements, with an emphasis on the uranyl-sulfate system, (4) Continuation of studies of uranyl vanadate clusters synthesized using ionic liquids, (5) The training of Ph.D. graduate students in actinide chemistry, and to introduce undergraduate students to actinide research through providing research assistantships and supervision. The report lists 67 archival journal papers describing the work, of which 23 were since 2019. Highlights of the work are summarized for the period 2019-2022.

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DOE OSTI2023

Understanding and Controlling Turbulent Mixing in a Laboratory Magnetosphere

This report summarizes our most important recent research, building upon several years of productive research. This resulted in breakthroughs in our understanding of plasma confined by the strong field of a magnetic dipole, dissertations from several graduate students, and learning experiences from our undergraduate students.

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DOE OSTI2023

Understanding and Controlling Turbulent Mixing in a Laboratory Magnetosphere

This report summarizes our most important recent re search, building upon several years of productive research. This resulted in breakthroughs in our understanding of plasma confined by the strong field of a magnetic dipole, dissertations from several graduate students, and learning experiences from our undergraduate students.

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DOE OSTI2023

LANL Workforce Reporting Tool

The LANL Workforce Reporting Tool compiles and analyzes workforce demographics and attributes as presented in the annual Stockpile and Stewardship Management Plan (SSMP) over FY15-21 using MicroStrategy, a data analytics and visualization software. There are three major employee populations included in the tool: 1) LANL’s regular (permanent) employees; 2) LANL’s entire workforce (regular, craft, contractors, students, post doctorate students, limited term employees, and lab associates); 3) The Nuclear Security Enterprise’s (NSE) permanent career employees (combined and site-by-site).

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DOE OSTI2021

Direct Observation of Photoexcited Charge Carrier Dynamics and Electrostatic Fields at Photocatalytic Semiconductor/liquid Interfaces

Photoelectrochemical conversion of solar energy to fuels at semiconductor-liquid interfaces involves a complex set of processes, which include band bending, built-in electric fields, surface recombination of photoexcited carriers, and ultimately charge transfer to the ions in solution, in which the electrostatic fields within the depletion region of the semiconductor plays an important role. There are loss mechanisms associated with each of these key components in the overall photoelectrochemical conversion efficiency. Direct probe of these elementary processes is key to the rational improvement of photoeletrochemical cells and electrodes. In this collaborative project, Tianquan Lian at Emory University, Steve Cronin at University of Southern California and their students and postdoctoral fellows carried out a series of studies that are aimed at direct observation of photoexcited charge carrier dynamics at photocatalytic semiconductor/liquid interfaces. The collaborative work led to the development of transient reflectance spectroscopy as a tool for in situ probing of carrier dynamics in planar photoelectrode/electrode interface; and the demonstration that this tool can be used to study oxide protected GaP to identify key efficiency limiting factors in these photoelectrodes. This work has led to the development a tool for in situ probing of carrier dynamics in planar photoelectrodes, which will facilitate the mechanistic study of photoelectrochemical cells. This work informs the development of better photoelectrode materials for solar water splitting and CO 2 reduction. This work has contributed to the training of three PhD students in the area of photoelectrochemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy and solar energy conversion

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DOE OSTI2023

Production and Separations for High Specific Activity 186 Re, 189 Re and 47 Sc for Research and Clinical Applications: effective design of targets and recycling of targets and radioisotope separation

This grant involved three objectives for producing high specific activity radionuclides using reactor and accelerator technologies that would find use in medical, industrial and research applications. There was a strong emphasis in all projects to develop and train staff and students in all aspects of targetry, reactor and accelerator production, separation of radionuclides from enriched target material, and evaluating the specific activity of the product radionuclides. An additional objective was training of students (undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral) in all aspects of radiochemistry.

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DOE OSTI2023

Tunable Laser-Plasma Amplifier (Final Report)

