Engineering Chemical

MICHAEL P. BAKER

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LinkedIn.com/in/Bakery87 1221 Illinois St., Apt. 1-B

303-***-**** Golden, CO, 80401

EDUCATION

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

Ph.D. – Nuclear Engineering May, 2014

Thesis topic: Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production GPA: 3.76 M.E. – Metallurgical and Materials Engineering December, 2012 GPA: 3.45

M.S. – Chemical Engineering December, 2007

GPA: 3.22

Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI

B.S. – Chemical Engineering (Minor in Business Enterprise) April, 2006 GPA: 2.98

KEYWORDS/ EXPERIENCE

atomic absorption, AutoCAD, ceramics, chemistry, COMSOL, digital photography, distillation, EDS, FTIR, gamma spectrometry, gas chromatography, ICP-MS, ImageJ, Inkscape, materials engineering, Mathematica, Matlab, microbiology, Microsoft Office, neutron activation analysis, P&ID, Photoshop, RoboMet3D, SEM, sol-gel, SolidWorks, spectrophotometry, TEM, TRISO, Visual Basic, XRD, yeast ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Scientist in Residence 2015-Current

Declaration Brewing Company Denver, CO

• Purified 50+ yeast strains using agar platting techniques, eliminating bacteria and wild yeasts

• Operated laboratory environment of QA/QC for beer and yeast using microscopy, spectrophotometer, and Gram staining procedures

• Managed day-to-day operations in a small team environment

• Brewed various 20 BBL batches for production at 2,500 BBL/year facility, max 80 BBL ferments

• Operated and maintained Codi Manufacturing counter-pressure canning line Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. Fellow 2008-2014

Colorado School of Mines & Idaho National Lab Golden, CO & Idaho Falls, ID

• Investigated alternative forming fluids for non-hazardous ceramic TRISO fuel kernel production

• Narrowed a list of 10,800 chemicals to three possible trichloroethylene replacements

• Fabricated surrogate kernels on laboratory scale and characterized product using EDS, XRD, SEM, ICP-MS, FTIR, gas pycnometry, digital image manipulation, and gamma spectrometry

• Determined thermal diffusivity of precursor solution using COMSOL heat transfer modeling Materials Engineering Intern May-August, 2008

Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO

• Optimized lab scale gold-leaching, cyanide wet chemistry for local Cripple Creek heap mine

• Provided feedback with atomic absorption, redox, and conductivity data to determine optimized leaching locations

Materials Engineering Intern May-August, 2005

Toyota Technical Center Ann Arbor, MI

• Benchmarked anti-corrosive autophoretic deposition versus classical electrodeposition coating for undercarriage applications

• Operated ASTM testing machinery and practices to perform salt induced creep testing PUBLICATIONS

M.P. Baker, J.C. King, B.P. Gorman, and D.W. Marshall, “Selection and Properties of Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 432, (2013), 395- 406.

M.P. Baker, J.C. King, B.P. Gorman and J.C. Braley, “Straight-chain Halocarbon Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production-Tests With Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Microspheres,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, 458, (2015), 77-86.

M. Baker, J. King, B. Gorman, and D. Marshall, “Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production”, ANS Transactions, 104, (2011), 262-263. M.P. Baker and J.C. King, “Investigation of the Heat Transfer Properties of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Kernels,” (Submitted for publication to the Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer), (2014). PRESENTATIONS

M.P. Baker, J.C. King, B.P. Gorman, “TRISO Kernel Production Using Straight-Chain Halocarbon Forming Fluids,” American Nuclear Society Winter Conference 2012, Washington, DC, Poster 14, November 11, 2013.

M.P. Baker, “Selection, Testing, and Qualification of Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production,” Colorado School of Mines Nuclear Science and Engineering Program Seminar, Golden, CO, September 12, 2013.

M.P. Baker, J.C. King, B.P. Gorman, “Testing of Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production Using Surrogate Yttria Stabilized Zirconia,” NuMat2012 Conference, Osaka, Japan, Poster 102, October, 2012.

M.P. Baker, “Alternative Forming Fluid Selection for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production,” Conference on Earth and Energy Research 2012, Golden, CO, March 29, 2012. M. Baker, J. King, B. Gorman, and D. Marshall, “Alternative Forming Fluids for TRISO Fuel Kernel Production,” American Nuclear Society 2011 Annual Meeting, Hollywood, FL, June, 28, 2011. HONORS

• Colorado School of Mines-Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fellowship, 2010-2014

• 1st Place Graduate Poster Presentation – American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, 2013

• 1st Place Overall, Conference on Earth & Energy Research, 2013

• Innovations in Fuel Cycle Award, 2012

• Best oral presentation in Nuclear Engineering, Conference on Earth & Energy Research, 2012

• Engineer-In-Training Certificate (F.E. exam part I)

• MeV/ATR User’s scholarship (2011, 2012)

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