Los Alamos researcher Tiee receives national award

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Feb. 20, 2003 -- Joe J. Tiee of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Group has been named 2003 Asian American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

Tiee, a research scientist/engineer, will be recognized Saturday at CIE/USA's Award Banquet in Dallas. The award was conferred on Tiee based on education; professional achievements, including publications, papers, patents and honors; technical organization memberships and activities; and community service.

"I am very honored and humbled to receive this award considering the many very capable Asian American engineers who work at the Lab and at other institutions around the country. I am sure that they are just as deserving, and perhaps more deserving," said Tiee. "I would like to thank people I have worked with at the Laboratory and the Laboratory for the support over the years. Working at Los Alamos National Laboratory has presented me with the kind of intellectual challenges and opportunities that I wouldn't have encountered otherwise."

Tiee currently oversees a remote-sensing team comprised of five technical staff members with extensive experience and backgrounds in government research and development, experimentation, data analysis, and modeling in the field of laser and optical engineering, remote spectral sensing, physical chemistry, photophysics, and applied spectroscopy. There also are three highly qualified technicians in the team with diverse capabilities in laser/optics, mechanical fabrication, digital electronic interface, data acquisition/processing, and field operation.

The team serves a variety of customers, including the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, other federal agencies, and industrial partners with emphasis on solving important issues of current national needs, specifically, in the area of weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation, emergency response to hazardous environment and military defense and homeland security applications.

Tiee has published more than 80 technical papers related to these fields. Tiee has received four Los Alamos Distinguished Performance awards and one R&D 100 award for work involving light detection and ranging (LIDAR).

A technical staff member at Los Alamos since 1979, Tiee earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a doctoral degree in quantum electronics/electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.

Los Alamos enhances global security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, developing technical solutions to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns.

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