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Strengthening the US Department of Energy’s Recruitment Pipeline: The DOE/NNSA Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) Experience

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  1. ORNL
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
  3. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
  4. University of Utah
  5. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) oversees a system of 17 national laboratories responsible for developing unique scientific capabilities beyond the scope of academic and industrial institutions. These labs strive to keep America at the forefront of discovery and are home to some of the Nation’s best minds and the world’s best scientific and research facilities. Collaborations between national laboratories and academic institutions are critical to develop and recruit talent for the DOE workforce. Academia’s cooperative education model poses challenges for DOE recruitment pipelines centered around traditional internships. This paper discusses a promising DOE recruitment pipeline, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) initiative. As a part of this, experiences capturing the successes and challenges faced by the University of Utah’s Carbon Capture Multidisciplinary Simulation Center (CCMSC) through their participation in the PSAAP-II initiative are shared. These experiences demonstrate the success of Utah’s PSAAP center as a recruitment pipeline with approximately 43% of CCMSC students going to a national laboratory after graduation. Potential opportunities to strengthen the DOE’s recruitment pipeline are also discussed.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
2000395
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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DOE Advanced Scientific Advisory Committee (ASCAC): Workforce Subcommittee Letter report July 2014
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Engaging computer science students through cooperative education journal January 2010
An Approach for Indirectly Adopting a Performance Portability Layer in Large Legacy Codes conference November 2019
A Scalable Algorithm for Radiative Heat Transfer Using Reverse Monte Carlo Ray Tracing book January 2015
Uintah: a scalable framework for hazard analysis conference January 2010

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