Student Brown Bag Seminar

The Department of Energy employs scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and technicians to work on problems ranging from renewable energy resources to global climate change. However, unbeknownst to many people is the fact that the Department of Energy is also the nation’s overseer of our nuclear weapons program. Experiments are designed and executed at the Nevada National Security Site to support the mission: ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of our nation’s nuclear stockpile. Regularly maintained and operated diagnostic machines are a backbone of data collection. Component failures can result in catastrophic downtime for the diagnostic, affecting schedules, cost, and performance. In this presentation, we will share our research into building models to monitor performance of large machine diagnostics using various measurements, like electrical current and voltage at multiple points on the path of the machine, from which we anticipate the ability to assess health, observe declining performance, and predict failures.

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