Dr. Agar retired from the engineering profession in 2010 after 46 years of interdisciplinary engineering experience. Since his retirement he is devoting his time to his agricultural operations including cattle, pecans, poultry and timber. Dr. Agar and Linda Carol Borom Agar, married since 1962, have three children and six grandchildren.

Academic Credentials:
PhD,   Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University
MS,     Industrial Engineering /Operations Research, NMSU
BS,      Electrical Engineering, NMSU
AA,     Physics, New Mexico Military Institute

Dr. Agar’s engineering experience includes technical, operational, and business management of large scale interdisciplinary systems and Enterprise Architecture (EA) designs based on threat/need and operational process analysis, enhanced by dynamic operational modeling, as well as performance testing in laboratory and operational environments.

During his professional career he served in numerous capacities, including Engineering consultant, President and Principal Engineer of an Electronic Warfare (EW) company, University Professor, Government manager for EW vulnerability research and development  for US Army missiles, EW Vulnerability Assessment Engineer, and Test Engineer.

He has been involved with Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Tau, Blue Key, Alpha Pi Mu, Sigma Xi, and Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy (ECEA) 1992, of which he was president in 1993. He was recognized as a Centennial Distinguished Alumnus, NMSU College of Engineering in 1996 and Ingeniero Eminente, Sociedad De Ingenieros, NMSU in 1992. He was listed in “Who’s Who in the West,” 1982 and “Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans,” 1976. He received the Andrew Fliss EW Achievement Award in 1980.

His professional affiliations include the following: Registered Professional Engineer, Retired; Association of Old Crows, Life Member; Southwest Crow Club President, 1976; Southeastern Pecan Growers Association; Alabama Cattlemen’s Association; and American Angus Association.

 MSEE, New Mexico State University, 1966 (First woman to do so at NMSU). Experience: Following graduation from Purdue University, worked for Westinghouse Research Labs, Pittsburgh, PA, as a Research Engineer, doing studies of corona effects and other transmission phenomena. In January 1958, following a short return to her native country, the Philippines, she rejoined Westinghouse as a Critical Scientist. She began working at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in June, 1958, and was the first woman engineer at WSMR in the engineering division of the Integrated Range Mission where she developed new designs for range instrumentation. In 1962, she transferred to the Office of Missile Electronic Warfare as an Electronic Engineer where she remained through various reorganizations and name changes. She completed research in electronic warfare, electrical-optical warfare, information warfare, countermeasures, counter-countermeasures, laser protection, dynamic radar cross sections, radar obscurant detection, and identification of unintended radiation signatures within caves and bunkers, and vulnerability analysis. She served as Electronic Engineer, Section Chief, Group Leader, Branch Chief, and Senior Research Engineer. She was the recipient of many honors and awards which included: Certificate of Merit from the Association of Old Crows; Samuel Stiber Award for Technical Excellence in Electronic Warfare, 1974; U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Award, 1975; National Medal of Science Award, 1990; Phi Beta Kappa; NMSU Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, 1996, and the White Sands Missile Range Hall of Fame, to mention a few.

† Deceased

 
After graduating from NMSU in 1982, Mr. Baca worked in the applications department of the Salt River Project in Phoenix, Arizona until 1983, when he began employment with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From 1983-1990 he worked as a Facilities Building & Utility Electrical Systems Engineer. In 1990 he became a Utility Systems Department Maintenance Manager. From 1997-2005 he worked as the Systems Engineering Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Department Manager. 2005-2008 saw Mr. Baca as a Buildings & Customers Operations Department Manager. In 2012, Mr. Baca entered his current position of Centralized Maintenance Sr. Manager.

He has been a registered Professional Engineer in New Mexico since 1987, a member of the Line Implementation Working group since 2014, and a member of the Corporate Engineered Safety Implementation Team since 2013.

He also was a member of the Corporate Electrical Safety Standing Committee from 2009-2014, a member of the Engineering Practices Working Group (EFCOG) for Facilities Managers from 2003-2005, a member of the SNL Corporate Technical Recruiting Advisory Committee (TRAC) from 1994-1997, a member of the Department of Energy (DOE) Backup Power Working Group from 1994-1995, a division representative and a Diversity Champion of the Corporate Diversity Councils from 1993-1995 & 1998-2002, a member of the Division 7000 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Selection Review Team in 1993, a center representative on the SNL Emergency Preparedness Alliance Team from 1992-1994, a member of the Joint Apprenticeship Committee from 1990-1994, and the Chair of the Joint Apprenticeship Mechanical Subcommittee in 1993.

He was nominated for the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award in 1996, and co-authored a paper titled “Distribution Transformer Loss Mechanisms & Testing” for a presentation at the IEEE region 5 conference in 1983.

 
Mr. Boudreau worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1954-1960 as a Radar Engineer and Senior Engineer. He then began a long career spanning the years from 1960 to 1982 in several different positions. He worked as a Missile Engineering from 1960-1963 in the Army Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate. From 1963-1972, he was the Chief of the Aerospace and Defense Systems Branch in the Range Programs Division of the National Range Operations. From 1972-1974 he was a Chief Engineer and Special Assistant to the Commanding General. From 1974-1982 he was the Chief of the High Energy Laser Division. In 1982, Mr. Boudreau entered the private sector, working as the Assistant Vice President of Citizens Bank in Las Cruces from 1983-1986. He also was a consultant for several high technology companies working at White Sands Missile Range. From June, 1987 to present, he has been the Area Manager for Nichols Research Corporation and Program Manager for EO/ECM Vulnerability Assessment Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range.

