Dr. Nader Vadiee has represented a number of higher education institutions in the areas of engineering and engineering technology student outreach and recruitment, education, and research. He has rejoined SIPI as engineering faculty and engineering programs coordinator since August 2004. He has more than 40 years of experience in both academia and industry and has conducted research, solicited funds, designed, supervised, and offered courses in electrical engineering and computer engineering. Dr. Vadiee served as project director of the highly successful undergraduate research program, NASA PURSUE, NASA MURED PAIR Program, at the University of New Mexico. Funded for 4 years at $500k /year, approximately 125 undergraduate and graduate research and educational projects were sponsored. SIPI was a partner school under NASA PURSUE program. Dr. Nader Vadiee had an appointment with the UNM department of electrical and computer engineering as a research associate professor for 1998 – 2005. Dr. Nader Vadiee also se