“Make no mistake. We will fight this with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused, and we will do whatever is necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.  Because there has never been a leak of this size, at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology.  That's why I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge”   President Barack H. Obama

I was one of those engineers. 

Federal Executive Board

Gold Award for
Professional Employee of the Year.

EXEMPLARY SERVICE

TO THE NATION

R&D 100 Award recognizes the 100 most promising new technologies in the world each year.

Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. The FLC represents over 300 federal organizations.

Professional Employee of the Year
Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center

  United States Patent 5333044

Inventor:  Franklin D. Shaffer

“Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry”

United States Patent 8391552.

Inventor:   Franklin D. Shaffer

Method of particle trajectory recognition in particle flows
of high particle concentration using a candidate trajectory tree process with variable search areas

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