 Retired from Rockwell International after 37 years, 1957 to 1994, on such research development and operational space programs as: Navajo, WS-131B “Hound Dog”, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-SOYUZ, Space Shuttle Program, serving Rockwell in their Space Division operations in both Downy, California, and Houston, Texas at the NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Held such technical management position with Rockwell as: Programs Director, Space Systems Division, Houston, TX; Associate Program manager, STSOC Facility Operations, Houston, TX; Chief Engineer, Shuttle Engineering, Production and Operations, Downey, CA; and various Director / Manager / Project Manager / Project Engineer assignments on space related technical hardware operations programs in the design, build, text, operational use of delivered spacecraft hardware system.

Career specialties are program / project management for the full spectrum of engineering design, fabrication, development test operations, maintenance and operations, logistics support and sub- contractor technical management.

Retired U.S. Air Force Reserve, Fighter Pilot / Flight Test Maintenance Officer, rank of Major, February 1953 to April 1982. BSEE (Communications), New Mexico State University, January 1953. Married, Wife Gwen, three children still at home and in college, the youngest, Kimberly, currently a Junior at NMSU.

Awards and Honors; Silver Knight of Management Award, National Management Association – 1989; NMSU Engineering College Alumni of the Year – 1985; NASA Public Service Award and Medal – 1982; NASA Astronaut Personal Achievement Award – 1969; Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics, and Astronautics – 1983; Outstanding Engineering Merit Award, Orange Count Engineering Council, California – 1983; Who’s Who in aviation and Aerospace – 1983

† Deceased

 Mr. Caffey has worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories since 1963. He has developed a new continuous-wave radar for measuring, directly at the muzzle, the velocity of cannon shells, and led the development of a new generation of microwave pre-detection-combining telemetry receivers. His interests have concentrated, however, on electromagnetic propagation through the earth with applications to telemetry, miner rescue, and ground penetrating radar.

                             
Earned his MSEE in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Illinois.

Youngest Dean appointed for College of Engineering after serving as an assistant, associate and full professor at the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Left New Mexico State University to serve as Provost and Executive VP at Colorado School of Mines, 2009.

 Experience: 1990-1992, Vice President/Secretary, Energy Consultants, Inc., as one of the principal founders of this former electric power consulting and research company; 1992-1999, Distribution Monitoring Engineer, El Paso Electric Company, NMD, responsible for operational integrity of the electrical distribution system in the Las Cruces and southern New Mexico service territory, and responsible for conducting power-flow modeling, short circuit studies  and protective device coordination studies of the distribution system feeders; 1999-2003, Supervisor, Distribution Dispatch, El Paso Electric Company, NMD, responsible for managing the Company’s customer outage response procedures, responsible for written and verbal communications between customer and company regarding service outages and outage response procedures, and designed, budgeted and lobbied executive management for construction of a new Distribution Dispatch Facility; 2003-2004, Project Manager, Corporate Transition to Competition, El Paso Electric Company, to serve as the Project Manager over the Company’s transition to competition in a de-regulated business environment which included responsibility for coordinating the activity to define the structure of the business relationship between the unbundled Generation, Transmission and Distribution Service and New Mexico business units; 2004-2007, Manager, Team Leader, Corporate Projects Office, El Paso Electric Company, responsible for the administrative duties and reporting responsibilities of the Corporate Projects Office, responsible for coordinating the activities of other managerial staff and   professionals to achieve corporate objectives on capital and process improvement projects, developed, defined, planned and presented strategic options and recommendations to executive management on  various corporate level strategic issues and monitor and interpret regulatory and legislative activity with regard  to corporate projects, policy and strategy; 2007 to Present, Vice President, New Mexico Affairs, El Paso Electric Company, responsible for local and State policy on the participation in community involvement and responsible for State legislative activity with respect to the Company’s and community’s interest. Professional  Certifications include: Project Management  Professional (PMP) Certification, 2005; Registered Professional Engineer (PE), State of New Mexico, 1994; Member IEEE and PES and community involvement, such as Boy Scouts of America, Junior Achievement and Children’s Miracle Network.

 He entered active duty in 1978 after earning a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University. He is a distinguished graduate from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. He served 27 years of exceptional civil service in the government and continues to serve as a Naval Reservist at the rank of Captain and currently assigned as the Senior Technical Advisor at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. While employed at National Security Agency (NSA) from 1989 through 2000, Mr. Garcia completed a wide variety of senior assignments at overseas and continental U.S. in operational, research and educational Cryptology positions. NSA and NRO have recognized him as an international expert in National Cryptologic Systems and in the technical perspective of Information Operations.

 Third son of pioneering NMSC A&MA (NMSU) Dean Ralph Willis Goddard, Alumnus Earl Gascoigne Goddard was born in Mesilla Park and grew up in Las Cruces. He attended Mesilla Park Grammar School, Las Cruces Union High School and NMSC A&MN (NMSU). Following graduation from NMSU (With Honors), he enrolled in graduate school at Leland Stanford, Jr. University, Palo Alto, California. This began a busy and varied professional career spanning a period of five decades, three related but different professional fields: Academic, Military and Engineering, as well as auxiliary activity in community, Historical Radio, Yachting, Music, Family Genealogy and Environmental Concerns.

