Industrial IoT Markets and Security

David Sluiter is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has been teaching since the Fall of 2016. He specializes in logic design and has developed courses such as "Developing the Industrial Internet of Things" for the Embedded Systems Engineering Program. With a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Sluiter brings extensive industry experience to his academic role.Before joining CU Boulder, Sluiter worked in various engineering positions, including designing cache controllers and floating-point units for Sperry Univac's mainframes and developing 3D graphics chips for a graphics company. He played a key role in establishing LSI Logic's first office in Colorado and later contributed to Seagate's development of self-encrypting hard drives and solid-state enterprise drives. His expertise spans physical layout design, Verilog/SystemVerilog programming, logic synthesis, and storage protocols such as SATA, SAS, and PCIe/NVMe. Through his courses on Industrial IoT Markets and Security, Modeling and Debugging Embedded Systems, and Project Planning with Machine Learning, David Sluiter aims to prepare students for the evolving landscape of embedded systems and IoT technology.