Exploration at the laser intensity frontier has always offered new avenues for physics and reaching beyond this frontier is a grand challenge. Present-day petawatt-class lasers provide focused intensities on target of 10 22 W/cm 2 , corresponding to electric fields of 200 TV/m, while laser-plasma amplification opens a route for focused intensities well above 10 23 W/cm 2 . Intensities in this range provide the ability to test quantum electrodynamics in the unexplored low-energy, strong-field regime where signatures for new physics may arise. The behavior of matter under such extraordinary conditions is a rich and fascinating subject, not only in its own right in fundamental plasma physics, but for the many potential applications that promise to enrich the natural sciences in the future, including compact electron-beam, ion-beam particle accelerators, and ultra-bright X-ray sources. Although laser systems are now under construction internationally to access intensities of 10 23 W/cm 2 , the current technologies used appear to be fundamentally limited to these intensities. The realization of intensities beyond 10 23 W/cm 2 using parametric amplification in plasmas promises a breakthrough in high-energy density physics. Parametric amplification using Raman scattering in a plasma could provide the enabling technology for the generation of ultra-high-power laser pulses, but a more complete understanding of the nonlinear optics of plasmas is required. There is a significant gap in well-diagnosed laser-plasma instability studies of nonlinear plasma-wave phenomena, which are critical to understand for future laser-plasma devices. To achieve an efficient laser-plasma amplifier, plasma waves must be driven to large amplitude where significant energy can be rapidly transferred from the pump to the seed over the pulse duration of the seed. Simulations suggest that this nonlinear pump depletion regime can be achieved in the “pi-pulse” amplification regime. While simulations show this optimal regime with efficient amplification, it has remained elusive in experiments and there is a growing consensus within the community that thermal effects and pump beam limitations prevent laser-plasma amplifiers from progressing through the linear regime into the nonlinear pump depletion regime. Previous experiments have been significantly limited by the laser power available at the necessary wavelengths for the seed laser; therefore, the amplification is required to start in the linear regime where it is sensitive to many deleterious effects. The enabling technology (currently unique to plasma-wave amplification in the world) at the University of Rochester is the ability to provide a seed pulse with sufficient power (4 mJ/100 fs seed) to immediately drive nonlinear plasma waves into the pi-pulse regime and to tune its wavelength to optimize the efficiency of energy transfer. This in combination with the state-of-the-art OMEGA heater beams providing multiple kilojoules in a nanosecond to sufficiently heat the plasma make this system distinct from previous studies. These heater beams will provide, for the first time in Raman amplification studies, a homogeneous electron temperature high enough to prevent pump beam propagation issues that have plagued previous experiments. These systems will provide a platform for driving electron-plasma waves into the nonlinear regime where pump depletion and pulse shortening are predicted to lead to high amplification efficiencies (>30%). The Team has made significant progress through prior support from DOE Fusion Energy Sciences [DOE Office of Science Award Number DE-SC0016253 (2016-2022)]. This includes twenty-two peer-reviewed manuscripts, one patent, ten contributed talks presented at international conferences, and research that was highlighted as invited talks at fifteen international conferences. The broader impacts of this research are evident in the support of early career scientists, two Ph.D. theses, four current graduate students, a Masters Project, two undergraduate researchers, and an underrepresented minority student hired through the California Alliance for Minority Participation who now works as a Research Engineer in the group. This research met all of the funded research objectives and the highlights from primary Raman amplification thrust of this work are discussed below and form the foundation for the proposed research.

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DOE OSTI2023

Design of a Cryogenic Scintillation Neutrino Detector at the Spallation Neutron Source

We successfully verified in the following three aspects the feasibility of using a cryogenic scintillating crystal-based neutrino detector at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for the detection of low-mass dark matter particles and non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs), as part of the detector R&D effort of the COHERENT experiment. First, we demonstrated the possibility of using silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) at cryogenic temperatures to replace traditional photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) as light sensors. Second, we verified that the high light yield of undoped CsI crystals measured above 13 keVee at 77 K still holds down to 5.9 keVee. Third, we successfully measured nuclear quenching factor of undoped cryogenic CsI at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory with the help from our Duke collaborators. The first achievement resulted in a publication in European Physics Journal C. The second resulted in an arXiv pre-print, which is under journal review. The last one indicates that the performance of the proposed detector may be better than what was assumed in the literature. The analysis is in the final stage and will result in another journal publication. In addition, two graduate students involved in this project graduated with master’s degrees during the project period. Both decided to continue their research as PhD students. One open-source data analysis code package was created and is publicly available on GitHub. A set of tutorials about Monte Carlo simulation of radiation interacting with detectors were created on YouTube, receiving more than 100,000 views.

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DOE OSTI2021

Building Neutron Scattering Infrastructure in Louisiana for Advanced Materials (Final Report)