The early 1940′s were turbulent times for young men embarking upon their professional careers. Two years as an Instructor in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Rice Institute (University) in Houston, Texas were followed by four + on active duty as a Naval Reserve Mine Warfare Officer at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and in the Southwest Pacific Area and as an Instructor of Communications Engineering at the US Naval Postgraduate School. The GI Bill made possible the completion of interrupted graduate studies at Stanford after which a year at Duke University preceded his return as a civilian faculty member to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Annapolis, Maryland and Monterey, California, teaching advanced communications systems, radio navigation and electronic countermeasures systems from 1948-55.

Another shift from Academia came in 1955 when he joined the Radio Systems Group at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California as a Senior Research Engineer specializing in electronic navigation systems until 1960. The next eighteen years were devoted to a variety of assignments that included field engineer training programs, ultrasonic instrument development, electronic warfare systems research design and development. Over the years he wrote and published frequently in this field. He was active in the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), that merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to become the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He served the San Francisco Section from 1956-1073 as Secretary, Vice Chairman Member of Executive Committee, Chairman of Section Historical Committee and San Francisco Section member of IRE 7th Regional Committee.

In 1984, his contributions in engineering and his activity in the history of radio and electronics were recognized by the IEEE’s Centennial Award. He was a principal in the establishment of the Foothill Electronics Museum of the Perham Foundation at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, serving on the Board of Directors from 1959-75. During this time he was President of the Board 1963-65 and 1967-74. He served on the IEEE Historical Committee from 1967-71. In 1988, he was recognized as one of the 100 Outstanding Alumni of the College of Engineering during NMSU’s Centennial celebrations.

Since his retirement in 1978, his interests have shifted significantly as he has pursued sailing, music, family genealogy, serving on Advisory Boards, traveling and visiting family and friends – around the world.

† Deceased

 
Rita Gonzales is a Senior Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in the Center for Microsystems Science, Technology and Components. She is responsible for all the custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) products produced in the Sandia Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application (MESA) complex and at the IBM Trusted Foundry. Her group specializes in developing extremely high reliability digital, analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit products that include weapon controllers, focal plane array (FPA) pixel readout electronics, secure processors, micro-optical components, high performance digital radio transmitters/receivers, state-of-health monitors, and trusted microelectronics for the Department of Energy (DOE) weapons community, the Department of Defense (DOD) armed forces, the intelligence community, and commercial industry. In addition to ASIC design and production, her group leads several research thrust areas including radiation effects on microelectronic devices, microsystems failure analysis and vulnerability assessment, semiconductor reliability physics, radio frequency communication, wireless sensors, micro-sensors, surface acoustic wave correlators, focal plane array readout architectures, and microelectronics hardware trust and security features.

Rita joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1991. She was hired into Sandia’s One-Year-On-Campus program where she went on to receive her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. Rita started her career as a hardware design engineer supporting the Department of Energy’s nuclear detonation detection (NUDET) programs for the Defense Support Program and Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites. In 1998, Rita moved to the Center for Microsystems Science, Technology and Components where she started as an ASIC designer and quickly moved to leading highly successful multi-organizational, multi-discipline teams and ultimately managing the ASIC design group. One of her notable efforts was leading the ASIC design of a fail-safe cryptographic dual-redundant system-on-chip architecture that provides enhanced security and ensures the integrity and availability for the next generation GPS. Rita was promoted to Senior Manager in 2011, and she received the NNSA Employee of the Quarter award in 2011 for her outstanding leadership in preparing her team for the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP).

Rita is a member of the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Advisory Board. She also serves as a board member for Albuquerque’s Sage Montessori Charter School. Rita has been a lead instructor for 15 years for Sandia’s Manos Education Outreach program.

Rita resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her spare time, she enjoys mountain biking, road cycling, spending time with her family, and coaching her son’s basketball and soccer teams.

Since Chris’ first power class with Prof. Kersting, he was hooked on the electric power industry and has spent his entire career serving this industry. Currently, Chis is the CEO and founder of Innovari, Inc. Innovari provide grid optimization solutions and services to utilities around the world. Innovari is currently deploying its solution to utilities on four continents.

Chris has been a frequent contributor at a variety of utility industry events and leadership conferences, as well as having spoken and/or testified before Congress, 39 State regulatory commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) and other influential policy groups. He has served on the boards of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, the GridWise Alliance, and Avistar along with several non-profit organizations and participated as a member of the DOE regulatory assistance project team, helping provide a utility industry perspective to state and federal regulators regarding current policy issues. Chris and his team have received four different patents in his career, three while working at PNM.

 Michael Holmes is currently the Sr. Manager of the Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Microfabrication group at Sandia National Laboratories.  MESA has three primary responsibilities: advanced microsystems research and development for a broad spectrum of national security missions, strategic radiation-hardened microelectronics production for the nuclear deterrent, and trust-certified microsystem design, fabrication and testing. 

In support of these responsibilities, Michael is responsible for operation of the largest captive US government microfabrication facility including a 12k ft ² silicon foundry and a 15k ft ² compound semiconductor foundry.  These facilities enable co-located microsystems research & development from pathfinder to production.

Michael has worked in MESA for more than 18 years with previous roles as Sr. Manager for the Heterogeneous Integration & RF Microsystems group, line manager for the Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) department, and mixed signal integrated circuit design engineer.  

Michael has expertise in heterogeneous integration, trusted microsystems, integrated circuit design, microfabrication, and sensors.  

He received an MSEE and BSEE from New Mexico State University in 2002 and 2000 respectively.

