About Our Faculty
Our professors are master teachers, recruited and evaluated for their ability to teach and engage students. Metro State's faculty is among the most productive in the state, averaging more time in the classroom than faculty at Colorado's largest universities.
Electrical Engineering Technology Faculty
Avinash Agarwal, M.S., Full-Time Faculty
B.S., India Institute of Technology; M.S., Southern Illinois University; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Christopher Amo-Quarm, Ph.D., Affiliate Faculty
Ph.D. & M.Phil, Electrical Engineering, Graduate School University Center/CUNY; M.E. & B.S., Electrical Engineering, City College of New York; B.S., Physics/Mathematics, University of Science and Technology, Ghana; Certificate Program in Unix Systems C/C++ Programming, Pace University; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Melvin E. Capehart, M.S., Professor Emeritus Faculty
B.S., University of Illinois; M.S.E.E., University of Colorado; Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Joseph P. Clark, M.S., Retired
B.A., University of Colorado; M.S.E., University of Colorado; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Naveen Dutta, M.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.S., Punjab Engineering College; M.S., Southern Illinois University
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Ralph N. Jones, M.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.S.E.E., Georgia Tech; M.S.Ae.E., USAF Institute of Technology. Affiliate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology. |
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| Ralph N. Jones received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1962 and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering degree from the U. S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1964. He served four years as an Air Force officer at what is now called the National Aerospace Intelligence Center (NAIC), analyzing foreign weapon systems and estimating their capabilities. His expertise as a civilian includes time in Huntington Beach, California where he worked on projects such as McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics’ Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). In Denver years of expertise come from the time employed Hughes Aircraft and Raytheon at Buckley Air Force Base tracking satellites, processing downloaded satellite data, and performing control, operation and failure analysis of space-qualified hardware. As a technical writer he has written documents on projects involving command/control and signal processing systems, and user manuals for a publisher of civil engineering and animation software. As an Affiliate Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering technology at Metro State he brings these years of expertise in the aerospace industry into the classroom. |
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Bradley E. McGarvey, M.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.A., Mathematics, University of Colorado; M.S., Computer Science and Engineering University of Colorado; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Minh Nguyen, M.E.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.E.E., M.E.S., Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Clifton P. Oertli, M.S., E.I.T., Affiliate Faculty
B.S., M.S., Colorado School of Mines; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Megan E Paciaroni, Ph.D., Full-Time Faculty, EET Program Coordinator
B.S., University of Houston; M.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Dr. Megan E. Paciaroni is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. Dr. Paciaroni earned her doctorate in Engineering Systems (Electrical Specialty) with a minor in Physics from the Colorado School of Mines in the spring of 2004, and completed postdoctoral research at the Lund Institute of Technology in Lund, Sweden. Her general areas of interest include laser diagnostics, imaging systems, geometric and physical optics, and electromagnetic fields and waves. She has an established relationship with the combustion research facilities at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenberg Sweden and at Lund Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Optical Society of America and the International Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems. In her association with the Colorado School of Mines, she worked as a Teaching Fellow and a Research and Teaching Assistant. During her work as a systems engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center, she worked as a member of the Space Shuttle simulator upgrade team responsible for conversion of simulator voice/communications software from mainframes to microcomputers. Dr. Paciaroni joined the Metro State team full-time in the Fall 2008 semester. |
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Gary Price, M.S., P.E., Affiliate Faculty
B.S., North Dakota State University; M.S.E.E., University of Colorado; M.B.A., University of Denver; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Duane B. Swigert, M.B.A., Full-Time Faculty
B.S., University of Colorado, M.B.A., University of Denver; Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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David M. Williams, M.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.S., Iowa State University, M.S.E.E., University of Colorado at Boulder; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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David M. Williams (“Dave”) works in the Colorado Front Range area as an independent consulting Electrical Engineer working in new product development and embedded systems. His background and technical-interests includes: electronic hardware design, writing embedded microprocessor firmware, analog design and digital design with programmable logic (FPGA). He has over 20 years of engineering design and electronic product development experience, having worked and consulted for many Colorado Front range companies, including medical product development, automotive manufacturing, aerospace, renewable energy research and development, and data storage industries. Dave was an operating partner in a Boulder-based contract engineering firm and was a presenter at the 2001 Embedded Systems Conference held in San Francisco, co-authoring a tutorial on designing digital filters in programmable logic devices. In the mid 1990's Dave worked in renewable energy research and development and has one U. S. patent award for a solar powered (PV), remote water desalination system. This experimental water system was successfully deployed and operated on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Dave has also worked on solar- and thermal-renewable energy projects for NREL, DOE and Sandia National Labs. He also enjoys entering embedded system design contests and in 2005 was recognized in the magazine Circuit Cellar Ink for his embedded system approach to printed circuit board and IC testing. Dave likes to bring an industry perspective to his courses, which he has enjoyed teaching at the college level for over 10 years. |
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Zhikai (James) Xie, M.S., Affiliate Faculty
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Beijing Polytechnic University, China, M.S. Computer Science, Saint Joseph’s University, Advanced Studies in Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Department Chair
Mr. Richard Pozzi, M.S., M.B.A., Full-Time Faculty, Chair
B. S., Illinois Institute of Technology, M. S., University of Colorado, M.B.A., University of Phoenix; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology. |
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Professor Richard Pozzi is the Chair of the Engineering Technology Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has served Metro State since 2002 in adjunct and visiting professor positions for the Electrical Engineering Technology Program. After rising to the top in the search process in 2008 he became tenure track faculty and Chair of Engineering Technology. Professor Pozzi brings to the position of Chair over thirty years experience in various management and engineering positions from employment with Nortel Networks, Bell System that was spun off into U.S. West, and Western Electric Corporation. While at Nortel he developed a Managed IP Voice and Data Product solution for California School Systems. Some of Professor Pozzi’s various job titles have been: Director of Systems Engineering and Sales Support, Senior Systems Engineer, Acting Director Network Architecture, Senior Network Architect, Project Manager for Electronic Library, Director Mechanized Information Systems, Director Planning and Administrative Services, Director Inventory Management, Manager Business Services, and Field Engineer. Mr. Pozzi enjoys golf, grandkids and running in his time off. |
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