The main objective of the Louisiana Consortium for Neutron Scattering (LaCNS) is to build a major neutron scattering infrastructure capable of treating both soft and hard materials. The goal is to create a sustainable effort having the quality, breadth, and depth necessary to produce competitive proposals including collaborative and center type proposals. Our scientific aim is to understand the role of coupling in emergent complex materials and its impact on the structure/property relationship and to explore how to tune the key couplings to guide the design of materials with the desired properties. This naturally includes building a base of users of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) in Louisiana; to train highly talented graduate and post-doctoral students in synthesis, neutron scattering, and simulation and modeling techniques, thereby helping to produce the next generation of scientist who use neutron scattering techniques as a crucial part of their research. The goal of our hard matter program is to understand the interplay between spin, charge, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom in carefully selected complex materials. We have made considerable progress on number of complex systems including the oxide Sr3(Ru1-xMnx)2O7 where short-range magnetic ordering with anisotropic spin texture is initiated at the metal-insulator transition that clearly indicates a strong spin-charge coupling. Another critical area is in quantum materials. For example, in the topological semimetal BaMnSb2, we found a 3D canted antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal with a 2D electronic structure and a nontrivial Berry phase. In addition, in the hexagonal chiral Mn1/3NbS2 system, we found soliton/soliton and soliton/antisoliton domain walls where the application of small fields or small currents can be used to control nanoscopic magnetic domains where the control of domain walls is crucially important for information storage. In addition, chemical transformation investigations were performed on the VISION instrument at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). The soft matter effort was focused on understanding the role of non-covalent interactions on the structure and dynamics of fluid-based soft matter. One key focus was on sequence-defined (SD) amphiphilic peptoid polymers that allow encoding of molecular interactions and thereby systematic investigations of how charge directs the solution self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers in water. Another important area was on the dynamics of lipids self-assembled into membranes for exploring the permeability and mechanical using both neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy and quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) to distinguished between viscoelasticity and permeability at the molecular scale. Overall, the LaCNS project was quite successful, generating 145 publications and 245 presentations. Our graduate and post-doctoral students were well trained resulting in positions in national laboratories (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory), major research universities, and industry. We also developed a uniaxial pressure cell along with ORNL for SNS. A critical goal of this project was to establish a foundation for competing nationally in federally funded research programs. To this end, we were quite successful in generating over twenty-two federally and non-federally funded grants including awards from NSF, DOE, and DOD, and two early career awards. Equally important, we were able to secure a key major piece of instrumentation via a large ARO grant for a state-of-the-art electron microscope.

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DOE OSTI2024

Science Area 1: Standard Award: Model-Data Fusion to Examine Multiscale Dynamical Controls on Snow Cover and Critical Zone Moisture Inputs (Final Report)

In many mountain watersheds of the world, seasonal snowpacks play an important role as natural reservoirs of water. Seasonal snowpacks accumulate water during cold, wet winter months that subsequently melts. Downstream communities depend on water from melting seasonal snowpacks to support agricultural, industrial, and municipal water needs. Rapidly melting snowpacks can also present a flooding hazard, particularly if snowpacks melt at rates faster than anticipated and where adequate reservoir capacity is unavailable to buffer river flows associated with melt. The spatial and temporal dynamics of snow accumulation and melt also play an important role in supporting upland ecosystems in mountain landscapes. Snowmelt provides soil moisture that enable terrestrial ecosystem productivity and exert control on soil microorganisms that play important roles in global carbon cycles. Climate warming is gradually decreasing the amount of precipitation in mountain watersheds arriving as snow, presenting potentially profound disruptions to mountain ecosystems, as well as downstream delivery of water. The overarching goal of this project was to understand how interactions between the near-surface atmosphere and surface topography control the input, accumulation, retention, and release of water from mountain snowpacks. Over a 5-year period, this project pursued an approach combining high-resolution regional climate modeling, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, and ground-based observations to develop and analyze benchmark datasets to address overarching science questions and hypotheses. Key products include a continuous, long-term, high spatiotemporal resolution (1 km/1 hr) dataset characterizing key climate variables in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The dataset included historical estimates of precipitation, temperature, humidity, solar and longwave radiation, and wind speeds. Additionally, the project developed a 20+ year long, 30 m spatial, daily temporal multi-sensor dataset characterizing snow presence/absence in the East/Taylor River watersheds in the Central Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The project supported training of 1 postdoctoral scholar, 1 Ph.D. student, and 1 M.S. student.

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DOE OSTI2021

Cost Efficiency of Environmental DNA as Compared to Conventional Methods for Biodiversity Monitoring Purposes at Marine Energy Sites