 
Sheila Horan, PhD is currently an adjunct faculty at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She joined the Electrical Engineering Technology department in the fall of 2010, and has been teaching 1 or 2 classes a semester since then.

Sheila retired from New Mexico State University at the end of 2009 after 23 years of service. While at NMSU, she taught graduate and undergraduate classes and labs. She served as the freshman advisor for several years which grew into advising all of the undergraduates. She helped develop undergraduate curriculum. She was involved in many outreach activities including working with the New Mexico regional and state Science Fair, Girls Can, SCIAD, and PREP (Pre Engineering Program) as a judge or presenter. Sheila was instrumental in bringing the BEST (Boosting Engineering and Science Technology) robotics competition to New Mexico. She has also worked with the International Telemetering Conference offering a short course, and serving on the Telemetry Standards Coordinating Committee.

Research work and technology development experience was gained through working at the Physical Sciences Lab at NMSU, Science and Technology Corporation in Las Cruces, and White Sands Missile Range at the Instrumentation Directorate, and with the NMSU Telemetry Center at NMSU.

Dr. Horan received an A.B. degree in Mathematics and Physics with a teaching certificate from Franklin and Marshall College in 1976, an MSEE degree in 1978 and then a PhD degree in 1985, both from New Mexico State University.

 Mr. Art Hurtado is a seasoned executive with over 35 years of experience in management and technical positions in both the commercial and government sectors. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Invertix Corporation, a technology company that delivers communications and analytics solutions to the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), Cyber and R&D sectors of government and defense.He has presided over the stellar growth of the company during recent challenging economic years. With its headquarters in McLean, Virginia, Invertix also has an engineering center of excellence in Las Cruces, New Mexico, an office in Boston dedicated to ISR sensor and analytics technologies, and a center in Springfield, Virginia dedicated to Cyber and Cloud Computing research and development.

Prior to co-founding Invertix in 1999, Mr. Hurtado served as vice president for advanced systems with Microelectronics Computer Corporation and then as senior vice president, telecommunications, for CACI, Inc. He also served as the Chief Scientist during the early stages of development of the Public Safety Wireless Network.

Mr. Hurtado is a native of Taos, New Mexico and the son of Southern Baptist Missionaries to the Spanish speaking people in Northern New Mexico. As the most outstanding, distinguished military graduate from Missouri State University, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry in 1969. In 1971 he was reassigned to Military Intelligence. He served for 26 years with distinction as an officer in the U.S. Army, where he commanded at various tactical levels overseas and in combat. He also served in the Army’s Acquisition Corps where he was board selected to manage the development and fielding of a number of significant communications and intelligence systems.

While with the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization he headed up the team that developed the High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor. He also played prominently in developing the architecture for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile.As the first director, he founded the Joint Precision Strike Demonstration Office, and he served as chairman for the Joint Strategic-Tactical Intelligence Dissemination Panel. Among his medals, he holds the Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Combat Infrantryman’s Badge, Parachute Badge, and Purple Heart.

Mr. Hurtado and his wife, Dianna have been strong supporters of various programs in higher education. Among their funding support activities for various universities, they have established scholarships at New Mexico State University (College of Engineering), Missouri State University (College of Natural and Applied Science), and Virginia Commonwealth University (School of Social Work).

Mr. Hurtado holds a MSEE from New Mexico State University and a BS in Chemistry from Southwest Missouri State University. He is a certified Project Management Professional, a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a distinguished member of the Sociedad de Ingenieros. His patent filings include work in advanced spatial antenna modulation.

He is currently a member of the Board of Visitors for Virginia Commonwealth University, and he serves on the Board of Trustees for the VCU College of Engineering. He was a charter member in the formation of the Advisory Board for New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering, and the Klipsch Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy in 1991. He continues to serve on both. In 2000 he guided the formation of the Advisory Board for the Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University on which he currently serves. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University.

Mr. Hurtado is an active member of the Potomac Officer’s Club and is a frequent speaker in various industry and academic forums. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Theology at Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, Maryland. His wife, Dianna, a licensed clinical psychotherapist, holds a MSW from VCU. In 1971 they adopted Virginia as their home and currently reside in Fairfax.

  Prior to his appointment as director of the Physical Science Laboratory (August 2010), Jordan was the interim executive vice president/provost (Jan-Aug 2010); the associate vice president for research and senior director of the Physical Science Laboratory at New Mexico State University (2005-2010). Jordan was the computer and instrumentation operations manager for Northrop Grumman Corporation at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at White Sands Missile Range (2002-2004). He also served as the dean of the College of Engineering at NMSU (1999-2002) and academic department head of NMSU’s Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1996-1999). He began his academic career as an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NMSU in 1986.

An accomplished teacher and researcher, Jordan received the Donald C. Roush Excellence in Teaching Award in 1992 and has numerous publications in his research areas of pattern recognition, computer vision and real-time computer operating systems.

Jordan earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with honors from NMSU (1970) after which time he worked as an international field engineer for NMSU’s Physical Science Laboratory (1970-1979). He earned his Master of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1979 and worked for Hewlett Packard Co. in Boise, Idaho as a manufacturing and production engineer (1970-1981). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from NMSU.

