Industry Advisors

Encompassing industry leaders from throughout Minnesota, the Center for Excellence Advisory Board advances engineering and manufacturing education programs by helping educational partners offer dynamic, relevant curricula that keeps pace with current and future technological trends.  The Advisory Board helps strengthen relationships between the Center and Minnesota industry to ensure that student and existing workers are ready to keep pace with evolving technologies.

 

Advisory Board Chair

Dennis Siemer
President
V
-tek Inc.

Dennis Siemer is President of V-Tek Inc., an international pioneer in the development and manufacturing of electronic component packaging and processing solutions. Committed to the growth of engineering and manufacturing careers, he has advised both university and college engineering and manufacturing technology programs. Under Mr. Siemer’s leadership the Center has forged new relationships with industry and impacted educational programs.

 

Advisory Board Members

Eric Ajax
Vice President
E.J. Ajax and Sons
Jason Murray
Executive Director
Alexandria Area Economic Development
Naomi Brill
Representative
Society of Women Engineers 
Mutombo Muvundamina
Research Chemist
H.B. Fuller Company
Jeff Brown
Senior Sales Engineer
Rockwell Automation
Jaime Nolan
Executive Director
MN Precision Manufacturing Assoc.
Debra Bultnick
Manufacturing Industry Liaison
MN Manufacturing Workforce Development
Scott Pedersen
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Brady Corporation
Mark Gillaspey
Prototype Lab Manager
ATK Ordinance Systems
Tony Ramunno
Director, Engineering & Project Manager
Great River Energy
Mike Gramse
President
MRG Tool and Die
Bob Ricci
Vice President of Technology
Werner Electric Supply
Anita Hall
Program Manager
General Mills Inc.
Bruce Siebold
President
Rusk Prairie Consulting Group
Dennis Harvey Ph.D. P.E.
Mechanical Engineering Manager
MTS Systems Corporation  
Roy Smith
Workforce Development Coordinator
Northeast Higher Education Dist.
Surya Iyer
Process Development Manager
Polar Semiconductor, Inc.
Katie L. Staub
Senior Manager
MR & D Lab, Seagate Technology
Tom Jamar
Sales
Jasper Engineering      
Chris Sturm
Vacuum Engineer, & HR Manager
Thin Film Technology
Robert Kill
President
Enterprise Minnesota
Jamshid Vayghan
DE-CTO Sales Transformation
IBM
Jeff Madsen
Director of Operations
The Toro Company
Dr. Eric Wieben
Director, Mayo Genomics Research Ctr.
Mayo Clinic 
Kevin Moore
Engineering Leader,
Commercial Control Systems
Honeywell
Tom Wiegele
Vice President, Research & Development
Goodrich Aerospace
Brian Moyer
Process Development Engineer
Lake Region Medical
Jonathan Zierdt
President & CEO
Greater Mankato Growth Inc.
   

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