Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation 2

ETI2 Graduate Fellowship — call for application now!

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The Consortium for Enabling Technologies & Innovation 2.0 (ETI2) is now accepting applications for its Graduate Fellowship Program. ETI2 supports outstanding doctoral students advancing research in fields essential to the U.S. nuclear and energy enterprise. Fellowship Benefits include:

  • Participation in ETI2 annual meetings, technical workshops, and sponsor briefings
  • Competitive annual stipend of $42k over 12 months
  • Full tuition and fees
  • Annual allowance for travel expenses to ETI2 workshop and UPR
  • Renewable up to four years, contingent on performance and funding
  • Mandatory practicum/internship at an ETI2 national lab or partner site (minimum 12 weeks)

Application is due October 1, 2025, and the fellowship starts on January 1, 2026. More details please see the ETI2 Graduate Fellowship info, including the Eligibility & Requirements. Please apply now!

Dr. Roxanne Moore Received 2025 ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education

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Dr. Roxanne Moore, one of the faculty co-PIs in the ETI 2.0 Consortium, and the principal research engineer in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, received the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education for her outstanding contributions to engineering education and professional service.

Dr. Moore was honored at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition awards luncheon in Montreal in June 2025. The award recognizes and honors women engineering educators who make an impact beyond the classroom and have performance histories of research and service within an engineering school. More details are available here.

Dr. Erickson on CBS News 24/7 — Explains the Importance of Centrifuges to Iranian Efforts to Build Nuclear Weapons

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The latest U.S. strikes in Iran hit the infrastructure that supports advanced uranium enrichment: centrifuge components, vacuum systems, and critical power supplies. Even striking peripheral infrastructure, like vacuum pumps or cold traps, can cripple enrichment throughput without necessarily destroying centrifuges.

CBS News video — Dr. Erickson explains the uranium enrichment process.

Professor Anna Erickson, the Director of ETI Consortium 2.0, was recently invited to CBS News 24/7 to explain how centrifuge technology shapes nuclear weapons capability and intentions, how designs have evolved from the IR-1 to the IR-9, and why disrupting enrichment infrastructure can matter without dismantling an entire nuclear program. Watch this CBS News video here. Her article, “Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons,” was published in The Conversation earlier this month. More details are available here.

Showcased Accomplishments at UPR 2025

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NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D) held its annual University Program Review (UPR) meeting from June 3 – June 5, 2025 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Over 250 participants representing university partners, national laboratories, and the government joined together at this event. The ETI/ETI2.0 team showcased the accomplishments of the DNN R&D-funded research projects to the broader nuclear security and nonproliferation community.  

UPR is an unclassified venue for sponsors to review the accomplishments of grantees; stakeholders within the community to engage sponsored researchers; a forum to stimulate collaboration, technology transfer, and integration; and a venue where students and early career scientists can interact with their peers in a rigorous, yet collegial, environment.

All ETI/ETI2.0 presentations are very impressive, including 15 oral talks and 25 posters! This year’s UPR Student Award winners for the ETI/ETI2.0 team are:

  • Best Poster Presentation: Morgan Fandrey (Dr. Alan Sellinger group, Colorado School of Mines)
  • Best Oral Presentation: Mackenzie Duce (Dr. Anna Erickson group, Georgia Tech)
  • Best National Lab Project: Patrick Snarr (Dr. Derek Haas group, The University of Texas at Austin)

Great efforts and contributions from the ETI/ETI2.0 members to make the UPR 2025 successful!

ETI Summer School on Theatre Screen Now!

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The week-long ETI Annual Summer School was successfully held in-person by the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation (ETI) at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, on August 11 – 16, 2024. This summer school was filmed, and has been recently edited into a Hollywood-style movie. Welcome to watch this ETI Summer School movie at your own theatre now!

In this summer school, cross-cutting technologies across core disciplines for nuclear nonproliferation were explored, including data science and nuclear nonproliferation, instrumentation in fuel cycle monitoring, material selection  and sensor manufacturing, facility surveillance and predictive analytics. In addition to invited lectures and panel discussion by research scientists, in-person hands-on experiments, lab demonstrations and tours were also conducted, including travel to ORNL to meet phenomenal scientists and tour comprehensive & advanced labs.