 Professor Kersting obtained his BSEE from New Mexico State University (then NM A&M) in 1959. He received his MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1965. He began his teaching career at NMSU in 1962 after having worked at El Paso Electric from 1959 – 1962. In 1967 Prof. Kersting founded the nationally renowned Electric Utility Management Program which has provided over 220 professionals for the electric utility industry. Several of these former students have gone on to become CEO’s of major utilities. Prof. Kersting retired from NMSU in 2002, but still continues to serve NMSU as the PNM Chair and Director of EUMP. Prof. Kersting is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society and the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He received the Westhafer award for Excellence in Teaching from NMSU in 1976, the EEI Engineering Educator Award in 1979, and the IEEE Millennium Medal. He has authored numerous articles in the areas of engineering education, power engineering, and electric utility management.

 Richard L Kohlhaas, elected to ECEA as a full member in 2003, received the BSEE degree from NMSU with high honors in 1957. He received the MSEE degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1962, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Denver in 1972. He was a staff member at Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM,  in 1957. From 1957 to 1979 he was an officer in the US Air Force, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, with assignments in ground radar development, reconnaissance satellite development and operation, and intelligence systems. From 1980 to 1998 he was the founder and CEO of Channel Communications, Inc in Colorado Springs, CO, involved in designing, installing and maintaining mobile radio communications systems. He is a life member of IEEE, and a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Radio Club of America.

1978-Present – Minnesota Power. 1978-79 – Supervisor, Transmission Planning – I was responsible for supervising a small group of Planning Engineers. We did steady state transient and dynamic studies for unique systems such as our +/- 230kV DC system, our 500 kV US-Canada interconnection, +/- 30 MVAR SVC and special applications for customer motors of 5,000 and 10,000 HP. I supplied much testimony for hearings on transmission line routing and substation placement. 1979-82 – Manager, Industrial & Governmental Services – I supervised a small group of customer service engineers, and administrative personnel. We were responsible for all customers of 10 Mws (10) and all municipal customers (19), this was 75% of Minnesota Power’s load (750 MW). I administered the contracts and coordinated all company/customer activities, negotiated any contract changes and new contracts and coordinated/managed transmission construction projects which were directly related to serving the Large Power customers.

1982-88 – Manager, System Control & Performance – I was responsible for supervising a department with about 60 people that included administrative personnel, engineers, programmers, clerical, accounting and operating personnel. The sections include system Control, Energy Coordination, System Performance, and HVDC engineer and an ECC Facilities engineer. This was basically the operation of the power system, which also included working with other electric utilities in the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP) of the interconnected systems. 1988-91 – Director, System Operations – This position then had the responsibility for Real Time Applications and System Telecommunications. This position then had the responsibility for about 140 people which was the company’s electric system operation as well as responsibility for the engineering, design, construction and operation of the company’s telecommunications systems. In addition , I sponsored two major construction projects: the Energy Management System Replacement and the International Falls Phase Shifter projects. Further, I chaired both the company’s Capital and Operating Budget Committees (at different times) which were budgets of $40M and $80M respectively.

1991-93 – Electric Utility Operations Team Leader – System Operations & Engineering – This position included all those responsibilities of the Director, System Operations plus the indirect supervision of the company’s electrical engineering, metering, relaying, construction and maintenance personnel. This was a department that totaled about 250 people. In addition, I chaired the electric company’s Labor/Management Steering Committee.

1993 – present – Electric Utility Operations Team Leader – Information Technology & Services – In 1993 I volunteered to organize the electric company’s three Information Technology groups into one unified group and defined a new direction for communication and computing for the organization. This department consists of about 160 people and includes Electronic Technical Services, System Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering & Operations Applications, Business Applications, data Base Administration, Networks & Systems Software, Systems Programming & Operation, Office Services, Record Services and Office Systems & Support. For the first time we now have a mission, vision and strategy that is driven by business needs and not technology.

 Since 1965, I have worked for Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff. Before entering the area of electromagnetic research in 1970, I participated in laser holography research and in research programs to develop microbiological assay and sterilization procedures for the NASA lunar and mars spacecraft exploration programs. After attending Harvard University, I participated in a research program to develop large-scale uses for radioisotopes from the weapon development programs and nuclear reactors that culminated in the design, fabrication, and testing of the world’s largest Cesium-137 gamma eradicator, used principally for the sterilization of sewage sludge and the disinfestation of produce of fruit flies. At Harvard and at Sandia, since 1974, I have conducted research, development, and testing programs on weapon effects of nuclear electromagnetic pulses, lightening electrostatic discharges, and electromagnetic radiation. This work has included fundamental research, computer simulation, and nuclear weapon testing programs.

 Harley Myler is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas. He is also the inaugural holder of the William B. and Mary G. Mitchell Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering. The Mitchell Chair in the College of Engineering was made possible by a gift of $1.2 million by the alumni couple to the Lamar University Foundation. Mr. Mitchell is a former Vice-Chairman of Texas Instruments, Inc. Dr. Myler’s research interests are in digital video processing with an emphasis on broadband and broadcast distribution. This includes source and destination display and presentation technologies, channel efficiency considerations, compression and coding, Internet and intranet issues, multimedia formats and video quality analysis and investigation.

Dr. Myler came to Lamar from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, where he was a professor of electrical engineering. He began his college education at Virginia Military Institute and received a double-major bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and chemistry in 1975. After serving as a missile systems officer in the Army, he began studies at NMSU in 1979 and earned the MSEE in 1981 and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1985. He began his academic career as an instructor at NMSU before joining the faculty at the University of Central Florida in 1986. He is a registered professional engineer in electrical engineering.

Dr. Myler has received several awards for teaching excellence from honor societies and other entities, including Computer Engineering Educator of the Year at UCF. He has published numerous books and articles and has obtained patents and copyrights for his work, in addition to securing more than $2 million in research grants.

