CSU-Pueblo
Introduction
The mini website is intended to provide student outreach and mentoring with the IEEE Student Branch at Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo).
Any section activities with regard to STEAM outreach with CSU-Pueblo involvement will be posted here as well.
CSU-Pueblo Group Mentoring Event
On Wednesday, November 19 from 5 pm to 8 pm, the IEEE Pikes Peak Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) hosted a Group Mentoring Event at the Occhiato Student Center (OSC) on the Colorado State University campus in Pueblo, Colorado (45 miles south of Colorado Springs).
Members of the Engineering Club and faculty were invited to the event. The make up of the CSU-Pueblo Student Branch is somewhat unique due to the programs on the campus.
The campus does not offer an Electrical Engineering degree program. Instead they have programs in Mechatronics Engineering and Industrial Engineering.Members of the Engineering Club can hold student membership in IEEE, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), and IISE (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers).
The Pikes Peak LMAG brought David Bondurant, Section & LMAG Chair; Gene Freeman, Section Vice-Chair; Mark Heinrich, Section Secretary; and John Santiago, Section Past Chair, Webmaster, and R5 Educational Activities Chair.
The Mentors ranged from a former computer and semiconductor microprocessor & ASIC designer and marketing VP in memory products to a former semiconductor design manager and computer server
advanced development manager to a cybersecurity instructor with US Space Force to former Air Force PhD Electronic Development Officer and Air Force Academy &
Colorado Technical College Professor
A BBQ Buffet Dinner was served and the attendees were seated at 2 tables with the LMAG Mentors. During the evening, the Mentors introduced themselves and their career path, they got to know each student and the
Mentors responded to questions. A total of 14 people participated in the event.
19 Nov 2025: Group Mentoring from LMAG
LEADERSHIP MEMES
Here are some leadership and career memes to help recall on the group mentoring discussions. Hope you find them useful.
Here is a linkedin post that inspired the memes. If you have not done so already, you need to join linkedin not just to find a job, but to find useful posts such as the one that was reposted. Basically, you can use linkedin to save posts and articles that you find useful.
Just a quick note: There is no PyramidXP.com. As you know, ChatGPT and other AI is creative, hallucinates and makes mistakes. Use your judgement and common sense when evaluating the output of AI. As Dr Santiago’s father would say, “Use your coconut!”.
Here are some samples of prompts for the leadership memes found on this page or mini website.
OWL PROMPT
Pixar-style 3D owl in a suit writing in a journal at a wooden desk, warm soft lighting, expressive wise eyes, message: “Keep Promises to Yourself,” symbolic of integrity, self-trust, and consistency.
OWL ANIMATION
OWL Leadership Lessons for Middle Schoolers
The owl looks wise because it is wise.
It teaches you:
If you want confidence…
keep your own promises.
If you say you’ll read tonight — read.
If you say you’ll practice — practice.
Self-trust grows one promise at a time.
OWL Leadership Lessons for General Audience
It whispers:
Keep your promises — especially to yourself.
Integrity builds personal reliability.
OWL Leadership Lessons for Engineers
OWL — “Keep Promises”
Integrity + Personal Reliability
Integrity is measured not by what we intend,
but by what we deliver.
[pause]
The owl represents the virtue of keeping promises—
deadlines, commitments, responsibilities,
and ethical obligations.
IEEE’s entire reputation rests on this virtue.
Mountain Goat Prompt
Pixar-style 3D render of a mountain goat standing at dawn at the base of a towering cliff, golden sunlight touching the highest ledges, small stones falling from above, goat looking upward with resolve, warm cinematic lighting, ultra-detailed textures, blueprint-soft depth on background, symbolism of long-term vision and doing the hard thing first.
Another AI generator tool using the same and above prompt to generate the following image:
FROM STATIC IMAGE TO AN ANIMATED VIDEO
The above static image is used to animate it and shown below:
Script of Mountain Goat Leadership Lessons for Middle-Schoolers
Meet the goat.
Not the “greatest of all time” goat…
I mean a real goat — the one that climbs mountains like it’s nothing.
The goat teaches you:
When you wake up, do the hard thing first.
Homework?
Studying?
Cleaning your room?
Do it early — before your brain gets tired.
That’s called grit — the same grit engineers use when they solve big problems.
Script of Mountain Goat Leadership Lessons for General Audience
The goat represents engineering grit… but for all of us,
it symbolizes courage.
Courage to take the steep hill instead of the shortcut.
Script of Mountain Goat Leadership Lessons for Engineers
GOAT — “Do the Hard Thing First”
Engineering Grit
[pause]
We start with the goat.
An animal built for steep cliffs and impossible angles.
It represents the engineering instinct to attack the hardest problem first—
the requirement that makes or breaks the system.
Not the easy task. Not the shallow win.
The hard thing.
[beat]
This is IEEE grit.
High-stakes problem solving.
Mission-critical discipline.
Beaver Engineer Prompt
Pixar-style 3D beaver engineer beside a river, assembling a perfectly aligned log dam, detailed blueprints on the ground, toolbelt with small wooden instruments, glowing stone pillar behind labeled VALUES, warm afternoon lighting, lush forest, calm water reflections, symbolism of discipline, systems, and standards.
Animation
Beaver Leadership Lessons Script for Middle Schoolers
BEAVER — “Standards & Industriousness”
Beavers don’t make sloppy dams.
They build carefully, precisely, and patiently.
The beaver teaches you:
Whatever you build —
a project, a robot, or even your reputation —
build it with high standards and industrious effort.
That’s how real systems engineers work.
Beaver Leadership Lessons Script for General Audience
Standards. Industriousness.
The beaver reminds you that strong systems depend on discipline…
and strong people do too.
Beaver Leadership Lessons Script for Engineers
Systems Engineering Discipline
The beaver is not random.
It’s nature’s systems engineer.
[beat]
It designs structures, considers flow rates, adjusts tolerances, modifies materials.
It iterates.
It builds.
It maintains.
Just like every engineering team building to standard—
because standards protect communities, companies, and civilizations.