Powerful career
Amanda M. Padgett ’03
Summer 2007
Chemical engineering graduate Amanda Padgett of Anderson, employed with Duke
Power, received the national 2006 Technology Transfer Award along with three
other engineers from other power companies.
Padgett, who’s finishing up her master’s degree in environmental engineering,
was recognized for exceptional service to the industry in producing the first
Electric Power Research Institute alpha monitoring guidelines. The U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission had asked the industry to develop guidelines that promote
best practices in radiation management.
As a Clemson graduate assistant, Padgett and environmental engineering and
science professor Jim Navratil were part of an International Atomic Energy
Agency team recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to prevent
nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes is used the safest possible way.”