Ron Vasquez

After several years as an test engineer in aerospace, a process engineer in defense aircraft manufacturing, and a project manager for Department of Energy; I have spent over fourteen years working at community colleges and K-12 education to implement workforce development programs and to advance students' education, career planning and preparation, project based learning, tutoring, and paid internships. My work in this field began at the Colorado School of Mines as an instructor in their Multicultural Engineering Program and has continued through my work as director of the JumpStart into Aerospace program and instructor of physics at Community College of Denver (CCD), adjunct instructor at Front Range Community College (FRCC), The Learning Source, the summer STEM program for the APS Pathways program, and the Post-secondary Workforce Readiness (PWR) at Aurora Public Schools. On the topic of activities and having fun, I played soccer one year at Regis High School and played soccer four years at Colorado School of Mines. I was captain of the Mines soccer team for one year.