From 1981 to 1987, Jacob Baker  served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. From 1985 to 1993, he worked for E. G. & G. Energy Measurements and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory designing nuclear diagnostic instrumentation for underground nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada test site. During this time he designed over 30 electronic and electro-optic instruments including high-speed fiber-optic receiver/transmitters, PLLs, frame- and bit-syncs, data converters, streak-camera sweep circuits, Pockell’s cell drivers, micro-channel plate gating circuits, and analog oscilloscope electronics. From 1993 to 2000, he served on the faculty in the department of electrical engineering at the University of Idaho. In 2000, he joined a new electrical and computer engineering program at Boise State University, where he served as department chair from 2004 to 2007. At Boise State he helped establish graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering including, in 2006, the university’s second PhD degree. In 2012 he joined the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where his research continues to focus on integrated electrical/biological circuits and systems as well as online engineering education. Since 1993 he has also consulted for various companies and laboratories including: Aerius Photonics, Amkor, Agere, Arete’ Associates, Contour Semiconductor, Elm Technology, Elpida, FLIR, Fujitsu, Infineon, ITRAN, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lockheed-Martin, LSI, Micron, Nascentric, Omnivision, Oracle, Rendition, Samsung, Sun, Tower Semiconductor, and Xilinx.