Wayne Seltzer
Assistant Professor Adjunct • ELECTRONICS, DIY, U-FIXIT
ATLAS Institute
wayne.seltzer@colorado.edu

Wayne Seltzer is an ATLAS lecturer teaching . He also teaches robotics engineering camps at . Wayne runs听the听Boulder U-Fix-It Clinic, where participants learn to repair broken appliances, toys and听electronics with help from volunteer 鈥渇ix-it鈥� coaches. Prior to joining ATLAS, Wayne was a principal product manager at Oracle Corp., responsible for service automation technologies. He holds master's and bachelor's听degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.听His interests include STEAM education and musical instrument user interfaces, and his听work experiences include operating systems and networking, home and office automation, electronics CAD/CAM, database replication, software localization and telecommunications.听

Publications

Torin Hopkins, Peter Pascente, Wayne Seltzer, Kellie Masterson, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. The Jam Station: Gamifying Collaborative Musical Experiences Through Algorithmic Assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 58, 1鈥�6. DOI:(Salzburg, Austria听(virtual)鈥揊eb. 14-19, 2021).

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In the News

Wayne Seltzer helps someone at a fix-it clinic
Wayne Seltzer: Part of the global fix-it movement

Feb. 16, 2022

Wayne Seltzer started his own repair business when he was in the eighth grade; now a retired engineer, he's part of the global fix-it movement.

Wayne Seltzer working on a project in his basement
Wayne Seltzer, MIT alumnus and ATLAS technologist-in-residence, shares his passion for making

March 1, 2021

Wayne Seltzer, ATLAS Institute's technologist-in-residence, was featured as one of four MIT alumni who are 鈥榤aking鈥� their mark with a love for building and tinkering. As a maker mentor, Seltzer has worked with many students and the BTU community.

Wayne Seltzer holds several face shield parts next to his 3D printer, which is making several more.
ATLAS makers print face shield parts to help protect medical personnel from the novel coronavirus

April 14, 2020

Joining the global grassroots response to shortfalls in personal protective equipment, members of the ATLAS community are 3D printing face shields to help protect local medical personnel against the highly contagious novel coronavirus.

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