Rebecca Barney
Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Barney is a research engineer specializing in thermal and fluid systems with nine years of experience bridging national labs and academia to advance sustainable energy technologies. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis, she has driven experimental design, modeling, and testing at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and now at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, applying deep expertise in heat transfer and unstable hydrodynamic flows. Her work has been supported by a Department of Energy NEUP Fellowship and years of hands-on national lab internships, giving her rare experience translating high-fidelity research into practical thermal-hydraulic solutions for nuclear and renewable energy systems. Colleagues describe her as collaborative and creative, comfortable leading multidisciplinary teams while staying deeply technical in experiments and simulations.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering at University of California, DavisBachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Graduated, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Graduated at Santa Clara UniversityAlbuquerque Academy
Spanish
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NatLabRockies/tyche
Oct 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 62 PRs in 3 years 6 months
NatLabRockies/fpeam
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 557 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
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