Industry Engagement & Outreach
Engineering Leadership Council (ELC)
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Employer Handbook: UCCS intends to make connections with more industry partners and facilitate their engagement with UCCS students.
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Presentation Slides by both the Dean of Engineering, Dr Ying Shang along with the Senior Design Slides by Dr. Peter Gorder
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Handout for Responses from Career Topic Workshop outlines UCCS’s current initiatives based on ideas from the Fall ELC Career Topics Workshop, as well as areas needing further development.
The active and engaged members of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section has opportunities with UCCS and the local industry through host events on campus to showcase the organization, industry resume reviews, as well as mock interviews.
In addition, the Pikes Peak Section members, especially Young Professionals, has opportunities to mentor engineering students in contributing to their professional skills and development such as mentoring k-12 students and their parents based on the IEEE Pikes Peak Section new initiative on STEAM-TEAM events. For schedule of STEAM-TEAMS empowerment training, please visit: Squishy-Circuits | IEEE Pikes Peak Section.
You’ll find a number resources, including leadership and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. The IEEE Pikes Peak Section is starting a new initiaive, Standing TALL on weekly STEAM-TEAMS training sessions, either Tuesdays or Thursdays on various topics. TALL stands for Tuesday’s/Thursday’s Ask-Learn-Lead. These sessions will be held either on Tuesdays or Thursdays starting on 15 Apr. A tentative schedule can be found here: STEAM-TEAMS’s Standing Tall Initiative.
Digital Flipbooks
The first ebook below uses the flip5html platform. To see full screen, right click and select full screen.
The next three ebooks you need to click on the small set of brackets [ ] found near the top of each flipbook.
Please contact Dr. John Santiago if you have trouble downloading the files or viewing the ebooks.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Laboratory
On January 14, 2025, members of the Denver and Pikes Peak LMAG visited the in Boulder, Colorado.
NIST Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado is one of the buildings
The Laboratory was named for Dr. Katharine Blodgett Gebbie who led the NIST Lab for more than 45 years. During her tenure NIST won four Nobel Prizes in Physics.
The meeting was attended by 14 Life Members from Denver and Pikes Peak LMAG. Our guides were Liz Donley and Yao Ma. The group broke into two groups since the laboratory areas had limited capacity.
We visited the Photonic Synthesis lab of Frank Quinlan and the Chip-scale Atomic Devices Lab of William McGehee. NIST is developing next generation Photonic time measurement devices to increase Universal Time accuracy beyond today’s Cesium Atom Clock. These devices use Laser light to generate several orders of magnitude improvement over the Cesium Atom Clock used since the 1960s. They are build miniature optical devices with high quality mirrors and micro-mirrors which operate in a vacuum for high precision. They are scaling these to very small size. These clocks are distributed to users for their instrumentation.
Later we visited the NIST Atomic Fountains lab of Vladi Gerginov. This is the current source of US Universal Time. The device manipulates Cesium atoms to measure their atomic decay. The computer read-outs capture continuous updates to all parameters measured.
The measurements include gravity and magnetic fields so sensitive that they were affected by the number of people in the building.
Finally we visited the Time Realization and Distribution Lab of Jeff Sherman. Jeff explained that NIST distributes Universal Time information via the internet (time.gov), WWV at 2.5, 5, 10,15, 20, and 25 MHz, and low frequency WWVB at 60Khz. They also distribute time via satellite links. US Time measurements are shared with the Global Time system in Paris which receives inputs from over 100 countries standard groups. The current Cesium atomic clock is accurate to 1 ns and future optical clocks are expected to be much more accurate.
His lab compares the outputs of 20 different atomic clocks and is highly redundant and has battery, diesel, and natural gas backup power sources. We watched the LED lights synchronized to the 5 MHz WWV signal flashing.
Here is information on the latest Nobel Prize winner, David Wineland. He won in 2012 for ground breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
I don’t know but NIST and it’s scientists may be the reason that the Computer Society holds it’s Quantum Week conference in Boulder.
