Lisa Fronzcek

Biography

Lisa Fronczek is the Competition Manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM). Lisa received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Since joining NIST in 1987, Lisa spent her first ten years working on U.S. Navy funded projects where she applied her manufacturing engineering research expertise to support the design and development of software and hardware automation systems. Lisa went on to support various directors of NIST’s Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory as the Scientific Advisor for over ten years, and to be a member of a multi-agency team that tested and developed military-relevant handheld equipment and client applications. Lisa has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal, the highest award presented by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, for Leadership of a multi-organization effort to develop innovative methods to securely deploy smartphones and other applications. She has also been recognized for exceptional initiative and collaborative success in managing the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at NIST. While working in the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, Lisa also developed several expert papers, videos, and workshops on collaborative manufacturing robots and other topics.

Lisa was the NIST SURF program’s champion for many years and is responsible for it being the size and scope that it is today, which has helped thousands of STEM students, many of them physicists and astronomers. She has volunteered countless to help and support students across three decades. Additionally, since joining the Office of Advanced Manufacturing, Lisa has sponsored and supported SPS Mather Interns since 2019.