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The West Virginia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WVMEP), housed inside Mining and Industrial Extension at West Virginia University is focused on helping West Virginia businesses improve competitiveness in both local and global markets. We accomplish this mission through delivering foundational support and innovative growth services.

Foundational support services range from manufacturing process improvement and quality systems to health and safety, energy assessments, and more. The focus of these services is to maximize your productivity and optimize the knowledge of your workforce.  Innovative growth services include innovation, product design, supply chain development, export assistance and training, and access to multiple national product and marketing opportunities. The focus of these services is to develop new products, utilize new technology, and access new national and global markets.

Leticia Pibida has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1998. She is the project leader for the development of a broad range of American and International standards for homeland security applications and detection of illicit trafficking of radioactive materials for radiation detection instruments. She is heavily involved in the testing of commercially available radiation detection instruments. She is currently the lead scientist for gamma-ray spectrometry measurements using high purity germanium detectors. 

Greg Rieker is Vogel Family Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Chief Technology Officer of LongPath Technologies, Inc.  He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He received the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Investigator Award (2019) and the Peter Werle Early Career Scientist award (2018) for his group’s work in laser-based sensing.

Manufacturing Works delivers services and solutions by coordinating a network of experts helping Wyoming manufacturers achieve success and grow Wyoming.

For more than 20 years we at MW have been delivering training, experience, and solutions for creating value. With our partners we’re here to help Wyoming businesses to grow to their full potential. Manufacturing Works provides broad technical assistance, engineering solutions, general business assistance, marketing assistance, and financial counseling. Manufacturing-Works is committed to helping businesses by delivering solutions for creating wealth. Manufacturing Works, in conjunction with others, can deliver complete solutions for companies. Manufacturing Works is a not-for-profit organization with professionals positioned throughout Wyoming, with current offices located in Laramie, Cheyenne, Casper, Sheridan, and Afton.

Manufacturing Works is a partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Wyoming Business Council, and a center of the University of Wyoming.

The South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership is a private, non-profit group that serves as a proven resource to South Carolina businesses, providing them with a range of innovative strategies and solutions. We exist to help small and mid-size companies compete, grow, and win.

Rob Dimeo is the director of the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). He finds himself most at home at NIST when doing one of three things: talking with NCNR neutron users about their science, trying not to get caught doodling at management meetings, and doing his best not to get injured playing in the annual NIST employees softball tournament. When not at work Rob enjoys getting shot by his son on the paintball field, cruising in a pontoon boat on Deep Creek Lake with his wife and kids, and trying to convince his daughter that he CAN actually help her with her chemistry and physics homework.

Katrice Lippa leads the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) at NIST. OWM develops a series of NIST handbooks and device test procedures and training for legal metrology inspectors, laboratory metrologists, and weights and measures officials. OWM also ensures state weights and measures standards are traceable to the SI. Since completing her Ph.D. in chemistry in 2001, she has spent her professional metrology career at NIST in a variety of roles as a research chemist, senior scientific advisor, and as the leader of the Organic Chemical Metrology Group.

Adam Pintar is a mathematical statistician in the NIST Statistical Engineering Division. His work at NIST most often involves designing experiments and the probabilistic modeling of experimental data. Outside of NIST, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing tennis.