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Jack B. Stauffer P.E.
Deputy Director
Biography:
Jack began his engineering career in the nuclear weapons and rocket propulsion programs
at Los Alamos after serving four years in the Navy. He holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois
and completed the course work for a masters in nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico.
He then spent over ten years as
the project engineer on the nuclear rocket program for the Atomic Energy Commission and four years as the program manager for Westinghouse
on the Navy’s Mark 48 anti-submarine torpedo.
Jack then joined the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan and implement the research
and development program for the newly formed Federal Railroad Administration. He was responsible for development and promotion of
technological improvements that were applied to the Nations rail transportation network. A major feature of that program was building
of the 52 square mile Transportation Test Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Jack transferred there in 1972 to build and operate the facility.
During
the next 20 years, Jack worked for the Government and private industry responsible for development of designs and specifications for
many advanced systems for ground transportation applications. He retired in 1992.
Since his retirement he has worked with a multi-county
task force in Colorado to determine the most practical and efficient transportation system to improve capacity and safety on the I-70
corridor west of Denver. His role has been to assist in the choice of the most suitable type of transit system for the corridor from
Denver International Airport to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a distance of over 175 miles through a mountainous environment.
Jack is
a professional engineer licensed in Colorado, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The Arapaho Project Inc.