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Examples of industry & small business engagement and outreach from IEEE members.
Introduction to Blockframe and Its Implications
Dr Christopher Gorog and Former Colorado State Senator/Representative Kent Lambert were the founders of Blockframe while Dr Santiago was teaching at Colorado Technical University.
Both Dr Gorog and Kent Lambert have given several presentations to the IEEE Pikes Peak Section. Below is Dr Gorog’s latest presentation given at the Cybersecurity Building at Colorado Springs, CO at First Friday, where Dr Santiago was invited by Kent Lambert.
Below was Dr Gorog’s presentation and the pdf slides.
You can download the slides here: Download slides
Introduction to Blockframe and Its Implications
Dr Christopher Gorog and Former Colorado State Senator/Representative Kent Lambert were the founders of Blockframe while Dr Santiago was teaching at Colorado Technical University.
Both Dr Gorog and Kent Lambert have given several presentations to the IEEE Pikes Peak Section. Below is Dr Gorog’s latest presentation given at the Cybersecurity Building at Colorado Springs, CO at First Friday, where Dr Santiago was invited by Kent Lambert.
Below was Dr Gorog’s presentation and the pdf slides.
You can download the slides here: Download slides
Presentation Slides: http://r5.ieee.org/pikespeak/wp-content/uploads/sites/72/2024/04/IEEE-Edu-Week-Digital-Privacy-Lambert-V1-2.pdf
Recording link: A Call to Action: Uniting Tech Innovators, Policy Leaders and Businesses to Safeguard Digital Privacy | IEEETV
VIRTUAL MEETING: IEEE INITIATIVE ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY-
Thursday, January 28, 2021, 8:13 pm | (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US Canada)
IEEE Initiative on Privacy and Security Using Blockchain Technology
PLAY RECORDING (57 mins)
https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/ieeemeetings/recording/playback/a93385934f35475b8e06c3e2148f9ef2
Recording password: (This recording does not require a password.)
Overview of Blockchain Technology: About – IEEE Blockchain Initiative
TECHNOLOGY COMPANY OUTREACH
Dr John Santiago met with Former State Senator & State Congressman, Kent Lambert on his doctorate and practicum topic, A Systems Engineering Examination of a Cryptographically-Secure Logistics Provisioning Enterprise with a Distributed Ledger Management Services Enterprise, on 6 Dec 2022 (Tues) at First Watch on North Academy, near Chapel Hills. Discussed a variety of topics including: blockchain technology and future talks with the IEEE Pikes Peak Section on cybersecurity.
Presentation Slides
WebEx Recording: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/ldr.php?RCID=59903a76ef6f2ac9434624517827c0c7
Presentation Slides
WebEx Recording: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/ldr.php?RCID=59903a76ef6f2ac9434624517827c0c7
Event Flyer: Enhancing STEM Education through AI-Assisted Tutoring : vTools Events (ieee.org)
Resources
Enhancing-STEM-Education-Through-AI-Assisted-Tutoring (1)
Creating-a-ChatGPT-for-Advanced-Engineering-Math
Recording: will be available soon on IEEE.TV. This will contain links to the series of videos on IEEE.TV.
Assessment
The assessment below is only for those who attended the above webinar AND for those who wish to receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Professional Development Hours (PDHs). Note: 1 CEU = 10 PDH. If you already have taken the assessment from a previous correspondence, you do not have to take this assessment again.
You will need to contact Dr. John Santiago to get access to this particular assessment at john.santiago@ieee.org.
As a reminder, you need to send your evaluation and notify that you completed the assessment quiz to Dr. John Santiago at john.santiago@ieee.org
PDF flipbook of presentation followed by download link
Download link to pdf presentation is found here.
IEEE Industry Content Platform (ICP)
Dr John Santiago is working with IEEE on a new initiative, Industrial Content Platform. It is designed to provide relevant content from IEEE members and to distribute best practices to industry.
