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Engineers Nominated By The Chinese Institute
of Engineers/USA Frank Hung, a chemical/electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fabricates radiation hardened integrated circuits with an emphasis on nonvolatile memory. Hung is a member of the technical staff in the Radiation Hardened CMOS technology group developing integrated circuit technologies capable of realizing analog and digital circuits. His projects involve microelectronics with an emphasis on nonvolatile memory circuits and other novel micro-systems such as chemical and biological sensors. He is working to develop specialized microelectronics that are immune to large radiation doses. These integrated circuits are used in various Sandia systems including satellite applications. Hung is currently president of the CIE-USA New Mexico Chapter. He is an active member of the Asian Leadership Outreach Committee of Sandia National Laboratories and is a member of the Materials Research Society. Hung was Vice President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at UCLA.
Di Tang, a senior engineer at Westinghouse in Madison, Pennsylvania, is developing a new product line under the Innovation Program, a dynamic, challenging, and innovative environment that promotes creativity and a high level of responsibility to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient nuclear power. Tang performs piping analysis for the primary reactor coolant loop of nuclear power plants. He does this to ensure the existing pipes are capable of supporting the extra forces and pressure created by the Uprate Program designed to allow nuclear power plants to produce more power with existing equipment. Plant equipment and safety margins have to be reevaluated to ensure safe production of nuclear power when an Uprate Program is performed. These analyses include deadweight (evaluating the supports of the existing equipment weight), thermal (the stresses produced by thermal expansion), loss of coolant accident (the possibility of a sudden breakage in the piping), and seismic loading on the reactor coolant primary loop, fracture mechanics analysis to evaluate reactor vessel head penetration cracking, and finite element stress analysis to ensure structural integrity of the reactor vessel head assembly. Tang received the George Westinghouse Signature Award of Excellence for a first of a kind plant diagnostic and monitoring project. |
Frank Hung
Di Tang
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