The installation of marine energy systems may affect marine environments, and by extension, marine fish communities. Therefore, biomonitoring is an integral part of assessing impacts on species. Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides a noninvasive alternative to conventional monitoring surveys and the possibility of a more accurate assessment of species richness. Yet, its cost efficiency compared to traditional methods of monitoring is relatively unknown, especially when applied to monitoring around tidal, wave, and offshore wind energy installations. For this study, 202 peer-reviewed journal articles were dissected to inventory the diversity of supplies used for collecting and processing eDNA samples and to compile the average cost of eDNA surveys. Information collected included the type, volume, and brand of containers used in sampling; material, size, and brand of filters; and extraction methods. Cost information was gathered for the most common supplies, and a total cost was estimated for a hypothetical eDNA survey in Sequim Bay, WA, to compare with traditional methods of surveying such as beach seining and scuba surveys. The results showed a higher-than-expected diversity of supplies to collect and process eDNA samples. The most common supplies were 1 L Nalgene bottles at an average cost of 7.96 USD for collecting samples, 0.45 µm glass fiber Merck Millipore filters at an average cost of 1.51 USD for filtering samples, and the Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit at 3.54 USD per sample for extracting DNA. When compared to beach seine and scuba surveys, eDNA surveys undertaken by senior researchers are less expensive for both initial surveys with all new materials as well as for follow-up surveys reusing some of the supplies. However, when surveys are done solely by students, eDNA surveys are more expensive than scuba surveys when no prior supplies are available and more than both beach seine and scuba surveys for follow-up surveys reusing supplies. In a professional sphere, where surveys are less often conducted by teams of students only, eDNA surveys are an effective and less-costly alternative to conventional methods. We anticipate that the development and refinement of eDNA methodology will continue to decrease surveying costs.

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DOE OSTI2023

Exploiting the Higgs Boson for Discovery

This document summarizes the research program of Prof. Meyer within the ATLAS Collaboration during the period of August 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. In particular, the recently discovered Higgs boson was used as a probe to learn more about the fundamental particles that make up the universe and the forces that govern them. The group performing this work was composed of one postdoc, one graduate student, and one high-school student. Products include one publication, one public note that is being prepared for journal submission, and three public presentations.

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DOE OSTI2023

Improving Fission Products at CARIBU: Near Field Detection (Q3/FY23 Quarterly Progress Report)

We have worked on addressing the referees’ comments and are about to resubmit the article describing the results of our mass (of the isomer and ground state) measurement of 128 Sb to Phys. Rev. Letters. We have also been working with our summer student Asha (Seaborg Institute student from Notre Dame University) on setting her up to rerun all beta detector simulations for 111 Ag. With her successful contribution of the simulation work we expect to have the simulated efficiency results by the end of the summer.

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DOE OSTI2023

Cyberguardians and STEM Warriors (Final Technical Report (FTR))

In the past decade, solar power, with and without energy storage has become the fastest growing source of energy generation in the world. In the U.S., solar employment more than doubled from 105,145 jobs in 2011 to 255,037 jobs in 2021, four times faster than the U.S. job growth rate overall. These factors, combined with technology advancements, creates a skills gap that puts tremendous stress on society to deliver the workers to fill the open job requisitions. The Cyberguardians and STEM Warriors project (Cyberguardians) was designed to address the trained-worker shortage in the energy industry in three ways: 1) by developing educational curriculum that addresses DER technology changes; 2) by delivering curriculum to prospective workers, including military veterans and their families, via universities, community colleges, and vocational training outlets; and 3) introducing individuals who have completed training to employers that can hire them. Cyberguardians exceeded its curriculum goals by producing 27 academic units of university-accredited material (12 total courses) covering energy fundamentals, smart inverters, Distributed Energy Resource (DER) data communication, cybersecurity, standardization, certification, data analytics, and IEEE 1547 standard topics. The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) also accredited the material for use in their credential program. Seven instructors were recruited and trained, and six academic institutions (University of California San Diego, State University of New York, North Carolina State University, Harper Community College, Green Village Academy, and the SunSpec Alliance) were enlisted, meeting program goals. All course material was published under the Creative Commons license and made available royalty free, thus providing a long-lasting public benefit. The program’s outreach program vastly exceeded program goals and incorporated the efforts of 13 outreach partners (11 of which are veteran focused), an advisory board representing 15 companies, webinars and 10’s of thousands of email messages sent to prospective students and hiring managers. Despite these efforts, the global pandemic depressed anticipated program participation by about a third. Still, a total of 396 students enrolled and 289 completed the courses and were accredited. The job applicant task achieved similar results (111 realized vs a 174 goal) but reported job placement was weaker at (9 realized vs. a 51 goal). The Cyberguardians program fills a critical void for cost-effective, royalty-free curriculum and training pertaining to DER technologies and cybersecurity that prospective energy workers must possess to be effective in the 21 st century. On this basis alone, the investment of taxpayer funds will pay dividends for years to come.

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DOE OSTI2023

2022 Louisiana State University (Final Report)

LSU-IAC started in LSU’s College of Engineering in 2016 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s IAC program. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the grant end date was extended from 8/31/2021 to 2/28/2022. In the 5-year performance period, LSU-IAC has conducted a total of 67 industrial assessments and trained a total number of 41 students. We have recommended 408 improvement measures with potential energy savings of 58,951,388 kWh and energy cost savings of $6,817,783 if implemented. Of the 41 students trained, 16 received DOE certificates.

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