Fund: Colin E. Hackett Endowed Engineering Research Award Department: CECERT Dept D01007 Purpose: Graduate Student Support History and Purpose: Dr. Colin Hackett was the manager of UC, Riverside Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy Research Program. He was an amazing researcher and key in the waste-to-energy demonstration project at CE-CERT. Dr. Hackett was co-inventor of the "Diesel Fuel Synthesis from Carbonaceous Feed Stocks using Self-Sustained Hydro-gasification" process. Dr. Hackett joined CE-Cert in December 2000. Previously, he was member of the technical staff in Engineering Sciences Research and Development at Sandia National Laboratories for nearly three decades. He received bachelor's (Honors) and master's degrees from Cambridge University, England and a Ph.D. from Brown University. He passed away on July 12, 2005. Friends and family of Dr. Hackett created the Colin Hackett Graduate Fellowship in Engineering as a tribute to his many accomplishments. This fund shall be used to provide research support to full-time graduate students in mechanical and/or chemical sciences who are engaged in experimental engineering research, to develop their laboratory skills. Selection and Guidelines: This fund will be used to provide research support to full-time graduate student in mechanical and/or chemical sciences who are engaged in experimental engineering research, to develop their laboratory skills. The award will be given to full time graduate students at the direction of the Director of CE-CERT. The award will be given to full-time graduate students who have demonstrated superior academic skills, at the direction of the Director of CE-CERT. It is the Donor's preference that the award be given to students who are women and/or under-represented minorities. In the event that no student meets the criteria, the annual distribution will be added to the corpus, or applied to the next year's award. Request for Information: Request Scholarship Information