2010 POWERFUL HISPANICS IN ENERGY stu MONICA C. REGALBUTO
Head, Process Chemistry and Engineering Department, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory
A Reseacher With Diverse Interests
Throughout her professional career, Monica C. Regalbuto has contributed in many ways to the development of innovative energy technologies. As the head of the Process Chemistry and Engineering Department, she has a budget of $9 million and manages a group of 30 researchers. Regalbuto is also an affiliated researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, where she is part of the Fuel Cycle Study Team. She also has an Intergovernmental Personnel Act position with the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management. Its mission is to reduce the technical risk and uncertainty in DOE’s clean-up programs and projects. She has authored mul- tiple publications and holds six patents. At Argonne National Laboratory, she has made key contributions to nuclear tech- nologies, and worked with a multi-discipline team to develop a computer model used by researchers to optimize processes to recycle spent nuclear fuel. Earlier in her career, at Amoco Oil Company, she was part of a team that developed and evaluated alternative technologies to lower sulfur (the precur- sor to acid rain) levels in gasoline. Her peers have also recog- nized Regalbuto’s expertise. In past years, she has received the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award, the HENAAC Professional Achievement Award, and the American Nuclear Society Jane Oestmann Professional Women’s Achievement
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HispanicBusiness.com celebrated her as one of its 25 Outstanding Hispanic Women in Business. Regal- buto also believes in community service, and is a member of an Illinois high school district that has annual $100M budget, and 4,600 students. Regalbuto earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
stu DAN E. ARVIZU
Director and Chief Executive National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Thinking About Energy Differently This October, Dan Arvizu will be honored as the National Hispanic Scientist of the Year, by MOSI,
http://www.mosi. org/, a 52-year-old nonprofit “dedicated to advancing public
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interest, knowledge and understanding of science, industry and technology.” It won’t be Arvizu’s first or last accolade. Beyond being a stellar leader, Arvizu sits in science’s sweet spot. As fossil fuel disas- ters occur and energy prices rise, more Americans consider alternative forms of energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which he directs, is “the Department of Energy’s principal laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development.” In a June 2010 address to the Economic Club of Kansas City, Arvizu said the na- tion already produces more renewable energy via wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and hydroelec- tric power than what comes from the 683 million barrels of offshore oil. Renewable technologies and resources are already here. The big problem is replacing the oil we need for transportation. To change that, he says, energy must be seen as a high-tech, high-growth industry that drives the economy not as a “least-cost commodity, without regard to economic, environmental, and security impacts.” But during the transition to “new and next generation energy technologies” all the old forms must be used, in their least harmful fashion. He adds that fuel ef- ficiency and fuel switching—think hybrids—will help reduce America’s petroleum addiction. Arvizu earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
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