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Friday, March 05, 2010
Sandia Scientist is Engineer of the Year
By John Fleck
Journal Staff Writer
Clifford Ho's parents left China in the 1950s to pursue an education in the United States and stayed. Saturday, their first-generation immigrant son, a solar energy researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, was honored as Asian American Engineer of the Year.
Ho said he was "elated, happy and honored" with the award for his work, which has ranged from nuclear waste and water quality studies to his current job helping to improve the efficiency of solar energy systems.
The award, given annually by the Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA, has previously gone such luminaries as University of California Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien and Nobel prize winner and current Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Ho's parents both came to the United States from China in the 1950s "in the thick of the revolution" to attend college and stayed, Ho said in an interview Monday. His mother studied microbiology, and his father was an engineer.
Ho began his career at Sandia in 1993, working on computer modeling of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site. He also helped develop sensors used to detect contaminants in groundwater, work for which he and his colleagues now hold four patents.
In 2008, he moved to Sandia's solar energy group, where he works on technologies that could be used to predict changes in power demand and supply based on changing weather.
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