 Experience: 1962-1981, Member of Technical Staff with Bell Laboratories, supporting several Military R&D Anti-Ballistic Missile Radar projects and migrated to the Mobile Systems Development Organization which pioneered in early mobile and cellular research and development projects; 1981-1982, Project Manager, Operations, with AT&T International, supporting 1AESS OA&M projects in Saudi Arabia and Submarine Cable Systems in the Mediterranean area; 1982-1983, Project Manager/Maintenance Engineering Manager, with AT&T, supporting the initial implementation of the major Cellular Start-Up Markets in the U.S., as an AMPS manager on loan from Bell Laboratories; 1983-1986, Director of Radio Services/Manager of Systems Operations/Manager of Maintenance Engrng. And   Cellular Technical Ops Center, with Southwestern Bell Mobile Phone Services, in the establishment of the initial Technical Operations organization in SBMS and was responsible for establishing Cellular services in their first six major markets; 1986-1988, Vice President,  Engineering Operations with Comcast Cellular establishing the Engineering and Operations organizations in the original AMCELL Corp. and managed the building and operations of the cellular network covering the initial four systems in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania; 1988-1989, Executive Director, Engineering Operations, with Movicom (CRM) Cellular System (BellSouth International and Motorola, Inc., Joint Venture), establishing the Engineering and Operations organizations and was responsible for the design and implementation of the start-up system in Buenos Aires; 1989-1992, Telecommunications Consultant with Motorola, Cellular Infrastructure Group, providing project management and technical support for the establishment of the TMA-900A National Cellular (TACS) System throughout Spain over a 2-1/2 year period; 1992-1995, Vice President of Engineering Operations with Portatel Del Sureste, S.A. De C.V., responsible for restructuring the Engineering and Operations departments of this wireless service provider and improving the system by integration via satellite of the seven separate systems covering five states; 1995-1996, Director of Wireless Operations, with AT&T Network Systems, developing outsourcing opportunity in Saudi Arabia for the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance of the Ministry of Public Telephone and Telegraph (MOPTT) GSM Systems; 1996-2000, Director of Operations, Venezuela/Configuration Engineering Director/Offer Integration Director with Lucent Technologies, Global Service Provider Division, responsible for the Operations and Maintenance of the Lucent CDMA Overlay System on the Telcel Wireless Network throughout Venezuela; responsible for the management of a configuration group supporting CALA Region in providing communications equipment configuration proposals; responsible for providing technical sales support on proposals to Lucent sales teams; established the Wireless Operations Group to provide global operations outsourcing opportunities to Lucent wireless equipment customers; 2000-2001, Director, Telecon Professional Services, with Tekmark Global Solutions, providing guidance to Account Executives and Recruiters in connection with providing staff augmentation and solutions to Telecommunications companies; 2001-2006, Project Management Deployment Director, GSM Services, with Ericsson Telecom, responsible for the project management functions for rollout of the GSM Core Net (MSC’s, BSC’s, BTS’s) and subsystems for Tercel throughout Mexico; Project Manager (UMTS/GSM/TDMA Deployment), responsible for the project management functions for the rollout of over 250 UMTS Radio Base Stations (RBS) on the Cingular Network in San Diego, CA; 2006-Present, Owner/CEO of N-Cell Services, LLC, a Telecon Consulting Company, involved in investigating WiFi and WiMax opportunities internationally with several colleagues.

 William P. Osborne joined the University of Texas at Dallas in September 1995, as Dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and Ericsson Chair and he retired from UTD in 2002. He has since served as Dean at University of Missouri at KC and Southern Illinois University, where he retired for final time in 2010. He came to UTD from New Mexico State University, where he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holder of the Carden Chair and the Director of the Center for Space Telemetering and Telecommunications Systems.

Prior to his career in higher education Dean Osborne spent twenty years in the telecommunications industry. His roles in industry included seven years as VP Engineering and then President of Comsat Technology Products, a division of Communications Satellite Corporation in Washington, D.C. While at Comsat, he led the company in its successful entry into the data communications business area using very small aperture terminals (VSAT’s). Dean Osborne also spent eight years at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida, where he rose to the level of VP of Engineering for the Satellite Communications Division. He also served as president of Telinq, a small telecommunications company in Richardson, which became a division of the ADC Corporation of Minneapolis.

One of Dean Osborne’s goals while at UTD has been to strengthen the research and educational links between UTD and the high-technology business community in Dallas and Richardson. He continues to work at achieving this goal through involvement with the Telecom Corridor ® Technology Business Council (TBC) and the School’s Advisory Council. Another main goal is to assist the School in increasing student enrollment, (which is up 250% in the last six years), and faculty appointments while enhancing diversity in both groups. Dean Osborne is also actively engaged in strengthening the School’s research with programs such as the recently announced Texas Telecommunications Education Consortium (TxTEC) in which he is a board member.

Dr. Osborne is also on the broad of Directors of @Track Communications in Richardson, SigmaTel Corporation in Austin, and the Technical Advisory Board of CenterPoint Broadband Communications in San Jose, as well as the Advisory Boards for Electrical Engineering at New Mexico State University and Kansas State University.

Krist Petersen retired from NMSU in 2013, but before that he was a professor from 1998-2013.  He was also the directro of computer services at the student learning lab at Eastern New Memexico University and the director of computer services for Armco Security in Dallas, TX.

