A software-based tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories for managing the collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data is now available to potential licensing partners.
Sandia’s Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model (BROOM) software system was developed to help decision makers — during the planning phase and throughout actual cleanup operations — to speed up reoccupation and return to service of contaminated buildings and facilities. The tool provides an efficient and scientifically defensible approach to planning and executing sampling and cleanup activities. To date, there has been no comprehensive system for handling and assisting with this process.
Sandia is a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory.
Many potential users, applications
Originally developed for use during cleanup of facilities following a bioterrorism attack, BROOM is easily adapted to other spatial domains where accurate and efficient data tracking, management, optimization, and analysis of samples are needed. Possible users and/or applications of BROOM include:
* Environmental cleanup (including Superfund sites)
* Remediation companies
* Industrial hygiene
* Forensics/crime units
* Incident characterization
* Decontamination contractors
* Health agencies
* Airports, subways
* Government buildings
* Ports of entry
* Water utilities
* Gas and electric utilities
* Chemical plants
* Other critical infrastructure facilities
General Motors (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), lead sponsors for the Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility engineering competition, congratulated students from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who took top honors today at this second annual competition in a three-year series.
At this year's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Honda will return with the groundbreaking very light jet HondaJet, which was unveiled to the world in a brief appearance at AirVenture 2005. This year Honda will display the jet for the duration of the show inside the new Honda Pavilion, now located just north of AeroShell Square.
Members of the HondaJet development team, including Michimasa Fujino, HondaJet project leader and vice president of Honda R&D Americas, Inc., will be on hand throughout the week to talk about the innovative aircraft and answer questions.
One of the trickiest decisions facing a cancer surgeon today is where to stop cutting. The surgeon doesn't want to stop too soon and leave cancer cells in the patient's body, but he or she also doesn't want to take too many cells and do unnecessary damage to organs.
That decision could soon be made much easier, though, thanks to a high-resolution touch sensor developed by chemical engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that may allow surgeons to tell at the level of a single layer of cells whether or not they have excised a tumor in its entirety.