Engineer pays it forward with meaningful mentorship

Abstract

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, new employees are encouraged to give themselves a full year to settle in and figure out all the complexities, cultural expectations and acronyms in the churning machine of the Laboratory. So how can summer students who have two months to do it all find their way? Keira Arce, a civil engineer in the Plutonium Facility Engineering division, is passionate about answering that question and helping college students have the best possible experience from the moment they enter the Lab’s facilities.