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The Art of Knowledge Management

and Knowledge Transfer to the New

Generation of Scientists, Engineers,

and Technicians Entering the Workforce

Presented: November 9, 2016Third International Conference on Knowledge Management

IAEA - Vienna, AustriaDr. Leonel Lagos, PhD, PMP® (Principal Investigator)

Advancing the research and academic mission of Florida International University.

Training the Future Generation

The US DOE and FIU Science &

Technology Workforce Development

Initiative (DOE Fellows Program) –

Training the Future Workforce


FIU’s Applied Research Center (ARC) and the US

Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental

Management have established a workforce

development program for the training of FIU

STEM, minority students in an effort to create a

“pipeline” of scientists and engineers that will

enter DOE’s workforce upon completing their

degrees and research at FIU.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION


• Age 40 and above:

91% of EM’s

workforce

• Age 30-39:

8% of EM’s

workforce

• Age 30 and below:

1% of EM’s

workforce

DOE EM Workforce

Age 30 and under

1% Age 30-398%

Age 40-4937%

Age 50-5943%

Age 60 and over

11%

Advancing the research and academic mission of Florida International University.Advancing the research and academic mission of Florida International University

DOE EM Environmental Challenges60 Year Legacy of R&D and Production of Nuclear Weapons


• Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) of Contaminated Facilities

• Robotics

• Soil & Groundwater Modeling & Remediation

• Radioactive Waste Management & Treatment

• Information Technology Tools for Environmental Application

• STEM Workforce Development and Training

ARC Supports and Advances DOE EM

Environmental Restoration Mission


DOE Fellows Training at FIU


DOE Fellows

Conference Participation & Presentations

Our Fellows have presented 165

papers/posters and have obtained 1st

place at WM’s Professional Poster

Track (Leydi Velez) and at 5 Student

Poster Competitions (Denisse Aranda,

Danny Carvajal, Stephen Wood,

Alexandria Fleitas, Christine Wipfli).

Active participation in DOE-related conferences includingWaste Management Symposia,ANS, IEEE, and ICEM13conferences.


DOE Fellows 10-week Internships

Across the Complex

108 internships completed since 2007


Awarded prestigious 1-Year IAEA

internship

International Atomic Energy Agency

Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle

& Waste Technology

Vienna, Austria

March 2016 - March 2017

IAEA Internship - Christine Wipfli


DOE Fellows Poster Exhibitions


Graduate Thesis / Dissertations

2014-2016

Name Degree Major Grad

Sandra Herrera MS Environmental Engineering Exp. Spring 2016

Robert Lapierre MS Chemistry Exp. Summer 2016

Natalia Duque MSWater ResourcesEngineering

Exp: Fall 2016

Claudia Cardona PhD Environmental Engineering Exp: Summer 2016

Kavitha Megalageri MS Engineering Management Fall 2015

Santosh Joshi MS Engineering Management Fall 2015

Paola Sepulveda-Medina MS Biomedical Engineering Spring 2014

Revathy Venkataraman MS Information Technology Spring 2014

Sandhya Appunni MS Computer Science Spring 2014


Creating the Pipeline


• 81 students hired by DOE, federal/local/state government and STEM industry

– 9 hired by DOE, national labs and DOE contractors

– 13 hired by federal, state, and local government agencies

– 59 hired by private STEM industry

• 7 DOE Fellows have obtained bachelors

degrees at FIU and continued their graduate

education at MIT, Michigan, Purdue, Stanford,

Virginia Tech, and other institutions

• 29 DOE Fellows currently participating in the

program

Major Accomplishments


National Lab Day on Capitol Hill

DOE Fellow, Gene Yllanes (Electrical Eng., BS), presented

ARC robotics research for DOE-EM at National Lab Day on

Capitol Hill, briefing U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz.


American Nuclear Society Student

Chapter at FIU

• New ANS student chapter introduced at FIU

during inaugural ceremony on Jan 28, 2016

featuring Mr. Eugene S. Grecheck (ANS

President).

• 2016 FIU ANS officers include several DOE

Fellows and a mechanical engineering

student:

– Ryan Sheffield, President

– Maximiliano Edrei, Vice President

– Awmna Rana, Secretary

– Jesse Viera, Treasurer

– Janesler Gonzalez, Head of Committee

– Dr. Leo Lagos, FIU Chapter Advisor

• FIU ANS students members will have the

opportunity to work on on-going research

FIU-ANS Members (from left to right):Awmna Rana, Carolina Padron, Ryan Sheffield, Maximiliano Edrei,

Janesler Gonzalez, Jesse Viera and Dr. Leo Lagos.

ANS is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the fields of nuclear science

and technology, focused on workforce readiness.


Department of Defense Cyber

Fellows Workforce Development

– Cyberspace technology research testing and training

of workforce through multi-disciplinary STEM

program at FIU

– Since 2013, 18 FIU students participated in 10-week

cyberspace internships

• Point Mugu Naval Base, Southern CA

• Lockheed Martin, Orlando, FL

• Eglin Airforce Base. Orlando, FL

• National Cyber Range, Orlando, FL

• Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA

– First cohort of 6 Cyber Fellows have all obtained jobs

at Lockheed Martin and IT industry

– Second cohort of 6 Cyber Fellows will be inducted in

January 2017.


• Knowledge management is a globally recognized

discipline to acquire knowledge, retain it and make it

available for the future (and for use of future

generations).

• While gathering and sharing knowledge has long proved

to be invaluable to civilization since the beginning of time,

KM is a modern approach & discipline being used within

industry, academia, and government agencies to capture

D&D knowledge.


• Knowledge management (KM) comprises activities to identify, represent, disseminate, and utilize knowledge (i.e., information and experiences).

• A knowledge management system (KMS), therefore, refers to a system for managing knowledge. Such a system supports the creation, capture, storage, and dissemination of information and enables users to have ready access to the base of facts, sources of information, and solutions represented by tacit & explicit knowledge.

• The collection of tacit and explicit knowledge helps to span the generational

knowledge gap.


• A significant portion of the EM workforce (including DOE and contractors) is nearing retirement age.

• KM aids in the retention of knowledge and experience when employees leave.

• KM provides a centralized location for data and information, improving time management of users.

• KM allows experiences to be captured and shared with Lessons Learned and Best Practices.

• KM reduces redundant work by helping users avoid re-inventing the wheel.

• KM allows the sharing of valuable information throughout the organization.


The KM system helps preserve past and current workforce

knowledge and experiences so they might be drawn upon to

benefit from, as well as improve on, solutions which worked

while avoiding the potential pitfalls of the past.

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