Son of Modesto Javier Cruz-Gomez and Alicia Campa Jáuregui, Jose Luis Cruz-Campa was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 2003 he received his mechanical engineering (ME) degree from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City with the Academic Merit Medal for earning the highest grades in his class. While pursuing a bachelor's degree in ME, he held a part time position at the Polymer Research Center in Mexico City. After graduating, he worked at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México programming software and updating piping and instrumentation diagrams in AutoCAD for PEMEX, a petroleum company in Mexico City. In 2007, Jose received a Master's in Science degree from the Physics department at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). During his master's degree, he was awarded the Sharp Cook Scholarship; held a provisional summer position as a design engineer in Damont Inc. in El Paso; and completed a summer internship at a science technology center at the University of Washington in Seattle. Jose has accumulated 3.5 years of teaching at the middle school, high school, and college levels. He has presented research work at conferences in Houston, TX; Waco, TX; and Tampa, FL; in addition to a national conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Jose is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in electrical engineering at UTEP sponsored by the exciting NSF UTEP GK-12 partnership program. The aim of his research is to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells and nigh vision apparatuses by looking into the materials science of semiconductors used in those devices.