During his time at NMSU Krist was an undergraduate academic advisor and assistant department head for the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Following that he was the interim associate dean for the college of engineering and back as the interim department head for the Klipsh school.

Since he has retired, he has been teaching one class a semester in computer architecture.

 Upon graduation from NMSU, he was commissioned in the US Air Force and served four years, three in Germany. After discharge he joined Bell System’s Long Lines Division as a Staff Supervisor. Petty advanced through different aspects of AT&T’s operations and served in managerial positions around the nation. He was promoted to Vice-President in 1986. In 1994 he was recruited to Canada where he served as President and CEO of TELUS Corporation, Canada’s second largest telecommunications company. He is a 1983 graduate of Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.

He was recognized as the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus in 1986, and also, recognized in the 100 Outstanding Alumni in 1988.

 Randolph Rothschild attained the level of Senior Manager of Systems Engineering for Raytheon Technologies in Tucson AZ. He began his career with Raytheon Missile Systems after graduating with Honors from New Mexico State University in 1988 with a BSEE. While in school, he was an active member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE, and Tau Beta Pi.

Professionally, Mr. Rothschild has held roles as a System Integrator, Lead Designer, Chief Engineer, Department Manager, and Factory Technical Director. His experience spans the entire life cycle of hardware development which includes, proposals, numerous research and development projects, design and development activities, factory support, and field test. He has received awards and honors for his service including a President’s Award for product improvement. He has also been recognized for the development of people and leaders.

Outside of his professional work, Mr. Rothschild has volunteered his time in support of local and regional science fairs, worked directly with high school students to encourage STEM in education, sat on the board of the NMSU Alliance for Minority Participation, and is a former chair of the NMSU College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council. 

 John Scruggs, elected as a full member, graduated from the Klipsch School in 1964 with a BSEE degree. During his time at NMSU he was a co-op at White Sands for 3 years. His career began as a circuit design engineer for the Motorola Government Electronics Division in Scottsdale, Arizona. Here he contributed to space programs such as Apollo and the Mariner. While at Motorola he earned an MSEE from Arizona State University. After 5 years with Motorola, he joined Varo Inc. where he managed the electronics design department developing prototype people-mover vehicles. In 1972, Mr. Scruggs joined the Hewlett Packard Corporation in Loveland, Colorado where he spent the majority of his career. His initial work at HP was designing Automated Test Equipment for the in-house integrated circuit facility. He subsequently moved into the Instrument R&D department where he held various technical management positions such as project manager, section manager and finally R&D department manager. In 1985 Scruggs was made General Manager of  the Manufacturing Test Division responsible for all activities, product development, marketing and manufacturing for that ATE product line. In 1992, Scruggs was promoted to general manager of the Automated Test Business Unit, responsible for several ATE related product lines. A year later, he was appointed a vice president of HP. In 1999 the Test & Measurement Business of HP was spun off to form Agilent Technologies and Scruggs assumed the position of Senior Vice-President of their Automated Test Group. In 2002 Scruggs retired from Agilent and now resides in Greenville, Texas.

  Dr. Edward L. Shreve is a co-founder of Frontier Engineering and has served as Vice-President, Technical Director, Secretary, and Director since its inception in 1973. From 1970 to 1979, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He has authored numerous scientific articles, position papers, and other engineering publications. Dr. Shreve received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1962, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1964, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1969.

Dr. Shreve is an active member of the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Directors for the YMCA, Stillwater United Way, and Coalition for the Advancement of mathematics Education in Oklahoma. He is also a member of Indian Meridian Vo-Tech’s Management Development Group. In addition, he serves on the Industrial Advisory Council for OSU Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology and is a member of the OSU Foundation Presidents Club and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy at NMSU. Other Affiliations include the Oklahoma and National Societies of Professional Engineers, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Association of Old Crows, and the American Management Association.

† Deceased

 Martin J. Small received his BSEE (with honors), BS (with honors) in Mathematics, and BS (with honors) in Computer Science from New Mexico State University. He specializes in High-speed data acquisition and real-time data processing systems, high-reliability closed-loop control systems engineering and, electronics and software design and development. He has previously worked at EG&G, NMSU Electrical Engineering Department, and at the Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) at NMSU. While at PSL, he became the Section Chief of the Systems Technologies Section. He then founded CALCULEX, Inc. which specializes in producing high-speed, solid-state data recorders for customers from around the world.

 Dr. Robert C. Tausworthe is a retired Senior Research Engineer and Chief Technologist of the Information Systems Development and Operations Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During his tenure at JPL, he served as Software Chief Engineer of Deep Space Network Digital Systems, Manager of JPL’s Institutional Software Standards development, Deputy Software Manager of the Galileo Project, and Principal Engineer of Deep Space Network Metric Prediction Generation software development. He is the author of the two-volume set, Standardized Development of Computer Software (Prentice-Hall, Inc.), thirty papers in software methodology and analysis, and over one hundred papers in communications theory and mathematics. He was co-investigator in the Celestial Mechanics Experiment of the Mariner V mission to Venus, and innovated the first planetary ranging system, used by that experiment. He has taught at New Mexico State University, University of Southern California, and West Coast University, in Los Angeles. He remained professionally active as a consultant to JPL for 10 years after retirement, during which time he instituted significant improvements in Deep Space Network antenna pointing, communications, and mission scheduling, for which he was awarded a NASA Space Act award. Dr. Tausworthe is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM and Sigma Xi. He also served as a member of the AIAA Software Systems Technical Committee. He has received the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and three NASA Outstanding Performance Awards. He received the BSEE degree from New Mexico State University in 1957, and the MSEE and Ph. D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1958 and 1963, respectively. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University in 1988. He was inducted into the NMSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy as a charter member in 1991.

