Accelerators are a key driver of science discovery and industry and are central to the discovery missions of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC).

Professor Steven Lund of Michigan State University is the director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). His four-year renewable term began on 1 December 2017. 

USPAS started in 1981 and convenes twice a year to offer a broad range of graduate-level accelerator science and engineering courses in an intensive-school format. Training and documentation produced by the sessions has been recognized for excellence and has had a profound positive impact on the field. 

The USPAS collaboration includes seven DOE-SC laboratories, one DOE National Nuclear Security Agency laboratory, and two universities.

Support for several kinds of graduate fellowships in ASET is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of High Energy Physics, and the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.