Inés Triay, a former Department of Energy assistant secretary for environmental management, was appointed interim dean of Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing and the executive director of the university’s Applied Research Center.
The university announced Triay’s appointment in a Tuesday press release. She has been at Florida International and a top manager at the Applied Research Center since 2012.
The center has $75 million of external funding and prides itself on turning out a lot of female, Hispanic and African American engineers, according to the press release.
Based in Miami, with four satellite locations across South Florida, Florida International University has 58,000 students altogether, according to its website.
Triay served as acting assistant secretary for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management from November 2008 until May 2009 when she was confirmed by the Senate as the seventh Environmental Management assistant secretary, serving until July 2011, according to her DOE bio.
During her time at or near the top of the DOE cleanup organizational chart, the program completed the cleanup of the Department’s Rocky Flats site in Colorado and the Fernald site in Ohio, according to the agency biography. For a time, Triay also managed DOE’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico and led an effort to speed cleanup of transuranic waste sites.