Donald Jenket is a resilience engineer focused on Department of Defense resilience projects, including defense critical infrastructure, energy resilience for mission assurance, outages due to extreme weather events, and the reliability of energy systems and materials. Jenket has been working with or in support of the Department of Defense for over 20 years. Prior to this position, Jenket investigated the reliability of PV modules and backup generators.
Research Interests
Department of Defense
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland – College Park
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Resilience engineer, NREL (2020–Present)
Research scientist, NREL (2017–2020)
Project manager, Powerwave Technologies (2010–2012)
Military service, United States Marine Corps (1999–2010)
Associations and Memberships
Events coordinator, NREL Veterans Employee Resource Group
Featured Work
Hybrid Energy Systems: Opportunities for Coordinated Research, Department of Energy Report (2021)
Impact of Emergency Diesel Generator Reliability on Microgrids and Building-Tied Systems, Applied Energy (2021)
Towards Validation of Combined-Accelerated Stress Testing through Failure Analysis of Polyamide-Based Photovoltaic Backsheets, Scientific Reports (2021)
Emergency Diesel Generator Reliability and Installation Energy Security, NREL Technical Report (2020)
Photovoltaic Materials Global Study: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Technologies, NREL Technical Report (2020)
Reliability of Emergency and Standby Diesel Generators: Impact on Energy Resiliency Solutions, Applied Energy (2020)
Advanced Unmanned Vehicle Remote Autonomous Sustainment (AURAS), NSWC Carderock Technical Report (2019)
Field-Aging Test Bed for Behind-the-Meter PV + Energy Storage, Photovoltaic Specialists Conference 46 (2019)
A New Method for Tensile Testing UHMMPE Single Fibers at High Temperatures and Strain-Rates, National Institute of Standards and Technology Report (2019)
Awards and Honors
NREL Team Award (2020)
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