 Dr. Thomas served for more than twenty-six years in the United States Air Force, retiring with the grade of Brigadier General. He served as an engineer at Wright Air Development Center from 1953-1957. From 1959-1979 he was with the Air Force Academy, first as a faculty member in the Department of Astronautics and then as a Professor and Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering. After his career with the Air Force, he continued to work as an engineer for several different companies. From 1979-1982, he was with Kaman Sciences Corporation working in EMP hardened military systems. From 1982-1984, he worked as a Senior Scientist with Mission Research Corporation. From 1984-1985, he was a System engineering Manager at the Motorola Government Electronics Group in Scottsdale, AZ and was responsible for defining the system level reliability and signal processing performance requirements for the baseband processor for the NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite Program. In 1985, he founded TCS in Scottsdale, AZ specializing in system engineering of military electronic systems. He retired in 1997 and continues to work in ABET accreditation and textbook writing.

† Deceased

Dr. David A. Wiegandt received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on advanced encoding and detection schemes for RF systems, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University. Dr. Wiegandt has spent 17 years teaching, designing and leading diverse teams in the areas of full spectrum signals capture and excitation for a variety of applications. These applications include unattended sensor networks for situational awareness and environmental assessment; waveform design and validation; EM and acoustic propagation modeling and analysis; and other advanced sensing needs. Recent emphasis has been on algorithmic designs for enhanced distances of detection and distributed data fusion/analysis both in the field and at control stations. Dr. Wiegandt has been an Adjunct Professor in the Signal Processing & Communications Program of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he helped establish the school’s Link of the Order of the Engineer with the Eta Kappa Nu students. At Sandia National Laboratories, he has worked as a Senior and Principle Engineer in the Special RADARs & Communication Systems Department and now manages the Advanced RF Applications Department. He has co-authored a book on wireless communications as well as over 18 refereed conference and journal papers, and has been a reviewer for multiple publishers and societies.

ROBERT E. WITTER, MSEE, PE, CFI is Principal Engineer/Managing Member of Witter Engineering, LLC, based in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Bob received a BSEE in 1971 and MSEE in 1972 from New Mexico State University.

Upon graduation, he was employed by Plains Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico as an Engineering Assistant and, subsequently, as Operations and Construction Engineer. In 1973, he was appointed Manager of Engineering Services at Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Grants, New Mexico. There, he was in charge of the entire distribution system, engineering department, metering, power contract negotiation and system planning and design. In June 1975, Bob was employed by A. D. Loftin & Associates, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a consulting engineer primarily for rural electric cooperatives. During this time, he began his practice as a forensic electrical engineer, working with various insurance companies and law firms as a consultant and expert witness in electrically related accidents. In 1981, Bob formed Robert Witter & Associates, Inc. and subsequently acquired A. D. Loftin & Associates, Inc. In January 1995, Robert Witter & Associates, Inc. merged with the engineering firm of SGS Associates, Inc. of Lubbock, Texas, thereby creating SGS Witter, Inc.  In July 2001, SGS Witter, Inc. acquired Substation Design Services, Inc., a structural engineering firm located near Alexandria, Louisiana. The firm provided consulting electrical and structural engineering services for rural electric cooperatives and other utilities nationally and internationally.  SGS Witter, Inc. was acquired by TRC, Inc. in 2002. Bob was Vice President of TRC and left to join Advanced Engineering Investigations Corp. in July 2007. He was Division Manager of Advanced Engineering Investigations Corp. until December 2010.

Bob has served as a consultant and expert witness in numerous cases involving investor‑owned utilities, rural electric cooperatives and electrical products. He is also a frequent instructor of the National Electrical Safety Code, having taught the NESC for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), Federated Rural Electric Insurance, many rural electric cooperatives, cooperative statewide associations and utility authorities throughout the US. He is a former instructor for NRECA’s Management Intern Program (MIP) and is currently an instructor for the NRECA Loss Control Internship (LCI) program.

Bob is a registered professional engineer in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and California. He is a Certified Fire Investigator through the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI). He is a Fellow of the National Society of Professional Engineers, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Charter Member, Fellow, and Past-President of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and has held numerous offices with professional and technical societies. He was named as the “1987 Engineer of the Year” by the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers, and was named in 1988 as one of the 100 Outstanding Alumni of the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University. He is a NFPA Certified Firefighter II and a former licensed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-Intermediate) in the La Cueva, New Mexico Volunteer Fire Department (District 5 of Sandoval County Fire Department). In June 2013, he retired as Battalion Chief.

 Allyson D. Yarbrough, elected as a full member, graduated from the Klipsch School in 1979. After spending three years with Hewlett-Packard Company’s Network Measurement Division as a Product Marketing/Microwave Applications Engineer she joined Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, receiving a MSEE in 1985 and the PhD in 1988. In 1988, Dr. Yarbrough joined California State University, Los Angeles as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1989 she joined The Aerospace Corporation and has held numerous positions, each with more responsibility. Dr. Yarbrough is currently Principal Director, Electronics Engineering Subdivision. She holds three patents, has published extensively, and has many honors and awards, including Aerospace Institute Executive Director’s Achievement Award, 1998, 2001, and Who’s Who in America, 2001.