“I really enjoy using Morse code,” he said. With a low-power five-watt rig, Guarino has been able to make radio contacts from all over the world. In addition to coaching youth basketball, he is an amateur ham radio operator. Guarino also maintains a number of hobbies. With my customers and collaborators, I’m constantly quizzed and challenged to provide the best possible design for an experiment. “I’ve gone on to pursue an advanced degree in engineering to continue to be able to be more innovative with my designs. “Collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the world has encouraged me to stay at the top of my game,” he said. Working at Argonne has propelled Guarino to keep developing his skills. “When I saw the job opening at Argonne I knew it was my lucky day because I’d get to stretch myself in new directions.” “Working at American National Can taught me about finite element analysis and prodded me to explore problems beyond cans,” he said. Right after finishing college, Guarino spent a couple of years trying to solve one of the greatest challenges in consumer products - how to construct a thin but structurally sound aluminum can where thousandths of an inch could mean millions in cost savings. “It’s exciting for me to be helping drive science forward and solving challenges that build on the kinds of things I was doing as a kid and as a student,” he said. “Since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated by how you could take different metal pieces and put them together in new and interesting and even wacky ways.”Ĭurrently, Guarino is helping to design and build the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, a billion-dollar experiment designed to identify certain properties of the neutrino, a type of subatomic particle. “I remember when I was a child my favorite toy was an erector set this was even before Legos were popular,” he said. Guarino has always been interested in building things. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Guarino has helped to build new experiments that will enrich our understanding of the universe. As a manager of the engineering services group in the Experimental Operations and Facilities division at the U.S. Guarino has gone from helping to design aluminum cans to building state-of-the-art neutrino experiments.

Throughout his career, Guarino has enjoyed using basic engineering principles to solve complex challenges. Vic Guarino has always loved a challenge.

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