The outstanding technical advances and societal contributions made by Sandians have been recognized by a number of organizations. We join these organizations in saluting our staff and honoring them for their remarkable achievements.

Jacqueline Chen

2009 Asian American Engineer of the Year award recipient

R&D Magazine honors inventors by identifying the 100 most technologically significant products and advancements for each year and recognizing the winning innovators and their organizations. Since 1976, Sandia has received 80 of these coveted R&D 100 Awards — often referred to as the “Oscars of invention.” Read about our five R&D 100 award-winning technologies in 2007…

ArcSafe© with Pulsed Arrested Spark Discharge

ElectroNeedle™ Biomedical Sensor Array

Mode-Filtered Fiber Amplifier

Novint Falcon and Novint/Sandia 3D-Touch Software (joint)

Self-Assembling Process for Fabricating Tailored Thin Films

Visit our corporate site to see a complete list of R&D 100 awards over the years…

Bert Debusschere

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award

Jim Miller

Elected into the National Academy of Engineering and honored in a festschrift issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Rod Whitney

President’s Volunteer Service Award